The sand trap: Demand outpaces caution—and knowledge [We're running out of it]

phys.org ^ | 09-07-2017 | Provided by: Michigan State University

[siberianheat]

We’ve reached Peak Sand.

But, due to the angle of repose, the peak is not that high.

This is one of the most esoteric, yet hilarious, comments I've seen in a long time. Well played!

[Noumenon]

And the solution is - tax everyone and everything into oblivion and ban all firearms. That’ll fix it.

[headstamp 2]

“We simply cannot continue to use sandpaper at our current levels!”

Bernie Sanders

[HombreSecreto]

I know! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

[spokeshave]

Put my quota of sand into fracking

Maybe start one of those on line White House petitions to allocate all US sand for fracking.

Yeah...that's it...the dims are big on nationalizing,,,so do it

Also must be a lot of sand in various national monument areas.

[Red Badger]

Maybe we should start pouring sand into old salt domes in Louisiana....................

[PTBAA]

Perhaps we should not have told liberals to pound so much of it. They did, and found they liked it.

[Red Badger]

They got addicted to it!...............

[Teacher317]

I wonder what's at the bottom of the 75% of the planet that is blue... hmmmm...

[Political Junkie Too]

Sandy can't you see I'm in misery
We made a start now were apart
There's nothing left for me
Love has flown all alone
I sit and wonder why-yi-yi-yi
Why, you left me oh Sandy

-PJ

[Red Badger]

Greaser..................

[Flying Circus]

What an incredibly silly article. These people have to invent the most ridiculous reasons to be worried so they can make life more difficult and expensive.

Sand is a basic building block of civilized life. Shutting down sand production from beaches and waterways means, unless you live next to a desert, you have to go further with greater transportation costs to get it, then they will bemoan the environmental impact of transporting it.

[Red Badger]

Sand is a basic building block of civilized life.

THAT is the reason...............they don't want any more expansion of civilization. Inside each lefty is a Malthusian Neo-Luddite trying to gain power!................

[IYAS9YAS]

'Says everything one needs know about this nonsense.

I wondered why this article left me feeling a bit flat...

[piasa]

Oddly enough, Saudi Arabia imports Gulf of Mexico sand because Saudi sand is unsuitable as a filtration material for swimming pools, etc...

There are some types of sand - specifically that beautiful white sand prized by beachgoers- that are created by parrotfish as they eat coral and the stuff growing on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrotfish

All that lovely white sand that supports bikini clad women had to pass through the teeth and digestive tracts of generations of colorful parrotfish.

[piasa]

The Parrot Fish—A Sand-Making Machine?https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201506/parrot-fish-facts-sand-maker/

[Red Badger]

Our sand is white quartz, not chopped up coral fish poop............