galaxies

[old3bob]

 

galaxies: like small grains of colorful sand or very huge bodies depending on perspective:

 

 

 

[Nungali]

like sand ... after a big explosion

 

Fascinating stuff  'mere'  sand , depending on where it comes from ;

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was out on Francios Peron peninsular  - that most western part of Oz

 

 

 

With  an Aboriginal elder , we where walking along this amazing beach with multi-coloured sand , like  a rainbow going down to the shore , I collected some different colors  and made lines of then side by side on my palm and showed them to him ; " Look at this !"

" Do you know what that is ?" he asked  and pointed to the green " Thats emerald ... "   and the pale blue  " Topaz " the dark red  "Ruby " ....   and so on  .    

 

[Nungali]

I have a big bag of  white topaz sand ; it came from very deep underground , got it from an abandoned mine ( supposedly it was going to be used for heat resistant space shuttle tiles  ? ) . Its very bright white and sparkly and surprisingly heavier than beach  or river sand .

[zerostao]

I had a galaxy all my own once

 

Spoiler

In fact, it was my first car, when I turned 16

A 1968 red two door 2 barrel 390 V8 with fm stereo Galaxy 500

 

 

At my final job the song played over the Playlist while we worked. I told a co-worker that a Galaxy 500 was my first car. She said, she thought a Galaxy 500 was a phone.

I was like,yeah, an apple used to be a fruit.

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:32 AM by zerostao

[old3bob]

5 hours ago, Nungali said:

I have a big bag of  white topaz sand ; it came from very deep underground , got it from an abandoned mine ( supposedly it was going to be used for heat resistant space shuttle tiles  ? ) . Its very bright white and sparkly and surprisingly heavier than beach  or river sand .

 

cool, I've never heard of it before.

[old3bob]

off topic but I did a little bit of basic sand casting work with molten aluminum, that was neat!  Some people do very complex sand casting which is pretty amazing.