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- quarsaw, on 10/12/2007, -5/+160Coming soon to YouTube: college kid dies from eating magic sand!
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -3/+99I coated a rainjacket with this stuff, which seemed like a good idea until I fell into a swimming pool and my body got compressed into a column resulting in severe internal bleeding. This stuff should be taken off the market!! NOT A TOY!!!
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74@sundancekid503
your internal bleeding entertains us all. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61I googled it and found it here:
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/product/1331
Not too expensive, $5 for a pound - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62I think it would produce an effect similar to eating corn, if you catch my drift.
- pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -24/+69"DUPE:
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Magic_Sand_(Hydrophobic_Sand)
(360 days ago, GOSH)"
So EVERYONE has seen this since its been on here that long? Looks like the older it is... the fewer the people that have actually seen it.... thanks for letting us know that you saw it 360 days ago tho... that made my day. - dmoney06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39Sand thats afraid of water....whats next?
- actionscripted, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Who cares? Our drug laws really haven't changed and Macs haven't gotten much cooler, but they both make front page all the time.
:) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34I got some +4 Magic Sand.
- gh02t, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Thinkgeek (thinkgeek.com) has this stuff, along w/ lotsa other nerd goodies.
/Fires ninjas into adjoining cubicle - ruprecht, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28The video demonstrates *its* properties, not *it's* properties. Gah!!!!
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Cool...but I'm trying to think of a practical use for this stuff, and I'm kinda coming up blank. All I can think of is marketing it as a Nickelodeon kids' toy and calling it one of their stupid names like "Spland" :-)
Can anyone enlighten me? - TheDrunkMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -10/+33Liar! It was submitted to digg 5 days LESS than a year ago!
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Magic_Sand_(Hydrophobic_Sand) - Rezzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I can't help but think of freshly laid feces when I see that stuff react...
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I love how even back in the comments on that story some one said that they thought it was a dupe.
- Dmatias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17why buy it when you can make your own.
http://www.chymist.com/Magic%20sand.pdf#search=%22how%20to%20make%20magic%20sand%22 - Zakir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19You can also make magic sand yourself -- by, water-proofing sand -- using the same stuff you use to waterproof your shoes -- scotch guard. AKA mystic sand.
I've made several demonstrations of this to younger students and although it is completely useless, it is fun to play with. - mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I love how it has the tag sex for it... :-/
- defectDS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13AM I the only one that remembers playing with this stuff at least 12-13 years ago? Nickelodeon made it's own version called Squand (I believe, that may the wrong name) and it came in different colors and a tub. you would squeeze it into water through a tube to make cool formations and whatnot, and then you'd pull it out and it'd just be sand. We loved that stuff, as well as those fish things that you grew in a little tub and they got bigger and ate each other! :)
- myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12It evolved from its distant cousin water-proof duck wings.
- Smwbigboss, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14A year ago? I remember the commercials from the 90's. I think it was called Squand or something.
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@alej744
"are you serious??!!"
Of course not :) - diktator279, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14New to me
- BostonVaulter, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13plus the page that the "original" links to isn't even up. I'm too lazy to check the link on the other story.
Plus many of us weren't even on digg 360 days ago
And this one has a video. - abqjudy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9How about permanent sand bags for flooding?
- FatNerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yeah you are far too late, its been a kids toy for years
http://www.mooseworld.com.au/kids/toys/products.php?cat_id=9 - xyqxyq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Dude, I had some of that stuff! It was marketed as "Squand."
If I remember correctly it's just regular sand grains coated with something that doesn't absorb water. The warning on the box said not to wash the bottles (the set came with the sand, a small fish tank, and bottles that look like the ketchup bottles used in resaurants) with soap, because it would break down the compound that makes the sand resistant to water. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i believe it was referred to on nickelodeon as "zand" many years ago. like back when ren & stimpy was still coming out with new episodes
- nerdofnerds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Sand thats afraid of water....whats next?"
Sand that is afraid of homosexuals XD - kakwakas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You can pick some up at WalMart or Toys R Us or pretty much anywhere that has toys. Just go to the toy section and look for some crap called SQUAND or MAGIC SAND or something along those lines... They even had commercials for this stuff. =p
- tobiasproject, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7magic sand for sex usage, it's the anti-lube that really hurts!
- myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Oh oh, I know. In all of your ideas, lets substitute the sand with spray on water proofing!
- Haroldx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@ StickyFinger,
No, it's not:
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/its.html
"Its
"Its" is a possessive pronoun. Its interpretation is something like "that which belongs to it", where "it" stands for some previously defined object. In the previous sentence, the object being referred to is the word "its", and the thing that belongs to it is its interpretation.
Examples:
He left it dead, and with its head he went galumphing back
Love rears its ugly head."
Back on topic, that stuff is pretty awesome, looked like it was toothpaste when it got poured all the way in. Anyone have an idea as to why some floated? - subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It's sand... that can't get wet... what other "practical use" could you possibly want? You could pour water all over this stuff, and it won't get wet!
- Suits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I hate it when you go to the magic beach and get magic sand in your clothes, what with all that magical constricting going on and all. Remember to use Sparkle laundry deconstructive.
- Daveoh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Can I make a video explaining how oil and water doesn't mix and get the same excitement?
- Rezzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@haroldX: some floated because there wasn't enough weight for it to break surface tension:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_sand - cberesfo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7when it's dry, magic sand appears to be similar to ordinary beach sand. except that it's blue
- KernelSandirs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah I played with the stuff when I was like 8 or 9 (like 25 years ago) years old, came in bottle that was kinda shaped like an "I dream of genie lamp"
- biometricks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7What's wit the "browse" section on that google video page? Some odd terms...
_____________________________________
31 sec - Mar 4, 2006
Browse: sex, sandman, sand storm, pot!, lo tiene mi h..., gay, fuzzi, funny animals, deodorant, danm, bungee, blue sand, 25k,
_____________________________________ - MilfordCubicle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If memory serves, there was a street performer/magician named Stevie Starr or something of that nature, who used to swallow this stuff and regurgitate it.....
Either that, or I accidentally ate the brown acid..... - Rezzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yeah, great idea! Let's make clothes out of it so that when you touch water it can constrict around your body!
- CNAIF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4SANDLOL sorry couldn't resist
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5i think magic sand would have sold to me when i was little.
- sephiroth965, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I dunno man.... You must have some wierd feces...
- Wavey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*Slaps forehead*
Doh! Yeah, now I remember seeing Squand at Toys R Us!
I totally forgot about that. - ensomnia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Magic Sand was originally developed as a way to trap oil spilled from oil tankers near the shore. The idea was that when Magic Sand was sprinkled on floating petroleum, it would mix with the oil and make it heavy enough to sink. This would prevent the oil from contaminating beaches. However, it is not being used for this purpose, perhaps because of the expense of making Magic Sand. "
- MilfordCubicle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3See my previous comment.....we're both talking about the same guy.....I think he goes by the title "The Regurgitator" He was on some Ripley's show or something of the same ilk.
- Rezzy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@ruprecht: amen to that
- nerdofnerds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3oh god...
Did you ever eat a candy called "blue dinosaurs"? It was like gummy bears, only all blue...and dinosaurs...
We got some when i was 8ish and it turned EVERYONE'S crap blue. Not green like most oddly colored poo. this was honest to god bluer than the windows xp task bar -
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