One of the many things I enjoy tremendously about Mastodon is the sheer mind-boggling variety of reactions to posts. If I post the sentence, "The dirt is very clumpy in my backyard today," people will discuss clumps, favorite backyards, climate change ... and then inevitably, somebody will eventually ask, "What is dirt?" I mean, it's not a bad question. Just not what I'd have expected.
@annaleen hoping i'm the first to the thread with this contribution but honestly it's been a whole 5 minutes so probably somebody else has posted the same and i just can't see it from over here on my end of the fedi
@pho4cexa YESSS I love this diagram so much.
@annaleen eagerly awaiting the terraformers spinoff novella that is a deep sci-fi dive into the science of soil, compost, and earthworm/flying train courtship
@lucifargundam @pho4cexa @annaleen The different types of dirt, based on the ratio of the 3 things that make up dirt!
Sand is the tiny rocks you get at the beach.
Silt is smaller stuff than that, like you might kick up from a lake bed.
Clay is the packed gummy stuff that you can use to make pottery.
3-axis graphs are weird but if you follow a line orthogonal from each axis to a point, that's the percentage of that axis at that point.