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[phthalombrage]

Dumb revelation of the day: The structure of snowflakes is actually visible to the naked eye.

I look at my hair (down, because it was wet this morning because I took a shower to wake myself up for my 7:30 exam followed by two hours of lecture... I got raped by the exam but ehh) and there is a tiny perfect thing sitting in it that looks like those paper cutouts we always made at school after it became illegal to celebrate Christmas. Amazing. It melts. I collect some bigger ones and clumps of it in my gloves, and sure enough, they're individual hexagonal-ish crystalline structures.

I always assumed you'd need a microscope for that, since I'm used to overnight snowfall that gets packed together on the ground, rolling the flakes together in tiny balls, making it look more like very fine-grained sno-cones... and not even used to that because that experience is just a few days at Grandma's when it actually managed to snow for us...

But yay! It falls so gracefully!

Comments

[demarko (from livejournal.com)]

so that's why your hair looked like that this morning

[chrsjxn.livejournal.com]

You had your hair down? Weird.

[sirclucky.livejournal.com]

We should make a big crane and move Florida up near Canada so that Florida kids actually know what snow is before they turn 18. Or reverse global warming. Or maybe just impose a "50+ years old or visiting Disney Land" on the whole state so that future generations no longer have have this problem.