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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when ~~lightning~~ meteorites strike~~s~~ sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

When lightning strikes sand it creates fulgerites.

Tektites are formed when meteorites strike.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am sorry for insulting your people

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hi! You included a link which is really difficult for mobile users to tap. Here is a much longer and more tappable link.

I am not a bot, and this action was performed manually. I recall that there was a bot for this on Reddit. Does an equivalent exist on Lemmy yet?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago

Oh look there's a whole Wikipedia page on it

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

Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.

I thought you were talking about tektites for a second.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Ha, nice reference