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You get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown. Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a

• bityard 1y ago
  I don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."
  • _carbyau_ 1y ago
    "Quicksand" is the harder sand just above the water line that is more solid and faster to walk/run on.... /s
    • eqvinox 1y ago
      Great, now the smartass in me thinks everywhere is quicksand because it's just a bunch of compacted sand¹ on top of the groundwater aquifer… ¹ yes I know soil is not sand
  • riffraff 1y ago
    well, dirt does kill you in Australia. In multiple[0] ways[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldust [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia_pseudomallei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia_pseudomallei
  • RGamma 1y ago
    Nintendo taught me that quicksand is located in deserts.