After 40 years, I still dont know wtf dust comes from?

[Redshoteye]

Yup. On the domestic front, most of it is dried flakes of skin and living or dead mites along with fabric fibers from carpets and clothing, followed in no particular order by all sorts of pollen and spores, soot (tiny bits of carbon), and the occasional microcrystal of wind-blown sand or lime.

The balance shifts slightly as you roam around the world but anywhere people live it's going to be mostly skin and multicelled (but still microscopic) bugs or bug parts.

Yum.

anyone else in the mood for a mcgriddle?

 

[lilpumper]

anyone else in the mood for a mcgriddle?

i work with a guy that has a nasty funk that smells like mcgriddles..a couple of us were eating one not to long ago at work and almost puked when we realized the resemblance in the smell lol

 

[Gymgurl]

Yuck

 

[gonelifting]

I don't buy that "Dead skin" theory. I'm sure it's true because I always hear it, but what about abandoned houses that have an inch of dust in them? Nobody's been in there for 10 years, therefore no skin... but digger's reply explained the other stuff that may be there.


But no skin damnit!

 

[GoldenDelicious]

a major source of dust is, believe it or not - the sea. tiny droplets of water are stripped off the surface all the time, dry out, and leave a residue of various minerals/microparticles

 

[angryblackman64]

You white people are nasty.

 

[Mr. dB]

a major source of dust is, believe it or not - the sea. tiny droplets of water are stripped off the surface all the time, dry out, and leave a residue of various minerals/microparticles

Even for those of us who live hundreds of miles inland?

 

[GoldenDelicious]

Even for those of us who live hundreds of miles inland?

i suppose so. i mean, when i was in greece we had red dust all over the place blown in from africa (also hundreds of miles away) soooo its possible

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

oh great, goldenstupid somehow escaped from beastland long enough to post

 

[GoldenDelicious]

oh great, goldenstupid somehow escaped from beastland long enough to post

you know, everytime i see your username, i picture your boyfriend only being able to hold on with one hand. i think you should go back to juicedpigtails

and who said i escaped?