"Barefoot on stars": what microscopic beings can kill

How to pass barefoot on stars? The answer to this question precisely know to Japan. After all here in Okinava is unique "The star coast" where anyone can walk on stars. The present name of this place – a beach Hosizuna-but-Hama. But star him nicknamed not incidentally: grains of sand there are similar to small stars. On a legend, these grains of sand – tiny children of the Southern Cross and the Pole star which were born at the ocean, and then they were killed by a huge snake. Fairy tale, of course, lie, but not absolutely. The matter is that local sand – not sand at all. These are remains of the elementary marine organisms –...