# ...Because there's always room for another internet time waster...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 27, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438 "2006-08-27T19:05:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/1 "2006-08-27T19:05:03Z")
I’ve been playing with this for a couple of hours now - very addictive: [The Falling Sand Game](http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/).
It’s fun pouring oil on things and setting it on fire, or trying to grow plants at one end while you burn them at the other to get a perpetual motion thing going. Also, you can make sand art.
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### Author:  [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/2 "2006-08-27T23:41:52Z")
Well, that’s very cool. Wonder who originally coded it?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/3 "2006-08-28T00:03:01Z")
What plugin does it require?
All I see is a red x.
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### Author:  [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/4 "2006-08-28T00:20:45Z")
Very addicting! Like crack.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/5 "2006-08-28T00:36:22Z")
It’s a java applet.
I’ve been having fun lately making mixtures of salt and oil that burn, but very slowly. Seing if I can keep a blob of fire going in the middle of the stuff, being perpetually fed from on top.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/6 "2006-08-28T01:24:41Z")
Here’s a [Fark thread](http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1826196) discussing the game and the fun things you can do with it.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/7 "2006-08-28T01:35:39Z")
We had a thread on this a few months back but I don’t have a link.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/8 "2006-08-28T16:30:56Z")
I got hooked on this a few weeks ago, and my work productivity suffered so much that I decided to be nice and _not_ post a link.
Obviously, **Sam Stone** hates you all.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/9 "2006-08-28T16:41:24Z")
Yes, I was totally addicted to this about six months ago. If you look around on the original Japanese site, there’s a version with little people. The wax is kind of strange and interesting too.
:: rips self away from page ::
[sub]I just had to go and look at it again…[/sub]
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### Author:  [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/10 "2006-08-28T17:22:13Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#):
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> It’s a java applet.
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> I’ve been having fun lately making mixtures of salt and oil that burn, but very slowly. Seing if I can keep a blob of fire going in the middle of the stuff, being perpetually fed from on top.
M’kay. Do you know how/where to get it? All I get is a red X too, but I did recently remove my java programming.
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### Author:  [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/11 "2006-08-28T17:59:18Z")
And I just went back to java and downloaded their latest version…now I get a gray box instead of a red x.
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/12 "2006-08-28T23:52:36Z")
Grey box here too
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/13 "2006-08-29T01:43:49Z")
Do any of you have a java/javascript blocker in your browser?
Do you have to restart your computer after installing the Java Runtime Engine?
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### Author:  [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2006, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-theres-always-room-for-another-internet-time-waster/370438/14 "2006-08-29T10:05:35Z")
Here’s a site that has different versions
[http://fallingsandgame.com/sand/pyro.html](http://fallingsandgame.com/sand/pyro.html)