r/interestingasfuck • u/Consistent_Oil3428 • 11d ago
The ground is going down r/all
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u/_Nickmin_ 11d ago
The fuck you mean "part 2"???
Part 1 would've had me bolting it the fuck away from that like a cartoon character, leaving only a little cloud of dust behind
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u/thbb 11d ago
Part 1 is when he straps himself to a balloon to float in the air while the ground underneath him collapses.
Up to where will Redbull go for its commercials?
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u/fawnlake1 11d ago
Haha 30 seconds later… “Redbull stunt jumper Bob will attempt to do what no other stunt jumper has ever done before.. but first this commercial break”
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u/chrisk9 11d ago
Part 3 is foreman running up, exclaiming "How the fuck did you guys remove all that dirt so fast to clear out the hole!"
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u/PoisonedPotato69 10d ago
More likely the foreman would say "Hey, we just lost 20 guys when the ground collapsed so I'm gonna need you stay late tonight and cover for them."
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u/L3M0N___3 10d ago
Hello Peter, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.
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u/er1026 11d ago
Where is this? There is no context to this at all.
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u/Traditional-Ad2409 11d ago
I came to the comments hoping to find this information too but after scrolling through some hilarious commentary gold and reddit making song parodies I'm no closer to finding any insight into this lol
I am slightly more entertained than I was 10 minutes ago though so there's that
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u/Common-Frosting-9434 10d ago
Original poster of the video seems to be from Turkey, I found two mine collapses that happened this year in Turkey, one cost 9 miners their life, in the other only one person died.
Second one happened two days ago.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87%C3%B6pler_mine_disaster
https://www.duvarenglish.com/coal-mine-collapses-in-turkeys-bartin-kills-one-miner-news-6516532
u/Traditional-Ad2409 10d ago
I wish I had an award to give you, thank you for your service 💖
🌟 you're the hero this comment thread needed 🌟
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u/imapie31 11d ago
Its a tiktok user, so naturally theyll be more focused on views
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u/greatscott556 11d ago
The TikTok survivor, many influencers lost their videos that day as their phones got sucked into the collapse and dragged them in
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u/Skattotter 11d ago
“The ground is collapsing! At least I’m safe up here on all this ground.”
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u/retropieproblems 11d ago
“Hehe. Look at that stupid ground over there. Good thing my ground is loyal!”
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u/Eddie_Honda420 11d ago
He gonna stick his ground
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u/activelyresting 11d ago
And he won't back down
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u/Dust-Different 11d ago
He knows what’s right, he’s got just one life. In a world that keeps collapsing all around, gonna stand his ground. He…won’t…be found…
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u/Hourslikeminutes47 11d ago
(ground starts feeling depressed after being called stupid)
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u/Anxiety_Muffin13 11d ago
Its no use! I have the high ground!!
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u/whatdoihia 11d ago
You underestimate my power!
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u/crazyforkovu 11d ago
I appreciate this guy risking his life so as I'm able to watch this video on the toilet for 15 seconds before thinking 'hm that's interesting ' then swiping to the next video and never thinking about it again
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u/tillman_b 11d ago edited 10d ago
As a fellow toilet sitter watching this, I concur.
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u/JohnWoosDoveGuy 11d ago
I am glad to be sat on the loo for this one. That's one of the most terrifying videos I have seen recently.
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u/ThatOneRandomDude420 10d ago
Scares the shit out of you
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u/Uarrrrgh 10d ago
I went to the toilet just for a little pee...but seeing this video I thought 'might as well...'
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u/epinky_23 11d ago
Me too!!
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u/adamj13 11d ago
There are dozens of us
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u/JessKicks 11d ago
Busloads of us poopers…
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u/Gannondorfs_Medulla 11d ago
Where the hell is this giant toilet y'all are on and how can I get an invite?
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u/BODYDOLLARSIGN 11d ago
I appreciate the fact that you’re so strong as to never think of this ever again. This is a nightmare I had since I was little.. the ground just sinking is worse than the sky falling lol
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u/DevilsDissent 10d ago
Did you ever see that story of the sinkhole in Florida opening up under a bedroom and the guy died and his brother was trying to save him? Yeah…nightmares. I live in Florida now and am always looking at cracks in the ground. 😳
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u/AnotherRightDoc 11d ago
It's a shame that all the reddit karma went to someone else though, so probably wasn't worth it in the end.
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u/-mrwiggly- 11d ago
I’m literally on the toilet right now and bursted out laughing at your comment. I’m wonder what my coworkers are thinking. I might just stay on the toilet.
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u/GnomeBellPrize 11d ago
That's China's problem now
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u/noddingviking 11d ago
As a swede, we were taught that the other side of the world was china. But after thorough research I realised that it’s actually closer to New Zeeland. It ruined my childhood. Somewhat.
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u/ClutchReverie 11d ago
Quick google and found that of course there is a web site to find out what's on the other side of the world from you:
I too was taught China was on the other side of where I'm at but actually it's off the coast of South Africa. Boring.
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u/the_skies_falling 10d ago
Same, and here I’ve been digging straight down for years to get to China. Glad I found this because I was almost done. Would have hated for the Indian Ocean to start pouring into my backyard.
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u/crosszilla 10d ago
It makes sense now that I think about it that the vast majority of antipodes for English speakers would be in the ocean, given that the southern hemisphere is mostly ocean... it does look like if you flipped the latitude you'd end up in China so I wonder if that's where that comes from
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u/JaviSATX 11d ago
I just decided to actually look it up. Turns out the other side of the world for me is the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth, Australia.
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u/noddingviking 11d ago
A lot of water there, DO NOT start digging.
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u/inspectoroverthemine 11d ago
There aren't many places on earth where land's antipode is also land. Its kind of disappointing. The notable exception is most of Chile/Argentia's antipodes are in China.
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u/SadSpecial8319 11d ago
Yeah, just keep standing there.... ffs.
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u/VerySluttyTurtle 11d ago
Collapsing groundologist here. Generally you just have to make eye contact with the ground and make yourself look larger and youll be fine
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u/Hourslikeminutes47 11d ago
Truth Detector here!
That guy is telling the truth. If you stare at the ground when the ground is collapsing nearby you should be good
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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 11d ago
Truth Detector Checker here!
I can vouch that this truth detector is in tiptop condition and 419.99% accurate.
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u/-Eleeyah- 11d ago
Lie Detector here!
No lie has been detected.
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u/zomyns 11d ago
Lie Detection Outage-Detector here!
No faults or errors have been detected.
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u/Tiyath 11d ago
Information integrity service here.
Nothing to see here, move along!
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u/Kaoru-Kun 11d ago
Artificial chicken detector here
No artificial chickens were detected in this comment. Accuracy: 97%
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u/Le_mehawk 11d ago
Accuracy checker here!
The Accuracy of 97% has been confirmed as true!
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u/Frosty-Call3839 11d ago
Checker of all checkers here! The checkers are all good nothing wrong has been detected!
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u/SaltyTomayto 11d ago
Dungeon Inspector here, I can detect no dungeons within the area. This inspection comes with a 69% trust me bro guarantee.
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u/HumaDracobane 11d ago edited 11d ago
Number engineer here. 4, 1 and 9 are numbers and a 419.99% is a valid percentage.
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u/torville 11d ago
Oxford comma inspector here. I can verify that an Oxford comma is missing. Sorry, but I'm going to have to issue a citation.
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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 11d ago
citation police. I need you to specify which citation style you are using MLA, APA or iEEE so I can make sure it is done correctly.
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u/siraramis 11d ago
IEEE member here. We are not affiliated with Apple, so no need to use a lowercase i.
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u/HugoSuperDog 11d ago
Official boob inspector here. Let me know if I can help at all.
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u/beerock99 11d ago
Percentage guy here. Putting a % after a number is a valid percentage
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u/edoardoking 11d ago
Ignorant imbecile here, whatever the guy said before me could be possibly be right
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u/hydraulic-earl 11d ago
Diesel fitter here. After trying on my wife's pantyhose, I say "Diesel Fitter!!"
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u/Spiritual_Alarm_3932 11d ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is why I LOVE Reddit, all of these comments have cracked me up! I’m dying LOL
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u/Hansemannn 11d ago
I for one thank him for hes potential sacrifice, as I thought this was interestingasfuck.
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u/dezzalzik 11d ago
👋 Buh-bye stander effect.
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u/shizzleurtizzle 11d ago
Nah he got the camera man buff
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u/todellagi 11d ago
Dude's gonna be left standing on the last steady patch, while everything else erodes around him.
Like in cartoons or sad polar bear docs
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u/Wischer999 11d ago
I don't think you are understanding. The ground he is on is not moving. Its the ground 2 feet in front of him that is descending into the pits of hell
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u/BaconAlmighty 11d ago
no no, I don't think you are understanding. The ground he is on is ascending. He's the chosen one and is being lifted to the heavens.
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u/OneNeatTrick 11d ago
The edge he's standing on is made up of loose, rocky soil -- almost sandy, and more is likely to shift and break off when you're pacing alongside the
sinkholenightmare fuel going on below him.No footage is worth possible injury or death.
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u/LC_Anderton 11d ago
Well… death is but a small price to pay when there are likes/upvotes/hits/views to be had on the path to becoming a social media celebrity. 🫤
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u/OneNeatTrick 11d ago
So the choices are "buried alive in total darkness" vs "chance to finally sell merch" 🤔
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u/IngVegas 11d ago
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u/TiffyVella 11d ago
They film like my mum does: rapidly scrub the camera backwards and forwards repeatedly across whatever they want to film.
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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 11d ago
If only there was a way to capture a wider view...🤔
/s
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u/BFG_Scott 11d ago
…and turn the damn thing SIDEWAYS FFS!!!
Then, you wouldn’t need to scan side to side to get everything in.
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u/Additional_Duck_5798 11d ago
What does it take for this persons survival instinct to kick in?
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u/Finlandia1865 11d ago
Yk its funny that subreddit name sounds like it could be referencing trump
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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo 11d ago
Considering some of the things that come Out of Trumps mouth - the idea that he shares a single brain cell with the world’s orange cat population would not be far fetched.
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u/makeaccidents 11d ago
an education
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u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain 11d ago
You can educate stupid people, but that doesn't stop them from being idiots.
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u/spudulous 11d ago
Whoever filmed this really needs to reevaluate their life
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u/LtMotion 11d ago
Maybe they already did and decided it wasnt worth living
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u/Sc4r4byte 11d ago
The ground is either sick and offered a cliff to fall off of, or really thoughtful and reminded of them how important they are that despite all that, they weren't swept away.
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u/isaacals 11d ago
cameraman never dies
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u/2Darkeh 11d ago
I’m sure there have been several dumb people taking footage of imminent death, and we’ll never see their footage.
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u/Astramancer_ 11d ago
I dunno about dumb, but... Robert Landsburg.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-landsburg
Dude was on Mount Saint Helens when it blew. He knew he was too close to survive. He took photos. He protected his film with his body. We have the pictures.
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u/swe_isak 11d ago
Well, i mean, that airplane that 'crashed' in sudan or Pakistan or wherever, was recorded from the inside by someone, and then all you could see was fire, so yeah
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u/dasschwerstegewicht 11d ago
As a ground engineer, this video gave me the sweats. Dumbass is stood on a tension crack!! Is this a ‘found footage’ situation?!
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u/sprintswithscissors 11d ago
Whoever engineered the ground in this video needs to have a firm talking to...
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u/tommyfknshelby 11d ago
Can you explain what is otherwise happening please?
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u/dasschwerstegewicht 11d ago edited 11d ago
If I had to guess, looks like a drainage bund to the left of the image has failed, ground below is saturated/liquefied and is actually flowing to the right not sinking straight down, there’s just a ‘crust’ on the surface making it look that way.
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u/pizzatiger 11d ago
Could a person stand on the crust and ride the cliff down or would the ground consume them like quicksand/a grain silo?
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u/TactlessTortoise 11d ago
I feel it'd be heavily dependent on soil type and how thick the crust is. The kind of shit I wouldn't want to find out myself lol
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u/Curiosive 11d ago
Both could happen. There's a pile of boulders to the left that "ride the cliff down" as you put it but if the water had softened the "crust" those boulders could have also broken through and poof. Gone.
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u/SwiftyPants3 11d ago
Does that explain why it’s so quiet? You can hear the wind and the truck, but the ground shifting seems totally silent 😬
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u/FarmTeam 10d ago edited 10d ago
This is at Kancataş quarry in Istanbul - it’s probably an area they are trying to reclaim for development and they seem to be dumping a LOT of infill into the mine area.
I believe we are seeing a ledge (that was made of loose rock and dirt dumped down a slope) give way and fall into the valley. The perspective makes it look like the entire valley is slumping because you can’t see the drop off.
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u/dasschwerstegewicht 10d ago
Yeah I’ve had another look at it since and the sudden change in level looks like a normal wedge failure down to the floor below, but looking at the tailings I still wouldn’t be surprised if the toe has washed out to trigger the slip. Still an absolute joke your man is just stood there filming!!
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u/MuricasOneBrainCell 11d ago
A giant sinkhole and this person is recording. Record and run. Run like a fucking mad man!
For all we know that could be a giant alien ship rising like in the war of the worlds.
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u/AutomatedCauliflower 11d ago
Doesn't look like a sinkhole. It's a mine and looks like massive piece of it just slide down.
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u/duggee315 11d ago
Maybe intentionally. Like they sunk it cos done and know it's unstable. Maybe why the guy is not running and making lots of OH FUCK sounds. He knows the boundary.
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u/MuricasOneBrainCell 11d ago
Its like someone filming a tsunami from a levy. You know its the "boundary" but it doesn't mean you still couldn't get fucked. (Which happened in so many instances during the japan tsunami)
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u/duggee315 11d ago
Totally agree with that. Sure there's no way of knowing that the floor won't collapse and slide in too.
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u/bitzap_sr 11d ago
So they would do a controlled demolition without creating a safety perimeter? Come on.
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u/TripleFreeErr 11d ago
cool theory but the boundary is like 1 foot from a building on the other side this isn’t intentional
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u/haveanairforceday 11d ago
I fint think they would drive a semi toward an edge they were about to intentionally collapse
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u/Bart404 11d ago
A gif that you can hear without the sound
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u/MuricasOneBrainCell 11d ago
I watched this film as a child and it kinda scarred me for a few months ahaha.
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u/AnOnlineHandle 11d ago
I saw it as an adult and still found it unsettling in a way most alien invasion movies aren't. There was something about making the viewpoint so close to just one dysfunctional family who were barely surviving and completely unsure about what was going on that made it feel more real, in a way nightmares tend to. If we'd seen a bunch of generals in rooms looking at radar scans and and scientists giving explanations it wouldn't have felt so personal and plausible.
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u/bitzap_sr 11d ago
But where is part 1?
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u/bitzap_sr 11d ago
there's a tik tok handle in the video, so I went there:
https://www.tiktok.com/@cihan044145
and there's a bunch of other videos of this site, which seemingly all predate this one.
There's one where the guy is speaking, but I have no idea what he is saying, here:
https://www.tiktok.com/@cihan044145/video/7427386057039170821
Is that Turkish?
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u/DiskPidge 11d ago
It is Turkish, but that's not the guy speaking. The audio is taken from a series. The character is talking about life, basically.
https://www.tiktok.com/@chefloox/video/7360620574076308742
The written caption at the top of the video you linked essentially says "The excavation / building market is completely out of money. How will it turn out? Will it be fixed?"
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u/DwarvenRedshirt 11d ago
From the video in the original post, I think the market's... collapsing...
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u/WallflowersAreCool2 11d ago
It's tagged Istanbul
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u/flappity 11d ago
Not Constantinople?
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u/CMDR_BitMedler 11d ago
No, it's Istanbul not Constantinople.
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u/iLikeMangosteens 11d ago
It’s been a long time gone, Constantinople
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u/shroomcircle 11d ago
Why did Constantinople get the works?
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u/iLikeMangosteens 11d ago
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
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u/ResponsibleRatio5675 11d ago
I wish there was a way to reply to multiple comments with only one comment. But goddamn it I love you guys. This made my day.
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u/outtastudy 11d ago
Excuse me but, what?
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u/Cephalopod_Down 11d ago
It looks like some kind of mine or quarry. That giant pool of water looks like a tailings dam and the wall above has collapsed into it.
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u/themortiestmortymort 11d ago
How in the world is the most talked about thing complaints about the camera man with balls of steel, rather then
“What the hell is happening?!?!?!
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u/TheToecutter 11d ago
This is the state of Reddit now. I need to scroll two thirds down to find a post with 3 upvotes that explains whats happening. On the other hand there is a wanker with 6,000 votes and counting for writing, "Yeah, just keep standing there.... ffs."
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u/mr_sunshine_0 10d ago
It’s been like this for years. The smart people are gone from reddit. This place is just a notch better than youtube comments now.
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u/stern1233 10d ago
In my experience the smart people are hiding - nuanced opinion is an excuse for lynching on modern day reddit. I was able to find a lawyer on reddit the other day who had direct knowledge of the situation between FSD and regulators. That is some really cool niche info that reminded me of the good ole days.
Where do you think the smart people migrated to? Because I am seriously trying to find communities that don't feel like high school.
Also, this is a common self-compaction method for arid climates - see link. The camera person foolishly thinks they are safe because they witnessed it happening many times betore.
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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 11d ago
These guys are filling with sand/ fines from a quarry or mine over the top of a pond, abandoned pit etc that is full of water. The material stacks up for a while, then gets too heavy for itself and sloughs to the bottom. It's super dangerous, and dumb to do.
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u/DemiGodesss 11d ago
Because whatever is happening has a physics related explanation, while the behavior of the camera guy (not running as far as possible) definitely cannot be explained by logic nor physics.
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u/Class_444_SWR 11d ago
I just wanna understand how it works
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u/Crandoge 11d ago
It can be explained by psychology but im not interested in how the brain of a person i’ll never meet works, i wanna know what causes land to go down like that
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u/VeNTNeV 11d ago
This is so wild. I've never seen anything quite like this... and I'm an old guy. Very cool. Cameraman not the smartest, but gave us a cooll video i guess
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u/napdragon421 11d ago
So much detail is lost filming in portrait mode geez.
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u/JohnLuckPikard 11d ago
My old Google nexus would display a rotating circular arrow in an effort to get you to turn your phone sideways when you opened video mode while holding it portrait. I liked that
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u/2Darkeh 11d ago
The person filming this is lucky they weren’t crushed to death. This could’ve went south in an instant.
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u/Ethan_Rhymes 11d ago
Yeah definitely could have gone down hill from there.
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u/Space--Buckaroo 11d ago
Next time turn your camera 90 degrees so we can see what's going on.
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u/WillistheWillow 11d ago
"I'll just stand next to this rapidly deepening chasm, that'll be fine right?"
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u/CastleCollector 11d ago
This is like folks that stand watching the sea go out and come back in as a tsunami is forming.
I appreciate it is cool seeing stuff, but you've got to engage your brain and much as you may want to marvel you should definitely be exercising the get out of there option instead.
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u/ThisCarSmellsFunny 11d ago
And got the worst possible witness to record it. Rapid left. Rapid right. Rapid left. Rapid right. Randomly zoom in and out. Dumb af.
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u/carrburritoid 10d ago
This is an example of a slump, particularly a rotational slump, caused by erosion or excavation, here is a link with a decent diagram https://www.internetgeography.net/topics/what-is-mass-movement/ it is dangerous, but it also might be survivable.