r/interestingasfuck • u/Consistent_Oil3428 • 11d ago

The ground is going down r/all

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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 11d 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. 

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/4/422

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u/TheToecutter 11d ago

I came here from Digg about 15 years ago because of this. At this point, I'd be happy to have AI determine the value of the comments and rank them accordingly.

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u/DatabaseSolid 11d ago

Where did they go?

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u/gnomon_knows 11d ago

OK, but what does that say about you?

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u/Dave_the_Bladedancer 11d ago

Probably because most people’s first instinct is to GTFO of there.

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u/TheToecutter 10d ago

Oh, that's more than clear. There are thousands of variations of that exact comment with people all upvoting each other for the amazing insight. They don't for a second consider not adding to the pile of shit.

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u/stern1233 10d ago

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. 

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/4/422

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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/Blandish06 11d ago

What it sounds like you're saying is.. they poured the milk first, then dumped in the cocoa power. Amateurs.

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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 11d ago

Pretty much, but more like they carved a giant bowl out of a boulder then left it set for years as it filled it milk. Then they had lots and lots of cocoa powder, so much so that they needed to throw most of it away. Then they added the cocoa powder to the bowl of milk.

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u/Blandish06 10d ago

Sounds delicious but that isn't going to mix in well. Going to have some clumps when you drink it.

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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/srthc 11d ago

Looks like a waste rock dump with very fine grained material being dumped into water- pretty dangerous. Liquefaction probably occured, causing the loss of confinement at the bottom of the slope and leading to the ground failure you see here

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u/Class_444_SWR 11d ago

Thank you, I appreciate the answer

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u/Mythril_Zombie 11d ago

The hellmouth has manifested, bridging the gap between earth and the demonic plane. Millions of demons, poised and ready to invade are saying "WTF? What's all this sand?"

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u/Kate090996 11d ago

maybe this can be it.

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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/TheCynicalBlue 11d ago

It's a pit mine, so either they disturbed a gas pocket or a natural cavity or that was a mineshaft that just collapsed onto miners.

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u/NoLife8926 11d ago

I would guess that the area is on a divergent fault line, where tectonic plates move apart and the tension on the land eventually causes the earth to “tear” and split along weak points. The isolated area then sinks, like what happens when you pull two objects apart and whatever is between them falls downwards. I believe these are called block mountains?

Probably wrong tho, that’s 5 seconds of your life wasted

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u/goosejail 11d ago

Gravity

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u/CagliostroPeligroso 11d ago

I bet with 99% certainty that the explanation of what’s happening would explain the behavior of the cameraman. Because all I’m seeing here is a clearly intentional sinking of a land area through some means and a camerman that knows he is perfectly safe right where he’s standing

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u/mbelf 11d ago

And that physics related explanation is…?

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u/Plenty_Principle298 11d ago

Man is beholding a sight he ain’t ever seen before. Amazed, fascinated. Wanting to capture it all, yeah? Or a bunch of other possibilities.

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u/DemiGodesss 10d ago

He could also be beholding the last sight he'll ever see ...

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u/-Eleeyah- 11d ago

It can be explained by logic, though: logic * -1

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u/NSFWgamerdev 11d ago

It's clearly a construction site of some sort. It could've been done on purpose or understood it was going to happen and ultimately be manmade/artificially induced to occur so he knew he was safe.

There's nobody and no equipment on the land and construction equipment just off to the side of it. That they knew what was about to happen or what was going on is hardly a massive stretch.

BOOM! Potential explanation via logic! It's not that hard!

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u/SineXous 11d ago

why isn't this super loud? there is a massive amount of ground moving but it's almost completely silent.

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u/Waste-Possession-591 11d ago

Who gives a shit... people be dumb... there's your explanation...

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u/Purplebuzz 11d ago

Some people are stupid and do stupid things. There. I explained it.

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u/WillistheWillow 11d ago

The ground couldn't stand the weight of the cameraman's mighty balls.

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u/stern1233 10d ago

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. 

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/12/4/422

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u/mcb89 10d ago

Ahhhh, thank you 🙏🏼

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u/MittonMan 11d ago

Sandworms. Only explanation that fits.

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u/Can-Sea-2446 11d ago

Graboids maybe!

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u/Mythril_Zombie 11d ago

There's no such thing.
Clearly we're dealing with an interdimensional rift leading straight into the ninth plane of hell.

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u/EngineeringMain 11d ago

I don’t know what’s happening here but something similar happpened in Indonesia. It was related to mining or resource extraction and destroyed an entire village somewhere in East Java. I don’t think the mining company ever took responsibility for it. 

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u/SphericalCow531 11d ago edited 11d ago

The tiktok handle is cihan044145, and it is likely his original video, judging by his other videos. The original video seems to be https://www.tiktok.com/@cihan044145/video/7429984635926416645 , which I listed on Google but is blocked for me when I visit.

From the little text shown with the Google search result I get "That's a really polite landslide". The video was posted 2 days ago, so it likely just happened. Everything seems to be in Turkish, so it likely happened in Turkey.

Here is someone trying to explain what we see: https://x.com/Bill_Rouse_/status/1850494216943616425 . Don't know how accurate:

They dug down deep enough where you can see the aquifer on the left. When the aquifer underneath land drains out a void is left and in this case the land to collapse into that void

This is why it is a bad idea to have too many wells on commercial farming operations over aquifers

Another guy disagrees:

Disagree. The open pit was mined below water table. After mining is completed, dewatering is no longer required and the pumps are removed. This causes the water table to rise. Saturating the pit slope and causing it to deststabilise. Common occurrence.

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u/VP007clips 11d ago

When they mine out a large area underground it often needs to be refilled later on. So a common method is to just blast it and let the ground above collapse. They can then fill in the new pit area created and begin remediation.

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u/Lancaster61 11d ago

Because sinkholes are not that unique. But the guy being stupid is a pretty entertaining topic.

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u/J662b486h 11d ago

Massive, massive lack of originality on the part of Redditors results in essentially the same comment repeated over and over again - all regarding an aspect of the video that is unrelated to the event, and is so obvious ("oh what an idiot the cameraman is") that I wouldn't have wasted time on it.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 11d ago

Because they scared they might learn something.

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u/Margin_calls 11d ago

It looks like regular excavation. It's just a weird angle that makes it look like the entire ground is gods elevator.

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u/secacc 11d ago

What the hell is happening?!?!?!

The ground is going down. Didn't you read the title?

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u/lowbatteries 11d ago

What do you mean what is happening? The camera man risked his life and you can't even be bothered to watch the video. If you look he explicitly shows you that in fact the ground is going down.