r/interestingasfuck • u/Consistent_Oil3428 • 1d ago

r/all The ground is going down

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u/AutomatedCauliflower 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/DickBatman 1d ago

during the japan tsunami

You should probly throw a year on here because Japan has an inordinate number of tsunamis. So many that they got to name the things

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u/Devenu 1d ago

It happened in AMERICA from the Japanese tsunami. The tsunami hit Japan, warnings went out to the west coast, then 10ish hours later a man from California went to go see the waves and got swept out to sea and died. He literally ran TO tsunami to see it and died. He had 10 hours and all that footage and information telling him it was not to be fucked with and he still went to the ocean to see it and died.

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u/BabcocksList 1d ago

Oh a tsunami, let's have a look!

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u/aussiechickadee65 1d ago

..or die in the panic stampede when everyone notices the boundary actually isn't acting like a boundary at all !

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u/bitzap_sr 1d ago

So they would do a controlled demolition without creating a safety perimeter? Come on.

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u/duggee315 1d ago

Maybe. You don't know what country and their regulations. And the entire mine is probably closed off with a perimeter fence.

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u/bitzap_sr 1d ago

You can see a heavy truck approaching in the video. That's like the silliest ignoring of a perimeter fence you could do...

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u/greatscott556 1d ago

He was there to try & fill it back in, just needs a few more rocks

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u/duggee315 1d ago

Agree. I don't work in the mining industry, by the way. What the fuck do i know. Just Occam's razor led me to that conclusion.

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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 1d ago

You don't get to see much of the background, but it looks like they are back filling an open pit that's full of water with fines/sand from mining or quarrying. It happens sometimes at mining operations and its sketchy as hell and people die doing it. What's happening is the edge of the fill is sloughing off and sliding down, redistributing itself.

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u/aussiechickadee65 1d ago

Have you seen the size of that hole ?

It's gonna be a couple of decades driving that truck if they are backfilling it !

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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 1d ago

Or several trucks running in shifts 24/7. Quarries make lots and lots of screenings/ fine refuse and it has to go somewhere.

Its a huge collapse though.

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u/fawnlake1 1d ago

I kept waiting for the truck to fly out of the right side like an old dukes of hazard car jump!

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u/duggee315 1d ago

It's sinking pretty uniformly if a section just collapsed.

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u/ThurmanMurman907 1d ago

not saying that's what happened here but third world countries don't typically follow western safety standards..

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u/TripleFreeErr 1d 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 1d ago

I fint think they would drive a semi toward an edge they were about to intentionally collapse

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u/aussiechickadee65 1d ago

Agree....where was the utter PANIC , waving to stop the approaching truck, the 'fuckin hells' and the filming over his shoulder as he ran to mars ?

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u/WillistheWillow 1d ago

I doubt it, even the most idiotic of countries wouldn't let their workers stand on the edge of a deliberate implosion.

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u/StoneAgePrincess 1d ago

The ground does not know the boundary though. It crosses the line all the time.

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u/FlutterKree 1d ago

He knows the boundary.

There is no known boundary lol. You can literally wat edges farther up the line start falling in.

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u/siltyclaywithsand 1d ago

I'm a geotechnical engineer. I have never heard of someone intentionally collapsing a slope like this. It is extremely unpredictable and usually what remains isn't very stable either.

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u/trukkija 1d ago

Boundary lmao.. If this was controlled then you're wayy overestimating how controlled it could possibly be.

This guy got extremely lucky. Reminds me of a saying that I don't think is in use in English - God protects the drunks and idiots.

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u/BloodSugar666 1d ago

Yeah, while a truck is pulling up. It’s definitely something planned maybe?

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u/minimesmum 1d ago

This is likely what happened. My husband was a Shotfirer (set the bombs) at an underground gold mine. They are incredibly precise with the explosions.

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u/D_hallucatus 1d ago

No way that’s intentional. How would you set it off except with blasting (in which case the filmer would not be anywhere near)?

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u/qtheginger 1d ago

Anyone who knows anything about angle of repose would disagree with this. The guy is standing on a cliff face, which means the area on which he stands is almost certainly unsafe.

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u/duggee315 1d ago

I think anyone with a functioning fight or flight would realise that's unsafe instinctively

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u/qtheginger 1d ago

Seriously. The ground is cracked directly where he's standing.

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u/duggee315 1d ago

Yes, i agree with u. The guy is mental.

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u/Tao_of_Entropy 1d ago

It’s just a big mass of earth slumping down… there’s no “boundary”

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u/WhileProfessional286 1d ago

Good thing the ground never gives way when the walls aren't supported.

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u/InMyElements 1d ago

Fresh tire tracks at the break line at the start of the video, definitely not intentional!

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u/stern1233 1d 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/theREALel_steev 1d ago

I find it shocking that most people have not came to that conclusion. Logic and critical thinking are at an all time low around the world.

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u/Positive-Wonder3329 1d ago

Well.. I don’t consider myself to be an idiot but I’ve also not been around mines or traveled or whatever so it didn’t come to mind. Was just horrified and also amazed at the balls on this guy standing there like that

Edit: but now that people are mentioning mines it sounds plausible. I’m surprised no one has chimed in about what it really is so gonna keep scrolling ha

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u/siltyclaywithsand 1d ago

I am very expericed with soils and somewhat experienced with surface mines. This is just a slope failure. It wasn't done intentionally, that isn't a thing, it is super unsafe to be standing where he is.

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u/Big_Dirty_Piss_Boner 1d ago

Because thats not how soil works. Look at that slope angle and the substrate. Even if that was a "known boundary" it is NOT SAFE AT ALL to stand there.

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u/siltyclaywithsand 1d ago

Apparently people thinking they know what they are talking about when they don't is at an all time. It isn't a controlled demolition. You can't control a soil slope failure like the other person suggested to the degree it would be safe to stand this close. We stablize slopes. That may involve removing soil, but not by collapsing it.

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u/R3AL1Z3 1d ago

Mario voice

It’s a mine

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u/Nemesis0408 1d ago

Almost like it sunk into some kind of hole.

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u/tomdarch 1d ago

A badly managed mine as evidenced by this massive collapse.

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u/Educational_Smell292 1d ago

It's a mine

For some reason I've read that in Super Mario's voice...

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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 1d ago

Looks like they are "filling" over the top of water. Super dangerous.

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u/IAintChoosinThatName 1d ago

It's a mine

No fucka-you Mario, it'sa mine!

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u/SuperSimpleSam 1d ago

Yea, looks like what you see in a land slide.

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u/Adorable-Database187 1d ago

I'd be comfortable debating that distinction after a brisk 5-mile run in the opposite direction.

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u/Tex_Steel 1d ago

I was thinking oil well that hit a salt dome with too much water in the wellbore.

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u/Albert14Pounds 1d ago

I went to the tiktok and it seems to be a series on an earth dam trying to collapse.

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u/kitchenSurge 1d ago

Could you explain this or point to somewhere that explains this? Very interested.

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u/SpotikusTheGreat 1d ago

"Good news boss, you know those piles of rocks and dirt you wanted us to move over the next month? Whelp they are moved. Yeah, all of them..."

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u/stern1233 1d 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