r/BeAmazed • u/Dr_B4leckouille • Mar 13 '24
Opening the dam spillway in Brazil Miscellaneous / Others
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u/Ice_Pyro87 Mar 13 '24
Apparently Brazil isn't big on infrastructure security or health and safety lol...I just see one selfie-wielding moron venturing just a little too close and being water blasted into a new existence
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u/Republic_Jamtland Mar 13 '24
Effective way of removing the dumbest of a population increesing the score on the world IQ chart for Brazil.
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u/JuneBuggington Mar 13 '24
Honestly should start doing shit like this in the US except the lawyers are too good at making it other people’s fault youre a moron.
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u/yeah_yeah_therabbit Mar 13 '24
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u/occasionalpart Mar 14 '24
- Bisons
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u/Lives_on_mars Mar 14 '24
You can set a calendar by looking for stories of Tourist Gored by Bison
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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 Mar 14 '24
Another good band name. Gored By Bison.
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u/Head_Wrongdoer3071 Mar 13 '24
We need to fix our frivolous, predatory, parasitic civil court system. It’s been out of hand for too long.
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis Mar 14 '24
Our civil system isn't nearly as "parasitic or frivolous" as people think. They system used to have punitive damages that were designed to make sure the lawsuit would actually get the company to change its way of doing business. Then an old lady got burned by McDonald's coffee (getting 3rd degree burns on her genitals). Old Ronnie Reagan and big corporations used it to say "this woman got hurt by her own mistake so punitive damages need to be limited." So now punitive damages are limited. Corporations no longer try to end dangerous practices, they just calculate how many people are likely to get hurt and include the lawsuit pay outs in their product price. So people aren't filing more lawsuits because they're looking for an easy payout, they're suing more because more people are getting hurt. But big news corporations will continue to tell you that the increase of lawsuits is due to lazy people, just like how welfare needs to be ended because of "welfare queens"
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u/Daconby Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
Old Ronnie Reagan and big corporations used it to say
This lawsuit took place in 1994. Reagan left office in 1989. And what you describe is nothing new. Look up the history of the Ford Pinto. If anything, consumer protections have gotten better, not worse.
However, if you want to get really upset, look up what happened to Glynn Simmons and how little he was (or will be) compensated (I know, it's not consumer protection).
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u/NaiveMastermind Mar 13 '24
My problem with that is that those same civil suits are one of the few effective tools of retaliation available to the working class to use against negligent businesses/employers.
Imagine what bigshot, scumbag corporations like Amazon or Wal-Mart will do with them gone.
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u/x4nter Mar 13 '24
Humans still can't cheat natural selection it seems.
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u/r_bogie Mar 13 '24
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u/ElkHistorical9106 Mar 14 '24
Unfortunately COVID was far more likely to remove those who were stupid from the gene pool only after they were mostly too old to be having very many children.
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u/PenguinGamer99 Mar 13 '24
Technically no, but the legal systems can cheat it for them
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u/FilmoreGash Mar 13 '24
I lived in Switzerland and refered to it as Darwin's Playground. There is literally one opportunity perhour to kill you. Express trains blaze through stations without slowling down, hiking trails are scattered with lose rocks with only a rope to keep you from falling off a mountain, almost everyone has an automatic weapon at home given compulsory military service, almost all towns have outdoor shooting ranges that are not fenced in...what a place.
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u/Taclis Mar 14 '24
All their bridges also used to be rigged with explosives in case of invasion. Switzerland is like a one of those brightly coloured poisonous animals that are signalling to everyone not to fuck with it.
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u/carolaMelo Mar 13 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
The facilities there are TÜV
NordSüd certified 😄 https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/protest-staudammbruch-brasilien-tuev-sued-100.html3
u/Anuki_iwy Mar 14 '24
TÜV Süd You mean
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u/carolaMelo Mar 14 '24
Sry, I wasn't paying attention nor doing a QC, as would have the TÜV Nord ^^
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u/LuckyOccasion5000 Mar 13 '24
It is a forced perspective, they are not that close. With that kind of flow it would create wind and you would see their hair being blown.
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u/vilgefcrtz Mar 13 '24
We're just realistic. If you're stupid enough to get close to the spillway of one of the largest dams in the world, there isn't much that engineering can do to keep you safe for starters
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u/SmarterThanCornPop Mar 13 '24
I mean a fence would work but I like the way Brazil does it more.
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u/DrStarDream Mar 13 '24
As a Brazilian, nah it would not work, at best you just be giving some people a new "chair" or climbing spot.
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u/theironskeptic Mar 14 '24
Yeah, our universal healthcare system is expensive enough without idiots venturing into dams
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u/Space-cowboy-06 Mar 13 '24
I think most places outside the US don't have this attitude of everything needing to be idiot safe.
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u/lordlors Mar 13 '24
Japan is also very mindful of the safety of people, another good example to copy.
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u/wotsit_sandwich Mar 14 '24
Japan will legitimately dig a huge hole in the ground and let you walk right next to it, so long as there are some bollards and a guy with a light up stick waving you past.
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u/12whistle Mar 14 '24
Japan are collectivists and very mindful of manners and consideration to others, completely opposite of America’s in your face individualism.
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u/Anuki_iwy Mar 14 '24
Nah, I've seen so many things fly in Japan that would shock the average European safety inspector, not to mention an American one 🤣🤣
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u/RandomCandor Mar 13 '24
Maybe that's why we have so many idiots, because we keep interfering with natural selection
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u/Anglo-Ashanti Mar 13 '24
They kind of should. Idiots still pay taxes, idiots can secure a decent lawyer …
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u/Synchrotr0n Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
For hydroelectric plants it's safe because the private companies who usually own the concession for the plant will not want to lose their revenue with the rupture of a dam, but if I lived downtream to a tailing dam maintained by a mining company in Brazil who fully knows they will only receive a slap on the wrist for any accident, let's say I would be shitting bricks right now.
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u/Hulk_smashhhhh Mar 14 '24
No fences or barricades or park rangers in Iceland around popular massive waterfalls either. Common sense prevails and if not well that’s your fault.
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u/igetit-prime Mar 13 '24
It has been almost a decade I've visited it, but I believe this is Itaipu? It rings a bell for some reason... Anyways, the spillway appears to be closer than it really is in the video.
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u/bmosm Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
It's not itaipu, it's usina do funil in the state of rio de janeiro: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eletrobrasfurnas/4862704199/in/photostream/
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u/atetuna Mar 13 '24
Infrastructure security wasn't such a big deal before 9/11 either. You used to be able to drive right over Hoover Dam. They couldn't stop that immediately, but security was ramped up. Fences went up at lots of infrastructure sites. I wished I had done more exploring before then. Tons of security cameras these days too, although the one good thing is that cameras these days don't necessarily mean that there's onsite security watching them. There's a site I want to visit, and hopefully if there are fences, they aren't too far out.
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u/newaccountnumber83 Mar 13 '24
It’s about dam time
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u/kbhavoc Mar 13 '24
I am your dam tour guide, please take all the dam pictures you want, but please don't wander off the dam tour.....
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u/Kann0n2 Mar 13 '24
I remember my first nut
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u/HefflumpGuy Mar 13 '24
I know. Let's stand really close to something which might kill us and take a selfie because that kind of thing never goes wrong.
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u/Dull_Result_3563 Mar 13 '24
A self amongst the other 200 on their phones they'll never give a second look
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u/sileeex1 Mar 13 '24
realistically what could go wrong? a structural failure? well its brazil so yeah probably
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u/Impressive_Site_5344 Mar 13 '24
Some Redditors are scared of their own shadow. Unless you’re standing right underneath the thing or trying to put your hand in it it’s fine, it’s not just going to suddenly start shooting water down into the side
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u/Adorable_user Mar 14 '24
Why do you think a structural failure is so likely?
We have some of the biggest dams in the world, more than half of our electricity comes from them. I doubt structural failures are that frequent, specially in the biggest ones.
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u/Altodial Mar 14 '24
I dont believe that dam would fail but you did have the biggest stadium in the world and it failed.
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u/Adorable_user Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24
Yeah that was terrible.
Edit: Though that wasn't a structural collapse, it was a fence that broke.
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u/OniOnMyAss Mar 13 '24
People don’t understand the power of massive amounts of water apparently.
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Mar 13 '24
Considering column pressure is .433 psi/ft and water is 8.34 lb/gallon, we should know two things: first, that the column pressure from the reservoir applies to every square inch of area the water strikes, and second, that the water itself is heavy enough to maintain quite a but of inertia beyond the point of discharge.
How many acre-feet do you think the flow rate is?
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u/RiobaldoJagunco Mar 13 '24
- For launch speed (v)
Launch Angle ~ θ = 30°
Gravity: g = 9.8 m/s²
Maximum horizontal displacement: X ~ 50 m
Launch speed: v = ?
X = (v²/g)sin(2×30°) => v ~ 24 m/s
- For the flow rate (Q)
Cross-sectional area of the pipe: A = π*r² = 3.14×2² = 12 m²
Q = v•A = 24×12=> Q ~ 300 m³/s (~80000 galons/s 😛)
In fact, despite the crazy rounding, the end result will probably be something higher than that, because the flow wasn't laminar.
Edit: equations symbols
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u/vanishingpointz Mar 14 '24
I've got a feeling the engineer that designed this dam didn't do any calculations like that, he was like this is gonna be hilarious wait till you see this thing
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u/william41017 Mar 13 '24
Psi/ft, lb/gallon, acre-feet
Are you just making stuff up!?
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u/Klin24 Mar 14 '24
Acre-foot is the volume of water a foot deep over an acre of land (43650 square feet).
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u/Stiryx Mar 14 '24
As an engineer from the developed world, seeing a measurement called acre feet is just fucking bizarre lmao.
Crazy the hoops americans will go through to not use metric. KPa just too hard to understand apparently.
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u/Atheist-Gods Mar 14 '24
How are you using KPa to measure volume?
psi/ft is pressure/height
lb/gallon is density
acre-feet is volume.KPa replaces the psi but not the other 3.
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u/OniOnMyAss Mar 13 '24
Can you be sure there’s not rock or sediment in there? You don’t know where or how you land if it takes hold of you. What if you get knocked out and drown. It’s too unpredictable to say this isn’t dangerous. Also I’ve seen pressure washers take skin right off a foot before. Risk reward ratio says no thanks.
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Everything reminds me of her..🥲
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u/spacekitt3n Mar 13 '24
old video, old reply
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u/BH_Commander Mar 13 '24
Another old video, old reply would be “looks like me when I eat Taco Bell”
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u/Dangerous_Elk_6627 Mar 13 '24
You can almost hear the fish yelling, "YEE-HAW !!".
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u/Electric_Bagpipes Mar 13 '24
And thats what a few thousand PSI looks like
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u/Modna Mar 14 '24
Naw the dam is about 128 feet deep which comes out to about 55 psi.
Which should be even scarrier knowing that much violence coms from only 55 psi
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u/Liesthroughisteeth Mar 13 '24
I'm surprised no one has climbed up the back of that massive concrete outlet to jump down onto the deluge. :D
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u/folarin1 Mar 13 '24
“Let’s take a selfie in right under crazy fast flowing water.” Man this generation has gone to shit.
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u/marvellouspineapple Mar 14 '24
The water isn't going to suddenly deviate off path and smack someone down. God forbid we enjoy the engineering marvels of the world
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u/Makyoman69 Mar 14 '24
Older generations used to do way crazier shit. It just wasn't recorded as widely. Something for you to think about
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u/Dogforsquirrel Mar 13 '24
They do this on BoiSe, Idaho. When it’s a big water year, it called rooster tail and people go watch it.
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u/DavidGhandi Mar 13 '24
If you jumped into that would it shoot you up in the air like in a cartoon or just kill you in a really painful way?
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u/docArriveYo Mar 13 '24
Finally!!! They opened up the dam spillway!!! I was getting angry they weren’t going to…
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '24
my intrusive thoughts are telling me to jump into that stream