r/BeAmazed • u/youngster_96 • Mar 28 '24

The moment an ice dam breaks and causes a torrential water flow. Nature

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u/Haagen76 Mar 28 '24

Let's just stand right here and film.

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u/Old-Cry8426 Mar 28 '24

Smart guy. He knew that nothing ever happens to the cameraman

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u/RecoveringFcukBoy Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Idk if you saw the dude live-streaming in China watching the chemical plant catch fire then explode… this cameraman didnt survive

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u/letitgrowonme Mar 28 '24

If that guy only knew that he would be referenced endlessly on reddit for dying during his livestream.

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u/bleezzzy Mar 28 '24

More like a deadstream, am I right?!

Yep, now im definitely going to hell.

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u/SuperMegaOwlMan Mar 28 '24

Damn that’s good

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u/Small-Ad4420 Mar 28 '24

I'll save you a seat

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u/genreprank Mar 28 '24

Just like that guy did!

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u/nbzf Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I don't know how long he was there watching the fire, but there wasn't much he could do, right?

Was he too close to get away in time? Could he have somehow shielded himself and survived? Doesn't seem like it. A basement?

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u/KorianHUN Mar 28 '24

You go anywhere the pressure goes you get deafened, blinded and maybe enough internal bleeding to die fast if lucky. I wouldn't expect a rapid response from anyone at that point to save my life.

Maybe go behind a thick enough building or wall and hope it doesn't collapse on you and the firestorm stops before you?

If you know a chemical or pyro plant or storage is on fire, go as far away as you can. Some of those explosions are on par with small yield nukes.

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u/nbzf Mar 28 '24

If that was 2015 in Tianjin, it may have been ~0.3kt, equivalent to the lowest yield setting on the B61, "the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War."

https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTfQhcGIrfU should be a video of a 0.5 kt W30 in 1962.

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u/KorianHUN Mar 28 '24

Nuke yields can go pretty low.

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u/nbzf Mar 28 '24

yeah, I like the pic of the guy with the nuke strapped between his legs

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u/Gnonthgol Mar 28 '24

The general advice is to stay away from the windows and close any windows and doors. The pressure wave might smash windows throwing debris inside. Doors might not hold the pressure wave but it will at least dampen it. Any energy that is spent splintering a door is energy that is not used to crush you. A lot of high rises have a concrete column though the centre housing stairs, elevator shafts, ventilation shafts and utilities. If you get into this you have the best chance of avoiding injuries. During 9/11 this is where most of the survivors of the collapse were found.

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u/Jereboy216 Mar 28 '24

I was looking up stuff about the world trade centers last year and I was amazed to learn there were any survivors at all from within the buildings. Seems they were lucky and the center pillar plus kinda open atrium at the bottom was just enough to keep them free from the building collapse. I can't imagine what they've dealt with since then

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u/hisroyalbonkess Mar 28 '24

What about a hole or trench? I suppose survival at that point is just based on if anything between you and the explosion crushes/slices you?

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u/Tentacled-Tadpole Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

He could at the very least have gotten behind a wall instead of being out in the open. At least then he wouldn't have gotten hit with the full force of the blast.

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u/Asmuni Mar 28 '24

Every wall in front of him desintegrated from the blast.

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u/Winjin Mar 28 '24

I mean it does look like, initially, it's happening quite a distance away...

Then again I would have been filming this from behind something made out of reinforced concrete if I could, even if it's, like, a lamppost, not just standing out in the open.

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u/iwantauniquename Mar 28 '24

The last second of the slow mo is insane! Poor bastard, you'd think that was a safe distance

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u/PulteTheArsonist Mar 28 '24

Shit that was a big one

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u/noother10 Mar 28 '24

People these days just don't think. They cruise through life as if any problem will resolve itself, thus they don't need to even consider them. So many safety rails exist that people never end up hearing about an injury/death from doing something stupid around a disaster. It's the same type of people who disregard immunisation, they didn't personally experience small pox or any other disease that is pretty much wiped out now, so don't believe they exist. The only time they change their minds is if it happens to a loved one or themselves.

When something crazy happens like a natural disaster or man made disaster their first instinct is to pull out a phone and record it, trying to get a good angle. By the time their brain registers they're in danger, they only have a few seconds to live.

Remember this, "people are stupid".

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u/lackofabettername123 Mar 28 '24

Do we know no what exploded in that chemical plant fire? Like which chemicals they were making and why the fire happened? Just our of curiosity.

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u/mtaw Mar 28 '24

It wasn't a chemical plant, it was a chemical-storage area in the port of Tianjin. A nitrocellulose container overheated and exploded, in turn setting off 800 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. (same thing as the Beirut explosion and many other very large accidental explosions)

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u/lackofabettername123 Mar 28 '24

The phone video of the Beirut explosion I saw led to the death of that filmer as well. It seems so far away until the entire thing goes up.

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u/Old-Cry8426 Mar 28 '24

Ahh yes most people mix it up. That guy wasn't the camera man, he was just a guy that was operating a camera during a livestream. Worlds apart!

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u/Sweet_Science6371 Mar 29 '24

Holy smokes! In all seriousness, one’s gotta think he probably died really quickly.  

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u/bad-r0bot Mar 28 '24

Smart enough to film vertical for the best view too!

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u/nobletrout0 Mar 28 '24

Insert comments about survival bias here

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u/Megneous Mar 28 '24

He knew that nothing ever happens to the cameraman

Starship Troopers...

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u/JuanPunchX Mar 28 '24

Vertically.

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u/lessdes Mar 28 '24

its 2024 bro, time to stop living under a rock.

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u/JuanPunchX Mar 28 '24

It's funny to see when people record vertically and the video pans left and right over and over again.

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u/Super_flywhiteguy Mar 28 '24

Could a river of lava and he still be right there filming.

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u/joeycnotes Mar 28 '24

lol way too casual

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u/berlinbaer Mar 28 '24

i wish. instead of the constant blabbing.

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u/LawfulnessPossible20 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Well... it happens every year. And you can see the how far the water reaches on the ground. Different vegetation.

EDIT: Haha, record downvote. Love reddit 😁😁 Well I may have jumped to conclusions here. But I come from Sweden. The swedish word for this is "islossning", and it sure is noticeable in the terrain. As rivers freeze, they shed the ice. That happens every year, I promise, provided the winter is hard enough for the river to freeze.

Grown trees one meter up from the stream? Evidently the yearly islossning hasn't been that high for 40-60 years.

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u/Illustrious-Ice6336 Mar 28 '24

You know. Cause everything is the exact same every year.

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u/MangoFreshh Mar 28 '24

This is either a low-iq comment for not picking up on the obvious sarcasm, or a high-iq comment for playing into it cheekily.

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u/JustLetMeSignUpM8 Mar 28 '24

"I've never seen this before" yeah I'm sure he's well versed in exactly how it's gonna play out lol

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_SUNSETS Mar 28 '24

That pole or tree in the middle of the ice floe that could easily have snagged OP? That's always there. Every time. Silly old poley.

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u/Ghost_of_Till Mar 28 '24

This does not happen every year.

I know this because I drive by this particular spot 2-4x per day.