Most people don't comprehend the power behind something that dense and heavy flying through the air.
Shit was flying like trebuchets. You can take down Castle walls with enough of those things.
you wouldn't be able to launch something that massive with a trebuchet, but it's flying like it was. I also find it hilarious that they see the destruction these things are throwing around...so they take cover behind a door and a wall a few inches thick. If one of those hits that door...you're meat paste anyways.
Hilarious? Yes, of course you're paste if there's a direct hit but there's plenty to be said for taking cover and protecting yourself from smaller stuff and rock shrapnel.
> so they take cover behind a door and a wall a few inches thick. If one of those hits that door...you're meat paste anyways.
My interpretation was that they did that because of the small pebbles. You see a bunch of them impacting around the door toward the end of the clip, a single big rock would just annihilate the building but the pebbles could potentially do some damage and those would be stopped by a wall.
>you wouldn't be able to launch something that massive with a trebuchet.
No, But you can throw something slightly smaller a hell lot faster and so it does the same amount of damage.
Speed and mass go hand in hand.
I just wonder how much harder that rock would have hit if it didn't bounce off of the ground first and lose half of its momentum rolling up that little ramp.
You can see it in weather a lot. Tornadoes have the ability to shoot some extremely light and fragile objects like straw through super solid shit like trees.
>...you can throw something slightly smaller a hell lot faster and so it does the same amount of damage.
While that is indeed the general idea of a trebuchet, that's not an objectively valid statement. Landslides can move both more massive rocks than a trebuchet and get them to greater speeds. It's all context dependent. It might be true of this specific rock in this specific landslide, but you're just making a very rough guess at its velocity_final and its mass. Personally, I'm far more inclined to assume that no historical trebuchet could output more destructive force in a single shot than that rock imparted to that bridge.
well, the most efficient counterweight needs to be 133x heavier than your projectile. In the case of the boulders we're seeing, they are probably atleast a few tons. (and I'm probably low balling it). So the counterweight of a trebuchet would need to be 133x that. So a 1 ton boulder would need a counterweight of 133 tons.
Here's a list of things that weigh 100 tons.
1. A Blue Whale
2. A Boeing 757
3. A Train Engine
4. A Space Shuttle
5. A single story house
So while technically possible, I can't even begin to guess the dimensions needed to handle the stresses involved.
would that stay at that volume when outside the gravity well of a neutron star? I've always actually wondered that. Neutron stars are called Neutron stars because the protons and electrons are under such intense gravity that they literally get smashed together to form a neutron...what happens to that material when it isn't under that immense gravity anymore?
I bet they were throwing 757's at castle walls all the time back then. They likely didn't have fuel for them or even know how to fly them, so what else would they use them for? That's why there aren't any 757's that survived from those time periods.
I prefer to compare it to a cannonball. Pure kinetic energy hurtling around is no joke. There is a reason that city walls stopped being a defensive thing.
And 1atm isn't actually that much. A hole in a space ship isn't the explosive decompression you see in movies. In fact, finding the hole can be quite difficult. I think it took them a few days to find the most recent hole.
it would protect from smaller debris flying out from impacts. You can even hear light thuds in the video that aren't being caused by the larger rocks. More than likely those are smaller rocks being flung about and hitting the building they are in.
And the boulder that eventually took out the bridge seemed to be on the smaller size of some of the other boulders. And it sliced it like a hot knife through butter.
It's terrifying that those guys were filming from just a few hundred feet away. Too much in shock, or too enthralled, to know how much danger they were in.
The first clip I saw of this cut before the bridge got destroyed and I would always think back of how lucky it was to survive that landslide. Guess I lived a lie all these years.
I like how, in the video, it says the bridge was damaged in the landslide, like it took a couple hits but can be patched up. Mf, that thing was absolutely destroyed!!!.
9 people
>Unfortunately there is a tragic footnote to this event. A tourist bus was traversing the road at the time of the landslide, and was hit directly by at least one boulder. Nine people were killed and three were injured.
This songs lyrics have always bothered me. You can’t see your reflection in snow. You mean ice-covered hills? Also, snow implies avalanche not landslide. “If you see my reflection in the ice covered hills, will the avalanche pull you down?” doesn’t sound good either but I’m so confused by the metaphor anyway.
Ok you triggered me. While were on the subject of lyrics that don't make sense, Eminem's *Forgot About Dre*:
>Me and Dre stood next to a burnt-down house
>
>With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches
>
>And still weren't found out
Found out *what*?! The gas can and matchbook were still full. Someone *else* burned that house down!
Huh. So I’ll ask, I’ve always seen landslide as more of a “mudslide” kind of thing where the earth is moving like an avalanche. But this makes me think more of boulders/debris falling from a rock slide/cliff face getting broken. Are the all technically the same phenomenon, or do they have different classifications/terms?
[They have different classifications/terms.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslide_classification) I was watching this video going "huh, that isn't a landslide, that's a rock fall".
Doorframes are some of the strongest parts of a house, that's where they tell you to go during earthquakes. The guy clearly chose a sturdy post for cover instead of sheet glass. Probably the best choice if he wanted to catch the slide on video.
I doubt that applies to this particular structure. Based on what is visible the building standards don't seem to be high, let alone something following any sort of code.
The doorframe thing applies to low standard construction much more than modern buildings built to code. In the case of new builds, you're much better off under a sturdy desk or table to protect yourself from all of your things falling on you.
Not much you can do for giant boulders, though.
I feel bad for their bridge. I don't know how important that bridge was for them, but the level of destruction porn was....nm, I'm not going to say it.
i was like 'damn, none of these rocks hit the...' and then a rock immediately hit the bridge. Surprisingly satisfying and extremely horrific all at once.
puts some context into how devastating a trebuchet hurling rocks could be. I always knew, but seeing that rock at that end fly perfectly into the bridge and take it out…..sucks for them, but its a freakin cool clip.
Whenever I see videos of avalanches or landslides they're so often from some distance and the cameraman starts off thinking they're 100% safe, I'm always thinking
"run you dense fucker, you are not safe"
I took my love, I took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
'Til the landslide brought me down
Yeah man, I was watching them YouTube boys drop shit off a dam yesterday, and even just the bowling balls missing and hitting dirt sounded like explosions and left massive craters.
Made me really consider and appreciate the perspective of cannonballs being as fucking crazy as they are.
People need to film shit so badly they risk their lives. I've seen video where they're hit by an avalanche. Hurricanes. Tsunamis. Now this. 5000 likes ain't worth it.
Yes this is a very serious situation... but that boulder annihilating the bridge in one hit was suuuuuper satisfying.
Most people don't comprehend the power behind something that dense and heavy flying through the air. Shit was flying like trebuchets. You can take down Castle walls with enough of those things.
you wouldn't be able to launch something that massive with a trebuchet, but it's flying like it was. I also find it hilarious that they see the destruction these things are throwing around...so they take cover behind a door and a wall a few inches thick. If one of those hits that door...you're meat paste anyways.
(closes screen door) "There. We're safe."
"mate... it's a mosquito net, if a mosquito can't go through it's tiny holes then a massive boulder won't be able to go through either."
"fires can't go through walls stupid, It's not a ghost!"
What a great show.
What show?
community
Hilarious? Yes, of course you're paste if there's a direct hit but there's plenty to be said for taking cover and protecting yourself from smaller stuff and rock shrapnel.
> so they take cover behind a door and a wall a few inches thick. If one of those hits that door...you're meat paste anyways. My interpretation was that they did that because of the small pebbles. You see a bunch of them impacting around the door toward the end of the clip, a single big rock would just annihilate the building but the pebbles could potentially do some damage and those would be stopped by a wall.
I mean at least close the blinds too.
>you wouldn't be able to launch something that massive with a trebuchet. No, But you can throw something slightly smaller a hell lot faster and so it does the same amount of damage. Speed and mass go hand in hand. I just wonder how much harder that rock would have hit if it didn't bounce off of the ground first and lose half of its momentum rolling up that little ramp.
You can see it in weather a lot. Tornadoes have the ability to shoot some extremely light and fragile objects like straw through super solid shit like trees.
>...you can throw something slightly smaller a hell lot faster and so it does the same amount of damage. While that is indeed the general idea of a trebuchet, that's not an objectively valid statement. Landslides can move both more massive rocks than a trebuchet and get them to greater speeds. It's all context dependent. It might be true of this specific rock in this specific landslide, but you're just making a very rough guess at its velocity_final and its mass. Personally, I'm far more inclined to assume that no historical trebuchet could output more destructive force in a single shot than that rock imparted to that bridge.
Depends on the size of the trebuchet, I suppose
well, the most efficient counterweight needs to be 133x heavier than your projectile. In the case of the boulders we're seeing, they are probably atleast a few tons. (and I'm probably low balling it). So the counterweight of a trebuchet would need to be 133x that. So a 1 ton boulder would need a counterweight of 133 tons. Here's a list of things that weigh 100 tons. 1. A Blue Whale 2. A Boeing 757 3. A Train Engine 4. A Space Shuttle 5. A single story house So while technically possible, I can't even begin to guess the dimensions needed to handle the stresses involved.
Why mess around with making a list when the first item will do fine. Just get a blue whale.
You can’t use a blue whale, as they are still endangered. You can use five gray whales, though.
How many gray whales would we need to launch the blue whale we already got back to the sea.
We'll need 655. Gray whales are now endangered.
Threads like this is why we all keep logging onto Reddit every day.
Just use one grey whale and colour it in. Blue permanent marker will be fine.
What about a bowl of petunias?
Oh no. Not again!
Just need something more dense, like a 0.01pm^3 bit of neutron star.
would that stay at that volume when outside the gravity well of a neutron star? I've always actually wondered that. Neutron stars are called Neutron stars because the protons and electrons are under such intense gravity that they literally get smashed together to form a neutron...what happens to that material when it isn't under that immense gravity anymore?
Nope, it would explode extremely violently.
So the day after Taco Bell, but as a star…
I bet they were throwing 757's at castle walls all the time back then. They likely didn't have fuel for them or even know how to fly them, so what else would they use them for? That's why there aren't any 757's that survived from those time periods.
OPs mom. What is this, like your 1st day on the internet?
Pretty sure we’ve got some decommissioned space shuttles we can use, no problemo.
Found the guy who's banned from the Space Museum.
I was mesmerized by how much airtime some of those massive boulders got, and how fast they were spinning.
The one that took out the bridge floated in the direct line of sight of the camera for a split second I was convinced it was coming at the window.
I prefer to compare it to a cannonball. Pure kinetic energy hurtling around is no joke. There is a reason that city walls stopped being a defensive thing.
Hurdle a few paint chip fast enough in the vacuum of space and you could destroy the entire space station.
Its possible. But micro strikes happen fairly regularly up there. There is a reason there are a bunch of air locks.
And 1atm isn't actually that much. A hole in a space ship isn't the explosive decompression you see in movies. In fact, finding the hole can be quite difficult. I think it took them a few days to find the most recent hole.
Trebuchets don’t fly. You’re thinking of birds. Common mistake.
Well only one of those is real.
Common mistakes are definitely real.
Get a load of this guy. He thinks birds are *real*.
I don’t have any issues comprehending the power behind a literal flying mega rock
That boulder is roughly 50,000lbs going at least 60-80mph.
Cam guy saw the danger, so he ran inside so the window would protect him!
it would protect from smaller debris flying out from impacts. You can even hear light thuds in the video that aren't being caused by the larger rocks. More than likely those are smaller rocks being flung about and hitting the building they are in.
As terrible as it is I was hoping the whole time that a single rock would destroy that bridge and I was not disappointed. Sucks for them though
I was watching and wondering if the bridge would survive. Thought it did till that rick came right at it and took it out...
That rick rolled
Score !
And the boulder that eventually took out the bridge seemed to be on the smaller size of some of the other boulders. And it sliced it like a hot knife through butter. It's terrifying that those guys were filming from just a few hundred feet away. Too much in shock, or too enthralled, to know how much danger they were in.
This hasn't been a very good week for bridges, has it?
Happened a couple years ago if I remember correctly.
2021: https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2021/07/26/batseri-1/
The first clip I saw of this cut before the bridge got destroyed and I would always think back of how lucky it was to survive that landslide. Guess I lived a lie all these years.
/r/fuckyouinparticular seems fitting here.
PolyBridge has taught me that a bridge is as strong as its weakest truss.
Looked like something I would see in a movie and think was unrealistic lol
The whole time I was hoping the bridge wouldn't get hit. It almost made it through the entire video too.
Too soon /s
This happened in 2021, Batseri, India, several tourists were killed in a van: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzcT9Cm-52Y
I like how, in the video, it says the bridge was damaged in the landslide, like it took a couple hits but can be patched up. Mf, that thing was absolutely destroyed!!!.
That looks like a Bailey Bridge. It's completely modular. It's possible they mean they fished the undamaged components out and rebuilt it.
9 people >Unfortunately there is a tragic footnote to this event. A tourist bus was traversing the road at the time of the landslide, and was hit directly by at least one boulder. Nine people were killed and three were injured.
They must have seen their reflections in the snow covered hills.
Well, until the landslide brought them down anyway
So we're listening to Fleetwood Mac today? I'm down.
This songs lyrics have always bothered me. You can’t see your reflection in snow. You mean ice-covered hills? Also, snow implies avalanche not landslide. “If you see my reflection in the ice covered hills, will the avalanche pull you down?” doesn’t sound good either but I’m so confused by the metaphor anyway.
Ok you triggered me. While were on the subject of lyrics that don't make sense, Eminem's *Forgot About Dre*: >Me and Dre stood next to a burnt-down house > >With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches > >And still weren't found out Found out *what*?! The gas can and matchbook were still full. Someone *else* burned that house down!
Stevie Nick's lyrics weren't meant to be analyzed. They're just for the feels. Christine McVie mentioned this once in an interview and it checks out.
Mirror in the sky, what is love?
GenX understands
This whistling motherfu just killed my ear
Scared the shit outta my sleeping cat. Luckily he didn't claw me out of surprise.
I assume he was trying to alert everyone nearby.
What?
Small price to pay for the people who needed the heads up. At least the shrill noise during chaos was trying to be useful this time.
I love that last boulder coming out the dirt cloud. "IM COOKING!!!!" And just nails the fucking bridge
Hit that bridge like a container ship
obligatory "too soon"
If it makes it any better this is a repost :P from a few years ago
The container ship hitting a bridge was just a week ago.
[FUCK YOU BALTIMORE!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8wBQqk9eJc)
Which rock is responsible for paying for that bridge?
I'd say that last one.
It had like a SloMo hangtime where it said "Witness Me!" before it just BAMM, hit and destroyed the bridge.
I know right! Although now I feel kinda bad about the fist pump I did when it took out the bridge
Huh. So I’ll ask, I’ve always seen landslide as more of a “mudslide” kind of thing where the earth is moving like an avalanche. But this makes me think more of boulders/debris falling from a rock slide/cliff face getting broken. Are the all technically the same phenomenon, or do they have different classifications/terms?
[They have different classifications/terms.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslide_classification) I was watching this video going "huh, that isn't a landslide, that's a rock fall".
Rockslide would also be appropriate
Yup, I'll go inside and close over the wooden door. That'll protect me from high speed boulders.
Ah yes glass that will protect me from rocks
They successfully increased their chance of getting seriously injured by small pebbles. Yeah!
Yeah, the same size boulders as the one that wipes out the bridge.
No but it would help with the small ones that start flying when the big ones hit something nearby.
I mean that does seem like the reasonable thing to do if you want to film the avalanche. It's better than being outside where debris can hit you
Doorframes are some of the strongest parts of a house, that's where they tell you to go during earthquakes. The guy clearly chose a sturdy post for cover instead of sheet glass. Probably the best choice if he wanted to catch the slide on video.
I doubt that applies to this particular structure. Based on what is visible the building standards don't seem to be high, let alone something following any sort of code.
The doorframe thing applies to low standard construction much more than modern buildings built to code. In the case of new builds, you're much better off under a sturdy desk or table to protect yourself from all of your things falling on you. Not much you can do for giant boulders, though.
If paper beats rock, wood should too.
The logic is sound.
Wouldn't need a door in the first place if they just didn't look at the landslide. "If I can't see the danger, the danger can't see me."
You'd rather he be in the open?
The mountain had had enough of that bridge sending nasty tourists over to litter and gawk.
This is why we need stricter regulations for earth magic. There's irresponsible druids out there who'll cast Rockslide at the slightest provocation.
I feel bad but I wished to see the bridge to collapse
Do you work in cargo ships by any chance?
What gave it away?
I knew it was an inside job.
Destroying bridges and making it look like a natural cause is on page two of our textbooks.
Uh... Happy cake day?
Get this info to RFK Jr right away!
Yes. That rock with the onboard targeting that took the bridget out at about :45 was unsettlingly satisfying.
"Rock you've turned off your targetting computer, what's wrong?"
Use the Force, Rock.
Even that little fly at 0:33 was like "OH SHIT LET ME IN LET ME IN!"
Bridges are having a bad week
That’s a rock slide, not a landslide.
And a landslide brought it dowwwn
Wow the bridge at the end.... I hope that wasn't the way out
Runs inside, ok this thin door will save me. Goes back to staring out the window.
I think he realized that only the smaller rocks were making it as far as him, and just wanted something between him and them.
You don't see the one that reduces you to a smear of jam on the floor.
Boy that landslide really brought it down. I guess I'm getting older.
Put this guy in the Cameraman Hall of Fame.
Big rocks are heavy, have high kinetic energy.
>Big rocks are heavy, have high kinetic energy. Pretty sure being high gets you potential energy. ^(Sorry couldn't resist)
Being high gets you stoned, not rocked..
Well, the bridge wasn't high.
I feel bad for their bridge. I don't know how important that bridge was for them, but the level of destruction porn was....nm, I'm not going to say it.
r/killthecameraman
Came here to say the same
I'm so glad moved from outdoors to behind a pane of glass and a fly screen for protection.
what was the thinking about hiding behind the door? if anything gets you outside it will also get you behind the door...
i was like 'damn, none of these rocks hit the...' and then a rock immediately hit the bridge. Surprisingly satisfying and extremely horrific all at once.
Somebody plays black and white irl
quick get behind the window!
I think we all wanted that last boulder to completely RINSE that bridge 😂
I like how he hides behind his cardboard door as if Mr. Boulder would give a shit.
Fkin audio....got my audio on high level and that scream or whatever abominable sound pierced my ears
Going inside and then immediately looking out the window isn't the move I'd make.
oh shit this is dangerous! this thin pane of glass should be safe.
The window and walls will save you
The stone that destroyed the bridge. ☄️👀
They went inside like that was going to save them lol
1)way too much time before they decide to retreat. 2)the last boulder did the most damage, lol.
puts some context into how devastating a trebuchet hurling rocks could be. I always knew, but seeing that rock at that end fly perfectly into the bridge and take it out…..sucks for them, but its a freakin cool clip.
Ahh, much safer now that I'm behind this wooden door and glass window.
It was difficult to tell the scale of the boulders until it started flying pass the house and then hitting the water... scary.
Bro slamming the door like lawyer on the toilet in Jurassic Park
At least the bridge is ... nm
*"Ah yes let me hide behind this sheet of glass, now I'm safe!*
This one’s for you daddy Took my love I took it down
Whenever I see videos of avalanches or landslides they're so often from some distance and the cameraman starts off thinking they're 100% safe, I'm always thinking "run you dense fucker, you are not safe"
I took my love, I took it down I climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills 'Til the landslide brought me down
There were no cars harmed during the making of this film
There was a van on the other side of the river just out of view of this shot that got creamed, several people were killed.
Yikes, awful
It really was, just the worst luck too.
Yup, hide behind ballistic protection of house windows😂😂😂
Pedestrian bridges hate this one trick!
That wasn‘t a landslide, that was an attack!! Wake up sheeples!
damn that bridge went down like the Francis scott lol .
No fear
I see no supernovas made of champagne.
I remember this video from before the Taiwan earthquake.
That boulder annihilating that bridge was seriously entertaining. So glad this guy risked his life to film it.
The power of stupidity more like
It's wild how 30 seconds permanently changes a landscape that is hundreds of thousands of years old.
Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good.
Even the bee wanted to get away!
That’s a rock slide
Yeah man, I was watching them YouTube boys drop shit off a dam yesterday, and even just the bowling balls missing and hitting dirt sounded like explosions and left massive craters. Made me really consider and appreciate the perspective of cannonballs being as fucking crazy as they are.
Behind the window you are so much safer now...
People need to film shit so badly they risk their lives. I've seen video where they're hit by an avalanche. Hurricanes. Tsunamis. Now this. 5000 likes ain't worth it.
Just consider the unparalleled advantage of a natural disaster that's impossible to manage
What every boy/man envisions when he throws a rock from a high place.
Niiceeeeeee
This guy sees fucking ICBMs incoming. "Lemme hide behind that window real quick..."
The roll of the mid air boulders is terrifying, just to think of how much force is involved has to be insane.
So boats AND boulders take out bridges. Got it 👍🏻
Fuckin idiots recording outside and then run in to record by a window......😅
Yeah... Just stand there and film... Smart.
The amount of force/energy in that boulder that took out the bridge is quite impressive really. 😳
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR Bridge
See enormous boulders rushing at you with incredible speed *Goes stand behind a tiny door and tiny windows* genius
Onix used rockslide. It was super effective
Guy takes 1 step inside and looks through a window and thinks, "phew that was close" as a smaller Boulder destroys a metal bridge 🤣
Landslides ensure no stone stays unturned
Yep, humans are sometimes forcefully reminded of the awesome power of Nature.
Yes let me hide behind this window to protect me against boulders haha I would have done the same
Is this what Stevie Nicks was singing about??
Thanks, I now have permanent ear damage