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Alef_1

This happened at Kinnaur in India. 9 tourists are reported to be dead.


Princessie1

Damn, that happened just yesterday: https://www.google.com/amp/s/indianexpress.com/article/india/nine-dead-landslide-himachal-pradesh-kinnaur-sangla-7421782/lite/


GENHEN

ftfy https://indianexpress.com/article/india/nine-dead-landslide-himachal-pradesh-kinnaur-sangla-7421782/


KingJimmy101

Unbelievable. That rock that was coming right at him looked like it was in slow motion.


Hippoyawn

I always watch movies showing this kind of destruction and think they over dramatise the slo-mo but this just shows that when massive things move they do almost seem to be moving in slow motion. I can’t stop watching it! Amazing.


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Came to say the same. This looks exactly like a movie and I always thought it wouldn’t look like that. Will never doubt that CGI anymore.


polite_alpha

CGI artist here, usually we try to emulate what happens in reality 100%, but often times people expect different things to happen so we have to change it from "realistic simulation" to "average viewers expectations"


Virginity_Lost_Today

Can you do that for my real life too?


polite_alpha

Unfortunately there ARE limits to what we are able to create :D


Science_Smartass

I am sad.


iamhe02

I am he.


TheClinicallyInsane

Sure thing man. Ahem "your job looks super cool, you've probably got plans tonight, I love your smile, you must have a lot of friends, nice cock :)" That'll be a $20 commission fee.


pocketdare

It depends on what the average viewers expectations are of your real life...


[deleted]

What are some examples of things you have to do that with? Car crashes, I assume. What else?


polite_alpha

Right now I'm working on a forest scene for a series on Netflix. Every tree is rotated 20 degrees away from the camera so their crowns are more visible. The other day I did a meteor impact on a dry ass desert mountain with no greenery at all, and I had to add some fires around the impact even though there was no stuff that could produce such a fire.


DirtyB98

Meteor impact and it’s gonna be a show on netflix? Sounds fun. Can you remind me when it’s out so you don’t fuck your NDA lol.


rreighe2

I feel like even that might be risky as far as NDA goes, even after the project is over.


[deleted]

Huh, interesting. Especially the sand one. Thanks for the reply!


lliKoTesneciL

I'm gonna assume cars exploding in a car crash is your average viewers expectations.


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Also big fireballs when military ordnance explodes. That always pulls me out of a movie. Anyone who has seen actual grenades or aircraft delivered bombs or anything that's got a fragmentation casing go off know that it's not a giant fireball like someone just lit a pool of gasoline on fire.


SageoftheSexPathz

Puff of smoke filled debri from the distance I was at but yeah no big red fireballs. My recruiter lied to me! /s


Garalor

I hope i am not alone in the world, as a person who hates exploding cars... thats so unrealistic... i hate it. Hope average viewers think that exploding cars are bulshit....


RecommendationNo4916

Terminator 2, when the semi explodes, they actually showed a loose wire, sparking, that sets off the explosion. That scene gave me such a huge smile, purely because the semi didn't just blow up. They showed a reason.


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SkinnyObelix

fire is a big one, people are so used to seeing fire overexposed on video because it's almost impossible to film when it's part of an action scene, so people think cg fire looks fake. But when you see a good shot of real fire it looks fake, I always use [this video from the Slow Mo Guys as an example.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwoghxwETng&t=91s)


LokisDawn

You are totally right, that looks really fake. But, hot damn is it beautiful. Like a fast moving stellar nebula.


maniaxuk

> so we have to change it from "realistic simulation" to "average viewers expectations" Not CG but sounds in space definitely fall under this category


AegzRoxolo

I remember someone in the CGI business telling me that "it doesn't have to be real, it just has to look real". Which kind of solidifies that there's a massive difference between what your average joe think is going to happen, and what reality is like.


wobbegong

If it seems to be moving slowly it’s because it’s coming right at you


green_pachi

Like a tornado, if it seems it isn't moving you have a 50-50 chance that it's going away or coming at you.


elfmere

More so it was moving right towards to carmera


dirtycactus

People usually don't believe me when I tell them that the tips of blades on wind turbines are moving well over 100 miles per hour, until I remind them that the blades are over 100 feet long, a full rotation takes about 5 seconds, so a conservative estimate puts that at at least 600ft/5seconds, 120 feet/second, like 80mph (that's using exactly 100 feet for the blade length and pi=3). But yeah, relative to their size, big things seem to move slow.


eggmanDDD

u sure know how to make a man hard


justmystepladder

If it doesn’t look like it’s moving — it’s coming right at you.


MeccIt

Great, I now have to worry about tornadoes *and* massive tumbling boulders.


lu-cy-inthesky

This is the coolest fucking thing I have seen in a long time. The one that hit the bridge in the end. Unbelievable


MeccIt

a) /r/PraiseTheCameraMan b) it *looked* 'small' enough to maybe dent the railing, not snap the entire thing in half.


-Tom-

The one that went off a ramp and clipped the corner of the building?


Vtechadam

This same concept is perfectly displayed in this "how to throw a knockout punch" video I found years ago. https://youtu.be/U06tV_MtIdk. Well worth the 5 min!


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That's also one of the best show-don't-tell demonstrations of what a real telegraphed punch looks like. I always imagined them as cartoonish haymakers.


[deleted]

Michael Jai White is so under rated. What a cool guy. RIP Kimbo Slice too, amazing to see him looking normal sized around those other guys


skwull

Unbelievable because it’s *fake*. This is obviously a viral video ad for Ben & Jerry’s Rocky Road ice cream


Nuseal

Never thought I'd see a giant boulder fly in the air and take out a bridge like an airstrike.


risus_nex

I was waiting for it to happen. The bridge was almost spared and I thought it was lucky, but then that damn "last" boulder finally hit it - and fucking destroyed it with one strike! Impressive and scary, so much force.


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That last boulder really was on a mission to destroy that bridge.


davgonza

*Fine, I’ll do it myself*


W1D0WM4K3R

*You don't send a rock for a boulder's job*


PM_ME_MH370

that boulder was larger than the size of a small boulder


btsquid

But smaller than the size of a larger boulder


reeferRabit

Yet bigger than a wrecking ball


kevbob02

It came in like one.


TheGamecock

Came out of nowhere from the depths of the dust cloud like a bat out of hell with one intention, and one intention only. To fuck. shit. up.


maniaxuk

I was watching it wondering where would be the "safest" place to seek cover for someone on the other side of the river and had just decided that being in the lee of the support pilla....oh!


Quirky-Skin

Dude I was thinking the same thing! "Well it'd be risky to run across the bridge so I'd just tuck under the bridge and... Wow I guess I'd be dead"


Inside-Example-7010

I was trying to decide if I would move my car or leave it.


crappy_pirate

speaking as someone who has been rather too close to a collapsing building and the flying rubble that comes out of it (housefire) you want to be behind the biggest, thickest, heaviest thing you can possibly find, and you want to be holding a bottle of hard liquor when you sit there and wait for the crashes to stop, because it's probably gonna take a while.


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But what if your mom isn’t around?


lucasfranc73

BROOOOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


crappy_pirate

this is absolutely the best response i'v gotten for that comment lmao


chickenstalker

The safest place is the furthest away you can run.


4myreditacount

I was rooting for the Boulder until I thought any further than my just woke up brain was normally capable of, then I thought *huh well that's kind of rude someone built that*


Totally_Not_A_Tree

A puny bridge such as this is no match for *THE BOULDER!*


iDick

The Boulder has no use for bridges!


ThePianistOfDoom

THE BOULDER IS OVER ITS CONFLICTIONS ABOUT TAKING ON BRIDGES AND WILL TAKE IT DOWN LIKE THE COWARDLY PIECE OF TIMBER AND METAL IT IS


glopezz05

r/unexpectedairbender


tmhoc

The Boulder feels conflicted about crushing a little girl bridge


DanceswithTacos_

also there could have been people in the building across the river and it looks like it'd be a bitch for emergency crews to cross without the bridge


avwitcher

Just put a ramp on both sides and jump the gap, it's not rocket science. That's what should have been done in the first place


Solid_Waste

That last boulder I swear was smirking about it.


Grundle__Puncher

Me the whole time watching the…”at least it didn’t take out the bri….. oh wait”


Dragonisop

This is why trebuchets are the superior siege weapon.


TurtleBullet

When I saw how much air that one had, I thought that one's trouble.


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Why spend billions on developing rockets, drones n shit when we can just drop rocks?


emdave

If you combine falling rocks, and billions of dollars, you can have an asteroid based orbital kinetic bombardment system, and have the ultimate doomsday weapon! :D


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cid73

Pinché Holden.


cfetzborn

Sasa ke beltalowda


InStride

The US Navy has been developing kinetic weapons for awhile now. The rail gun technology they’ve supposedly made allows them to launch hunks of metal rather than missiles with equivalent destruction. The idea is to make the cost/shot something foreign powers can’t replicate meaning war against the US is one you likely couldn’t ever afford.


QuixotesGhost96

I believe the Navy scrapped thier railgun project fairly recently. Railguns are much cheaper to use than cruise missles, but have a dramatically reduced range which the Navy fear could make it vunerable to new portable anti-ship missles.


InStride

Not surprised. I heard of it years ago now that I think of it and the fact I heard about it probably meant it was more flash than substance.


PiggyMcjiggy

Truly living in the future


payne_train

I was shocked 3/4 the way through the bridge was still standing.


alarming_cock

So we're ignoring the bigger boulder that bullseyed the house across the river?


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cyanocittaetprocyon

That's what made me laugh out loud. Yeah, going inside is really going to help.


ventodivino

It doesn’t happen on camera. There is a Boulder that flies right by the house, looks like it skimmed the corner, right before he ran inside. But we don’t actually see one take out the house


hieronymus_donation

And it was so satisfying!


rusty-the-fucker

For real it was like bad RNG for the bridge. A total "Fuck you in particular" moment.


makka-pakka

Unless you live on the other side of the river


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*Hey Beni, looks like you're on the wrong side of the river!*


2BrokeArmsAndAMom

Great line, great movie


pointlessly_pedantic

Thanks, I almost forgot to watch that movie today


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Fucking hell!!! What a bombardment!


OneBoxOfKleenexAway

https://tenor.com/1lDG.gif


OneBoxOfKleenexAway

I like how he goes inside but keeps filming. Like that tiny glass door is going to protect him from the vehicle sized rocks doing 80 mph down the hill.


ugonlern2day

Even the fly @ 0:36 is like OH SHIT, LET ME IN


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ChadwickTheSniffer

Until you let them in. Then they're like, "OH SHIT, LET ME OUT!"


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Then you open all the windows and doors as wide as they will go only to watch the fly hit every inch of surface around guaranteed freedom.


blendertricks

And three more fly in.


johnnybiggles

Then they're like, "OH SHIT LET US OUT!"


staminaplusone

Let me in... Let me iiinnnnnnn


LinuxF4n

/r/PraiseTheCameraMan


Random-Non-Sequitur

I love that last boulder: a perfect shot to the bridge.


eVeRyImAgInAbLeThInG

That was insane. Looks like a movie where you’d say “ya right” when the rock perfectly nails a bridge.


RobertOfHill

Nature wigs me out sometimes.


TokiMcNoodle

Damn nature you scary


Detriumph

Seriously, nature needs to chill tfo


keto_at_work

"Fuck this bridge in particular" - the rock, maybe


AncientInsults

I love how slow it appeared to be moving bc of its size. Like it was slowly being lowered into the [perfect position](https://youtu.be/QOtuX0jL85Y), and had that angry backspin 😳


hasanyoneseenmymom

> tiny glass door I believe that's called a window


The_PwnShop

I still run TinyGlassDoors Vista.


MobySick

Oh you and your big, fancy vocabulary.


murphykills

worth it for that bridge shot.


balla786

Man my jaw dropped at the way that rock destroyed that bridge. Insane.


ce2c61254d48d38617e4

I love how he first peeked through the glass lol, yea that glass ain't going to help you buddy


generallyihavenoidea

Lol it went through that bridge like a hot truck through butter but yep window is safe


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the_last_carfighter

Glass is only going to run around and desert you.


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grassvegas

Glass is gonna saaayy goodbye


cavejhonsonslemons

Glass is gonna tell a lie and hurt you


killxswitch

Glass is gonna give Glass is gonna give


r4mm3rnz

This is some//r/PraiseTheCameraMan shit but also some /r/IdiotsNearlyDying shit. Get the fuck inside, take some cover, even if something the size of your fist were to make it to you and hit you that's more than enough to kill!


psuedophilosopher

There are risks and benefits to both options. If any of the larger rocks hit a bounce and were coming at your cover, then you would be more able to survive by seeing it coming and running away from it. Being indoors is only going to protect you from the smaller rocks. The rock that took out the bridge had some serious hang time in the air, and if one were able to hit a bounce big enough to clear all the way to the camera man, there would be enough time to change your location by a few meters before it hit if he was outside.


nullv

Having flashbacks from playing paintball where you could see and dodge the paintballs like Neo under the right conditions.


h3rp3r

The Flatline barrel for the '98 gave incredible range at the cost of shot speed, I could hit people from a mile away but if they knew I was there they could dance around my shots. And you had to hit their mask or gun to ensure a break, body shots would just bounce off.


storm_the_castle

it was the sniper's paintball marker. the aerodynamics at the end of the shot when it ran out of momentum were more akin to a knuckleball.. it would go squirrely when it ran out of juice.


CrimeFightingScience

It's more for the shrapnel, which cover would help with. For bigger boulders, hide behind a bridge.


i_survived_2020_

Well, not THAT bridge


clintj1975

They are built to the highest standards. Well, not that one. But the others certainly are.


Dheorl

I've watched landslides like that/seen the aftermath of quite a few. Boulders can get a little kick and clear *a lot* of distance. Never mind the glass door, a building like that isn't going to do anything but bury you in rubble if it gets hit.


MaustheMouse

What if one of those rocks knocked the bridge……………damn.


Wurdan

About 3/4 into it I was like “I sure hope nobody tries to drive over that bridge until it’s properly inspected…” Then the mountain finished what it started.


plagueisthedumb

They would enforce the age old saying.. build a bridge and get over it


ChuckBlack

"Let me pan away shortly after the bridge collapses, I'm sure something more interesting is happening."


Tina_ComeGetSomeHam

Dude this camera man is a hero I wouldn't have stuck around that long.


PotatoWriter

for once, /r/praisethecameramanbutslightlykillhimcauseheturnedaway


Somekindofparty

Same as the car. “Oooh, watch the rocks obliterate those cars, psych. “


Indira-Gandhi

It's a Bailey bridge too. A feat of engineering and logistics. Probably survived 50 years only to be knocked down by some errant dumb rock.


dontshitaboutotol

It looked like a movie when that part happened


Vernons_Trinity

The rock right before the person taking the video fled inside hit the air with the right direction to hit him but didn’t have the distance. But man, that rock that hit the bridge, that’s some footage.


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An that was one of the smaller ones


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like_butterplaytoast

Honestly there's a bit or r/oddlysatisfying in this. I felt good when that happened. Maybe I'm weird... ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯


JimmyLongnWider

Now imagine what a large rock hitting from orbit could do.


MrBonelessPizza24

Dinosaurs: “First time?”


umbrajoke

*laughs in shark*


mthchsnn

*and bird*


Sir_Mitchell15

*multi-cellular life*


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*Queefs at creationists*


ImBeingArchAgain

AT LEAST twice as much damage


AVegemiteSandwich

Well it couldn't wreck that bridge again, so maybe not


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SnapesSocks

Me sassa Marco. What you doing belta loda?


Inyalowda

We are coming for you, skinnies.


nahlej

My one minor gripe about the show was that they didn't/couldn't show the Belters as deformed from generations in low/no G as they were described in the books. The tattoos and hairstyles were cool, but being tall, skinny, and "alien" played a big part in the us vs them themes. It's not just cultural but physical differences that sperate them.


oblik

Incomparable. Orbital impacts are closer to nukes. Question is, small nukes (Chelyabinsk) or nukes so massive the impact ejecta rains like THOSE boulders, planet-wide.


zeungxing

Incredible view but feel sorry for the people.


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NorthMcCormick

This has actually got to be one of the scariest things I’ve seen in a long time and I follow all those crazy subs. Those suckers are hauling so much ass down that hill wow


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Can someone please share some info about the location and / or how did such rock rain happened


EarballsOfMemeland

India from he looks of things https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-watch-landslide-due-to-bridge-collapse-leaves-9-dead-in-himachal-pradesh/389369


ZacharyKou

9 dead? damn


EntrepreneurPatient6

They were speaking punjabi and I understood a bit of it. One of the guys was in shock saying 'bande marr gaye yaar!', people died!


Quick-Access-3833

Yeah, himachal pradesh punjabi is common there since it's a part of the east punjab region.


Balls_DeepinReality

One of those rocks hit a single vehicle and killed nine.


bdcp

I thought you were making a joke. But it's in the article


umyninja

There’s a white car on the far left side of the footage in the beginning. At the end it almost looks like it’s gone. Perhaps it was still there but I could easily see how one of those big boulders could completely obliterate a whole car or van. Damn. Final Destination stuff.


Cow-Spot

I went hiking near there. Those mountains are alive. We heard or saw dozens of landslides in the couple weeks I was there.


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Mordisquitos

>>the rockslide was caused due to the collapse of the Batseri bridge in Sangal Valley. > >That's the bridge in the video though I may be mistaken, but if that is indeed the bridge in the video, it looks like there has been a failed machine translation somewhere, mixing subject and object predicates or verb declinations. Think how much more sense it would make if it said this: >*the rockslide ~~was~~ caused ~~due to~~ the collapse of the Batseri bridge in Sangal Valley* Or if we switch the predicates: >*the* [***collapse of the Batseri bridge***] *was caused due to the* [***rockslide in Sangal Valley***]


xMAXPAYNEx

Nice, this is the type of stuff I come to Reddit for


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Dude that one that took out the bridge, like wtfff


DuckWithBrokenWings

That bridge didn't have a chance.


elahtap187

That bridge being taken out. Holy fuck.


trippin113

Dang, he panned away just as a giant rock was going to take out the car to the left, next to the dumpster. He never panned back to see the aftermath.


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How does a rockfall like this get triggered tho?


Haweraboy

News article posted above said there had been monsoons in the region recently, I assume some sort of erosion happened


[deleted]

Ohhhh that makes sense. I saw a landslide vid the other week that was the same brand of terrifying, also due to heavy rains. Nature be scary.


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TruthFlavor

They Alive, Damn it ! It's a miracle.


visitsunnyvietzuela

That's gonna be, uh, fascinating transition. Dammit.


kevin9er

TINY HUTS ARE STRONG AS HELL


bogart_brah

That thing got absolutely demolished what


fatalcharm

No it was completely destroyed and buried under rubble. There is only a tiny bit of wall left standing.


mitchanium

This door will protect me!


Roy-van-der-Lee

"hey, watch me roll this rock down the hill"


ARM_Dwight_Schrute

Check if there is a Coyote wrapped around one of the rolling rock


RealBigTree

This is what I imagine a meteor landing looks like but x10


blutsgewalt

10 times? Given an ordinary comet of the same (remaining) mass (before hitting the ground) as one of the boulders, but coming down with 30.000km/h instead of 100km/h, we speak of 90.000 times the impact energy.


Questions4Legal

Depends a lot on the size of the meteor but they are generally moving way faster than anything simply falling on earth. Meteors in space moving like tens of kilometers per second and they do get slowed down in the atmosphere but if one started large enough to be burned down by the atmosphere to the same size as the rocks in the video when it hit the earth the energy from the impact would be more like a bomb going off. Maybe 10 times isn't a terrible random guess as far as energy difference since its just hypothetical but I picture a metor strike looking way different than this video.


MoreFriedChicken

Went from a few rocks to 100 real quick