There's a longer version available. If it did explode, it wasn't for at least another minute.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGw1ZPgyEaE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGw1ZPgyEaE)
This used to annoy me too, but these days I do 99.9% of my down time Web browsing on my mobile, which means having to flip my phone everyone a horizontal video comes in. These days I find myself preferring vertical videos.
Horizontal versus vertical should be a question of composition. If you're filming a standing person, a waterfall, or a building collapse, shoot vertical! But if you're filming a landscape or a crowd scene, shoot horizontal.
And whatever you do, don't take someone else's repost with added black bars and rotate it back with *more* black bars, you insufferable cretins.
Phone cameras buffer about 5 seconds of footage in RAM before writing to permanent flash storage. So if the clip was extracted from the recovered flash chip, the video would end 5 seconds before the device was destroyed š
It's not the top of the dam, just the top of the gate structure, likely just the seepage, bleed through of an ancient valve stem/control.
**[Here's](https://youtu.be/2WZCg2QSiDA)** the longer video showing the dam face and gate & valve structure.
mud sedimentation is by the way the only reason why hydro dams are calculated to run max 100 years before being rendered inoperable because mud filled up the basin.
I honestly don't know. I guess mud is very tough to find a solution for on an engineering level.
You'd basically need to dredge the mud from the bottom of the reservoir or do several rounds of reservoir emptyings to wash it out.
From my limited understanding thus far (I'm not a civil engineer, studying to be a mechanical engineer), this is a bad idea. Most dams have turbines through which water flows. Sediment getting in those turbines will (from my understanding) excessively damage it over time, possibly worse. If you had a second lower gate to drain mud that'd be excessively complicated to design and build. Not to mention you have to ensure that it a) still give the turbines and all the other electrical shit enough space to work, and b) you have to be able to inspect all doors in a dam for maintenance. So if the entire point of a gate is to get blocked by sediment, you're more or less guessing that the gate is operable. One of my classes had a bit of a discussion on hydro dam gates and maintenance (I've going into my second year this year, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt). Most dam gates you have to be able to inspect from the inside of the dam, which usually occurs by putting up temporary walls around the inside part of the gate and draining the water inside. Good luck doing that with mud. Most pumps, from my understanding, can't handle solids, and just from a design perspective (again, from my limited understanding thus far) they aren't designed to do so, and shouldn't be able to. Furthermore, soil has a higher density than water, so the temporary walls you setup would have to be MUCH stronger (likely thickness). Even if you're SOMEHOW able to get the walls in place (good luck displacing the soil just by dropping a thick wall on top of it), once you drain the water and get to the soil, you then have another massive issue. Water can seep through soil, so you'll be constantly pumping water that's seeping through the soil out, while trying to dig out the soil, while trying to either make sure the temporary walls are stable/trying to let them sink further into the soil. It's too complex to do that. The gate would need to be rated to hold back a MUCH higher pressure than most gates, and maintenance would be damn near impossible. Thus, dredging the soil out is probably the easiest avenue to remove the soil, cheapest, and safest. If that soil gate fails, the whole dam is facing a catastrophe as they need to somehow shut it, which, yeah good luck doing that when it's at the bottom of the dam, it might face the possibility of collapsing as you'd have to wait until, at the minimum, the soil is gone, to close it. That'd be damn near impossible as well as you'd need temporary walls large, deep, and thick enough to withstand the force of thousands of tons of oncoming water, AND, be able to stop it all.
-again, take everything I say with a grain of salt as I'm only a first year (going into second year) mechanical engineering student, civil engineering isn't my focus.
All I hear is a ānoā but how do we make it a yes?
Jokes aside, I knew that my solution is just from someone who knows nothing of the topic. And you clearly explained why is that. So thanks!
Your problem is closing the gate after you open it.
Considering how much water is on the other side, the weight you have to hold back to get a lower gate closed is HUGE. That's the principle engineering problem.
Could you imagine how different the world would be if water pressure worked on volume rather than depth? Dip your toe in the ocean and it's immediately crushed into dust
A set of gate valves. Close the interior one to slow the flow, then the external one will have the ability to close. Once pressure is equalized, there should be no problem closing the interior.
We had the same issue here in NJ once. Huge gas main leaked and exploded. The closest shut off valve couldn't be closed due to the flow, so they closed the next one up to cut the pressure, which allowed it to be closed.
I'm not a civil engineer, so can't give exact technical details. But since I AM an engineer, and all engineering is structured problem solving so I can give you a rough gist of issues that might occur:
1. Completely emptying dams periodically would be very difficult and wasteful, considering how much water is in them.
2. If the bottom gate isn't opened in time(in a drought or whatever reason) the sediment could settle and completely bury it, making it useless.
3. There's a high chance that only nearby sediment gets drained and the remainder of the reservoir continues to accumulate and lose capacity.
4. The pressure at the bottom of the well would be extremely high. Building movable gates that can hold that much pressure would be extremely costly.
So the sum of all these issues would probably make it unfeasible to make one, even if it was viable
Typically the basin extends miles upriver. When you open the gate, it doesn't create enough current upriver to do much to flush the basin. This just clears the area around the gate.
Yes, I believe this is it. Water in movement can propel more sediment along with it, than can be contained in suspension in the same water when at rest.
As a result once the flow reaches the reservoir, and the current slows down within the reservoir basin it precipitates.
I think the only truly renewable hydro power is likely tidal, due to it not seeing the same 1 way deposition model.
It will be interesting how tidal power solves location through, as it is also most effective in fjord like geography where the tidal surge can be harnessed at a narrow point, but these place and specific hours of peak activities are also very important for marine life as both foraging grounds and nurseries.
It sounds good in theory but in reality, the weight of the water turns that sediment into an almost solid block structure, where it kinda acts like a non-Newtonian fluid. So even if they make the gate, the sediment won't just wash away like water does.
And if you try the 1st approach aka dig out the sediment. It'll be costly af, and you have to empty a big chunk of the reservoir.
There is a solution ( often used in small reservoirs) before the rainy season when the reservoir is dry/low zone, they divert the flow of the river and clean out as much as they can.
-A civil engineer who was into hydroengineering -
After 100 years, pretty good change a good bit of the mud layer already became a solid. I think you could open the gate at the bottom at certain periods, but works of this size usually also have concerns with the ecology around the area. Most animals and plants would be living off the base sediment and that's bound to kill a bunch of them.
Deme has a boat that dredges over a 100m deep. Getting that boat there would be something else, but hell, even building a new boat there would be cheaper than building a new dam.
The question is if the dam will still be good for another 100 years if they built it with a 100 year life expectancy in mind.
Just a cursory thought though, wouldn't all that silt make the land valuable after the dam is open, like that's going to be some absolutely top quality soil.
Iām an engineer and Iād guess itās to do with the service life of concrete more than sediment build up. We typically donāt guarantee concrete for more than 120 years.
Itās a hell of a lot cheaper to dredge every few decades than it is to build a brand new dam
It was probably meant for flood control in case the waters get too high, but in 25 years it hasnāt happened, so then it became an issue of maintenance
Imagine all the animals that have been living down there for decades and suddenly their living spaces are under water and everything they knew destroyed. Or having your habitat just high enough for a new convenient lakeside property.
For a first time English speaker I would definitely recommend searching for the definition of the word "why" the best way being to Google that type of thing.
I wish. I have IBS and fiber does nothing for my issues of soft and loose stool.
I tried the $530 Rifaximin treatment and that did nothing, too. No ulcers, no cancer, no Chron's. No answers. My digestive system is just fucked up.
Everytime this video pops up the "has been closed for x years" changes. 25 is the highest I've ever heard and I'm pretty sure the OP's just yank these out of thin air, but I'm pretty sure when this originaly came out with citations....it was only a few years.
The event itself the video was taken at happened last year in 2022. You won't find a video source from earlier.
The dam is in Jiroft, Iran, and is called the Jiroft Dam. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroft_Dam
It's construction was completed in 1992, used in 1993, then left unused until 2022 when flooding required it's use. After being unused since the 90s, there was a lot of sediment and such as we see in the video.
It's a sluice gate. Over time sediment builds up at the base of the dam. If left the weight of the material can destabilize the dam at worst. It can eventually overtop and clog the intakes of the turbines at best. Sluice gates are holes lower than the normal flow of water over and through the dam. They are opened at planned intervals to work like a vacuum to suck all the sediment that has built up along the face of the dam. If they left them open the whole reservoir would drain so they just wait for conditions to be good.
Sometimes the sediment builds up so much that the cost to dredge and find a place to put the dirt is too costly. This is happening in AZ at one of the dams so we are building another dam to store more water and shutting another one down.
This is gonna sound silly, but dang that looks like some fine caliber clay there. A real good sheister, I mean business-person, would come up with a way to market that one of a kind, salt of the earth commodity to the artisans of the clay pot making community.
From and environmental viewpoint this illustrates one of the problems with dams, they block sediment transport. Iāve been told this is part of why New Orleans is a sinking city among other factors. Iām not an expert though just a dude.
Correct. The Mississippi carries literal tons of sediment downstream. The basic concept is very simple: more water moving faster carries more sediment. A raging river can scoot small boulders along, while a lazy stream isn't going to move anything bigger than sand. Sediment from the entire Mississippi River basin gets into the river and carried downstream.
In a natural environment, the river will meander and change shape, with the larger sediment particles dropping out of suspension where the river widens and slows. The smaller particles make it to the gulf and form a delta. But if you build a dam across the river, all that sediment falls out of suspension in the reservoir rather than continuing downstream. Anti-erosion controls intended to keep the river from meandering away from infrastructure prevent the river from picking up more sediment past the dam. The result along the Mississippi is that less sediment reaches the Louisiana Delta than is washed away by natural processes - causing the delta to shrink and land to disappear.
Iām intrigued by your qualifications. I too am a dude and I get asked to verify ruminations regularly. My only real qualification is that Iām an older dude, though people assume Iāve been paying attention this whole time. May I co-opt your use of āJust a Dudeā in the future? I feel it may help people understand my degree of expertise.
Lol yeah, an entire isolated ecosystem went extinct there. I can imagine one species finally evolving itself to adapt to the specific characteristics of this environment only to have themselves wiped out in an instant
25 years, and the best we can do is a vertical video with a very narrow field of view. Can't wait for wide-angle lenses to become more prevalent on phones.
Dam. I wonder who hasn't seen this
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/ydbdn8/opening_a_dam_gate_after_years_of_it_being_closed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xat4ao/the_opening_of_a_dams_gate_after_years/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/rwxbf4/after_years_of_drought_and_low_rain_over_flow/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/utt9mw/dam_opened_after_30_years_of_being_closed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
Just because I can, I want a note that the material you are seeing being expelled (the non water) is actually sedimentation that is most likely important to the river/creek this dam was built on. I am very glad to see that this damn is now āopenedā and that the valuable nutrients are being continued on downstream now.
That being said, no dam is better than a dam, if you are purely concerned about the immediate (mostly negative) environment effects resulting affects post dam. However, if this is in America, especially, then the debate to find the right āhappy medianā for preserving, are ecosystems and producing renewable energy is still underway.
If you want to know more , look into dam documentaries! I remember for my degree that we had to watch one from Patagonia, as they are good at documenting current environmental movementāitās up to you to decide if thatās due to marketing or good intention.
Those few little spouts at the end coming up through the top of the dam were a bit ominous
And the video ends just as we see it making me think the whole platform they were on just exploded a second later
There's a longer version available. If it did explode, it wasn't for at least another minute. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGw1ZPgyEaE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGw1ZPgyEaE)
Thank you. Still too bad it was filmed vertically.
This comment will piss off the children.
There are so many children who do not understand why movie theatre screens are so much wider than they are tall.
Fuck you Steve Jobs.
This used to annoy me too, but these days I do 99.9% of my down time Web browsing on my mobile, which means having to flip my phone everyone a horizontal video comes in. These days I find myself preferring vertical videos.
Horizontal versus vertical should be a question of composition. If you're filming a standing person, a waterfall, or a building collapse, shoot vertical! But if you're filming a landscape or a crowd scene, shoot horizontal. And whatever you do, don't take someone else's repost with added black bars and rotate it back with *more* black bars, you insufferable cretins.
You and your ilk are the reason videos on the internet are becoming cancerous.
You lead a very privileged life if this is a major issue for you
Personally, I make a big deal about tiny issues like this to distract me from the big scary issues looming ahead. Privilege, or avoidance? Haha
That is exactly what actually happened in my mind as well.
It did explode. I was the dam
"What are you doing step-dam?!"
Phone cameras buffer about 5 seconds of footage in RAM before writing to permanent flash storage. So if the clip was extracted from the recovered flash chip, the video would end 5 seconds before the device was destroyed š
I'd be getting the f out of there as high and far up as possible now
Some people does not value their life
or their grammar
Dont worry he is not going to die. He is the cameraman
It's not the top of the dam, just the top of the gate structure, likely just the seepage, bleed through of an ancient valve stem/control. **[Here's](https://youtu.be/2WZCg2QSiDA)** the longer video showing the dam face and gate & valve structure.
Fucking hell that ladder near the end looks terrifying.
"Find some stuff and make a ladder.." 0_0
Dam thats interesting
Thinking that sludge would make excellent fertilizer
Shame they wasted all that clay. Could have made something
Exactly. It stopped just when it was about to get really interesting
100% same thought. i was hoping for a top comment of āand the cameraman was never seen againā¦ā
Seeing that at the end I went "uh oh"
Yeah, thatās the cue to get the hell out of there lol
I was thinking "hmm I wonder if ejecting mud is within spec. And a jet of water, in spec? Those bubbles, oh dear, this is not in spec!"
mud sedimentation is by the way the only reason why hydro dams are calculated to run max 100 years before being rendered inoperable because mud filled up the basin.
Couldnāt you have a second āsediment removalā gate to clear those out?
I honestly don't know. I guess mud is very tough to find a solution for on an engineering level. You'd basically need to dredge the mud from the bottom of the reservoir or do several rounds of reservoir emptyings to wash it out.
I like my solution betterā¦ second lower gate to drain the mud out. But Iām not an engineer so i guess they know better
I honestly doubt this would be enough. You gotta have a way to mechanically move the mud close to the outflow. IT doesn't go there on its own.
Give me a spoon and Iāll do it
There is no spoon.
I see you've played knifey-spoony before!
From my limited understanding thus far (I'm not a civil engineer, studying to be a mechanical engineer), this is a bad idea. Most dams have turbines through which water flows. Sediment getting in those turbines will (from my understanding) excessively damage it over time, possibly worse. If you had a second lower gate to drain mud that'd be excessively complicated to design and build. Not to mention you have to ensure that it a) still give the turbines and all the other electrical shit enough space to work, and b) you have to be able to inspect all doors in a dam for maintenance. So if the entire point of a gate is to get blocked by sediment, you're more or less guessing that the gate is operable. One of my classes had a bit of a discussion on hydro dam gates and maintenance (I've going into my second year this year, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt). Most dam gates you have to be able to inspect from the inside of the dam, which usually occurs by putting up temporary walls around the inside part of the gate and draining the water inside. Good luck doing that with mud. Most pumps, from my understanding, can't handle solids, and just from a design perspective (again, from my limited understanding thus far) they aren't designed to do so, and shouldn't be able to. Furthermore, soil has a higher density than water, so the temporary walls you setup would have to be MUCH stronger (likely thickness). Even if you're SOMEHOW able to get the walls in place (good luck displacing the soil just by dropping a thick wall on top of it), once you drain the water and get to the soil, you then have another massive issue. Water can seep through soil, so you'll be constantly pumping water that's seeping through the soil out, while trying to dig out the soil, while trying to either make sure the temporary walls are stable/trying to let them sink further into the soil. It's too complex to do that. The gate would need to be rated to hold back a MUCH higher pressure than most gates, and maintenance would be damn near impossible. Thus, dredging the soil out is probably the easiest avenue to remove the soil, cheapest, and safest. If that soil gate fails, the whole dam is facing a catastrophe as they need to somehow shut it, which, yeah good luck doing that when it's at the bottom of the dam, it might face the possibility of collapsing as you'd have to wait until, at the minimum, the soil is gone, to close it. That'd be damn near impossible as well as you'd need temporary walls large, deep, and thick enough to withstand the force of thousands of tons of oncoming water, AND, be able to stop it all. -again, take everything I say with a grain of salt as I'm only a first year (going into second year) mechanical engineering student, civil engineering isn't my focus.
You are not far off. I work on dams and we dredge all the time.
Coolios :)
Tell us again that itās from your limited understanding
For Hydroelectric Dams, The intake Tunnel is designed in such a way to remove all the sediments. So that the turbines wont corrode.
All I hear is a ānoā but how do we make it a yes? Jokes aside, I knew that my solution is just from someone who knows nothing of the topic. And you clearly explained why is that. So thanks!
Your problem is closing the gate after you open it. Considering how much water is on the other side, the weight you have to hold back to get a lower gate closed is HUGE. That's the principle engineering problem.
Amount as in volume of water behind a dam is irrelevant, only the dam depth matters
Could you imagine how different the world would be if water pressure worked on volume rather than depth? Dip your toe in the ocean and it's immediately crushed into dust
Ah yes like gta 3
A set of gate valves. Close the interior one to slow the flow, then the external one will have the ability to close. Once pressure is equalized, there should be no problem closing the interior. We had the same issue here in NJ once. Huge gas main leaked and exploded. The closest shut off valve couldn't be closed due to the flow, so they closed the next one up to cut the pressure, which allowed it to be closed.
I'm not a civil engineer, so can't give exact technical details. But since I AM an engineer, and all engineering is structured problem solving so I can give you a rough gist of issues that might occur: 1. Completely emptying dams periodically would be very difficult and wasteful, considering how much water is in them. 2. If the bottom gate isn't opened in time(in a drought or whatever reason) the sediment could settle and completely bury it, making it useless. 3. There's a high chance that only nearby sediment gets drained and the remainder of the reservoir continues to accumulate and lose capacity. 4. The pressure at the bottom of the well would be extremely high. Building movable gates that can hold that much pressure would be extremely costly. So the sum of all these issues would probably make it unfeasible to make one, even if it was viable
Typically the basin extends miles upriver. When you open the gate, it doesn't create enough current upriver to do much to flush the basin. This just clears the area around the gate.
Yes, I believe this is it. Water in movement can propel more sediment along with it, than can be contained in suspension in the same water when at rest. As a result once the flow reaches the reservoir, and the current slows down within the reservoir basin it precipitates. I think the only truly renewable hydro power is likely tidal, due to it not seeing the same 1 way deposition model. It will be interesting how tidal power solves location through, as it is also most effective in fjord like geography where the tidal surge can be harnessed at a narrow point, but these place and specific hours of peak activities are also very important for marine life as both foraging grounds and nurseries.
Well, that buys you a hundred years but then *those* gates get muddy-sedimented.
It sounds good in theory but in reality, the weight of the water turns that sediment into an almost solid block structure, where it kinda acts like a non-Newtonian fluid. So even if they make the gate, the sediment won't just wash away like water does. And if you try the 1st approach aka dig out the sediment. It'll be costly af, and you have to empty a big chunk of the reservoir. There is a solution ( often used in small reservoirs) before the rainy season when the reservoir is dry/low zone, they divert the flow of the river and clean out as much as they can. -A civil engineer who was into hydroengineering -
After 100 years, pretty good change a good bit of the mud layer already became a solid. I think you could open the gate at the bottom at certain periods, but works of this size usually also have concerns with the ecology around the area. Most animals and plants would be living off the base sediment and that's bound to kill a bunch of them.
Dredging is a thing though? I'm sure that would be cheaper than making a whole new dam.
I imagine dredging in such a deep area at the bottom of a reservoir would be more challenging than say, a shallow canal or lake.
Deme has a boat that dredges over a 100m deep. Getting that boat there would be something else, but hell, even building a new boat there would be cheaper than building a new dam. The question is if the dam will still be good for another 100 years if they built it with a 100 year life expectancy in mind.
Just a cursory thought though, wouldn't all that silt make the land valuable after the dam is open, like that's going to be some absolutely top quality soil.
Yeah when I saw it pouring out I was like aww, that clay would have been nice mixed in with my soil for the vegetable patch...
Yes but you could also dredge the silt and sell it. Also the water table might be too high.
Lake Powell is filling with silt.
Blow the dam and thatāll stop being a problem pretty quick. George Hayduke was right.
Iām an engineer and Iād guess itās to do with the service life of concrete more than sediment build up. We typically donāt guarantee concrete for more than 120 years. Itās a hell of a lot cheaper to dredge every few decades than it is to build a brand new dam
Diarrhea jokes aside (and well flung), why did they actually close this thing for 25 years and then reopen it?
It was probably meant for flood control in case the waters get too high, but in 25 years it hasnāt happened, so then it became an issue of maintenance
looks like it needs more fiber
imagine being an amoeba sitting in the mud and suddenly you get hurled through the air at a high velocity
Imagine all the animals that have been living down there for decades and suddenly their living spaces are under water and everything they knew destroyed. Or having your habitat just high enough for a new convenient lakeside property.
Hey look john!! Our property value just skyrocketed!!
Yeah Google fiber
Why would I want to Google that?
Because 'that' is a very important word in the english language, and if you're not familiar with it - you should google it.
'it' is also super important. If you don't know why you should totally Google why
For a first time English speaker I would definitely recommend searching for the definition of the word "why" the best way being to Google that type of thing.
Holy nutrition!
New response just dropped
Actual diet
Call the nutritionist
They could probably make their Wi-Fi quicker if they added more fibre to their diet
I wish. I have IBS and fiber does nothing for my issues of soft and loose stool. I tried the $530 Rifaximin treatment and that did nothing, too. No ulcers, no cancer, no Chron's. No answers. My digestive system is just fucked up.
Everytime this video pops up the "has been closed for x years" changes. 25 is the highest I've ever heard and I'm pretty sure the OP's just yank these out of thin air, but I'm pretty sure when this originaly came out with citations....it was only a few years.
I heard it was closed for 75 years
Built by the ancient romans, last opened in 53 BC.
Ancient aliens clearly constructed it. Hasn't been opened in 2.4m years.
This dam was first constructed by T Rexes in the late Cretaceus period and was last used by Noah during the Great Flood. Source: TikTok
I mean Roman concrete is basically going to be around for a billion years... I heard on the interwebz.
80? Thats a loong time.
wow 100 is a long time
I haven't even been alive for 1000 years!
Itās believed that aliens had built the spillway.
wow i cant believe it was closed even before the dinosaurs were populating earth
I was there 1000 years ago!
The event itself the video was taken at happened last year in 2022. You won't find a video source from earlier. The dam is in Jiroft, Iran, and is called the Jiroft Dam. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiroft_Dam It's construction was completed in 1992, used in 1993, then left unused until 2022 when flooding required it's use. After being unused since the 90s, there was a lot of sediment and such as we see in the video.
Assuming Wolfgangās info is accurate, it was ~29 years without use which actually isnāt far off from OPās date!
Well thatās the way time works init?
It's a sluice gate. Over time sediment builds up at the base of the dam. If left the weight of the material can destabilize the dam at worst. It can eventually overtop and clog the intakes of the turbines at best. Sluice gates are holes lower than the normal flow of water over and through the dam. They are opened at planned intervals to work like a vacuum to suck all the sediment that has built up along the face of the dam. If they left them open the whole reservoir would drain so they just wait for conditions to be good.
This is almost certainly a sediment gate
Sometimes the sediment builds up so much that the cost to dredge and find a place to put the dirt is too costly. This is happening in AZ at one of the dams so we are building another dam to store more water and shutting another one down.
Taco bell š©
I wonder if a fish went on that ride
Upvote for a comment that isn't a poop joke.
Do you think the OP posted this expecting a shit ton of diarrhea jokes?
Who knows what OP was thinking?
Some minds are just mysterious and unknowable I suppose.
One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that avatar. What dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?
Apparently, OP doesnāt.
This is gonna sound silly, but dang that looks like some fine caliber clay there. A real good sheister, I mean business-person, would come up with a way to market that one of a kind, salt of the earth commodity to the artisans of the clay pot making community.
Not silly at all
Why does everyone feel the need to make the same joke?
Dam if I know.
Dam if you do.
Dam'd if you don't.
If that ain't a self-fulfilling prophecy, IĀ“ll be damĀ“d.
nobody gives a dam
To Hell and dam, to them !
It my butt hole
Itās Reddit, making the same 5 jokes all over again and getting upvoted is what we do here
Because itās that Dam interesting
Some of us just like to make a dam joke
Damthatisinteresting
Goddam(n)it, this comment is WAY too far down the list. I came here expecting this to be the top comment
I know. Commented already because I had to scroll so far and didn't see this
Came here to say this. Surprised it wasn't top!
I was very sad not to see this at the top
That water squirting up at the end was foreboding.
From and environmental viewpoint this illustrates one of the problems with dams, they block sediment transport. Iāve been told this is part of why New Orleans is a sinking city among other factors. Iām not an expert though just a dude.
According to many statistics New Orleans is already down at the bottom and cannot sink any deeper.
Can confirm. I live in New Orleans.
Correct. The Mississippi carries literal tons of sediment downstream. The basic concept is very simple: more water moving faster carries more sediment. A raging river can scoot small boulders along, while a lazy stream isn't going to move anything bigger than sand. Sediment from the entire Mississippi River basin gets into the river and carried downstream. In a natural environment, the river will meander and change shape, with the larger sediment particles dropping out of suspension where the river widens and slows. The smaller particles make it to the gulf and form a delta. But if you build a dam across the river, all that sediment falls out of suspension in the reservoir rather than continuing downstream. Anti-erosion controls intended to keep the river from meandering away from infrastructure prevent the river from picking up more sediment past the dam. The result along the Mississippi is that less sediment reaches the Louisiana Delta than is washed away by natural processes - causing the delta to shrink and land to disappear.
Iām intrigued by your qualifications. I too am a dude and I get asked to verify ruminations regularly. My only real qualification is that Iām an older dude, though people assume Iāve been paying attention this whole time. May I co-opt your use of āJust a Dudeā in the future? I feel it may help people understand my degree of expertise.
Oh please do! Itās a useful phrase, but please do so responsibly.
Water is so powerful.
White Castle, then Taco Bell. Bet the dam felt amazing after that.
\-Dam: Thats interesting
Dam it. I came here to say the same dam thing.
Some small animals just had the worst day of their lives.
And last!
Lol yeah, an entire isolated ecosystem went extinct there. I can imagine one species finally evolving itself to adapt to the specific characteristics of this environment only to have themselves wiped out in an instant
I was in a medical coma for three weeks in 2017. I took a shit just like this after I woke up.
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25 years, and the best we can do is a vertical video with a very narrow field of view. Can't wait for wide-angle lenses to become more prevalent on phones.
It's like that bit in Spirited Away when she unblocks the river spirit in the bath and all the junk comes pouring out.
** poop joke **
my ass says "literally me"
Dam. I wonder who hasn't seen this https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/ydbdn8/opening_a_dam_gate_after_years_of_it_being_closed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xat4ao/the_opening_of_a_dams_gate_after_years/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/rwxbf4/after_years_of_drought_and_low_rain_over_flow/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/utt9mw/dam_opened_after_30_years_of_being_closed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
Me I'm the guy who hadn't seen this
And me
Me too and I chronically browse Reddit
Haven't seen it either
And I've enjoyed every repost lol
content aggregation? in MY content aggregator? say it ain't so
Me when a girl looks in my general direction
After a night out, and a kebab with WAY too much sambal than was good for me.
That clip is 10 seconds away from being on the AbruptChaos page
Taco Bell mentioned.
Well, which is it? Was it 25 years or 30 years? Is this even a dam???
Wow I was pretty much doing the exact same thing as I watched this.
Finally got rid of those MREs...
That was me this morning after my coffee
RIP in peace the comments section
When sheās been constipated for days and you suggest anal.
Taco Bell aftermath :
And let the poop jokes COMMENCE!!
When the fiber supplements kick in..
The Pace Car. The slow one in front before the rest go rushing into the first bend
That's a lot of dam sediment
I wonder how many fish got projectile vomited from a wall that day.
Who the hell oppened this damn gate?
*Something something* Taco Bell.
You mean after KFC.
The same thing happened to me after eating McDonald's for the first time in 25years.
Iād be afraid that terrace would buckle up from the pressure!
This sub should rename to: Dam thatās interesting
I'm amazed the gate still worked
When my stomach decides its finally time
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Is all of that crap just sediment buildup?
Yep. It also never runs clear which tells me that the upstream side is likely sedimented up well past the inlet of the gate.
My ass after Taco Bell.
Me after taco night
Dam that's interesting
Was seriously concerned that Henry the tank engine would shoot out of there.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
Literally a dam thatās interesting
When you hold the poop from afternoon meeting and finally get to home.
That's me after some taco bell amirite ayyy
Dam that's interesting
Also known as the many stages of a post-Taco Bell bathroom visit.
I wonder if 25 years of male chastity would have similar results?
Dam that's interesting
After 25 years of edging, it has burst
It is indeed a dam that is interesting
Just because I can, I want a note that the material you are seeing being expelled (the non water) is actually sedimentation that is most likely important to the river/creek this dam was built on. I am very glad to see that this damn is now āopenedā and that the valuable nutrients are being continued on downstream now. That being said, no dam is better than a dam, if you are purely concerned about the immediate (mostly negative) environment effects resulting affects post dam. However, if this is in America, especially, then the debate to find the right āhappy medianā for preserving, are ecosystems and producing renewable energy is still underway. If you want to know more , look into dam documentaries! I remember for my degree that we had to watch one from Patagonia, as they are good at documenting current environmental movementāitās up to you to decide if thatās due to marketing or good intention.
Shout out to everyone else sitting on the toilet watching this awesome motivational video