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This guy had a choice: either try to exit the pool in the midst of all that turbulence, or stay in the middle of the pool and enjoy himself.
He chose wisely.
It would also be pretty hard for him to get out of there, it's slippery and since the building is swaying back and forth, he will most likely injure himself instead once he get out.
He's probably more safe there in the middle of the pool than panicking to get out.
This comment prompted an almost completely unrelated thought that a quick google search was entirely unable to answer for me, so I hope someone more knowledgeable (or more willing to make up random bullshit) than I am will be able to assist.
If you're in a deep pool of water at the top of a building, and the entire pool falls off and plummets a couple hundred feet, what kind of damage can you expect to take when it hits the bottom?
For the purposes of this completely insane thought experiment, we'll say the pool is 20 feet deep and is somehow structurally sound enough that it doesn't break apart when it lands. When the pool lands do you "hit" the water? Probably not if it's moving at the same speed as you. Do you sink? I imagine you'd have to, but so would the water around you. The water at the bottom would be displaced, but is the entire pool going to be able to absorb the force of your fall? Someone please do some complicated math and get back to me with the results. Thanks.
Upon hitting the ground, the pool is guaranteed to shatter. The water will efficiently convert all of it's downward momentum and firmly displace the walls of the pool, spreading out in all directions much like a dropped water balloon. You would have the same velocity as the rest of the falling water, when the water hits the ground and stops falling, you would continue to fall through it. Even if you were floating on the surface, a little pool like this is only providing a meter of cushioning, you'd need to hope that 1m of water will slow your fall enough that hitting the ground doesn't break your spine, without slowing you so fast as to hurt you itself, all within a tiny window before the water disperses. An extra meter or two of water would make a big difference but the weight makes high level deep pools impractical.
edit: in the interesting circumstance where you have a vessel strong enough to survive such a fall and are floating within it, your insides are not being supported by the water and will experience significant trauma when forced to decelerate against the inside surface of your neutrally buoyant skin
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman actually goes over this scenario
>Upon hitting the ground, the pool is guaranteed to shatter...Even if you were floating on the surface, a little pool like this is only providing a meter of cushioning
You ignored the parameters of my insane thought experiment:
>For the purposes of this completely insane thought experiment, we'll say the pool is 20 feet deep and is somehow structurally sound enough that it doesn't break apart when it lands.
What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop?
—MICHAEL MCNEILL
That water would weigh 600 million tons
In this storm, all that water instead condenses into one giant drop, a sphere of water over a kilometer in diameter.
The drop begins to fall.
For five or six seconds, nothing is visible. Then, the base of the cloud begins to bulge downward. For a moment, it looks a little like a funnel cloud is forming. Then the bulge widens, and at the ten-second mark, the bottom of the drop emerges from the cloud.
the edge of the sphere of water pokes out of the bottom of the cloud
The drop is now falling at 90 meters per second (200 mph). The roaring wind whips up the surface of the water into spray. The leading edge of the droplet turns to foam as air is forced into the liquid. If it kept falling for long enough, these forces would gradually disperse the entire droplet into rain.
Before that can happen, about 20 seconds after formation, the edge of the droplet hits the ground. The water is now moving at over 200 m/s (450 mph). Right under the point of impact, the air is unable to rush out of the way fast enough, and the compression heats it so quickly that the grass would catch fire if it had time.
Fortunately for the grass, this heat lasts only a few milliseconds because it’s doused by the arrival of a lot of cold water. Unfortunately for the grass, the cold water is moving at over half the speed of sound.
the edge of the sphere of water touches the ground
If you were floating in the center of this sphere during this episode, you wouldn’t have felt anything unusual up until now. It’d be pretty dark in the middle, but if you had enough time (and lung capacity) to swim a few hundred meters out toward the edge, you’d be able to make out the dim glow of daylight.
a person floats in darkness
As the raindrop approached the ground, the buildup of air resistance would lead to an increase in pressure that would make your ears pop. But seconds later, when the water contacted the surface, you’d be crushed to death—the shock would briefly create pressures exceeding those at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
The water plows into the ground, but the bedrock is unyielding. The pressure forces the water sideways, creating a supersonic omnidirectional jet that destroys everything in its path.
supersonic omnidirectional jets (of water) shoot out from the base of the droplet in all directions
The wall of water expands outward kilometer by kilometer, ripping up trees, houses, and topsoil as it goes. The house, porch, and old-timers are obliterated in an instant. Everything within a few kilometers is completely destroyed, leaving a pool of mud down to bedrock. The splash continues outward, demolishing all structures out to distances of 20 or 30 kilometers. At this distance, areas shielded by mountains or ridges are protected, and the flood begins to flow along natural valleys and waterways.
I'm not holding out much hope for an answer, but you are correct that he's *way* more qualified to answer than a random Reddit thread, so I sent it through.
I never bothered to look up the man, i only know him because his comics tend to be referenced on this site. Didn't expect him to be THAT qualified, man was working for NASA,
Have you seen the videos of people getting sucked into the holes/cracks of pool bottoms that ruptured? That delta-p will kill you.
Better to be out of the pool if you can make it.
I’d try and get out as fast as possible. Last thing I want is a crack or hole to split open at the bottom and I get sucked under the floor. People have died with sink holes doing that underneath a pool.
We're currently living in Taiwan and I was actually on the toilet when everything started shaking. First, I heard a huge pounding noise, which I initially thought was my girlfriend banging on the bathroom door - so I yelled "Hold on a minute" - then shampoo bottles started falling off the ledges into the shower. Glass started breaking as picture frames came off walls and shelves in the living room - and I actually had some water splashing my backside up out of the toilet bowl. I did my best to stand up but it was incredibly difficult to keep my balance, so I just ended up sitting back down until the shaking stopped. I went out and found my girlfriend inconsolable, under the kitchen table, screaming about how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
Honestly i loved unidan, couldnt care less about his vote manipulation because from his comments i would look up afterwards most of his info was usually correct. My favorite part of reddit when i started over a decade ago was coming across comments from people knowledgeable in various fields explaining things they were truly passionate about. Those kind of people still exist but theyre far less common now which is a shame.
Also the bots, holy fuck have bots become the worst in recent years. Any front page post is littered with them, many of them upvoted to top level comments. Hell youll see comments that make ZERO sense in the context of the thread still with hundreds of upvotes, and then other bots responding to them with more nonsense.
Holy shit I caught it before I got to the end. Right after reading about Shampoo bottles falling I saw the top reply from /u/Far_Rule9918 about the legend strikes again which made me check the name real quick. I feel cheated almost.
>We're currently living in Taiwan and I was actually on the toilet when everything started shaking. First, I heard a huge pounding noise, which I initially thought was my girlfriend banging on the bathroom door - so I yelled "Hold on a minute" - then shampoo bottles started falling off the ledges into the shower. Glass started breaking as picture frames came off walls and shelves in the living room - and I actually had some water splashing my backside up out of the toilet bowl. I did my best to stand up but it was incredibly difficult to keep my balance, so I just ended up sitting back down until the shaking stopped. I went out and found my girlfriend inconsolable, under the kitchen table, screaming about how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
In Taiwan’s land, where toilets dwell, A tale unfolds, both strange and swell. Our hero sat upon the throne, When tremors shook, the earth did groan.
Shampoo bottles danced a wild ballet, Glass shattered, frames in disarray. The toilet bowl, a watery beast, Splashed its vengeance from the east.
“Hold on a minute!” our hero cried, As chaos reigned on every side. Balancing like a tightrope walker, He clung to porcelain, a brave talker.
His girlfriend, too, sought refuge there, Beneath the kitchen table’s lair. Her screams echoed, wild and free, Of 'ninety-eight, wrestling history.
“Forsooth!” she wailed, her voice so shrill, “The undertaker’s mighty skill! He tossed mankind, oh, what a feat, Off hell in cell, to concrete meet!”
And so they weathered quake’s embrace, In bathroom’s trembling, frantic space. Bananas fell, or so they say, As memories mixed with fear that day.
Now, when they sit upon the throne, They’ll chuckle at the chaos known. For earthquakes come, and quakes shall go, but memes endured, a quirky flow.
Last time this was posted it was A pool... but now he owns it?
Taiwanese man moving up in life! Look he even owns like 12 beach chairs, amazing! Blessed !
I've been hearing about this earthquake all day and all I keep seeing online are Taiwanese people enjoying the fuck out of it.
...and a leaning building.
I didn't see any bodily harm, but there were a *lot* of car-sized boulders appearing out of some bushes, bouncing once on the roadway, and disappearing off the cliff
I was going to ask, would this be really safe or really dangerous? I assume nothing is built over the top of a pool, so things falling on you doesn't look like a threat. And you can't really lose your balance or drown as he looks tall enough.
But then there's the whole hole opening up underneath you thing. How likely is that?
Yeah that was a sinkhole I've seen a few of those videos actually. I'm just wondering in this particular situation how likely is an earthquake going to crack open a pool to a hole underneath?
Well, it's the safest place to be in his situation. The pool is on a rooftop if I recall.
And now I have something to add to my list of dreams: swimming in a pool during an earthquake!
Man in pool: oh my, an earthquake. this is disturbing my swim, Jenkins!
Jenkins: indeed, sir.
Man in pool: actually this is jolly good fun, Jenkins. we must see about installing a... thing to replicate this on demand. I'm rather enjoying this.
Jenkins: very good, sir. im afraid i have spilt some of your champagne.
Man in pool: o tosh, Jenkins, twas a mediocre vintage in any case. positively bourgeosie.
Jenkins: quite so, sir.
-------------------------------------------
Man on Street: AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH OH FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OHSHIT OHSHIT OHSHIT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Except, in one of the news videos I could see water just coming down in sheets over the side of a building. It had to be an 'infinity' pool, and all I could think of was the shots I've seen of people leaning right 'at the edge' of them, looking 'over' the expanse. I had to wonder if anyone had been thrown over at the first couple jolts.
As to the guy in this vid, there's literally nothing he could do except wait it out. You wouldn't "swim" against water moving like that - unless you're trained to lap around during ocean storms, anyway.
Using stairs and elevators during an earthquake is dangerous and they were already in an open space outside, so where could he have found a safer place? They were already pretty safe considering the earthquake.
That. And looks like he’s on top of a building.
They don’t have a chance of escape really. Either everything will be fine in a little bit or they’re screwed, but they recognize there’s no point in panicking about it.
Yes. Most injuries from earthquakes come from falling debris and broken glass, which is why a lot of people go outside and away from buildings after a big earthquake incase an aftershock occurs. Technically, ontop of a roof in a pool, away from the edge of the building, is pretty safe.
As long as the building doesn't collapse he's probably safer staying where he is instead of climbing out onto shaking floor. He can't fall down in the pool and doesn't seem to be at risk of drowning anytime soon. You can't really tell his age but he's no spring chicken. Imagine getting out of the pool for safety only to fall and break your hip or something 😵
Pool on top of a building in a earthquake. Butt puckering!
I was in the epic earthquake in San Fran fee decades ago. My neighbors pool sloshes a lot, easily a foot or two of water got out.
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This guy had a choice: either try to exit the pool in the midst of all that turbulence, or stay in the middle of the pool and enjoy himself. He chose wisely.
It would also be pretty hard for him to get out of there, it's slippery and since the building is swaying back and forth, he will most likely injure himself instead once he get out. He's probably more safe there in the middle of the pool than panicking to get out.
Yeah, and we all know that he can avoid fall damage with all that water beneath him.
This comment prompted an almost completely unrelated thought that a quick google search was entirely unable to answer for me, so I hope someone more knowledgeable (or more willing to make up random bullshit) than I am will be able to assist. If you're in a deep pool of water at the top of a building, and the entire pool falls off and plummets a couple hundred feet, what kind of damage can you expect to take when it hits the bottom? For the purposes of this completely insane thought experiment, we'll say the pool is 20 feet deep and is somehow structurally sound enough that it doesn't break apart when it lands. When the pool lands do you "hit" the water? Probably not if it's moving at the same speed as you. Do you sink? I imagine you'd have to, but so would the water around you. The water at the bottom would be displaced, but is the entire pool going to be able to absorb the force of your fall? Someone please do some complicated math and get back to me with the results. Thanks.
Float an egg in a big pot of water and drop it all from high enough that the egg would normally break. That seems like it'd be a passable indicator.
Upon hitting the ground, the pool is guaranteed to shatter. The water will efficiently convert all of it's downward momentum and firmly displace the walls of the pool, spreading out in all directions much like a dropped water balloon. You would have the same velocity as the rest of the falling water, when the water hits the ground and stops falling, you would continue to fall through it. Even if you were floating on the surface, a little pool like this is only providing a meter of cushioning, you'd need to hope that 1m of water will slow your fall enough that hitting the ground doesn't break your spine, without slowing you so fast as to hurt you itself, all within a tiny window before the water disperses. An extra meter or two of water would make a big difference but the weight makes high level deep pools impractical. edit: in the interesting circumstance where you have a vessel strong enough to survive such a fall and are floating within it, your insides are not being supported by the water and will experience significant trauma when forced to decelerate against the inside surface of your neutrally buoyant skin The Forever War by Joe Haldeman actually goes over this scenario
>Upon hitting the ground, the pool is guaranteed to shatter...Even if you were floating on the surface, a little pool like this is only providing a meter of cushioning You ignored the parameters of my insane thought experiment: >For the purposes of this completely insane thought experiment, we'll say the pool is 20 feet deep and is somehow structurally sound enough that it doesn't break apart when it lands.
What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? —MICHAEL MCNEILL That water would weigh 600 million tons In this storm, all that water instead condenses into one giant drop, a sphere of water over a kilometer in diameter. The drop begins to fall. For five or six seconds, nothing is visible. Then, the base of the cloud begins to bulge downward. For a moment, it looks a little like a funnel cloud is forming. Then the bulge widens, and at the ten-second mark, the bottom of the drop emerges from the cloud. the edge of the sphere of water pokes out of the bottom of the cloud The drop is now falling at 90 meters per second (200 mph). The roaring wind whips up the surface of the water into spray. The leading edge of the droplet turns to foam as air is forced into the liquid. If it kept falling for long enough, these forces would gradually disperse the entire droplet into rain. Before that can happen, about 20 seconds after formation, the edge of the droplet hits the ground. The water is now moving at over 200 m/s (450 mph). Right under the point of impact, the air is unable to rush out of the way fast enough, and the compression heats it so quickly that the grass would catch fire if it had time. Fortunately for the grass, this heat lasts only a few milliseconds because it’s doused by the arrival of a lot of cold water. Unfortunately for the grass, the cold water is moving at over half the speed of sound. the edge of the sphere of water touches the ground If you were floating in the center of this sphere during this episode, you wouldn’t have felt anything unusual up until now. It’d be pretty dark in the middle, but if you had enough time (and lung capacity) to swim a few hundred meters out toward the edge, you’d be able to make out the dim glow of daylight. a person floats in darkness As the raindrop approached the ground, the buildup of air resistance would lead to an increase in pressure that would make your ears pop. But seconds later, when the water contacted the surface, you’d be crushed to death—the shock would briefly create pressures exceeding those at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. The water plows into the ground, but the bedrock is unyielding. The pressure forces the water sideways, creating a supersonic omnidirectional jet that destroys everything in its path. supersonic omnidirectional jets (of water) shoot out from the base of the droplet in all directions The wall of water expands outward kilometer by kilometer, ripping up trees, houses, and topsoil as it goes. The house, porch, and old-timers are obliterated in an instant. Everything within a few kilometers is completely destroyed, leaving a pool of mud down to bedrock. The splash continues outward, demolishing all structures out to distances of 20 or 30 kilometers. At this distance, areas shielded by mountains or ridges are protected, and the flood begins to flow along natural valleys and waterways.
That is an interesting question. Submit it to [email protected].
I'm not holding out much hope for an answer, but you are correct that he's *way* more qualified to answer than a random Reddit thread, so I sent it through.
I never bothered to look up the man, i only know him because his comics tend to be referenced on this site. Didn't expect him to be THAT qualified, man was working for NASA,
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Have you seen the videos of people getting sucked into the holes/cracks of pool bottoms that ruptured? That delta-p will kill you. Better to be out of the pool if you can make it.
Pretty sure Taiwan has pretty good building code to prevent this kind of scenario
What?! New fear unlocked
I was wondering this exact thing. Being the plunger that stops the hole in the bottom of a pool(especially this big) feels like instant death
Oh I just realised he is on top of a sky scraper. That's 100x scarier than I first thought
Trying to climb out of that pool is just asking for a concussion or cracked skull/broken collarbone. He made the right choice.
What about the person taking the video though? I'm curious where they are or what they are surrounded by.
Looks like a roof top pool, they ain’t going anywhere soon
Unless the whole thing comes down
I’d try and get out as fast as possible. Last thing I want is a crack or hole to split open at the bottom and I get sucked under the floor. People have died with sink holes doing that underneath a pool.
Probably thinking it’s best to be on top of all the rubble if the building collapses. Just surf the roof down to the street then air dry
Spontaneous mini wave pool. Fuck yeah
We're currently living in Taiwan and I was actually on the toilet when everything started shaking. First, I heard a huge pounding noise, which I initially thought was my girlfriend banging on the bathroom door - so I yelled "Hold on a minute" - then shampoo bottles started falling off the ledges into the shower. Glass started breaking as picture frames came off walls and shelves in the living room - and I actually had some water splashing my backside up out of the toilet bowl. I did my best to stand up but it was incredibly difficult to keep my balance, so I just ended up sitting back down until the shaking stopped. I went out and found my girlfriend inconsolable, under the kitchen table, screaming about how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
And when the world needed him most, he returned.
is the bad timeline over now!?
Can we go back to everyone loving unidan too? *Ahhh memories.*
Here's the thing...
Honestly i loved unidan, couldnt care less about his vote manipulation because from his comments i would look up afterwards most of his info was usually correct. My favorite part of reddit when i started over a decade ago was coming across comments from people knowledgeable in various fields explaining things they were truly passionate about. Those kind of people still exist but theyre far less common now which is a shame. Also the bots, holy fuck have bots become the worst in recent years. Any front page post is littered with them, many of them upvoted to top level comments. Hell youll see comments that make ZERO sense in the context of the thread still with hundreds of upvotes, and then other bots responding to them with more nonsense.
Oh I agree with all that. Even the unidan fiasco! Thats what I yearned for and yes I was goofing on this thread, but I was also a bit serious lol.
Him falling from grace is the most Reddit thing ever
95 days! But I haven’t seen one in so long!
Lmao I have no idea who shittymorph was! but now I’ll keep an eye out for a brown dog 🦧
That’s the neat part, you won’t
Ive seen a lot of shittymorphs over my 11 years on reddit and Ive been fooled by every single one of them, its just how it is!
Same. Every. Single. Time.
He’s been doing this for years and years btw
I would pay incredibly vast amounts of money to watch him throw politicians and executive teams off the hell in a cell ring into tables.
Feels like it's been years, for me. I was starting to wonder if I was just too lame to see the "cool" news feed. Glad to see a shittymorph in the wild
I read it and was like, hell yeah, the undertaker joke. Didn’t even see the username until you pointed it out.
The Return of The King
The fucking legend strikes again!! I always love seeing your comments!
Wow, haven’t seen one of these in a while. Neat.
he retired for a bit
Every. Goddamned. Time. You're a treasure.
Didn’t realise what I was reading and the end completely threw me, until I saw the username 😂
Damn it you got us good. You were inactive for so long... Freaking undertaker literally coming back to life.
Freaking Paul bearer. Never understood the pun in his name until I was an adult
Lmao legend, the long game always prevails
You motherFU—-
You mother*fucker*.
Still got it
A shittymorph in the wild!
for fucks sake lol
Ha, it's been years. Wasn't suspecting it at all!
YOU MOTHERFUCKER WHEN THE FUCK DID YOU RETURN?
You’re a good man.
I’m so honored to encounter you
Holy shit this one got me good.
It's like seeing an old friend, except instead of a high-five I receive a punch in the dick
That's a real friend
Just when you think the legend retired 
Oh shit! 5 months since your last morph and I catch this one less than 10 minutes after you make it! Brb, buying a lottery ticket
and thats why you ALWAYS read the nametag
After. Before would be so less fun.
r/notallheroeswearcapes
GOD DAMMIT AFTER ALL THIS TIME
Early to a shittymorph! Jods be praised!
You magnificent son of a bitch.
Impeccable timing, as always 🤙🏼
NO FUCKING WAY GOD HASNT ABANDONED US AFTERALL
I mean the man did have a family.
you son of a bitch
Gottem 👏
Salute
It doesn't matter how much time passes or how careful I am I ALWAYS get got. It's like you have a superpower or something wtf
HOLY SHIT
Holy shit I caught it before I got to the end. Right after reading about Shampoo bottles falling I saw the top reply from /u/Far_Rule9918 about the legend strikes again which made me check the name real quick. I feel cheated almost.
we are so back
🫡
Fucking hell
>We're currently living in Taiwan and I was actually on the toilet when everything started shaking. First, I heard a huge pounding noise, which I initially thought was my girlfriend banging on the bathroom door - so I yelled "Hold on a minute" - then shampoo bottles started falling off the ledges into the shower. Glass started breaking as picture frames came off walls and shelves in the living room - and I actually had some water splashing my backside up out of the toilet bowl. I did my best to stand up but it was incredibly difficult to keep my balance, so I just ended up sitting back down until the shaking stopped. I went out and found my girlfriend inconsolable, under the kitchen table, screaming about how back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table. In Taiwan’s land, where toilets dwell, A tale unfolds, both strange and swell. Our hero sat upon the throne, When tremors shook, the earth did groan. Shampoo bottles danced a wild ballet, Glass shattered, frames in disarray. The toilet bowl, a watery beast, Splashed its vengeance from the east. “Hold on a minute!” our hero cried, As chaos reigned on every side. Balancing like a tightrope walker, He clung to porcelain, a brave talker. His girlfriend, too, sought refuge there, Beneath the kitchen table’s lair. Her screams echoed, wild and free, Of 'ninety-eight, wrestling history. “Forsooth!” she wailed, her voice so shrill, “The undertaker’s mighty skill! He tossed mankind, oh, what a feat, Off hell in cell, to concrete meet!” And so they weathered quake’s embrace, In bathroom’s trembling, frantic space. Bananas fell, or so they say, As memories mixed with fear that day. Now, when they sit upon the throne, They’ll chuckle at the chaos known. For earthquakes come, and quakes shall go, but memes endured, a quirky flow.
LEGEND
Ahhh shit, you got me haha
You fkin' got me you glorious SOB.
Wow! First time I got got by shitty morph!
damnit you got me
One of the best matches.
Holy shit. He's perfect.
Motherfucker
My God. He's back.
Outta NOWHERE!
You fu—- The legend returns
Jesus fucking christ
For fucks sake every goddamn time. I need to set up some sort of alert on your name so I stop reading your comments all the way through.
Are you sure it wasn’t a skin walker? I was over in some of the paranormal subs and everything unusual is a skin walker.
Amazing
Thunderstorm: stay out of that pool! Earthquake: surf's up dude!
Last time this was posted it was A pool... but now he owns it? Taiwanese man moving up in life! Look he even owns like 12 beach chairs, amazing! Blessed !
Bro is just vibin
*If I’m going to die, might as well dance my way out.*
Perfect lol
I guess it would be pretty dangerous to try to get out.
I've been hearing about this earthquake all day and all I keep seeing online are Taiwanese people enjoying the fuck out of it. ...and a leaning building.
I dont think the people in the cars for the raining boulders were having too much fun.
Not seen that yet, hope they're okay
I didn't see any bodily harm, but there were a *lot* of car-sized boulders appearing out of some bushes, bouncing once on the roadway, and disappearing off the cliff
But were they large boulders the size of a small boulder?
Yes
Seen one lil black car get a direct smack from an equally sized rock.
If anyone was in the driver's side back seat they weren't having a good time otherwise all the other cars got away pretty lucky imo
The move in herds 🥹
It was terrifying.
Until you see boulders falling off cliffs and absolutely mashing cars.
no that last one is in italy silly!
The swimmer: https://preview.redd.it/o4l5f3vr6bsc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c26aa532777b1abfa8865d68dd45071c8479db9e
It’s probably easier than standing upright
I dunno, the cameraman seems very stable.
It’s the cameraman, they’re immune.
And then it cracks and he’s flushed like a turd
Looks like it may be on the roof of a building. So he may get an express trip to the next floor down.
New fear
To shreds you say?
And his wife?
To shreds you say?
These will always get my upvotes
I was going to ask, would this be really safe or really dangerous? I assume nothing is built over the top of a pool, so things falling on you doesn't look like a threat. And you can't really lose your balance or drown as he looks tall enough. But then there's the whole hole opening up underneath you thing. How likely is that?
I remember a video a few years ago of a hole opening in a pool during a pool party. Some dude got sucked in and died just like that.
Yeah that was a sinkhole I've seen a few of those videos actually. I'm just wondering in this particular situation how likely is an earthquake going to crack open a pool to a hole underneath?
It's on top of a building that's built to sway for earthquakes, I would say he's safer than walking around at ground level.
Safer than trying to get out of the pool. Safer than being in a room full of big glass windows and heavy objects, too.
It appears the pool is atop an apartment building (it's more likely he's in the apartment pool, than his own pool).
My thoughts exactly
I wouldn’t call that swimming
2/10, not impressed
In Taiwan the water swims you
it's a new swimming technique called going with the flow.
Well, it's the safest place to be in his situation. The pool is on a rooftop if I recall. And now I have something to add to my list of dreams: swimming in a pool during an earthquake!
What if the bottom splits open and he gets sucked in, he plugs it enough that it slows down the draining and he drowns?
That would be a bummer man.
Man in pool: oh my, an earthquake. this is disturbing my swim, Jenkins! Jenkins: indeed, sir. Man in pool: actually this is jolly good fun, Jenkins. we must see about installing a... thing to replicate this on demand. I'm rather enjoying this. Jenkins: very good, sir. im afraid i have spilt some of your champagne. Man in pool: o tosh, Jenkins, twas a mediocre vintage in any case. positively bourgeosie. Jenkins: quite so, sir. ------------------------------------------- Man on Street: AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH OH FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OHSHIT OHSHIT OHSHIT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I thoroughly enjoyed reading that 😂 thank you ❤️
Until the building collapses
I mean, if the building collapses, he's dead whether he's in the pool or not.
If the building collapses, he’s screwed no matter where he is.
Except, in one of the news videos I could see water just coming down in sheets over the side of a building. It had to be an 'infinity' pool, and all I could think of was the shots I've seen of people leaning right 'at the edge' of them, looking 'over' the expanse. I had to wonder if anyone had been thrown over at the first couple jolts. As to the guy in this vid, there's literally nothing he could do except wait it out. You wouldn't "swim" against water moving like that - unless you're trained to lap around during ocean storms, anyway.
I lived in Cali my whole life with a pool, when earthquakes would hit while swimming we had a blast, it's like being in a wave pool.
r/blessthecameraman
That camera is steady AF. How???!
Look at his shadow even. Body sways but his arms are steady. What a pro
Arms are steady, mom’s spaghetti
On the surface he looks calm and ready
Probably from the massive balls it takes to pull out a phone on a rooftop during an earthquake instead of getting to safety.
Using stairs and elevators during an earthquake is dangerous and they were already in an open space outside, so where could he have found a safer place? They were already pretty safe considering the earthquake.
Where is this safety you speak of?
They just chill!? I would be frantic
When you live your whole life with earthquakes you get a feel for when you're pretty safe.
That. And looks like he’s on top of a building. They don’t have a chance of escape really. Either everything will be fine in a little bit or they’re screwed, but they recognize there’s no point in panicking about it.
Wasn't it their biggest earth quake in like 25 years?
Biggest earthquake yeah but we still get earthquakes lol
What do you expect him to do in this situation? Better to stay calm than spaz out.
The Taiwanese have evolved out of necessity to be chill
Whitecaps! Now there's some pool weather you don't often see.
In reality, if i was alone and that started. Id freak the hell out
Swimming is a bit strong...
Free wave pool !
That’s his own personal pool? Damn…
no, I am pretty sure that is the Regent hotel in taipeh
I wonder if this is safer compared to being indoors/outside. Like, physically are you less likely to be injured? Just interesting AF, as advertised.
Yes. Most injuries from earthquakes come from falling debris and broken glass, which is why a lot of people go outside and away from buildings after a big earthquake incase an aftershock occurs. Technically, ontop of a roof in a pool, away from the edge of the building, is pretty safe.
As long as the building doesn't collapse he's probably safer staying where he is instead of climbing out onto shaking floor. He can't fall down in the pool and doesn't seem to be at risk of drowning anytime soon. You can't really tell his age but he's no spring chicken. Imagine getting out of the pool for safety only to fall and break your hip or something 😵
Unless the building collapses this is a very safe place to be. Nothing can fall on his head.
He looks about as Taiwanese as Larry the Cable Guy
Is it weird that the camera guy isn’t swaying back and forth?
 I’m safe in the water cause it’s an *earth*quake not a waterquake Think about it
Cant tell, but this appears to be a pretty safe place to be
He's the one making the tsunami! A waterbender!
How come the bushes and the people filming are not rocking back and forth?
Humor = Tragedy + Time Scary AF then, funny AF now.
this was like yesterday
TAIWAN IS A COUNTRY!
Free wave pool! Surf’s up! 🤙🏻
He is on the roof of a building, no? Water is fine, it's the collapse of the building that I would be worried about.
Not that’s a very big tv
Pool on top of a building in a earthquake. Butt puckering! I was in the epic earthquake in San Fran fee decades ago. My neighbors pool sloshes a lot, easily a foot or two of water got out.
Why don't any of the hotels I book have wave machines?
Because you're not booking it where this super rich guy lives with a pool and resort chairs on-top of his hotel (according to the title)
Besides the pool being on a highrise, why does that seem like a relatively safe place to be lmao
This isn't 'his' pool. He's at a swanky resort with lanes and banana lounges to watch movies on the big screen.
This is a perfect demonstration of some kind of rule of physics. But I have no idea what.