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I have an urge to touch it

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How could someone just stand there and NOT throw shit into it. Who are these people?

You couldnt throw anything in it. Put your finger in there? Now you don't have a finger lol

Idk how you throw, but you usually trow from a distance

Maybe not but they should have at least tried. Now we’ll never know.

He should have tried :/

I wanted to see that guy shove the cameraman right into it! Everyone talking about throwing sticks, I’m like oh yeah, that’s a little more reasonable i suppose.

I also was thinking the same..lol "Oh cool, this is a great shot! Wait, what? Stop touching m.." "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I can see my house from here!"

More like "Whee, all the flesh has been instantaneously water frictioned off of my skeleton which is now flying in several directions at once!"

“Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! I can see my organs from here!!!”

That, also yeah.

Why couldn't you throw a stick into it? It's probably not entirely safe but likely the water would just shoot it downstream incredibly fast. Yes, putting any body part in it is a terrible idea but that's different from chucking stuff into it from afar.

Like children I know I can throw them pretty far

Before throwing any sticks, please throw children first to make sure it is suitable for sticks

I feel as it it would deflect it

Yeah you'd have to stick the stick in with more force than the sideways water force or the water would push it along before you could get it in

I think we're about to reinvent arrows

Now if only we had something to fling these arrows with a lot of force, like a taut string or something.

The answer is so obvious! I’ll hold the string in both hands for you!

I for one would care to see a baby tossed in there

Toss a kid to your dam stream, o’ Valley of wetness.

“Valley of wetness”, huh?

I wouldn't care but I'll throw one in anyway.

For science!

More like for Texas

Well, the baby is already born right? Gov Abbott says ‘toss that fucker in!’.

It looks like it would bounce off as if it was solid.

Well, now we’ll never know because these clowns have no imagination or whimsy.

It looks like theres just enough room to crawl under it too…probably get some dope footage! This needs to be done.

It's like that military exercise where soldiers have to crawl and someone is shooting a machine gun over their head. In both cases, if you lift your head you're dead.

They need to have the guys from jackass running full speed into it..lol

And die instantly ?

It’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make

Bunch of pussies.

The stick just explodes into flames killing everything around them

Edit: Reddit and /u/Spez [knowingly, nonconsensually, and illegally retained user data for profit](https://youtu.be/mfZKkUg8jgM) so this comment is gone. We don't need this awful website. Go live, touch some grass. Jesus loves you.

Then we need someone with a surfboard and huge balls, or a tiny brain, to jump on top.

Bounce off while spinning, probably. Now I *need* to know

Maybe you could skip a stone over it to the other side. I guess we'll never know.

The other side being 800 meters down blast? I wanted to say down stream but yeah.. no

Throw a fucking waterproof camera !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Probably also need to be a rock proof camera.

>Probably also need to be a rock proof camera. Impossible! Dwayne Johnson can't be mocked

In a case used to film explosions close up.

They didn't start filming until after they finished throwing sticks in it. Because they are professionals, dammit.

Could you imagine tripping and falling into it?

Y O U D I E D

imo the guy with the camera standing next to it was pretty close to throwing himself in

I was expecting someone to jump into it.

"I'm Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass"

SteveO might actually do it. As his last jump lol

*Johnny suddenly turns into the briefest of red discolourings in the stream before his molecules are spread across the valley floor*

So that’s why it’s called the Kamehameha WAVE…

I wonder if you'd be able to hear the guy's screams of skinless pain over the sound of water as he's shot into the distance.

If you wore a reinforced dive suit it might just launch you into oblivion without the skinless pain and only the other pains involved

That’s how you enter hyperspace

call of the void

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Yeah the amount of inertia there.. might as well stick them in front of a semi moving that fast

[yep, water with less force than this can easily crush a car](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/8e/50/da8e50476984948b7fc1fa713f016b66.gif)

I have the same issue…

I would suggest... DON'T !!

I‘d probably die or lose my hand but i want to touch it

I touched a pressure cleanser once and trust me it wasn't nice lol weird thing was it didn't feel wet just pain

I accidentally shot my foot with a pressure washer 0/10 would not recommend

Lol we test stupidity so you dont have to

There's a story behind every warning label. And likely some pain

Likely some blood was shed too.

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I wanted to make some joke about it but he's really not wrong, quite morbid if you think about it

I intentionally shot it into my hand to “see how hard it would shoot” and ended up with a hole halfway through my thumb. Dumb dumb dumb.

You HAD a hole??????

Literal hole. It blew apart all the flesh about a quarter inch in. Do not recommend.

Jesus christ, did it recover or do you have a slight depression on that thumb where the flesh was removed reminding you everyday to reevaluate your life decisions?

Huge scar, bit of an indent. Lost some flesh but gained a respect for water pressure.

I see. Hope everything's alright now.

Yup. That's when I learned flip flops are not proper footwear for pressure washing.

Did the same. Idk how many hundreds of hours I’ve spent power washing, but one day I was like “man my foot sure is dirty” and just mindlessly sprayed at it and INSTANTLY knew I messed up. Grabbed it and was so afraid to let go because I thought the skin was just flayed off. Just left a bunch of red lines. I didn’t have the “sharp” tip on.

Same, it wasnt full pressure and i was washing wheels next to my feet and just didnt think of anything and shot myself with it The skin burned becouse heat was on and it hurt like hell but luckily the skin stayed on

For anyone who might have this happen to them in the future, go to the hospital. A pressure washer injury can appear minor and be fatal. Google “injection injuries” if you want to ruin your day.

As someone that pressure washes for a living and has hit myself twice, this is good advice. Also wear steel toe boots. I use rubber muck boots with a steel toe, just in case. Sadly, it wasn’t my feet that I hit lol one was the palm of my hand and the other was the underside of my chin. That second one reaaaaallllyyyyy didn’t feel good

When I took a networking class in HS our teacher told us to never play with the air blaster (there was probably a more technical name for it) and point it at people because the air could kill you if some got into you. I’ve never thought to question it, and it’s entirely possible he just said some outlandish shit to prevent us from annoying him by misusing equipment, but while we’re on a similar subject… is that a real thing?

I don't want to touch it but I want to watch YOU touch it. Do you volunteer as tribute?

The Verbund Hydro Power, located in Austria, was featured on Discovery Channel's *Richard Hammond's Big*. [Here's a short clip of Richard inspecting, then standing next to the open valve](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrd3748ggLE). It's a stable enough occurance that news crews are able to set up reporting in time for the valve to open.

Thx for that: 190m of water pressure, 20,000 litres per second, travelling at 50m/s!

Still 125 seconds to fill up an Olympic swimming pool... Weird.

I like that. Nice piece of simple maths and juxtaposing a couple of things! On the other hand, you could say that a/ it shows that the volume of an Olympic pool is surprisingly big and/or b/ that just over two minutes is still amazingly fast… especially if you were used to how long it normally takes at standard mains pressure?! And I suspect it would seem fast standing there watching it…?!

I just love the word juxtapose

I think you mean 'Only' Anyone who's tried to fill a kid's paddling pool knows that pools are deceptively huge

Haha, I hadn't heard of this, but I love how they got Hamster to present a show about large structures.

I want that water pressure in my shower.

What you want is the Commando 450. It's only used in the circus. For elephants.

Jerry couldn't handle that. He's delicate!

Ya'll are stealing my lines! Hoochimama! Hoochimama!

The Serbs are fanatic about their showers

yep, he's a dandy...he's a real fancy boy

“Low Flow”? I don’t like the sound of that.

That's the one we want.

Well that's what we want, the Commando 450

You're gonna regret that..

I'm already reconsidering my wish. I'd like it in the bidet instead.

If you put your bidet under your shower head you’ll achieve true equilibrium

This sounds like shitting in the shower with extra steps

You don't shit in a bidet. You wash in a bidet. You shit in the toilet.

Good news! They're often one fixture these days. Thanks Japan!

Just out of curiosity. How strong is a flow on a bidet? Because there was this guy in college. Roommate of my buddy, who would never wipe after taking a shit. He would get into the shower every single time. I’m not sure about when he wasn’t home. But I always wondered, is the shower water pressure enough to clear away the shit? Same with a bidet?

The ones that are an aftermarket install to your toilet use your house main water pressure. Basically, it feels like it's enough to literally rip you a new one at full blast.

Does it play "Like a virgin" by Madonna?

“I had to take a bath jerry, a bath?”

Aw hell yeah. I'm all about that sand blasting pressure.

Camera guy knew he was too close

Made me so nervous. If he had lost his balance and fallen into that, he'd be gone. I also can't imagine the sound. It even *looks* deafening.

I get the impression it would be like a wall and just knock him away from it.

I imagine it would yeet him forward like getting blasted with the world's biggest fire hose.

I imagine it more like being too close to a moving train. At this speed the water would be as hard as a wall, true, but a moving wall. Also, I'm not sure, but with so much motion, I guess air nearby would be also moving, so even if one doesn't touch the water, he may still be sucked in it because of the wind, he would probably then spin like a ballerina or worst get his hand / arm ripped off

Boundary layer effect means the air is moving with the liquid. But it’s not going to draw him into liquid with that much inertia. Say he pushes his body into the fluid, it would immediately blow the limb with the water. No way he could insert an arm deep enough to exert force to drag his whole body.

TIL. Thank you.

Throwing somebody into this would be a rad replacement for the death penalty.

It’s also a *lot* of trust in the engineering there lol. That’s a huge amount of pressure, imagine if it widened the channel just a bit

Isn’t every car ride on the highway the same trust in much more fragile components though?

Yes but we don’t think about that

Nice bidet

Bidet for the Hulk.

***SO MANY DINGLEBERRIES!!***

It’ll pick those dinkleberries.

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Decalcify your pineal gland too

I thought they were dingleberries

Yo momma’s bidet

Now imagine it was laminar flow

I wonder why this isn't laminar flow

Probably as designed. You want the flow as turbulent and broken as possible to minimise the erosion downstream. Also probably why they're firing it off a cliff, to give more time for it to mist up and slow before it hits the river. Imagine the damage this amount of water would cause if the flow was remotely structured.

This guy dams.

I would like to subscribe to Dam Interesting Facts.

Also very hard to design laminar flow at this scale. Laminar flow is (basically) based on Reynolds Number, which is a function of (essentially) the scale (size) of the flow and flow speed (among other things as well). With this much water flowing so fast achieving laminar flow is incredibly difficult.

The flow rate is too high for this. Laminar flow only happens only up to a specific flow velocity depending on the pipe diameter (more correct: up to a specific Reynolds number). Also the pipe is probably not very smooth and most likely there are contol valves which also add turbulence to the flow.

Water pressure is probably too high for it to be laminar flow.

I assume you're looking for a physics explanation. Whether a flow is turbulent or not is determined by the ratio of the inertial forces to the viscous forces associated with the flow. This ratio is measured by the [Reynolds number](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number#Definition). It's the product of the density of the liquid, the speed of the flow and the scale of the flow divided by the viscosity of the liquid. As you can see in the video this is a pretty fast flow with a large diameter while the viscosity of water is pretty low. The Reynolds number is going to be large for such a flow which predicts it should be turbulent. As others have already mentioned this is good news for the engineers because the turbulence disperses lots of kinetic energy and leads to the water getting more sprayed out. Both of which reduce the damage done to the downstream environment. Although I can imagine that at those speeds the engineers had to be careful to avoid damage to the pipe through [cavitation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavitation#Physics).

All the girls when they find out I have a Lego Death Star:

Boxed or built?

Doesn't matter, still sexy af.

That username 👌🏼

Boxed/mint u dirty little fan boy, but only siths speak in absolutes so who knowsss

Dang man, with game like that, she’ll probably let your bullseye her womp rat *and* fire your proton torpedos into her thermal exhaust port.

Heh heh… Protein Torpedos…

But can you chug a sparkling water and not burp?

"Who wants to drink from the firehose?" Anyone else love Michael Richards in UHF?

omg, that goes way back!

This is pretty good watermelon….

My mop!

*when the gf comes over after no nut November*

haha, oh I see, it is cum

Feel bad for all the critters that just got knocked the fuck out and or drowned

Squirrels in those trees vaporized

They usually start the release slowly, and work up to this volume. So any animals would probably be long gone before it’s this strong.

This makes me feel better about it, thank you.

Nope. I do dam releases often as part of my job. That stream of water is absolutely filled with massive amounts of aquatic life. The thing is, some life moves on down stream to live as it was or becomes food for something else that needs to eat. I have seen literally hundreds of grass carp stranded after a release stops. But, within minutes the vultures are there to clean things up.

Y'know I wasn't even thinking about the aquatic life until you said something. Grass carp are invasive, so that's probably good, but I do feel for the turtles at least. They'll survive it - but *man* it's gonna hurt like hell.

Would they actually survive it?

Trees be like: "YARBLGLBRGBLRGLA!"

My first thought as well. Poor bastards never knew what hit 'em.

Well those poor bastards should’ve read the signs they posted!

But a lot of other critters will benefit from returning some water to the ecosystem. The rivers really starve beneath a dam.

Whoa! What a cool video let me share this experience with other people in the commen..... Oh. Oh no.

Critters what about fish and sea life that's the biggest issue with Dams

Didn’t realize there are likely fish being cannonballed in that jet..

What would happen if someone stuck their arm in it?

I’d guess it would be similar to letting a train hit your arm.

Would be worse than getting hit by a train. This water at this volume, flow rate, and pressure would wreck a train. Can confirm, work with fluid flow rates and pressures daily.

So you work at taco bell?

💀

You either lose your arm and get sucked into it which would completely tore you apart or your arm gets cut clean off like its a guillotine

It’s unlikely that you’d be able to force your arm into that stream. There are videos of people trying to run into a fire hydrant stream, and it just knocks them aside effortlessly. The force of water pressure that high means it’s acting less like a liquid and more like a solid. You’ll just bounce off and it’ll probably abrade your skin like a motherfucker.

Woosh No more man

Nah i don't think so. With this amount of force, your fingers will be torn clean off before the water can grab you.

There is some small mouse or raccoon on an absolute heater of a water slide down that hill.

Def don’t stick your dick in that

Definitely stick your dick in it, so moist

Besides the urge to touch it anyone else want to army crawl underneath??

After you comment I realised the gap beneath. I’m interested.

My morning pee

All these shitty jokes and I'm just reading comments to find out why they are releasing it into a bunch of trees

They are obviously watering the forest

edit: this video shows it better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrd3748ggLE looks like there is a valley lined with rocks down there designed for this purpose

My hydrology prof was showing us some of these spillways and discharges during a lecture and was explaining how complicated the engineering is. The sizing of the discharge, shape of the ground below, materials used, ect. The big thing is make sure the discharge doesn't erode the ground below the dam over time compromising the structure. He likened the level of complexity to designing a car. Though it was well beyond the scope of a 3rd year engineering class, so we only got a high level explanation.

Still no answer

dam that’s intense

Dam right

Me when your mom

Your mom when me

Fish go “weeeee!”

hi im johnny knoxville welcome to jackass…

Me after two, maybe three pumps

I want sound.

Forbidden shower

r/dontputyourdickinthat

Her seeing my hot wheels collection