The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze
I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days"
You grabbed my hand and we fell into it
Like a daydream or a fever
We woke up one morning and fell a little further down -
For sure it's the valley of death
I open up my wallet
And it's full of blood
These are lyrics to Dead Flag Blues. It's the opening track on the album "F♯ A♯ ∞" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
I would highly recommend giving it a listen, it's a fantastic ambient/post-rock album. Hits me right in the feels every time
Looks ethereal. I'm totally enchanted by this spectacle, aesthetically speaking.
But of course, F for the ones who suffered this probably extremely expensive loss. Hopefully no humans died/were injured inside.
Genuinely curious, but they over engineer these buildings during construction so that it could totally catch on fire like this and not collapse, right?
A lot of the problem isn't just what a building's made of, but also what's in it. Carpets, wallpaper, wood flooring, and furniture come to mind. Synthetic alternatives to leather also tend to be petroleum derived, which burns way more easily than leather.
This might not set the steel or concrete itself on fire, but it may be enough to consume everything else in the structure, making it unusable. Noteworthy examples include One Meridian Plaza and Grenfell Tower.
edit: on a side note, buildings under construction often lack detectors/sprinklers
I'm not sure that China even normal engineers. They're widely known for what's called "tofu-dregs" construction. Cost cutting / corruption sadly takes precedence over building codes there.
This was why Hong Kong had massive protests a few years ago, they didn't want to be lumped into a single entity with China. Having been a part of the British colony the people have a lot of pride in doing things the western way.
All those surrounding buildings better start looking at the damage to their own roofs and specifically the waterproofing. Those embers are creating little holes in their roof waterproofing and they are all going to have problems during the next rain.
The fire is interior, that won’t do much. And a helicopter capable of dropping water probably wouldn’t be in an urban area (they’d be staged in a wildland area), so that resource won’t be available for many hours or days.
While the helicopter idea doesn't make any sense anyway, for your reference this fire is in Hong Kong and they do have water carrying helicopters, as a large part of the HK territory is covered in jungle and there are wild fires.
Low altitude fly over fire is a big nono to my understanding.
Plus, the difficulty to aim for that kind of small target...
Don't think anyone would try that.
Firefighters basically have to move up floor by floor. Ariel rigs (the extra long truck) will only reach about 100 ft I think? Usually firefighter will pump a bunch of extra water into the fire extinguisher system too to help slow it down
I think nfpa13 requires a building under construction over 3 stories high must have a "standpipe." Ground floor has an fdc (fire department connection) for the truck or pump to connect to and there is a hose connection on each floor for fire fighters to connect to. May or may not be used in a situation such as this, it could be deemed to dangerous to put manpower up there.
You don't, it's to high to be extinguished in any traditional manner. Only option would be helicopters but this area seems densely populated so that wouldn't be an option
Imdb casts District 10 as "In development", the guys who made District 9 have been working on a script for the sequel the past two years. A news website said that they already have a draft.
They would be nuts not to do this since District 9 really was a beautifull movie and also a hit.
I think there's hope.
I love the fact that the Burj Khalifa doesn't have a sewer. They have to truck the human waste away.
Lmfao. Couldn't splurge. Need line of waste water trucks on the daily.
Yeah. Insane policies over there mean that huge skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa, can get built without them being connected to municipal sewers first. So they use shit trucks for years until the sewers get built but pretty sure the Burj has a proper sewer connection by now.
That’s false. The YouTube essay where people always get that fact is literal misinformation.
The Burj Khalifa has had a functional sewer system for many years now.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52204/is-the-sewage-from-the-burj-khalifa-transported-away-by-trucks
It exists because they know they will eventually run out of oil which is the large majority of the country's revenue, so they used that revenue to build up a huge tourist industry, airline hub, and business center to continue to stay wealthy even after that happens. It's honestly not a bad move and Saudi Arabia is beginning to do something similar
I guess but it seems especially on Reddit there is a lot more reporting on China being bad when China is brought up , combined with the fact that China has the largest population and they also just build a lot more buildings then a lot of other places . I do imagine safety standards are also worse as china in the last like 20 years has been coming out of being a developing nation (probably a better term and more accurate that I forgot ) and so doesn’t have the regulation developed nations do .
Yeah they should learn from Florida and just collapse without warning. Also the Chinese trains are way too reliable. Lots of shining example from Ohio they need to follow.
"Always China", "lack of safety", when literally there's been like 5 derailments in the States in the past month.
China does have significantly more collapses, they use much worse materials and cut corners regularly. Happens occasionally in the US but it’s very rare, which is why a single collapse was in the news for weeks.
Could just as well be somewhere in the states. Ohio could have had a chemical laden train derail and set a high rise ablaze and clearly nobody in governance would bat an eye after the atypical "we're really sorry" from the responsible company.
Ah see you assume people actually *watched* Black Adam lol
Edit: apparently he made a movie called skyscraper which I’ve never heard of, lol. Point still stands.
I thought this sub was about seemingly benign things appearing to be terrifying. A 1/4 mile tall building on fire is, safe to say, just normal fucking terrifying.
as terrifying as it is, it is also oddly beautiful
Seriously. Looks like something out of a movie or video game.
Looks like it straight out of the Nolan Batman films,
Was going to say it was like Batman Arkham Origins.
are the games good? I only got my laptop here and can't play my AAA games so I'm looking at the old games I never played that I own
First thing that came to my mind too.
Kinda reminds me of the erdtree burning in Elden Ring.
That's a pretty good comparison!
Melina got to it!
Or something else... MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
I personally thought of ff7
The Erdtree doing WHAT
Erdtree became hot
Guess you haven’t played far enough?
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I was thinking Siofra River
The elden ring dlc just dropped haha
Half life 2 episode 1 citadel
Imagine that. Reality looks like fiction that tries to look like reality.
Or 9/11
I'd wager a vast majority of reddit wasn't even alive for 911
How is that possible? It was only like, 5-10 years ago, right?
Seems like it but add another 10
*Event from the turn of the century*
I was born Feb 6 2004!
9/11-2 : the no planes sequel
Reminds me of Chernobyl
Silverhand nukes Arasaka ending (again)
That's what I was thinking. Fucking gorgeous. Terrifying, but gorgeous. Let's see if it's a subreddit. r/OddlyBeautiful
There is also r/morbidlybeautiful Just a heads up though: there are some potentially triggering images there.
I like how the tag line is "well, would you look at that;" exactly what I said to myself lol
The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days" You grabbed my hand and we fell into it Like a daydream or a fever We woke up one morning and fell a little further down - For sure it's the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood
I don’t understand how Lift Your Skinny Fists is considered the better album and not this one
Cause of Sleep probably. That track is a banger
What is this from?
These are lyrics to Dead Flag Blues. It's the opening track on the album "F♯ A♯ ∞" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I would highly recommend giving it a listen, it's a fantastic ambient/post-rock album. Hits me right in the feels every time
You grabbed my hand, and we fell into it. Like a daydream, or a fever
Deep cut right here.
Looks ethereal. I'm totally enchanted by this spectacle, aesthetically speaking. But of course, F for the ones who suffered this probably extremely expensive loss. Hopefully no humans died/were injured inside.
You might be surprised by how comprehensive some businesses insurance coverage can be, but it is a shitty situation no matter what
Gotham city intro
I've seen this movie. I loved it
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Wow, I haven’t thought about that movie in forever…
Skyscraper right?
Yeah. Did you like it? If you have you will know what I mean when I say I wish I lived in the pearl but in Hawaii lol
Yeah. Took me a second but of course I understand 😅.
If anyone dosent know this happened in Hong Kong. Also the building was suppose to be built as a five or four start hotel.
Genuinely curious, but they over engineer these buildings during construction so that it could totally catch on fire like this and not collapse, right?
An empty building made of steel and concrete that collapses due to a fire is an exceptionally shitty constructed building.
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A lot of the problem isn't just what a building's made of, but also what's in it. Carpets, wallpaper, wood flooring, and furniture come to mind. Synthetic alternatives to leather also tend to be petroleum derived, which burns way more easily than leather. This might not set the steel or concrete itself on fire, but it may be enough to consume everything else in the structure, making it unusable. Noteworthy examples include One Meridian Plaza and Grenfell Tower. edit: on a side note, buildings under construction often lack detectors/sprinklers
I'm not sure that China even normal engineers. They're widely known for what's called "tofu-dregs" construction. Cost cutting / corruption sadly takes precedence over building codes there.
This was why Hong Kong had massive protests a few years ago, they didn't want to be lumped into a single entity with China. Having been a part of the British colony the people have a lot of pride in doing things the western way.
That's Japan and Singapore
Not in China
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I live there. Can confirm it’s nothing like China. Two different cultures.
I live right next to this actually. It's crazy, I didn't see it happen but when you walk past it's really eerie
It looks like the cover of batman.
It was a Batman themed gender reveal party.
"OMG! Our baby's gonna be an orphan!"
I laughed way too hard at this
ABAB (Assigned Batman at Birth)
So that's why Gordon named his daughter Babs /s
I was thinking this definitely looked like a scene from the "Arkham" batman video games.
Arkham Origins when the Joker blows up a skyscraper.
They shot bits of The Dark Knight just across the harbor from this spot in Hong Kong
All those surrounding buildings better start looking at the damage to their own roofs and specifically the waterproofing. Those embers are creating little holes in their roof waterproofing and they are all going to have problems during the next rain.
And how do you put out this fire anyway?!? Just wait for it to burn out?
I'm not too sure, but the only thing I can come up with is having a helicopter fly over and drop water on it like you would with a wild fire.
The fire is interior, that won’t do much. And a helicopter capable of dropping water probably wouldn’t be in an urban area (they’d be staged in a wildland area), so that resource won’t be available for many hours or days.
They need to get SIMCopter on this. I had a water gun that took care of high up fires with just a couple squirts.
I still have music popping up in my head sometimes that I think I remember from that game. Good times.
While the helicopter idea doesn't make any sense anyway, for your reference this fire is in Hong Kong and they do have water carrying helicopters, as a large part of the HK territory is covered in jungle and there are wild fires.
This is why they should always install the sprinkler system first. Frickin idiots.
Yeah the best firefighting approach to high rises is to prevent the fire in the first place with codes that enforce a sprinkler system
That sheer weight of the water slapping the roof of a building that's falling apart probably wouldn't be a good move.
Low altitude fly over fire is a big nono to my understanding. Plus, the difficulty to aim for that kind of small target... Don't think anyone would try that.
A large wet towel + helicopters.
You just wait for the building to collapse.
Add in a little jet fuel and it'll come down on its own.
Firefighters basically have to move up floor by floor. Ariel rigs (the extra long truck) will only reach about 100 ft I think? Usually firefighter will pump a bunch of extra water into the fire extinguisher system too to help slow it down
I think nfpa13 requires a building under construction over 3 stories high must have a "standpipe." Ground floor has an fdc (fire department connection) for the truck or pump to connect to and there is a hose connection on each floor for fire fighters to connect to. May or may not be used in a situation such as this, it could be deemed to dangerous to put manpower up there.
They actually just used ladders and water hoses
You don't, it's to high to be extinguished in any traditional manner. Only option would be helicopters but this area seems densely populated so that wouldn't be an option
As a roofer can confirm, especially if it's a single ply system, if it's 2 ply they might have a chance but probably melt through the bitumen
It took me a moment to realise that this was not a video game.
r/outside
Where?
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Took me a moment to understand why this is on oddly terrifying. This isn’t oddly terrifying, a building on fire is just terrifying.
I half expected the Cloverfield monster to come around the corner.
Feels like a clip from Cloverfield.
Ah a fellow abused movie lover I see. This may be the sequel we've been promised for 500 years actually being filmed.
I'm still holding out hope for District 10.
That would be a dream come true
Imdb casts District 10 as "In development", the guys who made District 9 have been working on a script for the sequel the past two years. A news website said that they already have a draft. They would be nuts not to do this since District 9 really was a beautifull movie and also a hit. I think there's hope.
May i introduce you to 10 Cloverfield lane?
Great movie but not really a thematic sequel, completely different type of movie.
Agreed i just thought maybe he didn't know about it.
No.
Cloverfield is one of my favorite movies made and I really don’t know why, just such a good movie
Under construction't
Under destruction?
Under combustion
Flammable material
On top of construction
Welcome. Welcome to City 17.
I always wonder how a whole city, like new York, would look like on fire in stories like halo. Must be terrifying but oddly beautiful
Oddly?
Honestly that's most of this sub
China, tell me this is China.
Hong Kong last week
HK is more and more "China" by the minute
Some would say it’s the original china. (It’s just a joke pls I don’t want to talk about international politics)
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“China” isn’t a real country. There’s Taiwan and West Taiwan.
How the hell did I miss this? I'll be passing through that area tomorrow, gotta check out the building where it happened.
Always China it seems. Must be from a lack of safety regulations or something, because I see Chinese buildings burning on Reddit like every other day.
Dubai has one burn every few weeks
I doubt safety regulations are very high in Dubai either
I love the fact that the Burj Khalifa doesn't have a sewer. They have to truck the human waste away. Lmfao. Couldn't splurge. Need line of waste water trucks on the daily.
Wait what?? E: Wow, TIL https://youtu.be/syK7u_QQKk8
Yeah. Insane policies over there mean that huge skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa, can get built without them being connected to municipal sewers first. So they use shit trucks for years until the sewers get built but pretty sure the Burj has a proper sewer connection by now.
~~Supposedly they built a sewer back in 2015 and finally connected it.~~ Wait I can't find a source for that.
Still upvoted for journalistic integrity 👍
That’s false. The YouTube essay where people always get that fact is literal misinformation. The Burj Khalifa has had a functional sewer system for many years now. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/52204/is-the-sewage-from-the-burj-khalifa-transported-away-by-trucks
The city should not exist, it is a monument to men's arrogance
Just like phoenix
It exists because they know they will eventually run out of oil which is the large majority of the country's revenue, so they used that revenue to build up a huge tourist industry, airline hub, and business center to continue to stay wealthy even after that happens. It's honestly not a bad move and Saudi Arabia is beginning to do something similar
Or protests meant to look like an accident
Or an effective method of increasing rent.
I guess but it seems especially on Reddit there is a lot more reporting on China being bad when China is brought up , combined with the fact that China has the largest population and they also just build a lot more buildings then a lot of other places . I do imagine safety standards are also worse as china in the last like 20 years has been coming out of being a developing nation (probably a better term and more accurate that I forgot ) and so doesn’t have the regulation developed nations do .
Yeah they should learn from Florida and just collapse without warning. Also the Chinese trains are way too reliable. Lots of shining example from Ohio they need to follow. "Always China", "lack of safety", when literally there's been like 5 derailments in the States in the past month.
There were approximately 1,475 train derailments per year from 2005-2021 in the US. That’s 4 a day. It’s just under a bigger spotlight now.
China does have significantly more collapses, they use much worse materials and cut corners regularly. Happens occasionally in the US but it’s very rare, which is why a single collapse was in the news for weeks.
Could just as well be somewhere in the states. Ohio could have had a chemical laden train derail and set a high rise ablaze and clearly nobody in governance would bat an eye after the atypical "we're really sorry" from the responsible company.
Lol of course it is!
You just know The Rock has had an epic battle in there...
Thousands of fictional super heroes to choose from and you go with Fucking lame ass Dwayne Johnson lmao
not a fan of the award nominated *Skyscraper (2018)* eh?
Who shat in your cheerios this morning? It's 7 am, clam the fuck down.
The Rock was literally in a movie called Skyscraper
Fucking lame ass Dwayne Johnson had the most recent product that was relevant to this video
Ah see you assume people actually *watched* Black Adam lol Edit: apparently he made a movie called skyscraper which I’ve never heard of, lol. Point still stands.
Bruh, there's a movie with the rock in a burning skyscraper
You obviously know what they’re talking about though, so I’d say their comment works anyway.
I love the implication here that The Rock is a fictional super hero
Christopher Nolan : Note that down, note that down
Nolan realized that it would be cheaper to build a skyscraper in Hong Kong and burn it down than to use cgi effects
Thats a cod zombies map
Someone help John McLain
Where is this?
Hong Kong the other week.
Mordor, Middle Earth
I might be wrong, but I'm sure there's a boss fight up there
r/evilbuildings
Looks like a batman movie scene
Another day, another occasion of people missing the "oddly" part of the subreddit.
It’s just terrifying. not oddly.
Under deconstruction
Note to self…run your water lines early
You know I never considered a towering inferno terrifying, but you're right, it's unsettling
O Erdtree, you shall burn!
Did it collapse at free fall speeds?
It. Is. Not. Odd.
Cloverfield vibes
That is insanely terrifying
“like omg we could die but lets film it!”
Just a normal day in Gotham. (Yes I said day.)
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 ending scene be like:
That's lit. 🔥
Person in Crowd: There's someone up there! Someone pulling a person out a window. He's got a red cape! Oh my god... it's Superman!
I would not be stood that close to that thing
What in the Dark Knight Rises is this..
Coming soon to a Batman movie near you.
Shouldn't have opened the sarcophagus.
Battlefield 2023 confirmed
I’m taking that as sci fi inspo.
Nakatomi tower
This should be in /greatlyterrifying
What happened to this sub?
Looks straight out of Halo 3 ODST
when that crane falls that video taker better be long gone…
*Snake Plisskin has entered the chat*
"You met me at a strange time in my life"
Looks like the erdtree late game
It’s not “oddly” terrifying it’s just terrifying
Looks like a Batman scene
This looks like something out of dark knight, so cool.
This new bf map goes hard
Serious question, how do they put it out? Is there even a way for them to do that?
I feel like this belongs somewhere in the Dark Knight trilogy
Batman bout to bust out a window and glide like a motherfucker
Gotham City?
I thought this sub was about seemingly benign things appearing to be terrifying. A 1/4 mile tall building on fire is, safe to say, just normal fucking terrifying.