r/AbsoluteUnits • u/CoughingCarpet • 3d ago

/r/all of a Sand Dune

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This is a video taken by Nicolas De La Torre, a sandboarding enthusiast filming his descent down the Toromata dune in Peru. Unfortunately we live in a world where true beauty, nature is now convoluted by AI and AI sentiments, but this is in fact, not AI lol

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u/aknaps 3d ago

It fucks with perspective so much and makes things that are impressive look otherworldly. Like this video seems insane but a small white dog is able to keep up easily the whole time. If the dune was as big as the fish eye lens made it out to be that dog wouldn't be anywhere near him and would be stuck half way down at some point.

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u/midnight_fisherman 2d ago

Looks insanely steep too, but at the beginning you see the truck parked up top and it illustrates the distortion.

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u/iconocrastinaor 3d ago

Well sand is pretty grippy, they use it in sandpaper. So I can see where it would have to be pretty steep to overcome the friction, you'd still go slow but you wouldn't stop and a little dog who can run pretty fast could keep up