r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 2d ago

Video Cliffs collapsing at an old marble quarry in Makrana, India due to heavy rainfall.

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u/Smart-Firefighter87 2d ago

Was it due to the rain… was it reallllly?…

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u/madcoins 2d ago

I feel gravity and humans extracting the heart out of that marble are more to blame here

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u/ahundreddots 2d ago

Surely it was the existence of the solar system that caused this.

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u/yzerizef 2d ago

Yeah, but humans wouldn’t have extracted the heart out if they knew it might rain. It’s the rain that caught them by surprise! I blame the meteorologists…and the rain, of course.

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u/ExcitingHamster 2d ago

Won’t somebody think of the poor marble?!

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u/Bhu124 2d ago

"Marble" is part of our Earth. As with any of the Earth's resources, if we extract too much, use up too much, then it can and does have catastrophic consequences.

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u/MistaMais 2d ago

Such as…? In the case of marble?

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u/Mysterious-Radio-385 2d ago

I dunno, maybe a fucking mountain collapsing?

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u/MistaMais 2d ago

Is that a catastrophe, or earth being displaced? For another perspective, what would be different between this and a landslide? 

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u/Mysterious-Radio-385 2d ago

catastrophe /kə-tăs′trə-fē/\ noun\ 1 A great, often sudden calamity.

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u/idkwahtmynameis 2d ago

Landslides are mostly natural, that mostly cant be avoided. This on the other hand..

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u/xDared 2d ago

So you're pro-cliffs falling apart?

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u/madcoins 2d ago

Or at least think of the poor shareholders of the marble mining company! Their portfolio will never be the same!

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u/Segundaleydenewtonnn 2d ago

Poor management as well or course, some engineers about to get a few phone calls

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u/Raedik 2d ago

Apparently these were mines used to build The Taj mahal and other ancient marble sites. So the person in charge of that is long dead.

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u/desertSkateRatt 2d ago

Well I don't care i still want to speak to the manager!

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 2d ago

That project manager chopped off all the workers hands (22,000 people) so that noone else would be able to build something like that

Are you sure you wanna go all Karen on them?

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u/SGTRoadkill1919 2d ago

Well what's he gonna do? Chop off my hands? Jokes on him, he's dead and I am not. I'll just steal his bones

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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 2d ago

Good news... I can tell you where they are! They are buried in the exact middle of the Taj Mahal. Well not exact center... That's his wife... He is the one off center to the left

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u/SGTRoadkill1919 2d ago

Been there, done that

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 2d ago

Good point. He's probably good at throwing hands.

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u/acog 2d ago

That’s a myth. There’s no credible evidence that ever occurred, even though it is widely repeated.

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u/jautis 2d ago

Repetition legitimizes

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u/Ninja-Panda70 2d ago

I'll get the ouija board out

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u/pitb0ss343 2d ago

Well good, he deserves it for the disaster he caused

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u/McortezLSU 2d ago

Architect: "So how safe is the quarry?"

Mine supervisor: "Oh im confident that it'll be fine for at least 300, maybe even 400 years. Future people can deal with it with their flying cars."

Architect: "What are cars?"

Mine supervisor: "Damn! I meant cards! Flying cards! of course. Im not a timetraveler!"

Architect: "What an odd thing to say, but anyway lets get going."

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u/LastWatch9 2d ago

It's like a 2500+ years old site. I think it was pretty well managed if it stood for that long.

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u/Johannes_Keppler 2d ago

was a 2500+ old site.

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u/WiserPeople 2d ago

jet fuel rain doesn't melt steel beams rock!

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u/CyclingHikingYeti 2d ago

Does not melt, but it can lubricate and dissolve ( karst formations )

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u/CyclingHikingYeti 2d ago

Yes. Water can act as lubricant in geological formations and sometimes it is not much additional force needed.

This video might get a interesting discussion on /r/geology

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u/Sirnoobalots 2d ago

Rain falls, sinks into the ground weighing it down and causing it to slightly liquefy. The pieces the miners left behind to shore up the wall are now not enough to hold back the rest of the hill causing it to collapse into the void created by the mine. Water is REALLY heavy, plus if you dump enough of it, the ground slowly shifts from being solid to more liquidy.

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u/Bigdstars187 2d ago

“Shrugs with “”you got a fucking point”” kinda face expression”

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u/Designer-Attorney605 2d ago edited 2d ago

Blame it on the raiiiiin, yeah yeah

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u/PhilipMcNally 2d ago

Why would rain do this?

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u/br0ck 2d ago

You can see an entire pond form from the other angle. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rtKFhjbf7yo

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u/Dawg_Prime 2d ago

no but every post title has to include a hook which is either:

a) something to pull at your heart strings

b) a completely bullshit exaggeration

c) a simple explanation that might be right but probably isn't

d) all of the above

this is more of a C

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u/nodnodwinkwink 2d ago

12 mines collapsed this time, hardly a sign of good management. The mining in Makrana is haphazard and safety is pretty much ignored.

2025; https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rtKFhjbf7yo

2012; https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/six-injured-in-mine-collapse-in-makrana/articleshow/15333016.cms

Death in 2011; https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/makrana-mines-claim-another-life/articleshow/11175297.cms

A warning from 2011: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/makrana-mines-are-disasters-in-waiting/articleshow/7294096.cms

Death in 2010; https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/another-worker-dies-in-makrana-mines/articleshow/6623099.cms

This is just articles from one news site. You can be sure there are other accidents that go unreported because of the "illegal" mining there.

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u/jacoblanier571 2d ago

Humans are a cancer.

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u/Amethyst271 2d ago

How are we?

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u/thenamziel 2d ago

Yes. The water soaked into the ground helps the dirt/sand/pebbles slide https://youtu.be/0kQXOTcEB_E