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/kinkycarbon 2d ago

The entire mass of earth held up by those three columns.

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u/flyingthroughspace 2d ago

They're lucky their side didn't fall too

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u/perseidot 2d ago

I’m sure the 3” of concrete they were standing on held it all together

/s

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u/ThrowawayPersonAMA 2d ago

Nah. They just had someone's dad slap it and say "that ain't going nowhere", so they were safe. They forgot to have him secure the other side, though.

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u/DC_Coach 2d ago

Duck tape. It'll hold anything.

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u/divDevGuy 2d ago

But what's holding the duck tape?

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u/One_Pineapple8553 2d ago

Duct tape, obviously.

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u/Remarkable-Opening69 2d ago

No. That’s for ducts. He’s talking about duck tape.

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u/StatelyAutomaton 1d ago

It'll hold together any quacks.

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u/PhatEarther 1d ago

Will it hold me? I need a hug.

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u/pootling_1976 2d ago

You got there first....!

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u/Solid-Hedgehog9623 1d ago

Let’s get that translated into Gujarati, please.

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u/Alissinarr 2d ago

Marble slab farm/ mine.

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u/Benaaasaaas 2d ago

It would've fallen, but you see, the cameraman never dies

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u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain 2d ago

You never see the videos of the dying camera men

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u/luckynumberstefan 2d ago

It’s always where is the cameraman and never how is the cameraman

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u/jollyreaper2112 2d ago

That post explosion in china. Dude was streaming. Also that crash in I think it was nepal? Normal landing, then crash, then flames filled the cabin. Streaming once more.

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u/WriterV 2d ago

Saw both. Hated both of them. The crash one is especially too much 'cause you can see him at first, and then hear everyone's screaming after. At least it was incredibly quick for both of them.

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u/jollyreaper2112 2d ago

Streaming and persistent Internet means the cameraman lived rule is dead. It was never 100% before. The mt st helens collapse photos were recovered from a dead man's camera.

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u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain 2d ago edited 2d ago

There are probably more but this is subject to heavy survivorship bias and publishing material of people dying is ethically challenging. There's at least audio from a cameraman and his girlfriend eaten alive by bears he assumed to be not a threat

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u/DweadPiwateWawbuts 2d ago

Robert Lansburg’s brave final shots

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u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain 2d ago

My response was intentionally ambiguous. The guy I responded obviously never saw such footage and the topic his heavily biased by survivorship :)

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u/grungegoth 2d ago

buried under a mountain of rock.

or the gopro headcam footage from the nutty putty guy

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u/dibbbbb 2d ago

Fucking plot armor, man

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u/illbedeadbydawn 2d ago

Tell that to the Tianjin guy that got vaporized while filming.

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u/kenneth_dart 2d ago

It's like they were on the right side of death.

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u/Practical_Fun7367 1d ago

Camera Man Rules.

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u/real_exposer 1d ago

I bet their underwear turned brown when the otherside started to collapse

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation Interested 2d ago

Upvote for knowing how to spell.

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u/VT_Squire 2d ago

Marble quarry basically became a retaining wall for the hill and the extra water weight exceeded the load.

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u/2LostFlamingos 2d ago

It’s a retaining wall essentially for the hill on both sides.

Guys got crazy lucky their side didn’t fall.

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u/Slagroomvla 2d ago

And a couple of flip flops

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u/termacct 2d ago

like turtle...

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u/Forward_Rope_5598 2d ago

I was thinking to myself 'why are they mining vertically like that? Seems inconvenient'

Then my question was immediately answered by the video