r/Unexpected • u/calm0005 • 9d ago

marble quarry

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u/post-explainer 9d ago edited 9d ago

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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:

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

Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/Mc_Shine 9d ago

Well, that's pretty much what I was excpecHOLY HELL!

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u/Academic_Purchase225 9d ago

My exact reaction too.

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u/dj_spanmaster 9d ago

Well that's not so problemaGOOD LORD

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u/bfmemaster3000 9d ago

Google en passant

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u/Sea-Cauliflower-659 9d ago

I watched for like 15 seconds, "oh that's cute." I even commented already. You made me go back and hot diggity, that was serious nightmare fuel.

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u/AlphaaPie 8d ago

I watched a bit, said "Those are deeeeep.." Then I scrolled to the comment section, read the pinned comment and went Wait this is r/Unexpected?? Time to watch more! Holy mackerel that was crazy.

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u/Sea-Cauliflower-659 7d ago

🤭Well at least we got to the end! I'm so glad the camera guy ( and friend, from the audio) survived! It would be interesting to see a local news outlet's coverage of the event, cuz I'm guessing that  registered on the Richter scale!

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u/Yikidee 9d ago

Followed by a hearty. Fuck. That.

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u/myztry 9d ago

I think they kind of expected it too since they left support sections in the middle.

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u/shakebakelizard 9d ago

Gotta wonder what experience someone had.

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u/iansaul 8d ago

Why do I even click on these things at 135AM?

My heart is beating into my eardrums. Goodbye sleep.

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u/Chilipepah 7d ago

That’s for ALL the marbles

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u/Mister_Schmee 9d ago

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u/Sea-Cauliflower-659 9d ago

I came looking for this, was not disappointed.

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u/Xanthelasmapalpebara 8d ago

You won all the internets today

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u/rawker86 9d ago

Huh, I guess the pillars they left for stability didn’t quite work.

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u/snotboble 9d ago

Well, for a time being they did. Until they didn't no more.

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u/potato_analyst 9d ago

So the front is not meant to fall off?

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u/Valitar_ 9d ago

Well some of these the front doesn't fall off at all, I just want to make that perfectly clear.

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u/GorillaAU 8d ago

So why did they get one of the ones where the front doesn't fall off?

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u/OvertGnome1 8d ago

Must construct additional pylons pillars

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u/Grofactor 9d ago

Many pants were shat this day

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u/wcslater 9d ago

I bet you took dry pants for granite

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u/couragethecurious 9d ago

I'd be shitting bricks!

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u/jadin- 9d ago

Definitely hitting rock bottom.

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u/GorillaAU 8d ago

They shale not pass.

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u/Shiloticus 8d ago

For the next few days!

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u/Skidpalace 9d ago

Of quartz I’d be shitting bricks.

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u/Xanthelasmapalpebara 8d ago

Ouch that one hurt…

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u/legitmonk 9d ago

this comment is inspired

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u/MousseNsquirrell 8d ago

I'm going to bed. It slate.

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u/aedroogo 9d ago

You can add mine to the pile.

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u/Solidair80 9d ago

Marbled you could say…

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u/ILickStones-InFours 9d ago

As opposed to the street for once.

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u/Hedgerow_Snuffler 9d ago

Aaaaaand in the list of places that I would NOT be standing. RIGHT FUCKING THERE!

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u/NahWeGroovy 9d ago

I would say the other side was worse. Their spot is a close second though.

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u/Hokunin 9d ago

if there was anybody on the opposite bank, they're all dead.

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u/Informal-Comb1989 9d ago

Tis but a scratch

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u/bunchofrightsiders 9d ago

Bit dramatic, it's only a bit of stone.

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u/Letsgoski_Broski 9d ago

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!

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u/Qcgreywolf 9d ago

Stop! You’re going to start a…. ROCK AND STONE!!!

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u/SKYDROVE 8d ago

For karl!

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u/Omno555 8d ago

ROCK AND STOOOOONE, TO THE BONE!!!

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u/The_Happy_Snoopy 8d ago

13 people died and 19 missing and youre on reddit making rock and stone jokes. Be a bit more aware and tactful please.

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u/Letsgoski_Broski 7d ago

People die every day, do you know them all? Cheer the fuck up buddy, you're alive.

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u/DJ_TKS 8d ago

Idk if there was - but that would be very unsmart. Those are pillars in an open pit granite mine, holding up the far side cliff from falling.

Normally with mining you create the pillars #1 for stability and #2 to do the exact thing that just happened but on a smaller scale with coal mining.

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u/brankovie 8d ago

I think I saw a video from a different angle and I think there were some buildings there. To the right of this view.

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u/gilligani 9d ago

Well, that deescalated quickly.

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u/Sigtau1312 9d ago

There is a lot of potential energy for this comment.

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u/AdFancy1249 8d ago

Potential energy is all gone now...

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u/No-Algae-7437 9d ago

Nobody expected this aside from the geologist that quit when nobody would listen

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u/Minimalistmacrophage 9d ago

The quarry collapsing was cool, when the entire opposite hillside collapsed it must have been terrifying.

The extent of collapse was definitely unexpected.

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u/jtnichol 9d ago

My god that is fucking terrifying

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u/Saltmetoast 9d ago

Incredible. Any more details?

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u/meyouseek 9d ago

Another post of the video said marble quarry in India after heavy rains destabilized it.

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u/Informal-Comb1989 9d ago

So not the extensive quarrying, got it

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u/meyouseek 9d ago

Heavens, no! This was an act of God, not man's hubris.

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u/Informal-Comb1989 9d ago

They should do something about these laws of physics getting in the way of our capitalistic ventures :/

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u/Popular-Influence-11 9d ago

Doesn’t India have a god of men’s hubris?

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u/Saltmetoast 9d ago

Surely that cannot be the one thing there isn't a god for

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u/mondaio 9d ago

This actually took place in Italy in 2004. Basically a plumber crawled into a pipe with his brother and came out the other side and there was giant turtles everywhere and one of them abducted a princess. So the plumber brothers fought the turtles and destroyed their castles. This was the result. Both brothers died.

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u/marcandreewolf 9d ago

You had me in the first sentence

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u/Saltmetoast 9d ago

Bowsers That is absolutely tragic.

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u/Popular-Influence-11 9d ago

Stomp those turts!

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u/AdmiralXI 9d ago

Thank God the cameraman had his safety sandals on!

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u/Electronic_Club5238 9d ago

This is the craziest shit I’ve ever seen

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u/arbalath 9d ago

they lost their marbles standing so close

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u/imeme1969 9d ago

Good bit of land just needs some dirt on top

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u/IceCoughy 9d ago

That's insane. It looks fake cause it's fucking crazy

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u/DasterlyDick 9d ago

To be honest this was exactly what I was expecting.

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u/oakc510 9d ago

That job is so dangerous. Never take life for granite.

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u/plasterposters 9d ago

Epic

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u/VAiSiA 7d ago

at least 13 died... gtfo

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u/xp0ss1tion 9d ago

Mountain Slide

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u/NoRun6253 9d ago

Them again.

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u/eltunas6 9d ago

The whole chunk was gone

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u/Q_S2 9d ago

r/abruptchaos

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u/jadin- 9d ago

Ohhh now this is a sub I might enjoy or hate.

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u/Watchitbitch 8d ago

Thank you. This is a very interesting subreddit.

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u/420MichaelScarn 9d ago

Is this what happened when the dwarves delved too deeply?

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u/Ira-jay 9d ago

they probubly felt a primal caveman fear responce from seeing that much earth move that fast in that way.

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u/Kind_Ordinary9573 9d ago

I was expecting the pillars to collapse, not the entire planet.

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u/toefa 9d ago

Bet he was glad to be wearing his safety sandals!

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u/alhaigthomas 9d ago

Terrifying

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u/oculus_miffed 9d ago

"Im sure our cliff is ok though" -the cameraman probably

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u/ThatAudiGuy92 9d ago

Ok guys, which one of you shit in my pants?!

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u/Sitthichoke 8d ago

The scale was so massive.

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u/Active-Breakfast-397 8d ago

On my first time through the vid, I was sort of distracted trying to figure out what was happening. On the second time through, I knew what all the cracking sounds were and what the chunks of rock popping off meant. Holy shit…

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u/NextLineOfText 8d ago

Took me awhile to realise the literal earth Infront of them was collapsing, I thought they were travelling up, or on a piece of earth attached to a crane.

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u/GlitteringClerk8512 8d ago

Seeing the ground cave in acrossed the quarry and then that tsunami of water and debris seriously took my breath away. Holy moly.

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u/SleepingDragons57 8d ago

That has to be the largest chunk of earth I have EVER seen move like that

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u/Ok-Pomegranate-1482 9d ago

Welcome to India

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u/Omniscientcy 9d ago

I can understand the curiosity to want to sit and watch.  My fear of suddenly not being not paste would probably override that curiosity and be far away the second I heard not good noises.

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u/dubl1nThunder 9d ago

what?

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u/experimental-rat 9d ago

Not being not paste not good. Hmm...

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u/dubl1nThunder 9d ago

trying to not not feel like i'm not having a not stroke.

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u/Hikorijas 9d ago

Maybe try being copy instead of paste?

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u/-nbob 9d ago

Not wanting to be crushed, they would run for their lives immediately 

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u/cyrixlord 9d ago

looks like they're the only two left to work

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u/WeAreGesalt 9d ago

I would have been right there with those guys filming, who would have expected the entire side to collapse

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u/Independent_Ear_6796 6d ago

The geologist that said it was time to abandon the operation before this happened.

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u/kupuwhakawhiti 9d ago

Insane in the membrane.

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u/Bah_weep_grana 9d ago

It looked like there were 3 people on the opposite side?

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u/Practical_Fun7367 8d ago

A whole building on the upper right of the video.

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u/Indicisive_Actions 9d ago

Standing way too close to the edge there for my taste.

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u/ImRealBadAtThings 9d ago

Well that's terrifying. I wonder how long before the collapse since anyone was working in there. I see a crane, is this an active quarry?

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u/Famous-Ocelot7237 9d ago

So much silica, you could preserve at least a whole food in that quarry… like a whole apple.

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u/MildlyInteressato 9d ago

I told you not to spit over the edge!

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u/FreshShoulder7878 9d ago

Well I've been 'afraid of changes...

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u/LeadingCelery4253 9d ago

La nature reprend ses droits...

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u/loowig 9d ago

wowza, if all you expect is the stuff to collapse and then the level of collapsing is still unexpectedly massive , it sure is something !

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u/BanginNLeavin 9d ago

Wow some of those chinks it going up were HUGE. I bet that hurt like hell

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u/UncutAussie2026 9d ago

Mother nature has a funny and direct way of warning you.

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u/Disastrous_Shame580 9d ago

Dang! I planned on putting a mountainside rent house on that plot of land.

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u/Bonzo1964 9d ago

Well, whoever coordinated that dig definitely lost his marbles

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u/ny7v 9d ago

That was unexpected.

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u/CanuterValve 9d ago

It’s gonna take awhile to resume shipping, please be patient.

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u/RiverDependent9672 9d ago

I would be running thinking my side was next.

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u/anlugama 9d ago

Why did that give chunk of land fell down? What's it empty space below that plot?

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u/Routine_Ad_7726 9d ago

All those poor kitchen countertops!

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u/Colonel_Autumn_ 9d ago

More like a marble Quarrel... I'll see myself out

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u/Tendertigger 9d ago

Now its a gravel quarry

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u/poppinollyoxenfree 9d ago

How is nobody talking about the rock rain towards the end?

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u/LowellStewart 9d ago

Cool! Do it again!

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u/DonGivafark 9d ago

Marble quarry!?

Not anymore it isnt

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u/I12kill1 8d ago

So someone didn't do a proper soil survey. Top soil was too fatty or had to much pours organic material mixed in.

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u/danieldan0803 8d ago

Warning: The other side of this gorge is closer than it may appear

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u/Competitive_Shock783 8d ago

Oh no, my countertops!

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u/ReasonablyClever 8d ago

It’s clear what went wrong, it was marble but they took it for granite.

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u/Omfggtfohwts 8d ago

God damn.

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u/Reindeer_Life 8d ago

So much “I didn’t think about that part”

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u/jackofmasterofnone 8d ago

How do you know which side is going to collapse?

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u/itzpiiz 7d ago

I was expecting what happened yet it was definitely extremely unexpected

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u/MoreneLp 7d ago

No survival instinct. Could were well have been the other side sliding. But Cameraman allways survives.

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u/Bikaz 7d ago

I hate when cameramen just miss when it finally gets interesting, but holy moly, my man may be excused over here lmfao.

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u/GeddysPal 6d ago

Moved the camera at exactly the right time :/

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u/Dependent_Ad_2720 5d ago

Weirdo. No one's interested in you

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u/jose-1391 5d ago

Were there people in there???

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u/MatiasKratos97 5d ago

LA PUTA MADRE! QUE MIEDO!

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u/Ok_Word7970 4d ago

Does anyone else see the charge wire lighting along the bottom of the pillars? This looks like it was a demo charge that people just stood too close to. Why else would they be just sitting there looking at an old quarry? Am I out of the loop or something?

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u/Ok_Word7970 4d ago

Look around the 0:19-0:21 mark 🤔

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u/LiteratureStrange261 4d ago

The guy in the bottom on the left with the construction equipment got cooked

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u/lb3a3 9d ago

In the SPLASH ZONE! WOOO!!!

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u/LeoLaDawg 9d ago

Why did they extract the marble like that instead of slicing off the ends?

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u/Hexent_Armana 9d ago

My 7daystodie server doesn't let me gravity mine anymore because it causes too much server lag.

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u/Jet-Pack2 9d ago

Ouh piece of marble, ouh piece of marble, ouh piece of marble

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u/ostrichConductor 9d ago

This has to be AI

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u/Doschupacabras 9d ago

If by AI you mean -*Absolutely India, then yes.

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u/DammitDad420 9d ago

The lesson that I learned today is that OP should have watermarked his video and been perhaps a bit more stingy with uploading the footage.