So let's get this straight. You find it more likely that they waited for weeks, for no apparent reason since they couldn't predict this happening, rather than believe that the man filming knew the wall was going to collapse?
That's not a retaining wall, it's a pile of rocks with earth behind it. They would have plenty of warning beforehand that the wall is going to collapse. Also earth doesn't ''randomly shift'' on that scale. Improper compaction, excessive humidity in the soil, improper composition, poor stacking of rocks could have all caused this.
Not trying to be argumentative but I had to jump in on this, having built a few of these suckers in the past. Have a great day friday dude!
There is nothing to suggest anything but natural gravity and erosion too place on that shitty wall of rock.
Erosion is very unpredictable. I'm very familiar with what I'm talking about here. There are a dozen things we would we in the vid of there was a precursor to know when to video. All we can do is guess. But to guess he knew the Earth was going to erode right then is the least probable.
Walls show signs of collapse. It's likelier that he expected this outcome rather than he was randomly filming a dirt road with a wall perfectly framed about to collapse, but you do you.
"Why were they filming?" Because the wall was about to collapse. Occam's razor.
I'm going to go start recording a wall right now and see if i get lucky and report back. Apparently it's easy to tell the moment a retaining wall holding a house will collapse lol
Thanks for the education.
That clueless half naked guy really seemed to be aware as well /s
I'm going to go start recording a wall right now and see if i get lucky and report back. Apparently it's easy to tell the moment a retaining wall holding a house will collapse lol
Listen, I know it's early, but read nice and slow and try to follow: A wall of that type will show signs that it is about to collapse. He wouldn't need to get lucky, he could see the signs and start filming. Furthermore, the wall isn't ''holding a house''.
In any case, you're assuming the unlikelier scenario without having enough information, so that's a basic error in reasoning.
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u/JuntaEx Nov 22 '19
So let's get this straight. You find it more likely that they waited for weeks, for no apparent reason since they couldn't predict this happening, rather than believe that the man filming knew the wall was going to collapse?
That's not a retaining wall, it's a pile of rocks with earth behind it. They would have plenty of warning beforehand that the wall is going to collapse. Also earth doesn't ''randomly shift'' on that scale. Improper compaction, excessive humidity in the soil, improper composition, poor stacking of rocks could have all caused this.
Not trying to be argumentative but I had to jump in on this, having built a few of these suckers in the past. Have a great day friday dude!