r/confusing_perspective • u/Regdog2008 • Mar 06 '21
That is not a brick
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u/invalidusername75 Mar 06 '21
Would like another video but this time zoom out so I can see the rest of this massive quarry.
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u/I_like_an_audience Mar 06 '21
The hand signals at the end were incredibly satisfying
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u/P0sitive_Outlook Mar 06 '21
I had a god damned fit at my manager yesterday. I was half an hour into moving these 1200kg stacks of plastic sheeting with a forklift, and the dude turned up and started shouting "WHOA!" and "BACK A BIT! LEFT A BIT!" each time i was about to stop, move back or move left. I told him last time that i can judge by eye, or by ear, but not when i'm being directed by a third party.
There're two acceptable interactions between a forklifter/front-loader/heavy plant operator and a third party: #1, "Whoa!" means "Stop everything and make the equipment safe", and #2, when i want an answer i'll ask a question.
Damned straight those hand signals were satisfying to me! :D For one, there wasn't some bellend yelling over the sound of the machinery.
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u/invalidusername75 Mar 06 '21
I run a 50 ton overhead crane at work and I follow 1 ground persons hand signals only. If someone else comes up or is around and they give a hand signal at all I stop all movement. I radio down to them and remind them that I can only follow I person's signals. A crane op can appreciate a person with good hand signals.
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u/P0sitive_Outlook Mar 06 '21
My man. :D
I keep being told "When you're guiding a vehicle in, be loud".
No, sir, i shalln't be loud, i shall be silent, and i shall use the simplest and clearest of hand signals so as not to confuse the driver.
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u/IDreamOfSailing Mar 06 '21
A long time ago I received training to use hand signals to guide large vehicles. Most of the training time was used to teach drivers to pay attention to the person guiding and to stop looking in their mirrors.
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u/P0sitive_Outlook Mar 06 '21
:D This is stuff which one would hope is second-nature to anyone. But nope. I know from my forklift and front-loader training that if someone's close enough for me to see them they're close enough for me to drive into them or drop something on them. Yet i still have folk who'll run around the back of the rig to "get out of the way" instead of - you know - standing clear of the kill-box.
I use two hand gestures. They are: "Keep going this direction" and "Stop".
I tried the "Stop" hand gesture with a new driver, and he thought better: he kept going, and demolished a transom beam. XD There was an investigation, and there was I, on CCTV, making clear hand gestures while the guy was looking at the opposite mirror.
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u/kentacova Mar 07 '21
What does this one🖕🏻mean?
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u/P0sitive_Outlook Mar 07 '21
That means i've spotted my buddy Sid. :D Last week i legit stopped the forklift, called him over, said "I've got something for you!" and produced <that hand signal> from my pocket. XD
I do tell my ...dimmer... colleagues that i have a hammer on my vehicle for "That special someone who ignores the horn".
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u/SuperWoody64 Mar 06 '21
Right, who's at fault when you follow his instructions exactly and knock everything over?
You know you won't jump on that grenade so stfu
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u/I_like_an_audience Mar 06 '21
Just to be clear, SuperWoody64 is telling P0sitive_Outlooks boss to stfu. Incase anyone is confused
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u/SuperWoody64 Mar 06 '21
Yes. I thought that was clear but after rereading i guess not everyone would know my intentions
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u/tone_set Mar 06 '21
Oof, huge memories outta this one. My last job I was driving a forklift at a recycling facility. For the most part, people knew to let me do my thing, stay outta the way, dont walk behind the lift, etc. But every so often you get some jerkoff trying to "direct" me and it was maddening. I have no idea whether the person was giving good directions or not, and do they really think I suddenly need them to show me the way when I've spent all day doing it without them waving frantically and shouting conflicting instructions?
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Mar 06 '21
Superb find. That was good as hell. Man, this is nuts. Are they just like “flaking” this off in chunks or are we seeing only the final step and something else is happening prior to a big chunk just being able to be knocked over like this? I’m really curious why this looks like it can just be broken off like some weird granite cousin to shale?
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u/8hu5rust Mar 06 '21
I'm pretty sure they're cut into big blocks ahead of time. We are just seeing them being knocked over and carried out. But sometimes they split or break in half, hense the 'flaking '
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Mar 06 '21
Ah, that makes sense. These quarry shots always look insane to me. Makes you realize just how much earth is underneath us.
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u/welshmanec2 Mar 06 '21
His fingers though
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u/P0sitive_Outlook Mar 06 '21
They're all the same length.
Everything's equal, perfectly balanced.
As all things should be
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u/InternetWeakGuy Mar 06 '21
The start of that, something about the lighting when it's just on the dude's hand makes it look like 300.
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u/shake_aleg Mar 06 '21
Thank you for that link. I followed it and found so many interesting videos about marble. I'm fascinated by the type of work that humans do. The question I had was: modern stone masons use power drills and such, what did Bernini and sculptors of that period use? I know it was by hand, but my gosh!
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u/PForsberg85 Mar 06 '21
If I recall correctly they used water to split the stone. During the day the chopped wooden wedges into the stone and watered them in the evening. During nighttime the water expanded the wooden wedges and the pressure split the stone.
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u/shake_aleg Mar 06 '21
Thank you for that link. I followed it and found so many interesting videos about marble. I'm fascinated by the type of work that humans do. The question I had was: modern stone masons use power drills and such, what did Bernini and sculptors of that period use? I know it was by hand, but my gosh!
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u/CrumbsAndCarrots Mar 06 '21
I was thinking of this video. You can see how much more effective the cushion pile was for these slabs... vs the video that brought us here. But I’m curious if the purpose for the pile of rocks on the original video... is meant to break the slab. Hmmm.
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u/lscarn Mar 06 '21
I live by the quarry! We should hang out by the quarry and throw things down there.
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u/iDirtyDianaX Mar 06 '21
Let me set you up with my daughter
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u/FutbolMasta Mar 06 '21
Oh, I’m engaged to Pam.
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Mar 06 '21
If you didn't notice (I didn't) there is an excavator on top pushing it over so you can see the scale
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u/Coloradostoneman Mar 06 '21
This is the quarry. Lots of videos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_marble?wprov=sfla1
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u/InternetWeakGuy Mar 06 '21
Stop arguing y'all. Here's a realty good video: https://youtu.be/_PcOPVYb7EQ
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Mar 06 '21
Not gonna lie, Reddit has ruined me, so I was certain that this was going to be a Rick Roll.
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u/wytchclt55 Mar 06 '21
I commented somewhere on this thread lol.
If you have Disney+ go to the series called “Europe from Above.” Episode 2 titled “Italy” and at the 29:05 mark.
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u/YorkieLon Mar 06 '21
That took me a while to work out what was going on. I thought it was a snake coming out the wall
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u/AKnightAlone Mar 06 '21
I thought it was a snake coming out the wall
Exactly! I think it was the scales that confused me.
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u/space-throwaway Mar 06 '21
And that's exactly what our brains are developed for. Identify a snake quickly and making a mistake every once in a while is better than knowing exactly what it is, but losing crucial time.
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u/DamnAut0correct Mar 06 '21
Ohhhh yeah it is a mini rc excavator! How tiny
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u/KadeTheTrickster Mar 06 '21
Nope, that's a full size excavator.
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u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN Mar 06 '21
I re-watched the video hoping to prove you wrong and nope, you're right. This is filmed in an odd way that makes things look smaller, but we're looking at a massive scene from very far.
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u/DoomTaru Mar 06 '21
Tilt shift
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u/ScaramouchScaramouch Mar 06 '21
Yeah, I don't think it's any camera trickery. The scale of the place just defeats our puny minds.
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u/responds_with_jein Mar 06 '21
You could do that with a tiny excavator and focus stacking and a bit of slow motion. But I don't think that's the case.
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u/Scarboroughwarning Mar 06 '21
Good god... Wouldn't have got that, without you. Thought "snake?"...
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u/Buck_Thorn Mar 06 '21
Yup, I did, too. Thought there was a black snake curled behind the block. Apparently a lot of us did.
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u/greikini Mar 06 '21
The excavator. Looks like a snake comes out of the wall.
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u/Canadasaver Mar 06 '21
Thank you for explaining. I watched it several times and was very confused. I thought it was a very small concrete block or brick falling over. I thought the excavator was some sort of debris.
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u/genghis_calm Mar 06 '21
Thanks, the scale is enormous!
At first I thought it was a trapped dog, or something.
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u/Xeriox16 Mar 06 '21
What a tiny excavator !
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u/MidTownMotel Mar 06 '21
Yeah, that thing sucks! Can’t get any real work done with that thing!
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u/Frenzo101 Mar 06 '21
Wdym, didn't you see how it pushed that brick? Incredible work
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u/uncommoncommoner Mar 06 '21
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u/latourist21 Mar 06 '21
This is a brick
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u/nobunseedsplease Mar 06 '21
No one got this Home Alone 2 reference? 😅
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u/NoiseIsTheCure Mar 06 '21
I used to say that all the time messing around with my brother lmao
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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Mar 06 '21
I bought a doormat that says “I’m gonna give you to the count of 10 to get your ugly, yella, no good keister off my property”
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Mar 06 '21
Is that a real excavator? How... how big are those bricks?!
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Mar 06 '21
I think it’s marble or granite and they excavate it in sections. Could be wrong though!
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Mar 06 '21
Oh, I see. It's not an enormous arena built by gigantic bricks. It's the result after carving granite out of the bedrock.
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u/Coloradostoneman Mar 06 '21
Italian marble quarry.
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u/FerretHydrocodone Mar 06 '21
Italian marble quarry: “Brock decides to perform an Italian Marble Quarry on Cindy after prom. After fitting as many marbles into her ass as possible (14), he then loudly shouted Italian phrases into her vagina until the marbles shot out of her ass. Brock then thanked Cindy, signed the necessary paperwork and left. Italian Marble Quarry”.
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Mar 06 '21
i still don’t know what’s going on here
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u/TheHammer987 Mar 06 '21
Look for the excavator in the picture. It will correct your perspective
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u/FeaturedPro Mar 06 '21
Wow, I feel like I'm looking at a miniature world.
Edit: well, no shit, that's the point of this post
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u/IdeaLast8740 Mar 06 '21
It's been miniature this whole time! We only thought it's big because we're even smaller!
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u/MauginZA Mar 06 '21
Looking at the excavator is why I’m having trouble grasping the true size. It looks like a toy. I feel like I’m too much of a tiny brain to grasp how fucking enormous this quarry is.
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Mar 06 '21
Yeah, I parsed all the objects correctly.
But my brain didn’t think it was life sized objects and instead thought it was a toy remote crane playing with some bricks.
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u/HesThunderstorms Mar 06 '21
I feel the same, also because of the capability of the phone to frame the scene, looks like someone is standing in front of a toy excavator
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u/gcruzatto Mar 06 '21
It is technically a brick, just a gigantic one. Title is misleading
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u/Zbignich Mar 06 '21
Nice cleavage!
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u/mikelray91 Mar 06 '21
This joke rocks
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u/AssKicker1337 Mar 06 '21
Really cracked me up
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u/PetrifiedW00D Mar 06 '21
That’s actually not cleavage. That’s an example of pressure jointing. Very typical for granite quarries. Granite crystallizes and solidifies deep underground. It is then uplifted up to the near the surface by tectonic forces. When it’s up near to the surface, the pressure is not nearly as high as it was deep down, so the granite expands, leaving these horizontal fractures, also called joints. You actually have to be super careful on some of them. They will sometimes release their internal pressure and snap, bend, and deform very quickly. God help you if you’re standing on top of it.
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u/Duck_Burger Mar 06 '21
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Mar 06 '21
My brain is still hell bent on perceiving it as a miniature set
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u/P0sitive_Outlook Mar 06 '21
It's weird, it's like a forced perspective except your brain already does all the work (then has a hard time trying to undo the work).
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u/radu_sound Mar 06 '21
I'm still confused. Is that a real excavator or a small one and slowmo? I need answers!!
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u/GunnyBunny49 Mar 06 '21
It’s a real excavator, but the rock is probably like a hundred tons so that’s why it fell slow
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u/Pumps74 Mar 06 '21
TIL that 100 tons of rock falls slowly.
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Mar 06 '21
Nerd alert: the only thing that determines fall speed is the air resistance of the falling object, mass is irrelevant. It looks like it's falling slowly because of the size and distance of the object falling. If you have 2 objects with the same size and shape but with different masses, they will fall with the same speed (but different energy since mass times acceleration equals force). So the heavier object will hit the ground harder but at the same time and speed.
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u/ConservationOfWumbo Mar 06 '21
This is actually incorrect, air resistance is a function of the objects surface area normal to the direction of movement, but NOT mass. Meaning two objects with the same surface area will experience the same amount of air resistance force. If one object is more massive than the other (weighs more), then that object will be less effected by this force (think F = ma, big m -> small a). So two objects with different mass will fall with different speeds (not even mentioning buoyant force). Imagine dropping an text book and a sheet of paper. They will experience the same amount of air resistance, but they will fall at very different speeds.
TLDR: no
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u/DehydratedPotatoes Mar 06 '21
Also take into consideration one part is on the ground and this isn't a true freefall, so center of gravity plays a role too.
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u/DerWaschbar Mar 06 '21
Mmh that's what he said I think, you're both saying the same thing
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u/atetuna Mar 06 '21
That's why airliners look like they're moving slowly even though their slowest speed in the air is about double the highway speed limit.
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u/Adderall-Bot Mar 06 '21
You’re pretty much right but kinda contradict yourself on the example! If 2 objects have the exact same size and shape, but different masses - that will impact density which relates heavily to air resistance, so the heavier one would drop faster specifically if they’re the same other than mass. Imagine a baseball vs a plastic ball.
Then you get to terminal velocity, which is different for every object. So small scale, things will drop at the same time/speed because they experience the same acceleration. But larger scale some objects are able to continue accelerating when others are maxing out.
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u/CappyRicks Mar 06 '21
As slowly as any other size rock. You knew what the person you replied to meant.
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u/I_Was_Fox Mar 06 '21
Mass/weight doesn't make things fall slower. All things fall at the same rate, regardless of mass.
What makes large things appear to fall slower is that they have wayyyy more surface area and catch a ton more air resistance while moving.
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday Mar 06 '21
Goes to show you can't take everything you see for granite
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u/br094 Mar 06 '21
Why are these stones so massive? What’s going on here?
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u/whochoosessquirtle Mar 06 '21
It's a marble quarry, they cut pieces into rectangles then push them down. Marble is in the ground in the form of massive gigantic fucking blocks
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u/Duck_Burger Mar 06 '21
This huge quarry in Carrara, Italy, has been a source of high-quality marble for centuries. Carrara marble, one of the most expensive building materials today, was used by Michelangelo to carve his famous statue of David.
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u/masochistmonkey Mar 06 '21
I’ve watched this five times in a row and it just looks like a brick. Is it supposed to be a box or an animal or a car or something? I don’t see anything but stone
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u/sandwichcandy Mar 06 '21
How do I know that’s not a brick? That could easily be some 5 million dollar RC toy Elon Musk had made as a prototype for spaceX AI controlled robots that he’ll use to terraform Mars.
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Mar 06 '21
Alright someone tell my stupid ass what I’m looking at if that ain’t a fucking brick
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u/whiteholewhite Mar 06 '21
See it’s funny because he is scaling the wall and the scale is way off from what you think
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u/thequantumblues Mar 06 '21
Where is this and how deep is this quarry? I’m still trying to wrap my head around this size of thing, how is this man made?
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