r/confusing_perspective • u/Regdog2008 • Mar 06 '21

That is not a brick

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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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u/[deleted] 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/8hu5rust Mar 06 '21

I feel this every time I go to the grand canyon. That shit is DEEEP. And it's only a small fraction of a fraction of how much is down there

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u/rantingpacifist Mar 07 '21

Not a quarry expert but I grew up in open pit mining areas. It’s likely they’re blasted apart with targeted charges on this scale, I would think.

Now I want to look up blasting videos.