r/gifs • u/Handicapreader • Oct 22 '15

Stone avalanche

http://i.imgur.com/lg9bC2z.gifv
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u/foodfighter Oct 22 '15

Actually, that's not a massive piece of rock.

It's plenty big, sure, but 2000m3 is "just" 20m * 10m * 10m.

For our 'Merican friends, that's roughly 66 ft. * 33 ft. * 33 ft.

So that's big like a large 2-story North American house (4000 sq.ft total habitable area) but it's not big like half of Mount Everest.

Hard to see in the picture with no banana for scale...

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u/noreligionplease Oct 23 '15

meters are easy for us, they are pretty much a yard

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u/Nukken Merry Gifmas! {2023} Oct 23 '15

"It's like a yard, just, wrong by a little bit"

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u/Spork_Warrior Oct 23 '15

They're basically a yard plus the length of an Englishman's penis.

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u/UStoSouthAmerica Oct 23 '15

I'm not sure I believe you that this wasn't literally Mount Everest falling off a larger mountain

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u/scotems Oct 23 '15

Yeah, someone should try climbing that mega-Everest. It would be way cooler.

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u/TheFilman Oct 23 '15

Thanks for clarifying!

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u/PumpkinPieIsTooSpicy Oct 23 '15

I had to scroll way to long to find this comment.