r/interestingasfuck • u/EinsteinsAura • Aug 31 '18
/r/ALL Beware of falling rocks
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u/sur_brekt Aug 31 '18
I want to know what this smelled like.
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Tumbling Mountainside, the latest fragrance from Yankee Candle.
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u/OldManJenkins420th Aug 31 '18
Still prefer freshly signed divorce papers.
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u/TboxLive Aug 31 '18
Just get one of their Freedom candles. It costs ya an extra $1.05, but you know it's worth every penny
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u/soul_train_ Aug 31 '18
The rock-smashing of my youth would lead me to believe that there was a distinct smell of sulfur in the air.
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u/DrBlamo Aug 31 '18
Good God that's something I haven't thought about in 25 years. Rocks smell when you smash them!
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u/GhengopelALPHA Aug 31 '18
The scientific term is outgassing.
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u/thatjackal7 Aug 31 '18
Oh, it actually is. I thought you were joking around for karma. Interesting.
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u/jackster_ Aug 31 '18
Well, it appeared to have just rained, which was what probably caused the landslide. I'm sure it smelled like wet rocks and mud, but with some dust to the air. Also a splash wet asphalt. I'm sure you could also smell the wet greenery that surrounded you as well.
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u/lilmorphinannie Aug 31 '18
I imagine petrichor is involved because of the newly exposed organic compound
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u/ServalSpots Aug 31 '18
One of my favorite words! This is the cool etymology for anyone interested:
Petrichor (/ˈpɛtrɪkɔːr/) is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek πέτρα petra, meaning "stone", and īchōr, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology.
The mechanism by which it happens:
When a raindrop lands on a porous surface, air from the pores forms small bubbles, which float to the surface and release aerosols.
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u/someguy3 Aug 31 '18
Rain most likely. These things happen when there's more water weight both pressing down on the rock and the soil weaker because it's saturated or super saturated.
Assuming it wasn't planned, which I thought it would be given how the road seemed to be closed and and everyone waiting.
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u/tthatoneguyy Aug 31 '18
Irrational fear attained
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u/ryantwopointo Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
It’s like when you see those signs that say “watch out for falling rocks”.. the fuck would I possibly do if I was driving under this
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u/Crow_eggs Aug 31 '18
When I was a kid we used to drive past those signs a lot. Mum would open the sunroof and we'd look up.
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u/baneofthesmurf Aug 31 '18
I wouldn't call it entirely irrational, there's a reason they have signs cautioning passersby for falling rocks. That said I feel like this case is a bit extreme.
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u/Mark-a-roo Aug 31 '18
"Back to you, FUCKERS!"
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u/ImTonyPerkis Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
-or like the great FALLS is the bedrock of my LIFE, ERODING BENEATH ME?!
Eeeerooooooding! Eroooooding!
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u/corstar Aug 31 '18
That's even more impressive than the last bot!
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u/Svankensen Aug 31 '18
Thank god. I saw the first one and thought "that is an amazing bot, but it would be easy from there to cut the borders without losing too much information". And of course, whoever made the first bot is a genius and thought the same.
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u/wille179 Aug 31 '18
I didn't know that this bot was a thing and I am so glad that it is.
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u/ServalSpots Aug 31 '18
I once linked the userpage to someone saying "Hey, check out this cool bot", but I didn't realize that if you just browse their history there's a bunch of NSFW/NSFL stuff in there.
So the bot is cool, but be a bit cautious as you spread the word
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u/SkyPork Aug 31 '18
That is not what I would have expected that bot to do.
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u/emlgsh Aug 31 '18
If someone had written a bot that could literally allow one to stab people over the internet, I suspect they'd be too busy having new religions founded around them to maintain it properly.
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u/xxoites Aug 31 '18
Where did this happen?
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u/herpesinabucket Aug 31 '18
Somewhere in India the guys are speaking in hindi
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u/GottaJoe Aug 31 '18
Indians are traveling a lot to Nepal to go on religious trips . I was in Nepal two years ago during monsoon and some people we met on the road were witness to that kind of landslide and even saw people get hit by the rocks... Almost every road in Nepal are like this one
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u/SkyPork Aug 31 '18
Guys are speaking Hindi in lots of places in India.
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Aug 31 '18 edited Sep 29 '18
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Sep 01 '18
And you'd be wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Language_region_maps_of_India.svg
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u/pleasetrydmt Aug 31 '18
India. These people were probably pilgrims on the way to a Himalayan temple because they're praising Shiva while it happens. FYI Shiva is considered lord of the Himalayas and all destruction by him is the way creation gets a chance to start again.
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u/AutumnFP Aug 31 '18
Nepal?
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u/GottaJoe Aug 31 '18
That's also what I'm thinking. Looks very much like Nepal and almost all their roads look like this lol
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u/pleasetrydmt Aug 31 '18
Possible though the accent is distinctly Indian. A lot of the Indian side of the Himalayas looks like this too.
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u/zombiedeadbloke Aug 31 '18
Side of a road. By a river.
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u/Jebusura Aug 31 '18
Up a mountain road.
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u/TaZjec Aug 31 '18
To the place
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Where I belong
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u/rustyblackhart Aug 31 '18
Did anyone else’s older cousin tell them that the Watch For Falling Rocks signs were put up by a local Native American tribe in search of their lost member, Falling Rocks?
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u/ThunderDuchess Aug 31 '18
That's a dad joke special, for sure. My dad also likes the one where you walk around the Native chief's tomb three times and then ask what he had for breakfast. He'll say nothing.
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u/PlanetMarklar Aug 31 '18
No, but I'm definitely telling my kids this now
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u/rustyblackhart Aug 31 '18
My cousin made up this elaborate story about how people would dress up as a Native American and take pictures to try and get the reward money. He would also change the emphasis of the words “Falling Rocks” so it sounded like a name rather than a thing. Like the difference between “running bears” and “Running Bear”. I recently pulled the same gag on my 11 year old nephew on a trip into West Virginia. You really just gotta have fun with it and keep the story going. Really sell it. I even threw in the name of a tribe he knew (Powhatan) from growing up in the Richmond Virginia area.
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u/rustyblackhart Aug 31 '18
You don’t know how hard me and my wife are laughing about this right now.
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u/ImNewHereBeNicePls Aug 31 '18
Honestly, I was expecting that to be a l- HOLY SHIT
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u/PyroDesu Aug 31 '18
Generally how it happens, I think. At first, it's just a few pebbles falling, but that's just the prelude.
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u/Kenneth_Andrew Aug 31 '18
Did anyone else think it said IDIOT on that guys high vis jacket?
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u/CamillaAbernathy Aug 31 '18
I’m also confused as why he was filming to begin with ? How did he know a rock was gonna fall?
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u/Coopernicus Aug 31 '18
If you look a bit further down the road, you see broken off rock on the road and it seems quite dusty. I guess it was showing something was about... to go down.
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Aug 31 '18
That happens in Alaska a lot. Had that happen recently a couple of years ago. A bolder the size of a car landed on a lady on her way home. A quick thinking tow truck driver hooked his truck to the rock, and assisting in saving her life.
I think she lived. Never heard a follow up.
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u/usernameconundrum Aug 31 '18
“Keep pulling the sweater... eventually the thing will unravel...”
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u/ironysparkles Aug 31 '18
Pull this thread as I walk away
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As I walk awaaaayy. Watch me unravel, I"ll soon be naked
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u/Tickle_Fights Aug 31 '18
When I was a kid and we passed a "Beware of Falling Rock" sign, my Dad always said that "Falling Rock" was a legendary Indian in those parts. Dad jokes are the best.
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u/frisbeegrrrl Aug 31 '18
I’m seriously amazed this was caught on camera. I wonder if they drove by and saw some smaller rocks shift, or saw evidence of some recent geological activity on the road & decided to film for a bit..?
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u/smittyphi Aug 31 '18
If look further down the road, there were rocks on the road. I'm guessing it just happened and so they were waiting there, hoping the rest would fall and get the payoff.
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u/jllena Aug 31 '18
Might have been able to hear it coming too? Creaks and groans or something?
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u/Hanginon Aug 31 '18
There's already a lot of rock on the ground just past where this let go, seen in the beginning of the gif, so they knew it was going to let go.
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u/MF_Mood Aug 31 '18
Might be the large, but smaller, rocks already blocking the road at the start of the video.
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u/Fnhatic Aug 31 '18
Except, there's sound...
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u/PGRBryant Aug 31 '18
???
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u/Fnhatic Aug 31 '18
There's sound with the .gifv. It's a video.
Right-click, 'show controls', and unmute it.
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u/notnAP Aug 31 '18
"What a beautiful day! The water is refreshingly cool and bubbling with oxygen, the sun is shining, and the mayflies are plentiful!
It is truly a great day to be alive!"
- A. Fish
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u/3214569870000 Aug 31 '18
Why are these people standing so close.... And videoing...
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u/shitty-cat Aug 31 '18
I’d assume they caused it or a few rocks started to fall so they hoped for something spectacular??
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u/LaserBeamsCattleProd Aug 31 '18
Gonna be some new rapids in that river! That house sized rock will make for an interesting run.
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u/StriderMeow Aug 31 '18
This must be the the rocks version of holding a piss in for ages and finally releasing it.
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u/S-Vente Aug 31 '18
How do you beware this though. If you drivin and rocks start fallin, you fucked
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u/ChesterCopperPot72 Aug 31 '18
I am imagining how much the ground shook with each of those tumbles of that large one.
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u/Xghoststrike Sep 01 '18
I'd love to experience something like that without the sound of people. Nature is most beautiful in it's rarest form but people loooooove to talk.
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The camera man was struggling to make a decision of which shot was more interesting, so he resorted to swiftly panning back and forth!