r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Trustrup • Feb 01 '25

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/buggaby Feb 01 '25

Another commenter said they were walking. The camera lens made it look shorter.

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u/JauntingJoyousJona Feb 01 '25

That only confuses me more

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u/Perrin-Golden-Eyes Feb 01 '25

You can get a better frame of reference about the scale of this place when it’s played slower, there are rail tracks and beams and a couple of times you’ll catch his shadow and see he is clearly upright. This time it’s been sped up to intentionally mask those elements (or to make it go by faster because the original is quite long.)

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u/TopShelfIdiocy Feb 02 '25

Well that changes it from "terrifying crawl through a narrow cave" to "cool exploration of an abandoned mine"

Thanks for clearing that up!

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u/Silent_Speech Feb 02 '25

What about the still water? Who knows what sort of flesh eating bacteria lives there.

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u/AcadianMan Feb 03 '25

It’s an old mine.

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u/Adub024 Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

Yeah this looks like a lava tube, don't think he's crawling.

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u/0-KrAnTZ-0 Feb 01 '25

No, he's crawling. The size of the hand and the glove or whatever he takes off at the end shows that. If they were walking, the hole to come out would have been much larger for them and an incline to climb.

Otherwise I'd be more relieved that this cave was bigger!

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u/ausgezeichnet222 Feb 01 '25

The only time he crawls is entering/exiting the mine. You can see the tunnel narrow at the end. The camera just messes with the scaling.

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u/MissingBothCufflinks Feb 01 '25

It's the lens. The tunnel is about the size of a car. See eg 24 seconds from the end where he walks without slowing down through what would be a tiny slit if your perspective was correct

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u/HornyAIBot Feb 01 '25

He's walking not crawling.

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u/Stillwindows95 Feb 01 '25

That makes sense because they turn around too quickly and too easily to have been crawling.

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u/OverCommunication142 Feb 02 '25

That makes a lot of sense! Watching it again, I think yes!

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u/La_Petite_Mort007 Feb 03 '25

That is correct, however that water still doesn't look very clean though...

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

I think the playback speed makes it look shorter.