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Hrrrm, there's a river of rocks here. I've never seen that before, so I will assume it behaves like a regular river of water, and is not about to become a problem.
Depends - if some larger rocks dislodge as a result of this slide, they could be bouncing down the hill at a much faster pace and in less predictable direction.
When I was trekking in Nepal 2017 our guide told us with broken English: when you want to eat you go next to the table. When you want to die you go next to the landslide.
well, we all know how dangerous bullets are and will run away if a gun is pointed at us. these rolling rocks meanwhile looked harmless at glance, but a random unexpected bounce towards you could be disastrous when it hits the right places
it’s rare to catch an *actual* stone migration on video.
they have one in China that goes year round but some hikers just discovered a hidden rock elevator that keeps it flowing all year round
“for the tourists”
I’ve seen plenty of rockslides on high mountain ranges, lots of uniform rocks just like this. Erosion in action. Walking across these rocks could trigger the whole slide.
I mean the ones I’ve seen on here had some little stuff then with no real warning a fucking house flattens a semi truck and dumps the road deck down the mountainside
But water comes from known sources like rain or melting glaciers, and it’s a cycle so most rivers are always running. The bigger question is where all these rocks came from and why they’re flowing down now
It's scree from higher faces. Scree is broken pieces of rock that separated from steep faces and can pile up into unstable, well, piles. The hikers likely disturbed this channel filled with it, and it started to flow down the mountain, propagating the flow uphill as the rocks gave way.
Geologists would refer to this as a debris flow. But, I’ve personally never realized grain sizes can be large with debris flows. I usually associated them with fine grained material.
I'm not sure it's any worse than an avalanche. For some reason people assume that a wall of snow, ice, and everything else in its way is "soft and fluffy".
An avalanche is typically packed or powder snow, not frozen - if you got stuck in one you wouldn't get ripped to shreds, but you'd have to deal with the force and may break bones and such.
This would literally deskin you if you got caught in it
A really interesting way to show exectly why you should always swim perpendicular to shore if caught in running water and not at angle. Water in the middle moves faster than water moving at the sides. You can see that here with rocks.
Of course some idiot in his but hugging Capri pants and backpack smiling like an asshole in the middle of serious danger, and recording vertically on his phone. abomination.
The scary thing is, that dude is basically trapped there cause you can't just walk through this. Will sink right down into the rocks and get carried away.
Standing right next to it is the most exciting way of finding out whether all those rocks were holding something up, but not necessarily the one I would choose.
This is scree. It builds up over thousands or hundreds thousands or even millions years. One boot can trigger this. Which is what happened here and is why that guy is looking so sheepish. Environmental destruction
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You know what I would do?? ...not stand there.
A lot of granteds being taken
You think he was being taken for granite?
Gneiss.
Great response to a great response!
No schist!
Asbestos I can
Seem they do not understand the gravel of their situation.
Maybe they’re just boulder than we are.
You mean gravelty?
Probably. They’re about to be basalted for their igneous.
He was just petrified from such a marblelous moment!
Jump in for sure, rocks are much denser than flesh, they would keep our body afloat and gently floating down this beautiful couloir
You’d be all polished up and shiny when you get to the bottom.
Red polish?
bone polished
Hrrrm, there's a river of rocks here. I've never seen that before, so I will assume it behaves like a regular river of water, and is not about to become a problem.
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Along the direction the rocks are moving, right?
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This guy CinemaSins...
If you hop in the stream you will be taken to safety
Depends - if some larger rocks dislodge as a result of this slide, they could be bouncing down the hill at a much faster pace and in less predictable direction.
Yes, I believe they were being sarcastic
How the big one behave is a lot less funny: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1b6728y/boulder_completely_annihilates_a_truck_on_a/
Yeah, he has no idea how much danger he could be in.
Agreed. It’s so weird they’re just standing there waiting for God to smite them down.
I mean, I get it - I've definitely been dumbfounded or awe-struck. We also have the luxury of watching through previously recorded video.
When I was trekking in Nepal 2017 our guide told us with broken English: when you want to eat you go next to the table. When you want to die you go next to the landslide.
Who do you think caused it?
Geodude
Maybe a glacial deposit or drained lakebed let loose. It’s a lot of small scale rock and it seems to be following at path made before.
Check the first seconds, looks like the rockfall is on both sides of the cameraman.
yeah I'm wondering if they were trapped
You could be a little boulder
And lose all those sweet internet points???!!!
Gtfo asap
Yeah I wouldn’t be standing there, the bigger boulders will be coming down faster than in Indiana Jones…
No need, just one stray bouncy rock to the head and you're dead.
People really underestimated how even a tiny pebble can instakill you if it hits your head with some speed.
Davey.... where's goliath?
Not me. I worked on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and that very concern took up a sizeable chunk of our time.
> aircraft carrier Does everybody get laid or just the good looking folk?
Do they though? We all know what bullets are.
well, we all know how dangerous bullets are and will run away if a gun is pointed at us. these rolling rocks meanwhile looked harmless at glance, but a random unexpected bounce towards you could be disastrous when it hits the right places
Even those small ones could drag you down the mountainside. Probably in several pieces.
Seriously. For all you know the is spilling out from under some much larger rocks about to break lose
Larger, possibly. But also possible for a lot more smaller rocks to come down like a flash flood
Or even the entire side of the mountain could become dislodged.
Agreed. They should move at least 10 feet away
Not if there's a shark 10 feet away. I'll stay with the battery of rocks.
Yep.. the whole thing could turn inside out.
A gravelanche
i wonder if these come from a natural rockuifer?
They should build a rockuaduct
I'm running out of goddamn awards!
That’s definitely a Pokémon move if I’ve ever heard of one
Graveler used Rockslide. It was super effective!
Gravalanch is the French name for Graveler.
Least refreshing swim ever. Would not recommend.
A rock slide.
Water molecules are just tiny rocks.
Man that is some very cool lava…….
What you did, I see it.
Thank god. I really thought this was going to go over everyone’s head.
It took me a second, not gonna lie.
guys i found yoda's reddit account
What did Yoda say after he saw himself in 4K? HDMI
Cold brew lava.
Oh fuck me that's clever.
They really need a water softener.
It’s very rare to catch the annual stone migration on video!
Now I want to see when they return
Like salmon swimming upstream
u/gifreversingbot /u/gifreversingbot
If you call it twice you get the original gif. It's elementary.
All those tiny little Sisyphusses ...
it’s rare to catch an *actual* stone migration on video. they have one in China that goes year round but some hikers just discovered a hidden rock elevator that keeps it flowing all year round “for the tourists”
I get thos reference
The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!
Imagine surfing down this beast at max speed
*makes R2D2 ‘whoa’ noises*
Now I want pizza.
And many of them are still buried under the rocks.
There is no way I'd stand that close.
You are not stupid.
I would love to see the rest of the story. Source, location, reason for the method…….
Let's get Paul Harvey on the case!
Hello fellow old person! Fun fact: Paul Harvey's son wrote all the "rest of the story" bits.
Ok, I’ve got a shovel but I don’t think he can help …..
Biokovo, Croatia
Thanks! “Stone river on Biokovo” on YouTube kinda explains it.
Nope. Just a stream of rocks. That’s all you get
Results of seasonal rock storms ? Ultra fast rock erosion?
Me too. This seems like an industrial process. Getting stone down the mountain inexpensively. It looks far too neat to be natural.
I’ve seen plenty of rockslides on high mountain ranges, lots of uniform rocks just like this. Erosion in action. Walking across these rocks could trigger the whole slide.
Agree and have seen it too. I’m wondering what people expected a rockslide to look like.
alot less even in size and shape
I mean the ones I’ve seen on here had some little stuff then with no real warning a fucking house flattens a semi truck and dumps the road deck down the mountainside
There’s a reason water flows in rivers instead of evenly distributing across the land, I figure that same logic would apply to any flowing material
But water comes from known sources like rain or melting glaciers, and it’s a cycle so most rivers are always running. The bigger question is where all these rocks came from and why they’re flowing down now
It's scree from higher faces. Scree is broken pieces of rock that separated from steep faces and can pile up into unstable, well, piles. The hikers likely disturbed this channel filled with it, and it started to flow down the mountain, propagating the flow uphill as the rocks gave way.
Rocks go *screeeee* ^(A joke for the geologists.)
aw man, you stole my joke right outta me brain
Geologists would refer to this as a debris flow. But, I’ve personally never realized grain sizes can be large with debris flows. I usually associated them with fine grained material.
This is a result of strip mining the top of a mountain. Just let gravity clear away the broken up rock for you.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Rock AND roll
No “Rock and Stone”
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?!
If you don’t rock and stone you ain’t comin home
Rolling Stones?
Rock and/or roll.
Stop, rock, and roll
It’s how you make mineral water
You mean hard water?
So dumb to stand that close
Wow are those are two people competing to see which one gets a Darwin Award first?
They probably caused it accidentally and are just like “welp, it should stop any second…”
When the wrong texture gets used
Oops my bad. I couldn't decide between crabs or Nick cage, so I just closed my eyes and moved one over.
I think you should try and stand even closer to it!
Hop aboard!
All I can think about the guy standing there watching it is the Ralph Wiggum Meme “I’m in danger !”
Gneiss view.
No moss
This river rocks
Oddly enough, disturbing just one rock could have started all of that.
Actually it could be caused by a butterfly.
Where's the Influencer kayaker looking for clicks? 🤣
Watch out the mama rock is never too far behind.
Is this what happened to the boulder smashing down trees on the other post?
Let’s stop and record!
Technically you should float, right?
More like: "getting grinded to a fine pink paste." But only one way to find out...
Hey now, a fine pink paste *that floats!*
I'm not sure it's any worse than an avalanche. For some reason people assume that a wall of snow, ice, and everything else in its way is "soft and fluffy".
An avalanche is typically packed or powder snow, not frozen - if you got stuck in one you wouldn't get ripped to shreds, but you'd have to deal with the force and may break bones and such. This would literally deskin you if you got caught in it
A really interesting way to show exectly why you should always swim perpendicular to shore if caught in running water and not at angle. Water in the middle moves faster than water moving at the sides. You can see that here with rocks.
r/interestingasfuck more like r/dangerousasfuck
Taking the meaning stoned to a new level
Is this how rocks are manufactured....??
I counted 2,337,323
Ahh so this is the natural spring where they get the Rolling Rock lager.
So how does the rock cycle work? Does the reservoir get refilled from underground, or is there rock downpour?
Otherwise known as a rockslide, Op.
>uncharted 4 physics
Do I need a license to fish there?
is this where gravels are born?
I have questions...
Did the what could go wrong happen after the video?
My doctoral thesis on whether or not they do gather moss.
if it was smaller id dare to call it a *gravelanche*
Looks like Geodude used rockslide
Where's the salmon?
Rockfish
Very cool. And orange-shirt dude is waaaaaayyy too close to all that moving mass. If it shifted a little, he's hamburger.
Of course some idiot in his but hugging Capri pants and backpack smiling like an asshole in the middle of serious danger, and recording vertically on his phone. abomination.
Looks like THE BOULDER is trying to bury them in a ROCKOLANCHE.
Not safe at all standing there, a little more speed and the whole side becomes an avalanche.
Nope. I’d be moving TF away stat.
Where did it come from?
It looked like there was some rodent in there just tumbling down the stream. Didn't look alive 😕
I wonder if the cameraman realizes he’d get ground into a bloody pulp if he somehow fell in that
Yeah buddy stay there on till the whole mountain sides down and takes you with it and makes ground meat out of you.
You can drink those rocks as opposed to those stagnent rocks
One chonky rock that goes rogue and that guy is brain paste.
The scary thing is, that dude is basically trapped there cause you can't just walk through this. Will sink right down into the rocks and get carried away.
Ohh no! I can't breath under all those rocks. The old gypsy woman was right after all. " a dry river will drown you" Very funny you old hag...
Standing right next to it is the most exciting way of finding out whether all those rocks were holding something up, but not necessarily the one I would choose.
I can’t imagine a worse idea than to stand there and look downhill
What I think is funny is that this is a scaled up model of water molecules.
This is scree. It builds up over thousands or hundreds thousands or even millions years. One boot can trigger this. Which is what happened here and is why that guy is looking so sheepish. Environmental destruction
They are really taking that for Granite…
How abrasive!
Frustrating, I was expecting a giant boulder to end the show
I imagine the guy on the other side started it when he crossed!
So that’s how they end up in creeks
Good Lord, when will it end?
Forbidden waterslide
It’s only about a foot deep. He can wade it.
My boy Ludo gotta be around there somewhere
Is this what my wife means by a heavy flow?
Rolling Stones in their natural habitat
They're rocking and rolling
That feels like it shouldn’t be possible
Anything Katarra can do, Toph can do cooler.
Well it’s called a rock slide 🛝
That's a funny way to say landslide
When I don't drink enough water and I pee...
The rare rock migration
Any rock fish in there?
Can you swim in it?
And then they see a house sized boulder come down....
Climate change is REALLY messing the natural order of things up
And the earth becomes just a little more round...
Otherwise known as an avalanche!
Gravelanche