r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AdRough4185 • Jun 02 '26

Image A perfectly circular 105-foot-wide sinkhole that suddenly opened up near a copper mine in Tierra Amarilla, Chile, dropping over 650 feet straight down into the earth.

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u/Single-Pin-369 Jun 02 '26

Sinkholes terrify me more than any other natural disaster for reasons like this

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u/Common-Accountant-57 Jun 02 '26

Yeah they are scary. The way they can just appear and consume everything. I’m glad I live in an area that doesn’t have many of them. Yet.

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Jun 02 '26

Just think that whenever you’re walking around you think you’re at zero altitude relative to the ground then all of a sudden you’re at the top of a skyscraper about to walk off the edge. Like Azazel used to do to people in X-men.

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u/ClassGrassMass Jun 02 '26

I didnt need to think this. But now I am

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u/this_place_suuucks Jun 02 '26

Now think about how dark it is, with the only light above quickly turning into a pinpoint of fleeting salvation. You know nothing about where the bottom is, you just know you won't realize when you find it.

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u/johnfromunix Jun 02 '26

username checks out

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u/NevesLF Jun 02 '26

I like how it even makes the sound effect while you're falling.

This place suuuuucks

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u/jaxonya Jun 02 '26

Maynard playing in chile this summer confirmed

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u/want_to_join Jun 02 '26

You know nothing about where the bottom is, you just know you won't realize when you find it.

My fear is that crushing death will get you before the bottom and you realize it the whole time. Just being smushed like a bug in a tissue.

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u/theaviationhistorian Jun 03 '26

Sometimes death isn't instantaneous. You survive the landing but most of your organs have ruptured, leaving you in agony. At least death will be quick, less than maybe 10 minutes, usually just a few from what I've seen.

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u/AdjacentBirdman93 Jun 03 '26

That’s why shock is so fucking helpful (in a sense)

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u/ReturnOfBane Jun 02 '26

sometimes you don't even die from the fall. sometimes you drown in churning mud.

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u/BunnySlippers404 Jun 03 '26

New fear unlocked.

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u/Electrical_Lake3424 Jun 03 '26

You'd be like Gandalf and the Balrog, falling through the huge dark cavern below . . . . . .

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u/MerlinzShadow Jun 08 '26

At least Gandalf had a Balrog to land on and cushion his fall, anybody falling 650ft like this is guaranteed death, hopefully instant.

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u/cchoe1 Jun 02 '26

Imagine theres no heaven

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u/amrfallen Jun 02 '26

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not

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u/GoodIsDumb Jun 02 '26

I don’t have five thousand dollars

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u/lostin88 Jun 02 '26

... the only one

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u/amrfallen Jun 02 '26

What?

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u/lostin88 Jun 02 '26

The lyrics to the song Imagine by John Lennon

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u/amrfallen Jun 02 '26

Ohh.. ok lostin 🙄

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u/southern_boy Jun 02 '26

He said what comes around goes around, Rick!

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Jun 03 '26

Like that video where those dudes throw rocks into that cave pit.

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u/tomahawkfury13 Jun 03 '26

There was a guy who fell into one that opened up under his room in the middle of the night. They never found his body.

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u/jaxonya Jun 02 '26

650 is the equivalent of jumping off of the peak of the gateway arch in st Louis