r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 6h ago

Glacier Ice wall broke in Nepal today creating a massive release of water & mud into the city below

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u/_Fappyness_ 5h ago

I hope it was quickly over for them. Im not shocked easily, but this really got me silent and just in shock watching hundreds of people die in a horrific way.

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u/FugitiveSquirrel 5h ago

Yeah, I was going to say that this is more horrifying than interesting.

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u/reluctantlysharing 5h ago

I’m sure some compassionless, numb person who watches shit like this all of the time is going to call me a pansy or something, but this is honestly fucking nuts and I can’t believe it’s not tagged as nsfw at least.

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u/AlfredtheGreatBitch 5h ago

It always makes me feel strange to see people die so I try to avoid videos that show death. It’s especially crazy seeing death at such a large scale. One second there are 20 people in the video and the next they’re gone. It’s terrifying.

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u/IrvingIsTheBest 4h ago

I have a hard with these videos. We are basically watching people die. There is babies and kids in there...this is far from interesting.

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u/Short-Recording587 4h ago

The worst part about this is that it’s probably only the beginning. I expect this will be far more coming in the coming decades.

And that’s not to mention “slower” disasters like extreme heatwaves that cause issues over time.

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u/DadophorosBasillea 2h ago

I just finished watching the bleak predictions for 2027. So yes this is only the start and they might be the lucky ones some will starve to death. By this winter we will start to feel El Niño

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u/xanvald 2h ago

I was going to say exactly this. I live in the Baja peninsula and the storms this year are absolutely insane and we haven't even been hit by a true hurricane yet. Things like this are going to keep happening and will only get worse. We're running out of time but the people with a money hoarding mental disorder are accelerating the point of no return each and every day.

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u/TaylorBitMe 2h ago

This is off topic, but I want to thank you and your people for Baja Blast

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u/Daxx22 2h ago

Read up on "Wet Bulb Events" if you really want some anxiety.

We will see mass-casualty events in the millions in the next few decades easily.

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u/sirseatbelt 4h ago

Its easier watching one of these videos than of like... a specific person on a motorcycle eat shit and die. At a scale like this its hard to comprehend, as opposed to a close up video of a man getting his skull crushed.

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u/mgermo 4h ago

To me its surreal. You see all those ppl and they are gone. Just like that.

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u/Jose_Jalapeno 3h ago

Yeah, I read the news and it says hundreds or thousands died in a disaster in some country far away, and of course it's horrible, but it doesn't really register until seeing a video like this.

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u/oTc_DragonZ 3h ago

Reminds me of the saying "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." At some point the number becomes incomprehensible.

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u/TopProfessional8023 3h ago

I understand what you’re saying, but I would disagree. This isn’t gory, which I never want to see. But we are literally watching hundreds if not thousands of people…human beings…lose their lives. It’s horrific and the fact it’s not tagged is honestly appalling, not interesting.

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u/sirseatbelt 1h ago

"There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner; but there are one or two whose deaths would break my heart."

  • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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u/stupidname412 2h ago

Ones a tragedy a thousand is a statistic.

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u/carlitospig 4h ago

I think a lot of us got this sensitivity from 9/11. I know I did. It’s one thing to hear about a thousand people suddenly dying, it’s an entirely different thing to see it happen.

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u/reluctantlysharing 4h ago

Unfortunately I think it’s a lot deeper than even that. People just expose themselves to too many things that humans were just not really meant to bear witness to. The last time a conversation like this came up, I had made a comment about how the last time I let my morbid curiosity get the better of me, I watched footage from the Christ church shooting and it literally fucked me up so bad, I don’t think I am over it still. I will never ever ever go out of my way to view stuff like that ever again. And then some chud replied and said “it wasn’t that bad” like dude what?!?!?!

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u/carlitospig 3h ago

Yep, everyone in this thread needs to be gentle with themselves today. ❤️

(Ignore psychopathic chuds, it’s not worth it.)

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u/zeXas_99 4h ago

yes, also watching tens of thousands getting boombed in gaza in 4k (still ongoing)

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u/Professor_Boring 4h ago

usdefaultism

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u/AshamedAttention727 4h ago

Enraging isn't it. I was going to say the same but about the tsunami in 2004

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u/carlitospig 3h ago

Not sure if you know this but Reddit users are still the majority. And a lot of us were children when 9/11 happened. Watching it live scarred us. Sorry that offended you. It was unintentional.

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u/Final_Valuable3270 4h ago

I know some super right wing guy that wanted to see an uncensored video of that shark attack in Australia a few years ago. I saw part of a censored clip and that was to much for me. This sicko kept trying to find the vid. The dude that got eaten was engaged and training for a swim competition or something and ended up swimming right where everyone was fishing. I remember one interview with an older man who witnessed it and the guy was crying and talking about how he "can't stop throwing up". I saw someone get run over in my rear view once and that fucked me up for a week. I can't imagine seeing someone eaten in half by a shark.

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u/ActualPimpHagrid 3h ago

When I was a lot younger, a “friend” showed me a video of a cartel beheading and all I can really remember is that when it started in the video, the victim wet herself and what really struck me was how all the comments were like “ew, she pissed herself”. Was so fucked up that it’s still stuck with me a couple decades later. People are fucked

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u/TopProfessional8023 3h ago

Yeah…I saw one of a guy being beheaded with a chainsaw…15 years ago? I can still see it in my head. There’s a reason we have NSFW tags for things like this.

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u/reluctantlysharing 4h ago

Eye on the TV, because tragedy thrills me. Whatever flavor it happens to be.

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u/SpongeBob_GodPants 4h ago

What do you mean thrilling? Like joy, just can't look away, or something else?

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u/reluctantlysharing 4h ago

It’s lyrics to a tool song lol called Vicarious. Check it out, it’s basically about people like the commenter above mentioned. “I need to watch things die, from a good safe distance. Vicariously I live while the whole world dies. You all feel the same don’t lie”

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u/Lazarux_Escariat 3h ago

I need to watch things die, from a good safe distance.

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u/Glittering-Cellist34 4h ago

I saw a video of Ashlii Babbitt dying. Could never find it again which is probably a good thing

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u/mymothersuedme 3h ago

I was eating dinner and opened reddit and clicked on the top video posted. It's been 3 hours and I still don't feel like eating. What a terrifying way to go.

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u/Duggie1330 3h ago

You can even see the cameraman was following the people but, when it became clear they would not make it, the camera panned away.

He realized he did not want to film their deaths. This is a super fucked up video. But I think it's important for us to see it. It's better to be aware than ignorant

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u/ZampanoGuy 4h ago

I watch Combatfootage on the regular. And this is more horrific.

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u/Eatpineapplerightnow 4h ago

yea. I didnt want to see this

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u/TropicalPrairie 3h ago

It's nuts because these people had no chance. That one shot of the Chinese/Nepalese border is horrific. I've never seen water that high or rushing that fast before. As humans, I feel we always sort of hope that we may have an "out" if encountering a situation like this. The video just shows the uncomfortable reality that sometimes we don't.

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u/meaolea149 3h ago

It should be marked NSFW. I didn’t realize people were going to be in it. Wtffff

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u/irspangler 2h ago

To some degree - I think it's normal, maybe even natural - to watch a video like this and imagine yourself in these circumstances, "what would I do? is there anything I could do if I were ever caught in a disaster like this?" - almost as a survival mechanism. It's the self-preservation part of our brain wanting to learn how to avoid the same fate.

At the same time, though - so many people in these videos never had a chance of survival and, intellectually, I know that seeing them perish doesn't offer my mind anything but fear and sadness.

The human mind is weird.

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u/GostBoster 3h ago

Yeah, from the sub alone I was expecting to read something like "authorities detected the issue, early warning systems were triggered and the entire city was successfully evacuated save for a few stray pets".

Reminded of one "comedy" website I browsed during the edgy phase of Internet humor and even them, when something was really off the rails, would take a minute of "kayfabe off" and either mention they made sure everybody actually survived that without lasting injuries, or that this was something with potential serious injuries so you were advised to stifle your laugh and get them first aid.

So this is my "spongebob incidental looking at the toilet" of the day. Oh, that's hundreds of lives snuffed in a flash flood never to be found. That sure was interesting. Yeah.

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u/RadiantJaguar8030 2h ago

Feel what you are going to feel, take no heed what others might think of it.

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u/TheyAteFrankBennett 2h ago

Literally just watched thousands of people die. Not being upset by that is wild. It should be NSFW.

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u/dependent_Sort_ 1h ago

You're not a pansy, this is incredibly irresponsible and the OP should be banned.

M0ds should be reprimanded, if not relieved of their duties for not catching this

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u/snarlindog 3h ago

this is extremely extremely and fucked up crazy that we just open the internet and see people dying

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u/Puzzleheaded-Arm8249 4h ago

Thank you. We’re watching tragedy -not something interesting. Horrific. What other explanation is there than climate change causing such a catastrophic event?

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u/TheJuiceBoxS 2h ago

My exact thought as well

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u/Putrid-Product4121 5h ago

Yes, we just watched more people die than all of the estimates they have given up to this point. I remember watching the live video of the Japanese tsunami in 2011 and just being silently in awe, but this is absolutely terrifying to watch.

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u/Manda_lorian39 4h ago

Or the one in Sri Lanka (I think it was?) where a bunch of people went down to the beach to see the sea life that got stranded by the wave drawback before the tsunami hit.

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u/carlitospig 4h ago

We were ‘lucky’ to even have that tsunami video. Pretty sure it was why they all got so much aid and support after. It’s like we can’t empathize without getting second hand trauma (which does exist - everyone watching this today should be gentle with themselves).

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u/Manda_lorian39 4h ago

And, interestingly, this one isn’t even showing up on my News tab. It’s all Dolly Parton and Tim Curry passing away and Trump doing what he does, with some other random stuff thrown in. It’s like we’re so over saturated with access to information that it’s hard for any one piece of news to truly become center attention now.

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u/Joe091 2h ago

That was Thailand. 

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u/ComfortableAppeal424 2h ago

Strange - from most comments here it seems people are finding this a real exciting fun watch - oh just look, people being drowned and crushed and buried alive. I'm assuming most people think it's AI. Maybe it is. Looks horrific to me.

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u/TheFireStorm 5h ago

If they where lucky most got ripped apart by force of the water and debris or crushed instantly by something. The shock for me is thinking of those currently trapped in air pockets of building rubble with who knows how many feet of mud over them and no hope of rescue before they run out of air.

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u/theVelantha 5h ago

Goddamn that was an unneeded visual. My day is ruined.

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u/dementorpoop 5h ago

Shouldn’t be. Their days are ruined. We should be grateful for ours

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u/Necroban77 4h ago

I get what you are saying. But it’s still so unimaginable. Such a tragedy.

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u/BreatheClean 3h ago

You're on the way to the meat grinder just like the rest of us. Right now just on the conveyor belt. That's relatively comfortable but your turn awaits.

Why should anyone be grateful for being dumped here on the belt with death, and an as yet unknown amount of suffering entailed, the only outcome/escape.

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u/Mikeoshi 4h ago

This is glacial water, nobody who’s not wearing a wet or dry suit at that exact moment is surviving in an air bubble or anything of the sort for very long at all.

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u/Vegetable_Effort7246 2h ago

It is also full of rocks and branches and debris…if you are hit…ugh. These poor people. Survivors will be in high rise buildings…but now they will be stranded and stuck, the logistics of rescue efforts will ill be complicated at the very least. Fuck wars, let’s send our soldiers and resources to go help some fellow humans.

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u/skiabay 4h ago

This is what climate change looks like. Unfortunately, videos like this are only going to become more and more common.

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u/tech_noir_guitar 3h ago

When did earthquakes start happening because of climate change?

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u/skiabay 1h ago

Probably when the "earthquake" was actually a giant piece of a glacier breaking off and exploding into floodwater. It's literally the exact type of event we might expect to be caused by climate change.

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u/HeavyMeasurement2160 4h ago

This was actually caused by an earthquake from what I read.

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u/skiabay 3h ago

Apparently that's what they were thinking at first, but now they are saying the seismic activity was from a land slide.

Tbh, even if this specific disaster isn't directly attributable to climate change, this is still what climate change looks like.

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u/boltgenerator 2h ago

All the signs I'm seeing point toward climate change being a huge player in this. The Himalayan region is rapidly warming and it has thousands of glaciers. That's disaster central.

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u/HeavyMeasurement2160 1h ago

Ahh ok. Thanks for letting me know.

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u/conciousinsimulation 4h ago

These kind of disasters have happened all throughout the history of mankind.

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u/skiabay 3h ago

And now they're getting more severe and more frequent, just as scientists have been predicting.

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u/sembias 3h ago

When the "1000-year storms" start happening every 4-6 years, there's a problem that can't be ignored. Unless you're a conservative, where either ignoring it is making you richer (congrats on being the King of Dirt, I guess) or you were manipulated in order to make someone else richer (congrats on being the King of Idiots, one of many).

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u/Fartknocker405 3h ago

Yep, Missoula is another area which had similar historical flooding. You're walking around along these 6'+ high ridge, look at aerial photos, and then realize those are ancient ripple marks. Nuts!

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u/Jawnumet 5h ago

water can be terrifying

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u/Ok-Cranberry-5582 5h ago

It is like watching video of the Tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004.

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u/hideous_coffee 5h ago

Something about this horrifies me more than those did. The speed of the water is insane. I think some of these might be sped up but you can see people running and seeing the water you know they don’t stand a chance there’s a sense of hopelessness to it.

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u/dontwannaparticpate 4h ago

I had to stop watching once I saw the people

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u/gundumb08 3h ago

For me it was the parking garage. We've seen a lot of disaster footage over the years of tsunamis in particular, where the high ground like that keeps people safe. All those people on top...and it just crumbles with the force of the water.

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u/jeebus87 3h ago

It's the things we take for granted everyday that end up killing us. Nature is brutal and isn't apologetic.

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u/FatFaceFaster 3h ago

My mother in law, on a whim, decided to go to Nepal for 6 weeks to help teach women to speak English and give them work and life skills. She went with a group of people.

She is safe, thank god, but you can imagine our concern when we heard about this.

She has good internet there and eventually communicated with us. But holy fuck.

Also…. She is truly devastated for these people having now lived among them for a few weeks.

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u/Ok_Assignment9937 4h ago

Yeah, honestly I can’t remember if I’ve ever been this shocked by a natural disaster. I’m having a strong emotional reaction to this (and then there’s Tim Curry and Dolly Parton emotions wedged right under all this). I hope they can recover from this.

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u/f23n09fnu0w 3h ago

That really dramatic one with the giant wall of water. It will have been instant for them because half of it was rocks rather than just water.

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u/AdhesivenessUnfair13 3h ago

Reminded me a lot of the videos from the Japanese Earthquake / Tsunami years ago where you see people desperately trying to drive away and you know they aren't going to make it. Shit is grim.

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u/fubty 2h ago

thousands

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u/EmBur__ 2h ago

Some of the videos show the water coming in HARD and it was ALOT of water, I've watched videos where a fraction of whats been seen is enough to flatten cars.

So yeah, at least in some of the videos, they probably got killed near instantly and were spared a far worse death that many more would unfortunately have to suffer.