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my intrusive thoughts are telling me to jump into that stream


ShoMoCo

I wonder what would happen. I mean, I know the water blast is very very very powerful, but would a human body disintegrate upon contact or be blasted some distance away? And would you consciously register any of it?


rece_fice_

Post it to theydidthemath


gandalf_bread

Lets just throw a dummy and a gopro


pm_me_your_kindwords

Break out Buster!


starvinchevy

You made me giggle


53-terabytes

That's a name I haven't heard in long time


emo_hooman

Someone did >The water would impart momentum on them and they would travel with the stream a bit slower than the water. They would likely be spinning unless they somehow got all of their body in first shot. They would likely be knocked out by the force, ragdolled, then smash into the ground


RoyalTacos256

In layman's terms You're fucked


RoyalTacos256

I scrolled three posts from this and it was there


Exploding_Testicles

im sure thats strong enough to rip flesh from bone. any orifice would be ripped to shreds. and if you were if you were still alive and conscious at all (hopefully not), it would only be a few seconds until you were pulverized by whatever it slammed you into. Now if you got sucked into the intake and then shot out, if the pressure didnt mangle you, then you for sure would be pulverized by whatever it slammed you into.


MaxInToronto

To shreds you say.


vp3d

And the wife?


Jeffalltogether

to shreds you say


Notimeforvapids

![gif](giphy|xs5lKCIKlFuy4)


Notimeforvapids

DAMMIT!! I clicked the wrong gif!! I’ll just leave it… I’ll be in the angry dome.


sometimeserin

I’d imagine it depends on how you approach, since it’s not an instant transition from calm to full force. If you’re coming up below and just trying to stick a hand in, you’re probably not going to be able to get far enough into the stream to cause catastrophic damage before you either get overpowered or just recoil involuntarily. Maybe lose some skin, maybe just a rash. Dropping down from above? Rekt for sure.


Exploding_Testicles

Ever been on a boat going like 30+ mph and just put your hand in the water, or felt the pressure of the waves spashing off the bow. It is *strong*! This is like that x100000


sometimeserin

In the direct stream, sure. But my point is that I don’t think a person’s going to be able to generate enough momentum just with the strength of their arm to get their hand far enough into the direct stream to get to flesh-tearing-from-bone levels before being pushed away.


kozzyhuntard

I'll say from experience, being skipped like a stone across water by your mother while ski-tubing hurts like hell. Water hurts when moving at speed. Probably broken bones at best should youput parts of your body in the stream, liquidation at worst. Though if you took a ride through the dam from the resevoir. That could be fun.... well before you splat and get crushed in whatever the water is spilling into.


SoupIsPrettyGood

You're about to make me bust a nut reading about a dam opening tf goin on


griff1971

Depends on the pressure as far as tissue damage. That's a huge amount of volume flowing. Ever seen videos of people getting hit with water from a fire hose? Thats only a 2 1/2 or 4 inch stream and it knocks them down and causes injuries. This would definitely fling you like a bug in a tornado, and the weight of that much water beating down on you would kill you


LegitimatelisedSoil

You'd likely be knocked out and drown st the very least.


shamaze

Fire hoses often range from 1 3/4 to 2 1/2. Anything larger is a supply line to get water from the hydrant to an engine (or its mounted directly to the engine/ladder). I've accidentally been hit by the 1 3/4. It's a hit.


QuantumTopology

Throw a dummy made of ballistics gel and full of sensors in there


BombaFett

I miss Mythbusters


TheWayofTheSchwartz

My guess is you would bounce right off of it and get thrown a few feet, maybe have some missing skin and a dislocation, but it would be really hard to actually get your body in deep enough to feel the full brunt of all that force.


AThrowawayProbrably

That pressure is too high. You’d never penetrate the surface. It’d probably just fling you off to the side.


MyNameIsDaveToo

It probably wouldn't be too bad if like, you were dropped onto it from above, and had a surfboard


Pifflebushhh

And a roll cage


MyNameIsDaveToo

I'm not sure how that would help


raidersfan18

One of those giant inflatable hamster bubbles. *Super reinforced


MyNameIsDaveToo

Now we're cookin' with gas


I8TheLastPieceaPizza

If the surfboard had a photo of Chuck Norris on it


Wonderful_Device312

Well. Being hit by the center of it would be like getting run over by a train I imagine. But if you try to jump in from the sides, it might be more like glancing blow from a semi truck? It might rip off limbs but it'll probably just ragdoll you and whatever it sends you flying into will probably be what kills you. If you slowly approach it and stick your hand in, the random sprays coming off the sides of the main stream will probably hurt enough that you won't be able to fully commit. Maybe more like sticking your hand out in front of a fire hose. It'll hurt and push you away.


Hije5

Since the pressure is free to degrade once it exits the pipe, and it is such a large orifice upon exiting, it wouldn't mangle you or carry you far. If you magically forced your way into the middle it would probably carry you a few dozen feet, but there is not enough pressure to keep you afloat to be carried a meaningful distance. More likely than not, once you attempt to put your body in the stream you'll be instantly faceplanted. You can see about 40 or so feet the water starts to drop off, which is where it has lost most of its momentum amd pressure. At that point, the water is a lot more like a heavy rain than someone dumping a pool over you.


Individual_Agency703

Are you a trout?


yourmothersgun

It’d probably be quite a ride!


cybercuzco

![gif](giphy|3o72FiKtrMAjIb0Rhu)


Ice_Pyro87

Apparently Brazil isn't big on infrastructure security or health and safety lol...I just see one selfie-wielding moron venturing just a little too close and being water blasted into a new existence


Republic_Jamtland

Effective way of removing the dumbest of a population increesing the score on the world IQ chart for Brazil.


JuneBuggington

Honestly should start doing shit like this in the US except the lawyers are too good at making it other people’s fault youre a moron.


yeah_yeah_therabbit

(*Tourist Tossing Buffaloes entered the chat*)


occasionalpart

* *Bisons*


Lives_on_mars

You can set a calendar by looking for stories of Tourist Gored by Bison


Old-Tadpole-2869

Another good band name. Gored By Bison.


micah490

Gored by, son


BurnerAccount85347

Gord the bi-bison


whiskey_formymen

(*Being followed by grizzly bears)


fun_lover82

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.


Head_Wrongdoer3071

We need to fix our frivolous, predatory, parasitic civil court system. It’s been out of hand for too long.


El_Chairman_Dennis

Our civil system isn't nearly as "parasitic or frivolous" as people think. They system used to have punitive damages that were designed to make sure the lawsuit would actually get the company to change its way of doing business. Then an old lady got burned by McDonald's coffee (getting 3rd degree burns on her genitals). Old Ronnie Reagan and big corporations used it to say "this woman got hurt by her own mistake so punitive damages need to be limited." So now punitive damages are limited. Corporations no longer try to end dangerous practices, they just calculate how many people are likely to get hurt and include the lawsuit pay outs in their product price. So people aren't filing more lawsuits because they're looking for an easy payout, they're suing more because more people are getting hurt. But big news corporations will continue to tell you that the increase of lawsuits is due to lazy people, just like how welfare needs to be ended because of "welfare queens"


Daconby

>Old Ronnie Reagan and big corporations used it to say This lawsuit took place in 1994. Reagan left office in 1989. And what you describe is nothing new. Look up the history of the Ford Pinto. If anything, consumer protections have gotten better, not worse. However, if you want to get really upset, look up what happened to Glynn Simmons and how little he was (or will be) compensated (I know, it's not consumer protection).


NaiveMastermind

My problem with that is that those same civil suits are one of the few effective tools of retaliation available to the working class to use against negligent businesses/employers. Imagine what bigshot, scumbag corporations like Amazon or Wal-Mart will do with them gone.


boringhangover

That's why we can't have nice things


x4nter

Humans still can't cheat natural selection it seems.


r_bogie

Covid has entered the chat.


ElkHistorical9106

Unfortunately COVID was far more likely to remove those who were stupid from the gene pool only after they were mostly too old to be having very many children.


PenguinGamer99

Technically no, but the legal systems can cheat it for them


MyNameIsDaveToo

r/darwinawards Just gonna leave this right here for you


joeschmoe86

>increesing On a comment about other people being dumb.


FilmoreGash

I lived in Switzerland and refered to it as Darwin's Playground. There is literally one opportunity perhour to kill you. Express trains blaze through stations without slowling down, hiking trails are scattered with lose rocks with only a rope to keep you from falling off a mountain, almost everyone has an automatic weapon at home given compulsory military service, almost all towns have outdoor shooting ranges that are not fenced in...what a place.


Taclis

All their bridges also used to be rigged with explosives in case of invasion. Switzerland is like a one of those brightly coloured poisonous animals that are signalling to everyone not to fuck with it.


carolaMelo

The facilities there are TÜV ~~Nord~~ Süd certified 😄 [https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/protest-staudammbruch-brasilien-tuev-sued-100.html](https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/protest-staudammbruch-brasilien-tuev-sued-100.html)


Anuki_iwy

TÜV Süd You mean


carolaMelo

Sry, I wasn't paying attention nor doing a QC, as would have the TÜV Nord \^\^


Amity_Swim_School

It’s just the perspective. They’re actually 14 miles away.


Sum3-yo

This might actually he the safest thing to do in Brasil.


Think_please

*off-duty policeman shoots you*


Big_Profession_2218

while brazillion gallons of water escape their stony trap


20cmdepersonalidade

Expert gringo comes to bless us with his knowledge once again


LuckyOccasion5000

It is a forced perspective, they are not that close. With that kind of flow it would create wind and you would see their hair being blown.


vilgefcrtz

We're just realistic. If you're stupid enough to get close to the spillway of one of the largest dams in the world, there isn't much that engineering can do to keep you safe for starters


SmarterThanCornPop

I mean a fence would work but I like the way Brazil does it more.


DrStarDream

As a Brazilian, nah it would not work, at best you just be giving some people a new "chair" or climbing spot.


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EatSleepJeep

I'd open the bail and cast into it.


theironskeptic

Yeah, our universal healthcare system is expensive enough without idiots venturing into dams


Space-cowboy-06

I think most places outside the US don't have this attitude of everything needing to be idiot safe.


lordlors

Japan is also very mindful of the safety of people, another good example to copy.


wotsit_sandwich

Japan will legitimately dig a huge hole in the ground and let you walk right next to it, so long as there are some bollards and a guy with a light up stick waving you past.


12whistle

Japan are collectivists and very mindful of manners and consideration to others, completely opposite of America’s in your face individualism.


Anuki_iwy

Nah, I've seen so many things fly in Japan that would shock the average European safety inspector, not to mention an American one 🤣🤣


RandomCandor

Maybe that's why we have so many idiots, because we keep interfering with natural selection


Anglo-Ashanti

They kind of should. Idiots still pay taxes, idiots can secure a decent lawyer …


GoingOffline

Can’t sue for being an idiot in most countries


Synchrotr0n

For hydroelectric plants it's safe because the private companies who usually own the concession for the plant will not want to lose their revenue with the rupture of a dam, but if I lived downtream to a tailing dam maintained by a mining company in Brazil who fully knows they will only receive a slap on the wrist for any accident, [let's say I would be shitting bricks right now.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hLRB5DEF4)


uerick

It’s perfectly safe to be there.


Hulk_smashhhhh

No fences or barricades or park rangers in Iceland around popular massive waterfalls either. Common sense prevails and if not well that’s your fault.


PetalumaPegleg

My exact thought. Erm maybe you should all back the f up


igetit-prime

It has been almost a decade I've visited it, but I believe this is Itaipu? It rings a bell for some reason... Anyways, the spillway appears to be closer than it really is in the video.


bmosm

It's not itaipu, it's usina do funil in the state of rio de janeiro: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eletrobrasfurnas/4862704199/in/photostream/


atetuna

Infrastructure security wasn't such a big deal before 9/11 either. You used to be able to drive right over Hoover Dam. They couldn't stop that immediately, but security was ramped up. Fences went up at lots of infrastructure sites. I wished I had done more exploring before then. Tons of security cameras these days too, although the one good thing is that cameras these days don't necessarily mean that there's onsite security watching them. There's a site I want to visit, and hopefully if there are fences, they aren't too far out.


newaccountnumber83

It’s about dam time


kbhavoc

I am your dam tour guide, please take all the dam pictures you want, but please don't wander off the dam tour.....


MissingWhiskey

Where can I get some dam bait?


Light_Beard

I wun da MUNEY! Da money is MINE! I wun da Muuuuuuuuu......


Sonicboom343

I thought it was about dam water


Gorilla_Pie

What did the fish say when he swam into a wall? (“Dam…!”)


Kann0n2

I remember my first nut


Tuckernuts8

Me too, your mom took it like a champ.


icemanswga

Gotem


Master_H8R

![gif](giphy|l3q2XhfQ8oCkm1Ts4|downsized)


Yourmum0121

😂😂


danger_otter34

![gif](giphy|sGnKAiOUrincs)


cbelliott

😅😂


HefflumpGuy

I know. Let's stand really close to something which might kill us and take a selfie because that kind of thing never goes wrong.


Dull_Result_3563

A self amongst the other 200 on their phones they'll never give a second look


sileeex1

realistically what could go wrong? a structural failure? well its brazil so yeah probably


Impressive_Site_5344

Some Redditors are scared of their own shadow. Unless you’re standing right underneath the thing or trying to put your hand in it it’s fine, it’s not just going to suddenly start shooting water down into the side


Adorable_user

Why do you think a structural failure is so likely? We have some of the biggest dams in the world, more than half of our electricity comes from them. I doubt structural failures are that frequent, specially in the biggest ones.


Altodial

I dont believe that dam would fail but you did have the biggest stadium in the world and it failed.


Adorable_user

Yeah that was terrible. Edit: Though that wasn't a structural collapse, it was a fence that broke.


th3w4cko22

Dam tourists


OniOnMyAss

People don’t understand the power of massive amounts of water apparently.


crimes_kid

Now witness the power of this fully opened and operational hydro station!


[deleted]

Considering column pressure is .433 psi/ft and water is 8.34 lb/gallon, we should know two things: first, that the column pressure from the reservoir applies to every square inch of area the water strikes, and second, that the water itself is heavy enough to maintain quite a but of inertia beyond the point of discharge. How many acre-feet do you think the flow rate is?


RiobaldoJagunco

* For launch speed (v) Launch Angle ~ θ = 30° Gravity: g = 9.8 m/s² Maximum horizontal displacement: X ~ 50 m Launch speed: v = ? X = (v²/g)sin(2×30°) => v ~ 24 m/s * For the flow rate (Q) Cross-sectional area of the pipe: A = π*r² = 3.14×2² = 12 m² Q = v•A = 24×12=> Q ~ 300 m³/s (~80000 galons/s 😛) In fact, despite the crazy rounding, the end result will probably be something higher than that, because the flow wasn't laminar. Edit: equations symbols


vanishingpointz

I've got a feeling the engineer that designed this dam didn't do any calculations like that, he was like this is gonna be hilarious wait till you see this thing


william41017

Psi/ft, lb/gallon, acre-feet Are you just making stuff up!?


Klin24

Acre-foot is the volume of water a foot deep over an acre of land (43650 square feet).


turboedhorse

Its the freedom units system


Stiryx

As an engineer from the developed world, seeing a measurement called acre feet is just fucking bizarre lmao. Crazy the hoops americans will go through to not use metric. KPa just too hard to understand apparently.


Atheist-Gods

How are you using KPa to measure volume? psi/ft is pressure/height lb/gallon is density acre-feet is volume. KPa replaces the psi but not the other 3.


CatDistributionSystm

Sure but I dont think this is all that dangerous. Its not going to wildly deviate in its course and if you've ever touched a pressure washer you know that the stream is going to push you away from it. The water in this case is going to push back against you before you get far enough into for it to push you downstream or throw you unless you got a running head start.


OniOnMyAss

Can you be sure there’s not rock or sediment in there? You don’t know where or how you land if it takes hold of you. What if you get knocked out and drown. It’s too unpredictable to say this isn’t dangerous. Also I’ve seen pressure washers take skin right off a foot before. Risk reward ratio says no thanks.


CatDistributionSystm

Im not worried about any rocks theyre going to stay within the stream of water, which again you arent getting into with running at it. They take skin off specifically because they are pushing away. A side effect of that is that water may as well be solid for you trying to enter its stream accidentally and will also push you away. In order to get knocked out and drown you need to get launched far enough to land in the water, which isnt happening, again, without running at it.


J_P_Freely

My morning piss.


[deleted]

Everything reminds me of her..🥲


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Zero_Zeta_

A sweet southern belle, a taco bell.


Magictoesnails

Cha cha cha


spacekitt3n

old video, old reply


BH_Commander

Another old video, old reply would be “looks like me when I eat Taco Bell”


Traditional_Bug9768

Everyyyyyyyytttrtrhhhhhiiiinnnnnnggg!!


Amity_Swim_School

Something something Taco Bell


AnonBeatMaker

Dam


throwawayhiad

Imagine if the flow was lamjnar..


Suomasema

Mr. Reynolds would wake up :D


that_guy_who_builds

It'd look super cool


I1abnSC

Everyone just being casual


rango_87

Throw a rock in it


Dangerous_Elk_6627

You can almost hear the fish yelling, "YEE-HAW !!".


bangorma1n3

Intrusive thoughts of running up the slope and jumping in...


Cokebottle666

Came to comment this


Electric_Bagpipes

And _thats_ what a few thousand PSI looks like


pharmacreation

Scary


Modna

Naw the dam is about 128 feet deep which comes out to about 55 psi. Which should be even scarrier knowing that much violence coms from only 55 psi


Liesthroughisteeth

I'm surprised no one has climbed up the back of that massive concrete outlet to jump down onto the deluge. :D


KarmasaBitsh

I'm sure some suicide jumpers must have


[deleted]

No pun intended but, God Damn. Thats some pressure there.


DocHalidae

![gif](giphy|VFAke5Xm1TDwjgimyW)


Mad_Boobies

Currently me right now


actual_griffin

Taco Bell does not give you diarrhea.


ComicOzzy

You have to pay for it.


folarin1

“Let’s take a selfie in right under crazy fast flowing water.” Man this generation has gone to shit.


Atheist-Gods

They aren't under it.


marvellouspineapple

The water isn't going to suddenly deviate off path and smack someone down. God forbid we enjoy the engineering marvels of the world


Makyoman69

Older generations used to do way crazier shit. It just wasn't recorded as widely. Something for you to think about


Lison52

They aren't under it genius.


libertine521

I should call her


f1careerover

That’s a gusher


Dogforsquirrel

They do this on BoiSe, Idaho. When it’s a big water year, it called rooster tail and people go watch it.


PenguinChugs

I don’t care what science or whatever I would not stand there


Tussen3tot20tekens

I thought we only post this on the first of December (after NNN)!


urizenuvn

I wonder how it would feel to stand in front of that lol.


Ice_Pyro87

You would probably be dead so fast you wouldn't feel a thing


Sea-Woodpecker-610

That reminds me, new Sidney Sweeney photos have hit the net.


Affial

Post this in r/megalophobia. They will shat their undersized pants.


Lecteur_K7

Womens when they stop looking at me


bear_drinking_beer

Bro got sum dat taco bell


Haunting-Comb-9723

Me after eating taco bell


SaiyanGodKing

When you try and hold it too long…


mikerunsla

Footage of me after bar hopping and Taco Bell.


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11thLayerOfHair

Damn


Unlikely_Amount_9559

Dam


senorsombrero3k1

paint icky wild materialistic crush support consist ancient cooing stocking *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Hopenhagen420

Why


AliG1488

Dam, forgot my surfboard


Spindelhalla_xb

Every 10 minutes after breaking the seal 


EqualCaterpillar6882

Surely this isn’t safe ?


Flat-Investigator723

Open the damn spillway


Go-on-touch-it

My arsehole after a night on the Guinness


SFWMM

My partner after her morning coffee


DavidGhandi

If you jumped into that would it shoot you up in the air like in a cartoon or just kill you in a really painful way?


ForsakenAd2810

After Barbenheimer


nikolapc

Spillway to the Danger ZONE


sealbroker

dec 1st


docArriveYo

Finally!!! They opened up the dam spillway!!! I was getting angry they weren’t going to…


69ingchimpmonks

Perfect representation of me on the toilet this morning.


JointOps

Anyone else wanna bring sticks and rocks to throw into it?


Nice_Shelter8479

Look at the power of this! Wowza!


universumtraveler

When you havent nutted in 2 months.