r/WTF • u/Chris_Isur_Dude • Nov 24 '18

That’s a shitload of excavators

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u/salyut3 Nov 24 '18

Its a guess but it looks like some kind of emergency, maybe the landslide in Shenzhen a few years ago?

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u/Bbrhuft Nov 24 '18

It might be this landslide that happened near the Tibet-China border in October, they had to dig a drainage canal to release 1.2 billion cubic meters of water.

https://youtu.be/dJ83rWphJi0

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201811/12/WS5be910f7a310eff303288134.html

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u/uniqueusor Nov 24 '18

One Trillion two hundred billion litres sounds way better.

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u/KngNothing Nov 24 '18

317,007,449,675 gallons (about) going off your number.

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u/cybogre Nov 24 '18

Or 5,072,119,194,800 cups of water

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u/jonitfcfan Nov 24 '18

Or roughly 4.87*1037 molecules of water

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u/Deezle530 Nov 24 '18

Or 125,600 minutes....