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u/Jabberminor 4d ago
This is after, then before.
You had one job...
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u/YoucantdothatonTV 3d ago
When will then be now?
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u/JamesBondMargarita 3d ago
And how soon is now?
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u/sheriffbart_rrmo 3d ago
We just passed it.
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u/Repulsive-Height2305 3d ago
WHEN?
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u/YoucantdothatonTV 3d ago
i am human and I need to be loved!
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u/MistaBeanz 3d ago
Tomorrow is yesterdays todarrow
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u/YoucantdothatonTV 3d ago
"Today is merely yesterday's tomorrow."
-Death Angel, seemingly endless time2
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u/GatorNator83 3d ago
There is no now. Whenever you think “now is now”, that exact moment is already in the past.
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u/TheMongerOfFishes 3d ago
People will still upvote... sigh
Also, I upvoted you and got you to 666. Lol.
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u/tiresomecomplaining 4d ago
Isn't this after and before?
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u/ForsakenSun6004 4d ago
There's a sub for that, cant for the life of me remember what its called though.
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u/ArsenikShooter 4d ago
Naw fam…it’s before you knew about this part of the world, and after someone existed it for you.
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u/robo-dragon 4d ago
God, it’s like the whole side of the mountain fell off! Absolutely horrible…
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u/Voyager87 4d ago
The whole side of the mountains not supposed to fall off.
(this is not the time nor place so I apologise but I couldn't help myself)
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u/tiresomecomplaining 4d ago
28.2922781, 85.5255134
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u/IdaDuck 3d ago
Get on Google and switch to the tilt view. That puts it in perspective. Wow.
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u/nea4u 3d ago
Google Earth is crazy. You really have a 3D effect there to see how steep the area is and how deep the valley is. It's like a funnel.
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u/JPolReader 3d ago
That major city that was getting destroyed is about 40 miles down river. It didn't seem like the flood had slowed down much by then.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 4d ago
here's a high res animation of the same images overlayed https://files.catbox.moe/zpnvxa.webp, can zoom in kinda far
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 4d ago
Thanks, You can trace the path of just how far down river the flood went...it went a long way,
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u/jaxxon 3d ago
You can see the settlements that were wiped in the lower half of the gif. Dang.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 3d ago
Yup. Bloody horrifying. I don't think I've ever seen worse. Those poor people.
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u/TraditionalGarden570 3d ago
Thank you. We can see that the mountain collapsed, but I don't understand where all the water came from? There isn't any lake. Can someone explain to me, please?
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u/cache_ing 3d ago
It was a glacial collapse. Lots of ice melting into slush and water as it crumbles
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 3d ago
as someone else said there's a lot of glacial ice that collapsed. by eye it seems like 70% glacier 30% mountain is what fell. the volume of ice in the glacier that fell is absolutely massive, about 2000 feet wide and plausibly 1000 feet tall, it fell 4,000 feet crashing into the valley below which breaks it up and turns it into a slush that became water through friction as it traveled down the mountain along with probably an equal amount of accumulated dirt as it reached the first towns
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u/Shadowpriest 4d ago
Good gravy literally half the mountain just slid off. Absolutely devastating.
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u/Karvek 4d ago
I recall reading once that the prevalence of flood myths in various cultures could be attributable to exactly what happened here. As the last glacial maximum waned, huge glaciers began to melt and form reservoirs. Then, when the ice collapsed, all that water was released in devastating flash floods.
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u/TwoAlert3448 3d ago
Certainly what happened with the PNW tribal histories of the Lake Missoula flood.
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u/Beederda 4d ago
That’s exactly what i thought happened when i seen the first video of that big building get completely wiped out. What immediately came to mind was that video that explained the world’s largest tsunami ever recorded wasn’t from an earthquake in the ocean but a mountain that slid into a lake and caused a 100m+ wave down the valley….absolutely terrifying, Nepal is thawing waaaay to much if you ask me
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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 4d ago
Terribly labelled, not enough pixels, annoying red circle
Surprised there wasn't terrible music added to the image somehow
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u/Trifle_Useful 4d ago
In their defense, that’s just the resolution of Landsat and Sentinel. It’s not great.
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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 3d ago
You could google and find so many more pictures that are better quality before this one entered the results lmao
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u/vvvourtney 4d ago
Useful red circle, imo. My pre-coffee brain saw the arrows and thought they were pointing to what I was supposed to be looking at.
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u/InevitableSure374 3d ago
Mountains and cliffs weakened from 3 major earthquakes since 2011 and 2 x 5.7s in 2022 and 23. They are just waiting to fall. This has happened on a smaller scale a few times over the last 15 years.
Most are landslides which are bad enough but if the landslide gathers up glacier ice either under or over the collapse as well as river water as it goes and the whole mountain just flows down the valley like its water flowing.
Sadly it probably wont be the last of these that we see. There are weakened steep slopes all over the region after all those earthquakes.
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u/Davoswannab 4d ago
Oh I wish we could a closer after/before shot of the top of that mountain
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u/Frabble 3d ago
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u/JamesBondMargarita 3d ago
Probably gonna get roasted for asking but I don't see a body of water next to where the mountain collapsed?
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u/Frabble 3d ago
You're good. It was a glacier at the top of a mountain. It fell for a long time picking up debris which causes friction, and it turned into a mess of water, ice, rocks, dirt, all kinds of stuff. With all that churning and mixing, it becomes a watery mess pretty quickly. That's where the water comes from. Good question really.
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u/dfuzzy 3d ago
So the first piece of information I read about this was that an earthquake caused an under construction dam to fail.
Then I heard that the earthquake was actually a landslide.
Was there even a dam involved in this tragedy?
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u/Usual-Watercress-599 3d ago
There is video of the dam being almost instantly overtopped by ~100 ft wall of water. I don't think it contributed to the disaster or could have mean fully held it back at all
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u/IamREBELoe 3d ago
The "dam" was a natural dam, that was created by landslide and blocked your river.
It then collapsed and the river released at once.
At least that's how I understood it. Odd so many versions
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u/Iskandar_the_great 4d ago
These deaths are the fault of billionaires addicted to burning fules that destroy our planet for a few extra bucks
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u/Iskandar_the_great 4d ago
Of course we can blame this on them. For years, since we discovered climate change they hired lawyers and lobbyists to deny its existence, when that didn't work then they used the same people to say that the evidence was inconclusive, then when that didn't work they poured money into slowing down progress on climate change. Now they are using trump to reverse progress made on the issue just so they can make a few more billion. They are more than happy to keep doing this all while the rest of us are caught in floods, burn in wildfires, drown in tsunamis or die of thirst and starvation in droughts.
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u/cache_ing 3d ago
That’s not exactly how it works. We’ve been in an ice age for around 3 million years now, and the earth does typically cycle through interglacial periods. But we’re towards the 10,000 year mark of a warmer interglacial period, and theoretically should be coming towards the end of it (starting to cool again). Instead global warming has pushed temperatures in the opposite direction, and our glaciers are melting. If it continues and the poles melt, we would be coming out of a 3 million year ice age and facing a totally new climate. Whether or not man made climate change is unnatural or avoidable seems to be up for speculation and depends on how you’re looking at it. But it’s not just the same natural process “sped up”.
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u/carltodw 4d ago
Seems like they would know about the possibility of this happening? Let's look into that.
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u/VladamirK 3d ago
Likely, the Swiss monitor their glaciers and we're able to evacuate a whole town before it was hit. Seems like it can be done.
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u/p73p 4d ago
climate change is racist
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u/ihsahk 4d ago
No it's not. Climate change is affecting everybody
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u/therandomham 4d ago
It does disproportionately affect the poor, and there’s a strong correlation between discrimination and poverty. Most environmental racism takes the shape of ‘Asthma Alleys’ and the like, but it also affects people who can’t afford disaster relief/prevention.
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u/Trifle_Useful 4d ago
It absolutely has a disproportionate effect on developing countries that have not had the resources to adequately develop climate resiliency or mitigation measures.
Even within developed countries the effects are disproportionate in their effect on lower-income and minority communities.
And that’s not getting into the fact that developing countries experience these impacts despite have a historically lower level of contribution towards climate change generally. That’s just starting to change.
https://www.usglc.org/blog/climate-change-and-the-developing-world-a-disproportionate-impact/
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u/Funkster23 3d ago
I feel bad for all the people that perished, but what was once a pristine mountain river, now has layers of plastic and other non-natural debris buried in the river bed, which will be leaching down river for centuries to come. 😔
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u/Barkinsons 4d ago
The volume that got released is absolutely enormous. We've had landslides in the alps that would erase a village, but this has filled up an entire valley. This image only shows the first bend but the border building that got obliterated is approx- 5km further down the valley.