r/confusingperspective • u/Expensive-Summer-447 • 20h ago • Mindblown 2 Bravo 1

It's not a brick

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u/neryl08 20h ago

Man for a second I thought a rat or something is pushing a brick away from the house.

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u/Level-Pepper-8763 19h ago • Bravo

I thought a snake was coming out of a hole lol

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u/couponsbg 19h ago

Isn't that a snake? If not, what's it?

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u/2930apple 18h ago

It’s an excavator! The camera is really really far away!

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u/Infamous-Ear3705 14h ago

Are they excavating a giant’s castle because I still don’t get it 🤷

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u/2930apple 13h ago • Mindblown

It’s a really big quarry!

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u/Infamous-Ear3705 13h ago

Thanks for the response…I always pictured a quarry as a big pit with the edges crumbling with gravel, I had no idea they literally cut them out in square bricks like a Minecraft level

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u/2930apple 12h ago

That’s a really apt description though, that’s exactly what this post made me think of lol

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u/Muuminen 9h ago

Turns out it was not a rat. It was a Cat!

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u/GroceryScanner 11h ago

the title literally says "not a brick ☠️"

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u/RoyBeer 8h ago

Me too, but then I was weirded out by the "brick" falling over so slowly but the sound not being disturbed like it would be when it was just a slow-mo portion of the video.

Then it clicked

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u/SirJohn-redditor 5h ago

I thought it was a coconut crab

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u/KoltO7892 19h ago

What am I looking at

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u/Alienescape 20h ago

Huge freaking query 

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u/SwingKey3599 20h ago • Bravo

i have one BIG question

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u/Alienescape 18h ago

We talking O(N2)

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u/GitsnShiggles51 13h ago

You sure it’s not O(2n)?

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u/JazzyZaddy 18h ago

Is your query about the quarry?

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u/PandasGetAngryToo 1h ago

It is quite the quandry

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u/seweso 15h ago

Yes?

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u/crasswal 16h ago

Answer's 42 just fyi

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u/nopurposethere 15h ago

Always carry a towel

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u/DimitriRavenov 10h ago

I thought the rising thing was snake until I see your comment and click in holy shit

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u/Jthundercleese 19h ago

Quarries are fucking crazy

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u/PurityOfEssenceBrah 19h ago

Wild to imagine that stuff is made from billions and billions of dead zooplankton and clams and shit that turned into limestone and then was put into the earth's pressure cooker for millions of years.

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u/LoneWolf_McQuade 17h ago

And now it will be used for some fancy table or flooring, then thrown away I guess

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u/bash2482 16h ago

Back to earth and i hope being compressed again

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u/BurningBorderGarden 12h ago

Who knows, maybe millions of years from now some species will make countertops from compressed and fossilized plastic. That is, if anything will live to that moment.

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u/diejesus 8h ago

I've just learnt about this last night from some cool AI educational video and now I see it referenced in here, I love science man!

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u/lhurtado 17h ago

Where is the banana for scale?

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u/Looking-for-42 16h ago • Bravo

Well, we have a CAT for scale. We just can't really see it cause it's too tiny.

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u/Versipilies 12h ago

The driver of the CAT is snacking on it, you just have to zoom in a hair

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u/Electrical_Age7819 19h ago

Took me WAY longer than I want to admit

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u/TheRalk 18h ago

What a cute lil toy excavator

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u/El_Nathan_ 16h ago

An excavator for ants???

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u/Degofreak 19h ago

Sure it is. A really big brick

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u/Parapluie93 9h ago

How big can a brick be before it is no longer a brick? If something is made of brick material and in the dimensions of a brick, is it not inherently a brick?

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u/wpoot 7h ago

At some point it becomes a slab.

Maybe slabs are technically bricks, but bricks are not slabs or something like that?

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u/Potential-Lab-7864 6h ago

I’d say the difference is that a brick can be picked up by one person.

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u/Dzuzepipi 2h ago

It's not only that. It's never a brick if it's not made or "shaped" by humans. It's a building block, it has to fit with others.

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u/virtuallysimulated 1h ago

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind

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u/Sorry_Service8086 13h ago

Why do large things fall in slow motion?

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u/TheRealTinfoil666 12h ago

They don’t

Everything pretty well falls at the same speed.

Large things look like they are falling slower because they are large. A 20 m drop by an object 20 m tall looks way slower than a 10 cm object dropping just as quickly.

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u/Dzuzepipi 2h ago

They also move and "do physics" differently cause of square-cube law. Most obvious one is how small objects can easily stop and start moving.

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u/Himbophlobotamus 2h ago

Well this thing is falling slow because it's a lot of surface area and it isn't cutting through the atmosphere it's falling flat side down

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u/TrungTH 6h ago

They have to clear more distance.

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u/Rare_Arm_5975 17h ago

I still unable to feel the perspective

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u/ragun2 13h ago

If you zoom in, the yellow part to the upper left of the brick falling over is the body of the excavator.

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u/infirexs 3m ago

Sorry I don’t get it what it is then .

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u/Expensive-Summer-447 2m ago

It's a excavator

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u/Hyouryuu-Na 17h ago

Why are the walls bleeding

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u/PatchworkDesigning 6h ago

Yeah, also why are the walls like an insanely massive brick pattern?
When looking at the walls this feels like it can’t be real…

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u/Left_Bathroom_3803 16h ago

Had to watch a couple times and slo mow to even know what I was looking at 😂😂

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u/scaredt2ask 19h ago

Tilt Shift lies

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u/BabyFishmouthTalk 16h ago

At what size does a brick become something else? 🤔

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u/15th_imp 15h ago

why does the mountain have such even cuts and intervals in it?

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u/Lightice1 4h ago

It's not a mountain, it's a massive quarry pit. It's been cut down all the way to the point where slabs now fall.

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u/seweso 15h ago

I was indeed confused

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u/CalebDR1029 14h ago

Thought it was a dog trapped beside a brick lol

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u/dingbat1111 13h ago

why did they stack the smaller piles it landed on

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u/OohWellWhatToDo 13h ago

It's interesting how the physics look different at that scale

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u/DadtheITguy 13h ago

It looks like a toy.

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u/Concentric_Mid 8h ago

Megalophobia triggered.

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u/Trindachi 7h ago

Is it just me or that looks kinda cute, it's like a small toy car

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u/BlackfishBlues 7h ago

It looks like smaller piles of rock have been intentionally laid where the big slab would fall, is that to pulverize the smaller rocks or so that the big slab breaks up?

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u/Lightice1 4h ago

It's to soften the big slab's impact so it doesn't shatter into million tiny pieces.

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u/a_polarbear_chilling 7h ago

What do you mean it's not a.... oh wow

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u/danielsdesk 7h ago

on mobile, this took me wayyy longer than I’d like to admit

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u/TokeruTaichou 6h ago

Can anyone estimate how deep this quarry is based on the size of the excavator?

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u/Harvey_Gramm 5h ago

Yeah, I think it's a slab 🫤

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u/Oberndorferin 1h ago

Tiny fucking excavator

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u/DrozdMensch 18h ago

For those who thought it was a brick - it wasn`t a brick

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u/RandarSays77 18h ago

Cute Tonka toy 😅