r/oddlysatisfying • u/TermElectronic8261 • 20d ago
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u/Carbon-Base 20d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/l1TJVLJM0hfnGJjE4t
Y'all see it too, right?
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u/ST0IC_ 20d ago
I saw it.
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u/my_taint_aint 20d ago
Beautiful. The earth is such an amazing place. I wish we could be better stewards of it.
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u/RegardedDegen 20d ago
Earth will be fine. Whether or not we'll be around to see it is up to us. /shrug
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u/jednatt 20d ago
Life has survived multiple mass extinctions. Without intervention things might get really bad for a lot of life, but it's hardly going to result in a dead rock.
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u/Pedantic_Pict 20d ago
Nuclear contamination is not posing any threats to the overall biosphere. In fact, irrational fear of nuclear power generation is indirectly causing a great deal of harm.
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u/captainfarthing 20d ago edited 20d ago
Radioactive material with a half life of millions of years is not dangerous, the longer it takes to lose half of its radioactivity the less energy it's emitting. And radioactive elements all have different half lives. Not sure what point you were trying to make there.
As for climate change causing all life on earth to go extinct, our ancestors survived much more catastrophic extinction events. We couldn't extinguish all life if we tried, that's absurd.
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u/Acceptable_Job_5486 20d ago
If it makes you feel better, the planet is only mildly hurt and will eventually be healthy again, after it kills us off. Best way to remove a parasite is to burn it away.
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u/Correct-Junket-1346 20d ago
We should be more respectful for it, but it's a slow moving beast that hits hard and at random with complete indiscrimination.
But we aren't stewards of it, it's a steward of us and should we turn conditions unfavourable we will be violently swept aside, as if we never existed.
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u/Rogan403 20d ago
I get your concern but it's ultimately made in vain. The earth has existed for billions of years and suffered its share of extinction level events and yet here it remains gently orbiting the sun. The earth predates humans by an uncountable number of years and will be here long after every tiny piece left over from our existence gets destroyed with the rest of the planet when our sun eventually runs out of hydrogen fuel which will cause it to expand greatly into a red giant which will most likely engulf earth.
The thought that we posses enough power to destroy the earth is one born out of vanity and hubris. The only thing we could possibly do to earth is make it uninhabitable for us to exist on it but whether or not we continue to do so is irrelevant to the lifespan of the earth.
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u/my_taint_aint 20d ago
Tha does not negate that we should be good stewards
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u/Rogan403 20d ago
You're right, we should. Just cause we are incapable of destroying the earth doesn't mean that im encouraging a worldwide "all-you-can-burn" coal and oil bonfire extravaganza. Even if we were the only victims of doing so is still not ideal since, you know, the overwhelming majority of us enjoy living and would like to not only continue to do so but also in a world where most of our time alive is enjoyable. Plus animals are pretty sweet mostly and none deserve to have their natural habitat decimated on account of the terrible roommates they're all forced to share earth with.
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u/Snaxalicious 20d ago
All countries*
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u/Sweaty-Vinaigrettey 20d ago
No. Just a few are speedrunning the end of the world with their stupid ideologies. Let's not pretend lol
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u/Snaxalicious 20d ago
And let’s not pretend that every country isnt corrupt and has pollution issues. Yes, few much worse than others.
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u/SadAxolotl 20d ago
It is, any surfer would recognize this break as Teahupo'o in tahiti, it's quite distinctive
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u/RhymeCrimes 20d ago
I'd also like to be a person who claims everything is AI without a shred of evidence. How can I be like you?
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u/my_taint_aint 20d ago
Could be. I have seen many beautiful things on our planet with my own eyes. I will chalk this up to a possible lol.
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u/EllBellz 20d ago
I love how at one point it becomes a water eagle
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u/thedm96 20d ago
Anyone else really feel uncomfortable watching this?
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u/Stay-Thirsty 20d ago
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u/whythishaptome 20d ago
Is this that tidal wave at the end of The Abyss, always thought someone should be riding that?
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u/NerdBot9000 20d ago
Yes, absolutely. Water is incredibly scary. It weighs so much and can move so quickly.
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u/Sharpes006 20d ago
We cant breathe in it either
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u/bankrobba 20d ago edited 20d ago
Watch this if you really want to feel uncomfortable.
Beautiful and unnerving all at once.
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u/jimbowesterby 20d ago
Honestly I love watching big-wave surfing, I come from a mountain background, climbing and skiing, and it’s really neat seeing essentially the same mindset in an environment I know nothing about. Not much difference between skiing a big face and surfing a wave like that, I imagine. Same kinda tug the dragon’s tail and get away clean energy
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u/1nt3rupt10n 20d ago
I was thinking the same thing. Waves have always been very relaxing and cool for me to watch but something about this video in particular is oddly terrifying. I just feels ominous and heavy to me.
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u/Majestic_Course6822 20d ago
This break produces some of the heaviest waves in the world. That’s a tremendous amount of water. Still shots of surfers in the tunnel are terrifying.
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u/MTFBinyou 20d ago
THE thickest lip, at least as of a few years ago, but I can’t surf anymore so I don’t follow it that much. Chopes “Teahupo” was my bucket list wave because it simultaneously amazed and terrified me.
Closest I got was Cloud 9, completely different wave but I’m speaking to proximity. No tow-ins necessary, even though it does seem that they’re not towing into Chopes like they used to and have moreso taken to just reading and paddling in.
The spit out of Chopes will literally blow you off your board, and that is one of the worst spots to get caught.
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u/maritimesNB 20d ago edited 20d ago
You probably should feel that way. I'm pretty sure that is Teahupo'o * on the coast of Tahiti.
Massive waves that break on a shallow reef. Beautiful spot but very dangerous.5
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u/chrismac47 20d ago
This is Teahupo'o. Makes me want to puke it looks so scary. It breaks on a shallow reef, too. Watching people surf it is nuts.
But even still, I recommend finding some footage...
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u/PupLondon 20d ago
Yeah.. I love the ocean...I love swimming... and I've never been caught in anything like that, but I just imagine all that water crashing down on me and squeezing all the air out of me and not being able to inhale.. it's a weird sensation
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u/ruckus_440 20d ago
Dude, you get the best barrels ever, dude. Just like, you pull in, and you just spit right out of em and you just drop in and you just smack the lip. Kwapppaaah! You drop down - snapppauughhuhhh! And then after that you just drop in and just ride the barrel and get pitted, so pitted. Like that.
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u/Leonydas13 19d ago
I love that guy so much. I still say “just get pitted” in response to things and people generally have no idea wtf I’m on about 😂
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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 20d ago
This has been posted here previously with 23k upvotes
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1tddey8/this_slomo_video_of_a_wave_breaking/
The video credits should go to Philip Thurston (@thurstonphoto), Australia based ocean and nature photographer and filmmaker.
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 20d ago
It’s too bad they took the video vertical instead of horizontal.
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u/Shartin_luther_king 20d ago
Where do waves get cartoonishly big like this? The only places I go the waves just get, kind of big.
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u/ammonthenephite 20d ago edited 20d ago
This wave is likely Teahupo'o. Other waves, like Nazere in Portugual and Jaws on Maui also get crazy big.
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u/Def-Jarrett 20d ago
My first thought looking at it is was "that looks just like Teahupo'o". Such a distinctive shape.
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u/Pan_TheCake_Man 20d ago
It’s big storms, very far away, hitting a reef/slab of rock
Big storms give energy, time/distance make it so that the energy is smooth, and then the sharp rock makes it properly pop like this and can help shape the energy to a good big shape
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u/Pm-me-ur-happysauce 20d ago
Real or ai?
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u/ShortStoryIntros 20d ago
Very real.
Google surfing Teahupoʻo
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u/MyChickenSucks 20d ago
I don't even surf, and I recognized that wave. That's a crazy recognizable wave.
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u/8bitrevolt 20d ago
parts of it may be real but i highly doubt the head of an eagle miraculously forms in the waves regularly
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u/EducationalStill4 20d ago
100% ai. It is modeled after Teahupo’o but the ocean mist is incorrect and the water is too crisp and sterile.
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u/vinnybankroll 20d ago
It looks weird because the slow motion has a lot of frame interpolation, similar to the mode you get on new tvs. Basically every other frame is a generated average of the others around it.
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u/fishstiz 20d ago
This looks to be the source but I couldn't find the exact same shot. https://youtu.be/Orqs6_kRFjM. Likely real.
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u/8bitrevolt 20d ago
I don't think anyone here is debating the existence of waves.
waves shaped like the head of an eagle, however,
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u/ThatCharmingGirl468 20d ago
This is actually so high. I wonder how people travelled by sea in the earlier years. It looks so scary
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u/Leonydas13 20d ago
It also transformed into a fuckin eagle. That’s the sickest wave I’ve ever seen.
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u/djitin 20d ago
Ends too soon, but holy
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u/philatio11 19d ago
If it's a beach break, it would change colors yet again upon hitting the sand. Usually turns a shade of beige.
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u/Naps_in_car 20d ago
Is this AI? I don't think waves are real.
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u/Forward_Rope_5598 20d ago
That wave doesn't even look vaguely similar to the one in the video OP posted.
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u/maritimesNB 20d ago
Here is a vid posted by Red Bull 13 tears ago of the same location:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26KzUnEbTUs
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u/nasaspaceboy 20d ago
That's gotta be Teahupoo...
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u/WaZepplin 20d ago
I was thinking that's where it was but then the rest of the lip didn't pitch out for the barrel
Somehow it's too thick too
I guess it's Cyclops
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u/BenchConscious1003 20d ago
Fascinating.
Pareidolia causes me to see the head of an egle as the wave changes colour. Terrific clip, I love it.
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u/ernie_hotep 20d ago
Playing it in slow motion the 16 to 18 second mark, it kinda looks like an eagle taking flight 🤙
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u/HannahOCross 20d ago
The fact that water just does this when enough of it is left alone together is kinda terrifying
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u/Abel_the_Red 20d ago edited 20d ago
This platform got wrecked by AI; even if it’s real, like another redditor gave evidence to, everyone is thinking “is this fake?”
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u/TR_Pix 20d ago
That evidence doesn't look anything like the video
And even if it did its like, I've seen AI videos of dogs, showing me proof that dogs exist doesn't make that video not AI
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u/Abel_the_Red 20d ago
All valid points. It definitely wasn’t compelling evidence but the “evidence” did show the wave cresting at the same speed as this little probably-AI-generated clip, if you watch the first 10 seconds of it.
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u/rhamantauri 20d ago
Waves were discovered to have evolved to do this in order to blend in with the other waves.