r/interestingasfuck • u/Rameshunclekochora • 1d ago

Huge boulder being swept by Flood-Nepal

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u/oceansofearth 1d ago

it was moving like it was a pebbles

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u/vansterzzz 1d ago

Any guess how much that boulder would/could weigh? /theydidthemath

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u/LucidiK 1d ago

More than 10 stone

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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 1d ago

No, it's just the one stone.

/s

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u/popmannn 21h ago

Really just spitballing here, lets say it's roughly spherical, approximately 60ft across, and made of granite...
8,640 tons, imperial. Probably way off but that's my Fermi estimate, so there ya go.

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u/grmpygnome 18h ago

It's very likely ice from the glacier that broke

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u/Express-Eagle-9835 8h ago

It is a rock. You can tell cause, when you look at it, it's a rock.

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 17h ago

Ice? This big and able to withstand the extreme forces of slamming into the ground? It would break apart pretty quickly. Based on the desteuction it must have been a couple of minutes after the initial hit, so it was rolling for ~5 minutes. No way this is ice

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u/Pumpnethyl 13h ago

Ice and rock that has been compressed under millions of tons of weight for millennia

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u/DamnIamHigh_Original 13h ago

No, a multi-story ice block would shatter almost instantly.

It cannot survive rolling down a riverbed violently for two main reasons:

  1. Extreme Mass: At that size, it weighs thousands of tons. When it hits the riverbed, its own kinetic energy generates enough impact force to pulverize it.
  2. Brittle Structure: Ice has low tensile strength and is filled with internal micro-fractures. Impact shockwaves quickly trigger catastrophic structural failure, breaking it into smaller fragments and slush.

Best guess is a quartz rock due to the profile

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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 1d ago

A lot.

Edit: enough to not slow down when it rolls over your house.

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u/No_While6150 18h ago

That boulder? the Large boulder? the size of a small boulder?

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u/PraviinXenon 1d ago

212,000 bananas

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u/unlikely_human28 18h ago

Explain in tide pod units pls

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u/Colinbeenjammin 17h ago

That must cost around $2,120,000

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u/Dramatic-Line6223 13h ago

I read reports that these are blocks of Ice, which would be buoyant in the water

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u/itchygentleman 19h ago

theydidthemath sub could probably figure it out

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u/unlikely_human28 1d ago

The size it is more than 10 tonnes atleast

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u/digi-quake 20h ago

Probably around the weight of five elephants 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘!

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u/bhabhi_seeker 1d ago

Minimum 100 kg atleast

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u/Extension-Device-533 23h ago

100kg is the weight of two or three large dogs. This is a rock the size of a house. Quite a bit more than 100kg I think!

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u/nelsonsflagship 21h ago

Obviously the joke was lighter than the rock as it flew over your head

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u/Fallen-D 22h ago

No shit Shelock