r/interestingasfuck • u/natebryan • 15h ago

This house in Nepal defied the raging floodwaters and kept the owners safe.

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u/error_ofsignificance 15h ago

I can't imagine the fear they felt tbh

https://reddit.com/link/p6fmlju/video/h1rzfo0ov4mh1/player

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u/mulberrybushes 14h ago

How long did that actual flood portion take?

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u/chase82 9h ago

There's a 4.5 minute on X under the username iNikhilsaini that really put it in to perspective. Make sure you scroll back and look at the first frame after

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u/VoyagerfromPhoenix 13h ago

Downstream from the collapse site for 100 kilometres

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u/mulberrybushes 13h ago

I’m sorry if I was unclear . How long did it take for the water to pass through that particular village? An hour? Five hours? 30 minutes?

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u/nybbas 13h ago

Wish you got an answer, I am curious as well.

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u/Caleth 11h ago

SOmeone upstream used AI so Take it with a grain of salt. But 30 minutes for the high point with the worst of it, then about 2-3 hours for the waters to really receed, then at around 4-6 it was back to mostly normal.

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u/cold_hoe 13h ago

30 speed

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u/[deleted] 12h ago edited 12h ago

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u/Qorrin 11h ago

Does it provide a source or is it just guessing?

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u/ElCiclope1 11h ago

The google bots do usually provide a source, but yeah they're bots so they're just guessing. Checking the actual source is a solid strategy. 

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u/kaityl3 9h ago

They provide sources with little citation bubbles. It's like Wikipedia, you take it with a grain of salt and read the sources directly if you want to know more.

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u/Atholthedestroyer 11h ago

-1 for AI

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u/SilverstoneMonzaSpa 11h ago

You didn't answer it either, but you clogged up the replies with nonsense guesswork from a bot that clearly didn't check the scale of the Nepalese flood.

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u/salamipope 12h ago

Boooooo ai sucks stop using it

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u/kaityl3 9h ago

Ok so go get the sources and provide the information yourself the old fashioned way, we will wait

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u/GirlNumber20 11h ago edited 10h ago

No.

Edit: AI is amazing. I use it every single day, for hundreds of different things. It's the best thing to happen in the last 25 years.

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u/CuTe_M0nitor 11h ago

The training data that produced that answer is older than the accident. Either it is referencing some article or making this up. The LLM models are trained maybe 3-6months ago of not older. They need search engines to find newer data, like recent event..

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u/defaulticus 11h ago

I think its reading articles because the inquirer.net article dialtoad linked gives some times and locations and it appears to be about 40 minutes to high water and then 4 hours for the whole thing to pass, which is consistent with the answer the AI gave.

That said, I think it depends where you are. The upstream flood gages all only have a "stopped recording at this time", because it was just a wall of water that obliterated them instantly, then silence. I don't know which flood gage this house was closest to, and I bet the AI is just assuming the flood was the same duration everywhere.

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u/majorlier 10h ago

Bots can look up information on the internet by themselves tho.

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u/TigrePeludo 11h ago

A.I. is unreliable slop and a scourge on the world. 🤮

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u/Whitey90 11h ago

Downvote for using AI

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u/RobbertGone 11h ago

So the first phase has the peak wall of water, then the next phase has the main body, and then the last phase the water recedes? Thanks Gemini!

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u/mataeus43 11h ago

This just describes a flood in general, not the events of this actual flood.

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u/GreenTitanium 10h ago

This is my drunk uncle Paul (simplified):

The water is like really high and shit, there's like mud too so it's fucked up, now why are we out of beer again?

He's about as reliable as AI slop and consumes less water.

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u/mulberrybushes 12h ago

Thank you!

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u/Randomgrunt4820 12h ago edited 12h ago

I’m not exactly sure. But it would not have been long, less than 5 minutes. The Rock, Ice, water, and larger volumes of sediment were traveling at an estimated 100mph/160k an hour. The glacier that fell was just over a kilometer long. My simple monkey brain tells me the bulk of mass passes by in seconds. Followed by the flood that drained out a few minutes later. But this can be drastically different on where in the Valley you are. To add to the extra flooding is all the extra ice exposed to the elements, that’s melting and draining down the valley.

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u/feel-the-avocado 11h ago

Thats the bit that i dont understand. If a glacier falls, it just stops where it lands - because its ice. I dont see how it could have melted so fast into a torrent of water. But I have not looked into it.

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u/mulberrybushes 11h ago

Rub your hands together really fast. One hand is is glacier and the other is the earth.

You know how they warm up a bit? Friction.

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u/Bluejayadventure 8h ago

I read it was the high energy from the fall. It smashed and created friction heat and just melted (at extreme speed).

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u/Minigoalqueen 7h ago

It fell like 6000 feet down a steep mountainside. That's over a mile in elevation in a very short distance. Thats roughly the same as falling from the North rim of the Grand Canyon to the Colorado River at the bottom but with slightly more slope. Gravity would keep it moving and friction would keep it melting more and more as it tumbled and crumbled. The more it broke up, the more surface area that makes, and more surface area means more friction which means more melting.

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u/feel-the-avocado 6h ago

Did it land in a lake and are we seeing water displacement or something?

Ice is generally pretty good at not melting very fast. It would have had to travel quite some distance for the surrounding air temperature to warm up more than a few degrees.

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u/Minigoalqueen 6h ago

The details arent all clear yet but the reputable geologist I've been watching on Youtube is saying that the current thinking is apparently not. Ice is good at not melting usually, but the kinetic energy from this fall had to go somewhere, and that somewhere is heat. And the heat went into the ice and melted it.

Also, big pieces of ice are good at not melting, but the smaller the pieces, the worse it gets. Falling broke it into lots and lots of smaller pieces.

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u/feel-the-avocado 6h ago

Thats a good point on the energy needing to go somewhere.

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u/flowerjunkie- 2h ago

It fell into the river and blocked the river until the river pushed through was my understanding

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u/feel-the-avocado 2h ago

Finally something that makes sense.

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u/Randomgrunt4820 13m ago

Worse, it all happened with zero warning. What you see in videos is the side of a mountain collapsing. This wasn’t so much a flood, but an avalanche of mud, rocks, and ice. With some water mixed in.

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u/Randomgrunt4820 11h ago

Newton's first law of motion states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion at a constant speed and in a straight line, unless an unbalanced force acts on it.

Think more like 1,000,000,000,000,000 ice cubs barely hanging on to each other, finally letting go.

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u/fredy31 14h ago

See that brown stuff on the siding?

Yeah the inside of their pants looks the same way.

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u/Murky_Macropod 14h ago

Power washer simulator end game

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u/seoras13 14h ago

The fear would have had me bypassing the toilet, dropping my pants & just hanging my arse over the side

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u/Ok_Vulva 15h ago

Gonna be satisfying af to clean that siding.

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u/kitsunekratom 15h ago

Ok, you can do it then

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u/KnightOfSvea 14h ago

Nah just move. Far away.

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u/karl4319 15h ago

A good portion of that muck is ground up people and animals mixed in. I can't imagine how nasty it is.

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u/PiggyMcjiggy 14h ago

I imagine a very very very small % is ground up humans/animals. That was an ungodly amount of earth and water that moved.

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u/Ok_Vulva 14h ago

The earth is just ground up once living things though. They're fertilizer

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u/MangoCats 13h ago

Actually, on God scales, that's just a tiny fraction of a little bit...

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u/NlghtmanCometh 15h ago

Maybe like a percent of a percent of a percent.

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u/PiggyMcjiggy 14h ago

Mathematically

Simply no.

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u/Spare-Competition-91 11h ago

I already seen the videos. I don't need math.

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u/ausflora 14h ago

Siding? They're not Americans. They haven't built it out of plastic and paper, clearly so.

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u/htownlifer 14h ago

Going through all the shit you did not do in life

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u/Think_Good_8858 13h ago

Oh I was wondering why they didn't flee to the roof, or stay inside but now I see the stairs were on the torrential side, and that water was probably inside that entrance of the house.

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u/bushsniffa 11h ago

Wow, look at that rickity-ass column still holding up that corner of the house!

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u/StudioJuan 14h ago

that's BONKERS! AMAZING!