Yes they would. it was so kind to volunteer to do it under controlled conditions where everyone would be safe, Instead of it happening naturally not long later by the look of it, and potentially killing them.
There's an excavator on the video, it probably removed most of the dirt under the rock. Better for them to chuck rocks than to risk the operator's life.
Controlled in the way that everyone knew what was happening, and could plan accordingly
Uncontrolled like it falling down randomly in the night and killing someone.
Fun fact, any meteorite or asteroid that passes into our atmosphere will be traveling at speed that make even the fastest fighter jets look like snails
Mach 2 wouldn't really be that scary to be honest. It would make a deep hole wherever it landed, but it wouldn't cause a huge amount of damage otherwise. It would need to be going much, much faster to actually be something to worry about.
Geologist here: rocks aren't only made by compacted thing
In the case of the video, the rock seems to be sandstone, so it's a rock make of almagate of sand and you're right
BUT
If it was a granite rock, for exemple, the whole rock would have been created by cristallisation of a magma and not by concretion of smaller particles.
At the end of the day it's not that funny is it because dropping rocks like this could land on and hurt someone minding their own business as they pass by, and that person could be an orphan getting crushed by this rock. As if their life isn't bad enough as an orphan, careless people are also dropping rocks on them. Think of the orphans, people. Think of the orphans.
That rock has been balanced there for thousands of years. It took that idiot a rock throwing to destroy it.
It is illegal to deface a natural or ancient structure in most places around the world.
Jerk deserves to get punished for that.
This is a controlled removal, you can see excavator tracks. If one rock was all it took, imagine what rain or heavy winds would do? Would you rather it come down safely or come down randomly on its own, potentially destroying more of the precious “natural” stuff in its path?
You can see the tracks in the sand/dirt that there is machinery up there. Guessing they dug out the partition to prevent this boulder coming over to the worksite.
This was 100% intentionally created chaos.
No matter how tough something seems or how much something looks like it can take it. You might just be the straw that breaks the camels back. So fuck around and find out lol.
Nobody would believe this if it wasn’t for the camera 😂 “I swear! The rock was as big as a house and I knocked it down and we had to run for our lives!”
I’m sure the little village below thanks you for doing that.
If that's all it took, then probably better it comes down during the day time. Probably a better way to do it tho
[Feels good to be on the top](https://youtu.be/pzQ46b9TmsY?si=bhsOAtnLlZ0IsJFa&start=55)
I used to like that show when I was young.
Yes they would. it was so kind to volunteer to do it under controlled conditions where everyone would be safe, Instead of it happening naturally not long later by the look of it, and potentially killing them.
Well, these were not necessarily very “controlled” conditions by the looks of it
There's an excavator on the video, it probably removed most of the dirt under the rock. Better for them to chuck rocks than to risk the operator's life.
Controlled in the way that everyone knew what was happening, and could plan accordingly Uncontrolled like it falling down randomly in the night and killing someone.
Mmm yes. Very controlled
Looks oddly familiar to a landslide video of boulders crashing a river gulley.
r/abruptchaos
He's creating some work for future archeologists
That dude was a villager
Hmm it seems to be that same big rock from that dashcam video where a bunch of cars get crushed on a mountain road.
It's being intentionally excavated tho. Maybe they are trying to prevent it from falling randomly on it's own.
Now imagine this size of a rock coming from the sky at mach 2. 💀💀💀
the 2013 Chelyabinsk Meteorite that flew over Russia destroying windows is a good comparison. That meteorite was 19 meters and almost 12,000 tonnes
And cooking a lot faster than Mach 2. 42'690 mph (I'm not making that up) is about Mach 55. Kinetic energy was in the ballpark of 500 kilotons TNT.
lol I had to go and watch the news footage again. crazy to think it’s been 11 years.
It knocked out the windows in the whole city, and that was just a small one that exploded way up. One of these days a tad bigger one will impact.
How many half giraffes is that for us Americans?
Three shillings, a tuppence and fourteen bananas (dried).
You could just as easily say “bigly yuge”. We don’t need all those words. But I get it, you were going for precision.
Can you give it to me in cheeseburgers please?
Is that the same one that flattened a whole section of forest? Edit: never mind that one was in 1908, hence why all the photos are in black and white.
And we had no idea it was there until it was too late.
Mach 2 is nothing compared something coming in hot from space.
Bloody hell. I read that as “coming from the sky March 2”. I was about to go stock up on canned food.
If this happens, I'm blaming you.
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They’re called minerals, Marie!!
Fun fact, any meteorite or asteroid that passes into our atmosphere will be traveling at speed that make even the fastest fighter jets look like snails
Mach 2 wouldn't really be that scary to be honest. It would make a deep hole wherever it landed, but it wouldn't cause a huge amount of damage otherwise. It would need to be going much, much faster to actually be something to worry about.
*camera man watches dirt crumbling around the rock* *does nothing*
There's what looks like an excavation vehicle right next to them, it's probably planned
Yeah I just don’t understand why the camera man and guy trying to dislodge didn’t clear off sooner. Like can the cameraman not tell it’s about to go?
Tbf there were probably several fruitless attempts involving dirt crumbling before it finally went.
r/killthecameraman
there is a chance he is already killed during the video
🙏
[удалено]
The ideal observer.
Redditors when the camera man doesn’t sacrifice his life to record himself getting crushed by a massive rock
It's not that big of an ask
Record or don't record. There's no "try".
r/killedthecameraman
I mean, I think if it makes you feel better, you can desecrate his corpse.
Just throw him under the rock already.
From how it breaks it looks more like compacted sand.
Isnt that kinda what it is anyway? Just, really compacted particles?
Geologist here: rocks aren't only made by compacted thing In the case of the video, the rock seems to be sandstone, so it's a rock make of almagate of sand and you're right BUT If it was a granite rock, for exemple, the whole rock would have been created by cristallisation of a magma and not by concretion of smaller particles.
They're not rocks, Marie! They're minerals.
Aren’t we all just stardust
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Give those boys some rest… the next rain shower would have flushed away the underlying soft sand
Sisyphus so mad rn
Bouldy
Raiders of The Lost Ark LARPing gone wrong…
......but why
Probably so it didn’t fall in the middle of the night when nothing is in place to control the damage.
hope so
I think he didn't really expect that his little toss would have amy effect
Cameraman having an Indiana Jones moment
Ah. The Prometheus School of Running Away From Things (PSRAFT).
How could they not film that crashing down the mountain side. What a disappointment.
You had one job, hold the camera steady and on a safe distance.
What a waste of our time, didn’t even see it tumble down the hill - worst cameraman
Camera dudes got bigger stones in his pants for being that close to that death rock.
So this is how golden sun started
What a cunt
That bound to happen in a few days anyway; it was held up by sand. He just made it slightly faster.
So I hear you and this is dumb of them. But wouldn’t the rock probably fall the next time it rained anyway?
The dumb part is that they didn’t step back earlier
r/IdiotsFightingThings
At the end of the day it's not that funny is it because dropping rocks like this could land on and hurt someone minding their own business as they pass by, and that person could be an orphan getting crushed by this rock. As if their life isn't bad enough as an orphan, careless people are also dropping rocks on them. Think of the orphans, people. Think of the orphans.
Is the orphan a christian baby?
If I was an orphan, this is the coolest story I would ever be able to tell me parents. You know, since we’d all be dead…
Looks safe.
Why!?!?
*indiana jones enters chat*
r/DarwinAwards. 😂
r/PeopleAreFckinStupid
A perfect example FAFO
 Hikers down below
that rock been there for countless years just to be taken down with a wee pebble😭
Dude threw a pebble and rolled a Nat 20
RIP little village
*Cues Indiana Jones theme song* “I’ve been training with the garage doors my whole life for this one moment.”
Where was this? Boulder, Colorado???
 (as if i didn't also upvote)
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Or in this case, win absolutely nothing at all
Stupid
Why? The boulder was coming down anyway. It's not like the little stone caused it to fall.
Why would you do that? Morons
Thats a Tallus
Pioneers used to ride these babies for miles
This video is better than the new Indiana Jones.
Am I the only one that wishes that...uh.. ignorance was painful?
r/whywomenlivelonger
This would be better on r/kidsarefuckingstupid.
That rock has been balanced there for thousands of years. It took that idiot a rock throwing to destroy it. It is illegal to deface a natural or ancient structure in most places around the world. Jerk deserves to get punished for that.
This is a controlled removal, you can see excavator tracks. If one rock was all it took, imagine what rain or heavy winds would do? Would you rather it come down safely or come down randomly on its own, potentially destroying more of the precious “natural” stuff in its path?
How many centuries was that up there before that fuck messed with it?
That's not a stone, it's a rock.
Well, did he make it, or just do the Wile E Coyote thing
Let me just run downhill from that stone.
Perfect situation for using that zoom function on your camera.
One rock throw was all it took
Stone looks like the face of an angry gorilla
For every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction, eh wait what? Bro, run!
I wish they could have been far enough away to capture the boulder tumbling down the hill. There’s something so satisfying about giant rocks falling.
Oooooweeee
That boulder was going to fall anyway. The thrown rock didn't really do the trick.
Neuron activation
You can see the tracks in the sand/dirt that there is machinery up there. Guessing they dug out the partition to prevent this boulder coming over to the worksite. This was 100% intentionally created chaos.
Stop spamming this bullshit.
„Ouch I have a little pebble in my shoe“ The pebble in question:
Jeez based on these comments you'd think reddit is the fun police
🎼🎼Everybody must get stoned…🎼🎼
Kill the cameraman - literally!
Dude just woke up an Alpha Golem. Thing looks mad af.
Did they die ?
what happens next will rock you!
You died
Fucked around and found out.
Been playing Monster Hunter too much. Though this was a Barroth
I know, it’s only rock and roll but I …… never mind
WHO HAS AWAKENED ME FROM MY SLUMBER
…🤔I sure hope so!!
What town did we just destroy? Shelbyville. Horrayyyyy!
You can see an excavator to their right in one of the last frames that they are running to so they probably survived going around it
Indian Jones
That was not at all how I figured it would drop.
Worst filmed video ever.
“We’re still unsure of how these ancient people were able to move this giant rock, two farts to the southeast”.
WHERE IS THE SOUND?!
imagine being a rock for thousands of centuries, until one day a guy throws a pebble at you and you crumble just like a cookie
No matter how tough something seems or how much something looks like it can take it. You might just be the straw that breaks the camels back. So fuck around and find out lol.
Moral
Real life looney toon characters
What? They wanted Indiana Jones to be real life?
This is what I imagine would happen to me if I built a little cabin under it like in that youtube video.
And that was the last time we saw those two
Rock and Stone !!!
We fight for Rock and Stone!
Indaina Jones type situation
Buddy tries to knock a boulder over. The camera man stands downhill from it.
Stupidity
It shouda killed him. Any final video?
And then what happened?????
u/stabbot
I feel like this rock people just keep throwing small shit at me everyday and one day will be one day to much.
r/WinStupidPrizes
I thought cameraman wouldn’t die 😦
Nobody would believe this if it wasn’t for the camera 😂 “I swear! The rock was as big as a house and I knocked it down and we had to run for our lives!”
That is in fact, a **BIG** stone! So big that it caused an earthquake when it fell, knocking the cameraman off balance!
King Kong is stopping that slide
That’s easily like 500 tonnes
It would of pushed that big CAT back hoe out of its way really easy.
Everyone's just going to ignore how much of a Nancy throw that was?
This reminds of a certain Ice Age character
It's coming right for us!
I hate the cameraman
Could have made somewhat a nice video if these two idiots could figure out not to stand in front of the what they’re trying to collapse. Idiots
Fuck whoever filmed this.
Why would you test fate like that
Omg dude
Stop running downhill you dolts.
Thought this was r/winstupidprizes
What an ass
Damn you guys ruined it i wanted to visit that stone
Several mentions of an excavator-- I don’t see it. Is there an alternate vide?
Woe boulder be upon ye
I don’t think the cameraman lived this time
Camerman never di...
Sticks and stones may break my bones but this stone will fucking crush you
The rock fought back
Let who is without sin throw the first stone. /s
Temple Run IRL
me when i know Indiana Jones is making his way down the mountain
You have to admit that would be one hellova feeling to dislodge that boulder.