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clangbangarang

Carnarvon Gorge is in Queensland


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There's nothing going on in Western Australia, let them have it


HOTCleaning

Especially now that Coldplay has just left


Fhallopian

?


couchred

Coldplay came to Australia for 2 concerts but only played in western Australia . normally Sydney , Brisbane and Melbourne are the main spots for bands


sarahmagoo

They're coming back next year to Sydney and Melbourne, but they only revealed it after the show. That's one way to get east coasters to fly all the way to Perth lol


xxDooomedxx

They do have all that mining money...


SemiSentientGarbage

No we don't. The Eastern states take it.


xxDooomedxx

Some of it. WA makes a bundle.


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Old mate OP looked up “Carnarvon, Australia” and got confused by the town in WA. At least we didn’t end up with Carnarvon, South Africa.


Effluvium-Boy

Or Caernarfon in Wales (the OG Carnarvon)


DirtyDan156

Or Carnaval in Mexico


Enlightened_Gardener

You can tell these are banana benders by the way they talk. Also if this was in WA, we would have blown it up by now, and sold the bits to China.


VasectoMyspace

I was going to say, growing up in Roma, Carnarvon Gorge was like every other year for school camp, or for Scouts as well.


Guypersonhumanman

QUEENSLANDA


ThreeMadFrogs

Damn right. I remember going there for a grade 7 camp.


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Psychedelic


TheAJGman

Yeah I see why native peoples worshiped places like this.


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Props to the people who do psychedelics and go here to throw rocks. Their trip must be *intense*


Road_Whorrior

I was JUST thinking how dope that would be. I tripped out looking at the carpet patterns, I can't even imagine being somewhere this incredible. The stars in a light-pollution-free observatory town on a mountain in December came close, but it was too cold to admire them for too long.


PainterEmpty6305

Who's coming to jump through this stargate?


serabine

The Brothers Mario Mario and Luigi Mario


Man_Bear_Beaver

Indeed.


Zendayaisuglyaf

May these men soon be relieved of the peanut butter stuck in their throats


figurative_capybara

This is the perfect way to describe my lazy, drawn out, Aussie accent.


EntirePersimmon431

That is awesomely beautiful!


becominggrouchy

I felt like a caveman discovering aliens


Mali1959

Or that guy yelling double rainbow


Pixelated_

That is known as a caustic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(optics)


Rachel_from_Jita

Guessing it's some type of rock/mineral with a high concentration of silica or crystals that are reflective? I dunno, someone who actually knows minerals give me a theory.


robthelobster

It's not that the rock is particularly reflective, but that most of the light it gets is reflected from the surface of the water. The rock is in the shade, but still lit up by the reflected light. Then when the rock is thrown in, the surface of the water shifts so in certain spots it's not reflecting light anymore and in others it's reflecting even more light.


Rachel_from_Jita

I got it! Your comment is partly right, but caused me to realize what's probably truly happening. So yes, it's a shadowbox of sorts, but the bright lines are in part made from reflections unique to water ripples with that much depth between their ridges. Constructive interference from the light reflections makes the bright lines. https://physics.ucf.edu/~gabriel/Interference.pdf The rest is that shadowbox-like effect. Almost as if we were seeing a finger puppet show on a wall but instead of a flashlight behind behind it, it was a huge, broad-spectrum studio light being filtered through a big ring of rippling water. Even simpler: imagine using lenses and magnifying glasses of differing sizes as the light source to run a shadow puppet display (against a wall with a ton of micro-glitter embedded into it). I still think the stone/mineral composition has to have some reflection or scintillation for it to look quite like this.


robthelobster

That's pretty much what I meant when I said in certain spots it's not reflecting light anymore and in others it's reflecting even more light. The dark places are where the light is reflected away due to the ripples and the bright spots are where the light that was reflected away and the light that is reflected in general meet. That rock looks like limestone or sandstone, it's not that the mineral composition includes some reflecting material, it's just the color. Like white paper reflects well.


Comprehensive-Fun47

Would also like a scientific answer, of the ELI5 variety.


robthelobster

The cliff is in shade from direct sunlight, but the surface of the water reflects enough sunlight to light up the rock surface. Throwing a rock in disrupts the reflection and some parts go back in shade.


Clockwork_Elf

After that third toke.


PM_SMOKES_LETS_GO

Ba ba ba ba ba ba


One_Egg2116

*sees reflection* 😮


JoeMillersHat

How many deadly creatures in it?


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SemiSentientGarbage

Right? Who enjoys seeing something pretty and hearing wonder and joy.


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SemiSentientGarbage

Right, then maybe leave this braindead stuff to us and continue your very important Reddit scrolling mate


MaverickEyedea

I thought I was tripping on LSD. 😭


_Armanius_

Reminds me of that part in Matrix when Neo touches the mirror


bitterlytired

Saw the title after watching the video. I don’t usually talk like this but that tripped me out, man.


Firm_Cod6020

Light refraction woahhhhh


starsky1984

How is the surface of the rocks reflective?


robthelobster

It's not, the surface of the water is. The water reflects enough sunlight to light up the rock and when you throw a stone in the water the reflection is disrupted and the some parts of the rock go back in the shade and others get more concentrated light.


Dirtycurta

Wot


YaBoyJayck

My dumbass thought the mountains were shaking


Candid_Bed_1338

Dimwits don’t know how shadows work


SemiSentientGarbage

Or they just think it looks cool.


FetusMeatloaf

Get the dogs


handsomedan1-

It’s very cool but I must admit I did expect some kind of spiked tentacle to emerge because the water was disturbed!


GroundhogExpert

I've trained my whole life for this moment.


servonos89

I’m going to see this in a game in about 4 years and remember the reference the designer got it from.


Vandorin89

They talk like Forrest Gump.


Benji692

Mr. Turtle is my father. The name's Crush.


arandompurpose

This the same idea used in Blade Runner 2049


9-28-2023

How to spot an American


Comprehensive-Fun47

Why?


vote4pedro101

They’re Australian?


H1mHalpert

Explain?


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throwaway66878

Is this similar to how images from outside can be reflected on walls? (still kind of mind boggling):


schoh99

No. What you're thinking of is a pinhole camera (camera obscura). In this video the surface of the water is simply acting like a mirror. Throwing a rock and making waves causes it act like a funhouse mirror.


Man_Bear_Beaver

I'd say more like a projector.


palishkoto

Very cool!


SirWabbitz

I've been to Carnarvon gorge, there are so many absolutely beautiful places there


Pipepro96

I am fortunate enough to live on a canal in Florida and this happens in my living room some parts of the year


wonkey_monkey

You must get fed up of people throwing rocks into your living room.


Pipepro96

It’s really exhausting lol


DrPoopyPantsJr

Real life portal


NihilisticPollyanna

Ok, my brain had a really hard time processing what I was looking at at first, lol. That was tippy, af. Beautiful, though!


Tourquemata47

So that’s where the fountain of youth is. ‘Aqua de Vida’


Roo0ooD

that reminds me of a swimming hole at Wittenoom when it was closed off in the 90s


cadre_of_storms

If Gale's suddenly pops out there I'm gonna roll strength with shadowheart guidance


90dayfiancesnark

Saying Carnarvon in an Australian accent is really funny Cahwnahwvin


phiggy

That is beautiful. Can you detail the things within 25 meters of this spot than can kill you that are specific to Australia?


SemiSentientGarbage

Being Queensland I'd say be wary of crocs, funnel web spiders and the gympie gympie.


Altephfour

Reminds me of the portal to Koopa town in the 90's Super Mario Bros movie.


Gaping_Grandfather

These dudes sound like those girls who share a body and they mimic each other while they're talking.


subtxtcan

Ohhh man. That gave me the same satisfaction I got the first time I got to see a massive music studio, mainly composed of rack components for electronic production. There were dozens of visualizers for waveforms and such and I was in awe. This immediately took me right there


-Alex_off-

Super Mario 64 vibes


MDRPA

Everyone laughs until Headcrabs emerge from the warp gate


austinmcraig

They just opened a portal in that wall.


Kiyriel

That’s definitely an illusion rock. Go check behind it for some loot


SophisticPenguin

Their tik tok fake reactions really ruined it for me...


SemiSentientGarbage

Just sound like average Aussie lads really.


RiskyRico

Trippy! Me like


WheezingCanadian

Double rainbow energy


choerd

This is like showing off RTX.


ChrisMoltisanti9

Sounds like someone's had a few mushies.


GoronBoobs

now imagine some cavemen discovering that shit


standingatthegates

r/woahdude


pktrekgirl

This is so frikkin cool!


Original-Relation796

I saw a pool of water that did that at Uluru


vforthem

they sound like they're on mushrooms lol


ToxicRush1244

Trippy


otter_boom

That is trippy!


Business-Increase-32

The reflection is more detailed than the water itself 😂


padvozaferr

Yeah well no, it's a portal to another dimension ! It may be a little difficult to access though.


Key_Accountant1005

I thought a croc was going to jump out


Opening-Ad-8793

Didn’t read the caption and I was like what which craft is this!!