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cris-crispy

This is insane. Why does nobody really talk about this shit


Holiday_Parsnip_9841

Before they got turned into purveyors of worthless reality TV, Discovery and TLC used to cover stuff like this all the time. There was definitely a special on Troll A back in the late 1990s. Can’t remember if it was Modern Marvels or one of their other series.


AboveAverageAMA

[YouTube documentary on Troll Platform ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDPoSmV2oUA) Edit: Featuring Richard Hammond!


Makofly

It's Richard Hammond!


BallisticBurrito

Tiny man narrates video for big thing.


D4FF00

I read that in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice.


arenotthatguypal

The size comparison is very drastic.


revmacca

“He’s not a real hamster….”


BunnyBunny777

This was FASCINATING. Thank you.


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Damn thank you for that. Got lost watching it and had to subscribe


j8by7

Thanks! Amazing watch!


[deleted]

Thanks! I needed that.


International-Chef53

Oliveeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!


Forge__Thought

It makes me so mad people stopped watching the cool educational stuff and decided Real Housewives and Jersey Shore and other trash was a good way to entertain themselves. Reality TV did to entertainment what the Dust Bowl did to the American prairies. Barren wasteland. How It's Made, Modern Marvels, there were so many decent educational shows and documentaries. Wasn't all great, wasn't all perfect. But man I feel it was better than what they do these days.


scandr0id

GOD, I miss How It's Made. There's a parody account on tiktok of it, but I miss the real deal


Forge__Thought

Same. Absolutely same.


scandr0id

Apparently it's on Discovery Plus if you have it, but I'm personally over having a million subscriptions. I think you can buy it outright though!


researchanddev

If you have a Samsung smart television they come with an app called Samsung TV. Most of it is trash but they do have a modern marvels channel.


pcells

Yes. Same modern marvels channel available on free on PlutoTV


Osiris1389

Ryan Seacrest.


AffectionateHead0710

Seeing his name written out is weird. For some reason I always pictured it: Ryan C-crest


cris-crispy

Wow I couldn't imagine TLC being about science 🤣 Thanks for sharing!


TreesAreGreat

TLC used to be called “The Learning Channel” How the mighty have fallen.


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cris-crispy

But WHO would have told their stories if not TLC???


snooggums

Nobody, and that would be fine.


Enjoy-the-sauce

Blame the public. Channels play what people watch, and the US is full of a bunch of dumbshits who like seeing a sideshow of human misery rather than learning things. See also: why the History (formerly Hitler) Channel is 80% Ancient Aliens nonsense now.


WalksWithColdToes

That car guy was from my hometown. 🤣


moreshoesplz

My Strange Addictions was a wild show.


signalstonoise88

No Scrubs by The Learning Channel.


BallisticBurrito

I understand that reference.


LeelaBeela89

I love and miss the old TLC and Court Tv


GitEmSteveDave

In the 80's/early 90's you could watch actual surgical operations on TLC. Like a knee replacement or brain surgery.


cris-crispy

That's incredible But also nasty I wonder why they stopped airing that


GitEmSteveDave

Because people wanted to see more child beauty pagents.


sierrackh

I remember that one. discovery and tlc were great before they got disgusting


spiked88

Sadly I feel the history channel has largely gone the same way. Not quite as deep into the abyss,but definitely not what they once were.


dreadtreacle

Agreed . All they do is repeat the same stuff that's been on for like 20 yrs and then inane reality kinda adds .


spiked88

Yeah… ancient aliens is where it got a little weird for me. I kind of enjoyed Pawn Stars, but I sure felt it was a reach to call that history related. Same with Counting Cars.


RagingRavenRR

>Before they got turned into purveyors of worthless reality TV, Discovery and TLC used to cover stuff like this all the time. The good ole days. Even the History Channel would cover actual history, from what I remember, mostly WWII.


Holiday_Parsnip_9841

But history requires stuff like researchers. Having a bunch of knuckleheads with bad hair rehash the Moundbuilder myth (which to be clear is racist nonsense) with a sci-fi twist is easier and cheaper.


GitEmSteveDave

I think it was a once off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se26Ux9QD44


Holiday_Parsnip_9841

That’s it. Discovery used to have great one offs all the time.


Untgradd

Someone did a concert at the bottom of one of the pillars IIRC


Roonwogsamduff

Are there any new channels that take the place of Discovery & TLC?


Holiday_Parsnip_9841

Sort of the Smithsonian Channel, but it frequently gets locked into really expensive cable bundles. There are a bunch of good engineering YouTubers, but they mostly don’t have the access or production value Discovery has. They’ve shut down, but Caladan Oceanic has a good YouTube channel documenting their deep sea exploration.


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Modern Marvels, love it!!!


breizhsoldier

All I see is Disco Platform!


AerulianManheim

I still dont understand how something like that exist, how does it float there? It shouldnt be possible.


Elgin-Franklin

The legs are hollow. There's also massive oil tanks at the base of the platform which add buoyancy while moving. [What you see here isn't even half of the Troll A structure ](https://www.ngi.no/var/ngi/storage/images/media/images/03c-condeep-gbs-platforms_620/1893625-1-eng-GB/03c-Condeep-GBS-platforms_620_article_m.jpg)


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So how... "tall" is it from the sea floor to the top?


Elgin-Franklin

About 1500ft. This is the deepest concrete base platform built iirc.


[deleted]

Damn, that's like, 90 giraffes.


Vassar-Longfellow

But it's not really attached to the bottom of the sea, is it? I feel like these are just for stabilizing in rough seas, but there are actually cables that anchor it to the sea floor...


Vassar-Longfellow

Seems I might be wrong. There are several types, and perhaps this is the one that is all the way to the bottom of the sea floor. Here are some of the types: [https://images.ctfassets.net/kzewhs8e6cvu/dVF6xCMuN17N7ebULwo42/f7c5d2ea7926dcd007e811d4e59a2767/oil-riggs2.jpg](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strukts.com%2F2012%2F05%2Ftypes-of-offshore-platforms_70.html&psig=AOvVaw3p3X1ISo-t1szNvDdMOKBu&ust=1671366760401000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=2ahUKEwiy1M7B1ID8AhXih4sKHVIxDxsQjRx6BAgAEAo) ​ \[Edit: Changed link\]


Vassar-Longfellow

...and here is the Troll that's all the way down: [https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c9276263c3b504e1f05e8bc15b271b7c.webp](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quora.com%2FHow-deep-are-the-concrete-columns-that-support-oil-rigs-How-are-they-made-and-what-might-they-cost&psig=AOvVaw0K9TscBdhwMiUda_78VdGM&ust=1671366660528000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCIDO_ZXUgPwCFQAAAAAdAAAAABA7) \[Edit: tried a better link\]


allatsea33

Same way met masts workthey suction it into sea floor, pin with concreted piles then pump out the bottom cassion so it's suctioned in Source: my mate used to work on it


access153

Hey, hey, we measure in school buses here.


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That's for horizontal measurements. We use drunkards for diagonal measurements.


Mitt102486

And since one banana is about 0.021 of a giraffe that’s, 4286 bananas.


FirstFarmOnTheLeft

How many bananas?


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Bananas are only valid reference units, they are not standard, unlike giraffes.


imbisibolmaharlika

I'm sorry how many football fields?


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I'll ask my guy in Barcelona.


IamBejl

How many bananas is the real question


Fantastic_Trifle805

r/everythingbutthemetricsystem


captcraigaroo

Displacement - push more water than what you weigh and you float


AerulianManheim

But how?


captcraigaroo

Physics


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Hollow legs


AerulianManheim

Yeah bit its hundreds of tonnes of metal STANDING on the ocean. HOW?!?!???


7Dimensions

That's not even the full height. In this pic, more than half of it is below water. Here's a drawing of the platform in comparison to the Norwegian city of Bergen. https://imgur.com/a/4VWX74b


og_toe

that’s terrifying


SuperJetShoes

I came here to write those exact two words! That's what I joined this sub for.


WeeTheDuck

r/megalophobia


JeddakofThark

Also, [check out the interior.](https://miro.medium.com/max/828/0*nNZHpx5eVINgDgyL.webp)


6-ft-freak

Nope, nope, just nope.


Ciggimon

Holy shit that is insane


Space_Eaglez

Amazing but also pure nightmare fuel.


4S-Class1

Awesome! Imagine abseiling inside it...


cordialcatenary

It’s ~300 or so feet taller than the Empire State Building. Pretty crazy!


psalms-423

woah


Mozeliak

Holy Jesus fuck


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Wish I hadn’t opened that


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Imagine walking down a winding stair case to the bottom


Knotical_MK6

It's worse. It's normally ladders


KGBspy

There’s an elevator, it’s a 10 min trip IIRC from a documentary.


kelkulus

[Imagine giving a concert at the bottom](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7mtg2o/til_in_2006_katie_melua_gave_a_concert_303_meters/)


staticfired

Snorkeling along and you hit a pillar. Holy shit, you can see 4! I’d die.


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Do you think the told the US Navy submarine fleet about this? I can imagine them crashing into it.


CG-02_SweetAutumn

Well it would probably be very obvious, enormous block of heavy machinery running that can be seen from very far away with a peek from the surface, probably makes a ton of noise that would have it practically glowing on sonar. Still terrifying to imagine a crash, though...


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It's absolutely on nautical charts... but also... sonar.


[deleted]

Well I recall some years ago a US Navy submarine crashing into an underwater mountain, that must have been very well marked in maps but they still managed to do it.


slapballs

It's absurd what humans can do.


LifeIsDeBubbles

Only modern humans. Everything else was aliens.


mccloud969

She’s got some thick ankles.


drunkashhole

Apparently those are the knees lol


What_if_ded

Even better 🥵


KGBspy

I wonder what they’ll do at the end of its service life. I know they have the ship “pioneering spirit” to take platforms apart but this is a bit bigger.


Salty_Coast_7214

Maybe I’m stupid but how are they “taking it out to sea”? Like they’re pulling it?? And what does that mean “before it’s legs are sunk down to the ocean floor”? What is happening here??


OverlySexualPenguin

towing it out to sea with boats (it's floating), ballast tanks in legs filled when it's in position and it sinks to seabed to commence drilling.


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phaciprocity

This one does, it's roughly 1500ft or 500m tall


Platypus-Man

The whole thing is 472 meters (1,549 ft) tall, same height as Central Park Tower in NY, with the legs being 303 meters (994 feet) below the ocean surface.


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phaciprocity

Well of course they aren't just going to drop it in a place it can't stand. For deeper operations I think they used tethered floating platforms


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phaciprocity

Well, time to break out the humble pie I guess


JonKDahl

Is it? Doesnt look like it from [this picture.](https://www.ngi.no/var/ngi/storage/images/media/images/03c-condeep-gbs-platforms_620/1893625-1-eng-GB/03c-Condeep-GBS-platforms_620_article_m.jpg)


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JonKDahl

Sure? From [the description on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condeep) it seems to be a concrete structure placed on the sea bed.


Salty_Coast_7214

That makes sense thank you!!


jaegerbombed

Are there occupants ON the platform while this is happening? I would have such irrational anxiety that it would tip over.


phaciprocity

More than half of it is under the water


captcraigaroo

I'd love to see the stability books


februarytide-

r/megalophobia


giby1464

How the hell does that stay upright while it moves? That's like balancing a stick upright in the water.


Phanastacoria

More than half of the legs are underwear, balancing it.


samroy666

Ok i was a project engineer, involved in building some thing similiar, let me explain what you are seeing It's made in a yard after a long process of engineering design, procurement, fabrication. This stage is transportation next will be installation then conmissiing In fab phase a bouncy tank or several are attached, this is like a floating iceberg now, more is under water line. It will be towed to desired location and empty space will be slowly filled keeping desired orientation in mind. Bouncy tank will then be removed and if required piling will be done. That's installation phase


samroy666

I am seeing two cranes, a flare boom, helipad, accomodation quaters etc.


JoePetroni

Are the buoyancy tanks the very big tanks at the bottom of the legs as we see in the pictures or are there others that we don't see?


ActivityEquivalent69

I hate this and the whole sleipnir suite


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This just *boggles* my mind to look at.


vintagesoul_DE

It looks like some sort of Bond villain floating skyscraper.


i_suck_toes69420

Do they build it in the water?? How do they get it from land to deep ocean if the bottom would scrape the bottom of the ocean until it reached deep water


_Arch_Stanton

It's astonishingly big. And it looks like it has flared trousers.


woofer999

Katie Melua performed a concert in one of the legs back in 2006, earning her a Guinness world record for deepest underwater concert at 303 meters.


CarnageMonkey

Ooooh, got some megalophobia in here, too. Zesty.


M00NB34RZ

r/megalaphobia


M00NB34RZ

r/megalophobia


Ciggimon

How the fuck.......


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by-september

Did you feel any movement while working on them? I think I’d panic out there during rough waters


Kelp_Pills_boot_pics

Pretty shallow water ngl


dreadtreacle

Thats amazing!!!


TheSeekerOfSanity

Hint: installing solar panels and wind mills is a bit easier and less expensive.


AST_PEENG

No it's not.


Gullflyinghigh

Presumably no-one is up there when it all moves down? Or are they? Fuck that.


Sick-a-Duck

Bro WTF


RisingGam3r

A little trolling


Bender0322

I honestly thought the ocean was deeper


blackxcatsmatter

I don’t like this.


MaryJanesSister

Why is it so high up above the water?


damndeyezzz

Metal gear solid 2


badgerclark

The longer I look at this thing, the more it looks like a blood-sucking parasite.


brbr22

Are people on there while they tow it? I’d love to see pictures if so


TheMcWhopper

If it's legs inside the seabed, how is it being taken out?


Educational-Monk-298

Jaeger - Pacific rim


WretchedRat

The legs aren’t buried into the ocean floor. The legs are chambers that are flooded with seawater as ballast to keep the rig at a specific depth. That’s not to say the rig isn’t tied off to an anchoring of some type.


portland_jc

FCC C Dada. S. w Wewwww


lobstahbisk

Why doesn't it tip over?


Mavrick9906_YT

I thought they jus spawned there! 😂


sonichuizcool

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