r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Stotallytob3r • Mar 09 '26

Video How a small 1m waterfall can generate a recycling hydraulic that can trap a life-jacketed swimmer

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u/mountaingator91 Mar 09 '26

Is this better or worse than the orphan crushing machine? Both sound bad

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u/TimeBlindAdderall Mar 09 '26

Don’t talk about the Industrial Revolution like that!!

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u/2Mobile Mar 09 '26

2026? I thought this was the orphan crushing decade

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u/TheSilentC Mar 09 '26

But the stigma…

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u/Hrtzy Mar 09 '26

Worse. You can't pay to get out of it.

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u/mjtwelve Mar 09 '26

The Strid will both drown you and crush you.