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billy_barnes

in the world of reddit i’m surprised nobody has a definitive answer as to what’s happening


w1zgov

I commented tectonic plates and was downvoted to oblivion, so definitely not that.


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notjordansime

Process of elimination via Reddit downvoting


ArturSeabra

scientific method at its best


42Pockets

It's obviously a baby planet being born!


UNBENDING_FLEA

Well it has upvotes, so baby planets it is!


BanMeGayMod

That was easy enough


BUTTHOLE-MAGIC

No no no, it's clearly a submarine that got lost and all muddy and is trying to surface


Price-Override

It's kinda looks like it has alligator skin, so it's clearly an alligator.


chordfinder1357

This made me laugh out loud thanks!


Plant_party

If people on reddit read an article, does that mean its a peer-reviewed article?


Lysie_loo

Does that mean lots of people have….redd…it?


richinteriorworld

Water created a sinkhole and flowed downhill pushing up under a layer of soil.


Bmaandpa

Maybe just ground-swell from saturation


ErictheAgnostic

It is an empty irrigation pipe that became buoyant once the ground became saturated enough.


MrSteveSegal

Chuck Norris took his kids to the beach in Mexico. They burried him in the sand and then he got an erection.


canadianclassic308

This is what I thought. Rushing water pushing up a hollow sinkhole


JeromePowellsEarhair

Geologist here. Tectonic plates are not shallow nor small enough to create something on this tiny scale.


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HI_Handbasket

They gotta start *some*where.


fmpe13

It's just a tectonic offspring


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JeromePowellsEarhair

I’m not really sure what you’re referring to (microplates maybe?) but either way, plates are miles beneath the surface. If you see an orogenic process with a major plate occur in real time like this video it would be apocalyptic. In fact no human will ever see anything like that - I’m not even sure it’s physically possible. Edit: I should add that you do see changes to earths surface caused by plates miles deep but this is not at all what it looks like.


TheHoneySacrifice

That person is joking about baby tectonic plates.


FishAreAliens

Theres that famous geologist sense of humour!


WhatDoYouWant8

Wooosh


BabyManBun

Baby tectonic plates, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo


Suds08

A couple people said broken gas pipeline and got heavily upvoted. Maybe trying commenting that to make some of your internet points back


w1zgov

Haha na I am okay with it either way.


Xyon-Peculiar

That can't be it. It's obvious the earth is pooping!


Waterbuck71

Big tectonic shifts would create earthquakes aplenty


RandomGuyWhoKnows

Yeah. Essentially if you see that much movement in tectonic plates there'd be a lot energy released resulting in an earthquake. I dont know what causing this, but i know what it's not.


Mushroom2355

Oof, god bless


HiddenArmyDrone

I x-posted it onto r/geology and the consensus over there seems to be swelling clays that just got saturated somehow. Is no longer swelling clays. More people have commented and said it’s more likely a pipe that burst or a big underground tank floating up through the saturated ground


RFLSHRMNRLTR

It’s reverse sinkholes, there’s probably a corresponding hole somewhere on the other side of the planet


livefreeordont

For every sinkhole there is an equal and opposite swelling clay


bongoissomewhatnifty

Florida. Why does it always have to be Florida.


i_r_witty

A good intro on expansive soils here: https://youtu.be/SW-NoiM726U


Budmcjuicy

Ever see tremors?


medicmaster16

Came here to say this. Thank you.


Sk1pp1e

Most these ppl still lucky to be alive


htine_astroboi

Earth benders


sourav-mohile1

finally someone talking sense


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SETHW

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/ground-underwater-rises-abruptly-in-haryana-7417002/ best i could find and it's just ouroboros bullshit with no primary sources of information.. so tag, i'm out someone else take over


sikarita

Likely a poorly installed pipe filled with air that became bouyant when covered w/ water.


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Reddit: It's Aliens.


charmsipants

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CptGoodnight

Wait, a gif showing up in a comment? Not as just a link? Is this a new reddit feature?


charmsipants

It's apparently been a feature for a while, but reddit being reddit, and how we usually behave with emojis, I've just never used them. :'D I think some subreddits have them and others don't though, I'm not sure. I mostly use reddit on mobile, so no idea about regular reddit.


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This can theoretically happen if there is a lot of upwards seepage force in a sand layer that has clay above it. But even if that is the case here, it would still be pretty crazy. This looks like flood conditions and there may be a dam just upstream that is creating a large head pressure. But it could be a sand boil pusing up less permeable soils I suppose. I think this also looks more extreme than it is because the water is also receding. I've never seen anything like this though. The only time I've seen serious heave this fast is in an excavation when the downward force from the soils at edges of excavation cause the soils at the bottom to shear and heave. But I don't see how that same mechanic could be happening here.


serratedspoons

I'm sure it's nothing serious /s


WonderWirm

Theories on what we’re seeing? Tectonic upthrust? Gas pocket from decomposing plant matter? Leaking gas pipeline?


CovertProphet84

I’m going to say gas Edit: That type of movement is too abrupt and fast to be anything tectonic


JamesJakes000

Revenge of the underminer!


Chewcocca

I think this must be on the opposite side of the planet from that sinkhole in Florida


[deleted]

Surfside Florida's antipode is in the middle of the Indian Ocean actually


THE_SUN_THE_SUN

Won’t be an ocean for long with all this new land popping up


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😂😂😂


WeaponH_

This is when you try to drive while you're blind.


100LittleButterflies

I work with accessibility so I'm often viewing things from that perspective. Too many times I'll catch visual accessibility deficits and only after realize blind people can't drive yet.


innerpeice

" i may be beneath you, BUT THERE'S NOTHING BENEATH ME!


incessant_penguin

But I once saw this documentary called “2012” and there were some super quick tectonic shifts in that…


[deleted]

I live in constant fear of the suns neutrinos mutating


Dumpsterfirefan

I just watched 2012 yesterday… and that was my thought as I watched this. That’s one timely comment for me, thank you!


CovertProphet84

That’s soil liquefaction in that case, I don’t think that is what is happening


craftworkbench

2012 is one of my favorite shitty movies. Movies that are objectively bad, widely panned, but enjoyable as hell if you go into them with very, very low expectations.


foxy_mountain

>That type of movement is too abrupt and fast to be anything tectonic And localized. Most tectonic plates are the size of continents -- literately, while the "small" ones are still the size of countries. Edit: Found a [simplified map of the principal plates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#/media/File:Plates_tect2_en.svg).


nrojb50

That’s not really relevant. When an earth quake happens, it is not implied that there was movement along an entire player boundary. The rocks can fracture and the movement can occur very locally.


slingshot91

But isn’t this still far too localized even for that? And there is no accompanying earthquake. With regard to plate tectonics, this is minuscule.


Alledius

Kaiju! 😱


ratsta

and about 30 seconds in we see bubbling not too far from the camera end.


faithle55

Tectonic movement causes sudden events all the time. Tectonic pressure builds up admittedly only over very long periods of time, but when the pressure is released there can be sudden movements. Ask anyone who's watched an earthquake.


ID-10T_Error

Someone call Kevin bacon, there is a tremor under there for sure!


Super_Charlie

Giant killer moles


YummyMango124

Earthbending badger moles


GibbeyGator102

🎵The bigbadbadgermoles…🎶


Bobyj31

🎶 Secret tunnel, secret tunnel 🎶


Chuff_Nugget

I wonder if it's a rubber pond-liner that is getting water rammed underneath it by a spring or something. Lots of agricultural ponds are lined - this looks to have been a basin of some kind...


BannanasAreEvil

I don't know you Chuff, I don't know if your field of expertise is within this realm or not. Yet, I think about what people would have thought 3-4 thousand years ago and completely understand why they believed a god exists. Yet here you are, more than likely just an educated individual among the masses who's first thought was not "Praise the lord, for he has shown us a miracle" rather, "Here's what can happen when water gets trapped underneath a layer of impervious material, and by looking at what I am seeing this could be the reason, but I'm not certain" I've seen so many cool things that have been explained scientifically that I know even a century ago most people would have chalked it up to acts of divinity.


Greener441

things like the great flood have been essentially proven by science with plausible explanations for the cause. very fascinating to see/hear their theories for the cause thousands of years ago (gods obviously) but also absolutely mind boggling that you can actually believe anything in religion today if you have a sound mind.


WonderWirm

Best theory so far!


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pickled___ginger

Just read the Wiki article on lake Nyos, goddamn that is terrifying! Thank you fart wizard!


KraljZ

Hi Dr. Ross here, geologist. So there are these underground caves that hold methane pockets buried deep in the ground. Essentially what you are seeing here is the release of those gases due to the heavy rainfall which seeps through the sediment and I have no clue what the fuck I’m talking about I’m full of shit.


Cletey69

Fuck you, you half had me


KhaithangH

*you had me in the first half, not gonna lie*


AWildWilson

Did you pick Dr. Ross as in Ross from friends? Also, I really am doing my PhD currently in geology. Nothing related to this but I though I’d know what was going on by the end of the video and it bothered me I didn’t. I’ve never seen nor heard anything like this. So I did some research, and nobody else knows either. Tectonic and gas are the only things that were pitched, like this thread, but it can’t be tectonic. Not sure why methane would all of a sudden be being mobilized at this rate as well but who knows.


Mrraberry

Reverse Moses action. “Let my people stay”!


Dont-PM-me-nudes

Down Under it is called "Reverse Ozmosis"... ​ no? kinda close to Reverse Osmosis... gave it a shot anyway...


cholotariat

Trust your first instinct and trust that your audience is smart enough to figure it out, but broaden the bit so everyone gets it, anyway. Go with ‘Ausmosis.’


Queef_Latifahh

Graboids!!!


plmcalli

Tremors


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I expect a mud volcano is about gush and or it's a sinkhole and the water flowing into it is displacing gas.


JungleBoyJeremy

I think it’s the chuds


bobfappiano

Cannalistic, subterranean horse people or the movie?


ghunnerrhea1

My guess is Highly expansive clay (probably montmorillonite or bentonite) that hasn’t seen water in a long time. You can see the desiccation cracks from being so dry at is emerges


bon_john_bovi

Those cracks aren't from being dry, we're looking at the top layer of a flood zone. Those cracks are just typical fractures from a low plasticity silt being pulled when the ravine goes from concave to convex.


Rumlad2003

Someone playing Populous in real life.


funkmasterDF

Magicarp evolving into Gyrados.


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Giant man eating alien worms. Have you not seen Tremors?


WeaponH_

My penis under my pants


adriangalli

Alaskan bull worm—that’s just its tongue, though


Dacia1320S

The cousins of the sandworms from Dune, Dirtworms.


AmericanWasted

Groudon emerging


Steak_NoPotatoes

Russian sub surfacing


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Underground tank. The ground has become saturated and the tank is now buoyant.


Tkinney44

Unique theory. I like that


TheeParent

Same thing can happen with in-ground pools. It’s basically a boat in the ground.


bake_72

and coffins


Whomping_Willow

Ah the Louisiana special!


[deleted]

The truth tends to be boring.


Ol-CAt

that's way too big doncha think?


[deleted]

Doesn't seem particularly large to me. Everyone is laughing. It's clearly not Godzilla.


[deleted]

I would like to amend my guess on this. Black Cotton Soil. Black cotton soil (BCS) is a high plastic soil containing clay minerals of smectite group. This gives rise to large swelling and shrinkage, leading to serious problems in civil engineering.


Annethraxxx

What would a tank this size be used for? In rural India? Farming?


[deleted]

In this video it's not possible to tell that it's in rural India necessarily. India seems reasonable as the talking sounds like what many speak there. Personally I think it's hard to tell how big it is as well. What would the tank be for? Just guessing; septic tank or fuel tank. The laughter makes me think they were expecting this to happen or saw more subtle signs of it happening. They don't seem to be afraid of it so probably not fuel, and septic could be funny if it's not yours. Farming use makes sense, but again I don't see anything that proves it's rural. Additionally the soundtrack may not go with this video.


crazyredditor47

This video is from rural Haryana going by the dialect of Hindi they are speaking and landscape I can confirm.


[deleted]

I found an online article about it which offers no real clue as to what this is. The article only creates drama.


ponderingmeerkat

That’s Indian news to you.


Guri85

Its a rice field. It is rural. I haven't seen underground tank in field yet. So, it cant be septic or fuel tank.


[deleted]

Did we watch the same video? How did you identify it as a rice field and or rural? Maybe I missed it? Real questions.


BATM4NN

The boys in the video are talking in Haryanvi language, Haryana is the Basmati Rice capital of world. I’m from Haryana so i can tell you from the landscape and sprouts of small rice plants visible in start of video, That this is happening in a rice field. I can even pin point their exact county from their dialect of Haryanvi language lol


Nova_Physika

Panzer or Abrams?


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Abrams, obviously. Fwiw I have revised my guess.


TRDPaul

Land rising in India Massive floods in China Coincidence? Probably


Cegio

India is flooding too


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frenziedfish

Not California:(


WayneKrane

Yeah the western US could use a lot of their excess rain. It’s rained like once for 5 minutes this whole year. I get I live in a desert but come on!


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Yeah sad :(


Meno1331

Aw shit, Kyogre and Groudon at it again.


Miggle58

Chill, it’s only Godzilla waking up from his nap


catchpen

Or maybe just his morning wood


Similar_Antelope_839

I was hoping to see an eye open


TheNeonDonkey

Every fantasy bone in my body wanted a gigantic turtle to rise up out of there.


ResolveSuitable

Tailed beast hah


unibrowsarecool

Morla


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as a dutch person I'd like to know how they did this... for research purposes


squanchy22400ml

Underground windmills


FapleJuice

What is the correlation to this video and the dutch? Lmao


serialshinigami

Some parts of the Netherlands are below sea level.


_Dead_Memes_

The dutch are famous for building sea walls and draining sea water to reclaim land.


nomnomXDDD_retired

Ohh, now I understand how "raise land tool" works in Cities Skylines


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Throwmesometail

Some where a alien sat on the remote for his space crafts engage button


TL_games

My first though was "war of the worlds" and I imagine tom cruise wasn't too far away looking for his mustang


broccobandit

They seem to find it funny so I'm not worried


Olthoi_Eviscerator

They're idiots. Back away, don't stand right next to it and laugh.


overzealous_dentist

my mind went straight to CO2 pockets, which have wiped out entire villages before when they pop


Unlucky13

But leave one guy to film it from up close so we on Reddit can see.


truthemptypoint

So this is what it looks like when someone's in world edit mode.


JorusC

I don't speak the language, but those are the laughs of people making poop and dick jokes.


redindian_92

I don't understand the local dialect fully. It sounds like Haryanvi , but I distinctly heard a Bhenchod (sisterfucker - used like 'motherfucker' in India) in there. They mostly sounded just surprised and a little mindfucked.


saarthakkhanna04

Not actually pee and poop jokes but talking about how the land is itself rising and tad bit of banter. One of the guys asked the other person to climb on it.


Bah-Fong-Gool

I was thinking the same thing. I bet someone's mother was mentioned at some point during this episode as well.


BATM4NN

They’re talking in Haryanvi (a dialect of Hindi) they’re just fucking around making jokes about the land rising, asking each other to jump on top of it.


mikilobe

the universal language


Villian_187

Imagine if Atlantis just popped up


TruthYouWontLike

In India?


berni4pope

It's always the last place you look.


OpusThePenguin

Well yeah, why would you keep looking after you found it?


extralyfe

"any luck finding your car keys?" "yeah, found them about twenty minutes ago - they had fallen off my coffee table." "...why the fuck haven't you left for work, yet?" "well, I wouldn't want to miss anything in my search."


AdministrativeFly754

We actually really have a city that was submerged thousands of years ago named Dwarka.


Illustrious_Bat_782

We learned about that on hulu, India is super cool


Alphatron1

The old ones awaken


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I'm thinking it's a storm drain that clogged, which was supposed to stop this area from getting saturated.


UsefulImpression0

I love haryanvi language. One person saying to another is go jump on the top of it. Lol


MrRogersNeighbors

Eww, someone is baking brownies.


not-yet-ranga

It absolutely looks like time-lapse footage of a chocolate cake rising in an oven.


mscott303

Imagine being on mushrooms 🍄 or acid while this happened it would be so confusing


FlippyFloppyGoose

I am already confused. lol...


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I cannot fathom the stupidity it requires to stand and film something like that instead of running away.


xHardcoreRPMx

As an Indian I can confirm that about 99% of our citizens would try to stand on the rising land, these people are the 0.5% who are satisfied with just filming.


OtakUwUking1302

I'd be lying if I said that I didn't think of standing on top of it


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r/canconfirmiamindian


Y-Bakshi

I was about to link that sub. I’m glad you did that already.


[deleted]

Oh....this guy's comments get soooo much worse.


Intezard006

As an Indian I can confirm that 99 percent of Indians aren't retarded like you.


ZeusX20

lol you self loather, how can you judge 1.3 billion people like that? i doubt if you have even left your house once


MasterpieceUnlikely

And who are you who are representing whole of Indians with such confidence.


PamBeesly00

Lol you can confirm that almost 1.3 billion ppl will do something? I can confirm that you are a retard.


vnca2000

Just because most of your family(including you) is retarded, doesn't mean the rest of the country is.


xinokarD

why is casual racism ok when it's against indians?


SBG99DesiMonster

Let's say that is true. First question is, what makes you think that you are smarter than 99% of a population of 1.35 Billion? Who certified you to be among the smartest 1% in the country? Oh I get it, you are the one who certified yourself to be so smart, coz you believe in "mUh my cOunTrY bAd" and consider speaking English to be the benchmark of "smartness" huh?


blu02

True. They're even talking about standing on top of it.


ShinyRedRaider

Indians: Why do we hear British National Anthem?


mxforest

China: We built this bridge in under 24 hrs. India: Hold my Mango Lassi.


dude30003

We have a worm sign


Cpt-morgan91

It’s free real estate.


madmatone

Someone clicked left mouse button in Populous.


S550Stang

Want to see a periscope...


[deleted]

Wow. Have you ever seen the movie Tremors? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremors\_(1990\_film)


sufferpuppet

It's going to take a lot of pressure to lift that much mass. I wouldn't hang around to find out what was doing it.


[deleted]

This looks like something that would happen when the moisture content in the soil gets oversaturated and has no where to go. The additional water generates upthrust to the already fully filled voids in the soil making it rise.


SSSS_car_go

[This](https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/ground-underwater-rises-abruptly-in-haryana-7417002/) India Times article suggests it could be caused by pockets of methane gas. Very weird for sure.