r/WTF 8d ago

Skyscraper swimming pool during Myanmar earthquake

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u/kotran1989 8d ago

The weight of the two people on the floating thingy has almost no bearing on how it reacts to the sudden movement generated by the earthquake. If they had stayed on thinking that the water could cushion the movement.... they would have fallen off.