r/WTF • u/porcupine9 • 8d ago

Skyscraper swimming pool during Myanmar earthquake

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u/towers_of_ilium 8d ago

Oh my god, imagine being just sloshed over the edge on one of those floaties

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u/seamustheseagull 8d ago

I mean they often say that the safest place to be during an earthquake is in a pool because you're less likely to have anything fall on you.

But clearly they mean a pool outside at ground level. Not one 30 storeys up.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 8d ago

I think the safest place is an open field, away from power lines, falling debris (and tsunamis)

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u/00owl 8d ago

I prefer to be on top of a large granite structure very far from any fault lines.

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u/demlet 8d ago

ISS for me.

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u/__redruM 8d ago

Maybe an airplane would be easier to schedule?

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u/demlet 8d ago

ISS seems safer lately though.

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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul 8d ago

you mean the Canadian Shield? It's probably among the most solid and geologically stable cratons on Earth

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u/Schen5s 8d ago

Captain Canada and Steelman to the rescue!

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u/00owl 8d ago

You read my mind!

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u/Wolfreak76 8d ago

Sudbury gets little quakes from the mining in the area.

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u/Dualyeti 7d ago

So Cornwall, where I grew up

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u/SmarchWeather41968 8d ago

i think space would probably be safer from earthquakes but im no spaceologist so idk.

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u/Reggaeton_Historian 8d ago

uh, I watched This is The End, people were being gobbled up, no thanks. /s

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u/dogGirl666 8d ago

Unless you are in one olive grove in Türkiye during the 7.8 earthquake, apparently. Falling 3 stories onto the rocks sounds, unnatural, and a strange way to die.

From GiveMeNews above: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDvo-xTinY&pp=ygUsT2xpdmUgdHJlZSByaXBwZWQgaW4gaGFsZiB0dXJrZXkgZWFydGhxdWFrZSA%3D

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u/AitchyB 7d ago

Did you see the post with the footage from the olive grove post-quake in Turkey?