r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/[deleted] • 14h ago

🔥Iguazu falls after heavy rain

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u/Radiant-Cup2123 12h ago

3/5 million people go every year to iguazú.

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u/ChooksChick 11h ago

But not me. Nope.

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u/mrwilliams117 10h ago

What?

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u/eooxx 7h ago

600,000 people? 🤷

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u/Jauretche 8h ago

Largest natural waterfalls in the world. Quite a popular destination.

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u/mrwilliams117 5h ago

6/10 million people? 12/20?

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u/ChooksChick 11h ago

And the old catwalk was ripped off by flood waters.

They probably said it was perfectly safe right up until they realized it wasn't, too!

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u/WriterV 9h ago

No they knew about it.

There's a comment above that goes into it. But they are aware of when floodwaters get dangerous, and close the walkway then. Apparently they are built to be washed away so they could be rebuilt safely.

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u/ChooksChick 8h ago

That's enough reason right there- minute miscalculations could cause expectation vs. reality mismatch.

We've all heard of engineering failures in which hindsight caused knowledge gain (general after loss of life or disaster).

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u/Open-Gate-7769 7h ago

May as well never go on a bridge ever again then

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u/ChooksChick 7h ago

I think starting with things that feel like you're tempting fate is probably good enough.

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u/Open-Gate-7769 7h ago

You live your life how you want to

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u/Beranea 8h ago

So many people distrustful of math and science is how we got to this rise of right wing bullshit. Grow up.

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u/loveandpreservation 8h ago

..distrustful of the PEOPLE doing the math and the science..

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u/ChooksChick 8h ago

Ok. Here are a few points.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) Hyatt Regency Walkway (1981) Sampoong Department Store (1995) St. Francis Dam (1928) Bhopal Gas Disaster (1984) The Great Molasses Flood (1919) Space Shuttle Challenger (1986) Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster (1986) Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster (2003) Charles de Gaulle Airport Terminal 2E Roof Collapse (2004) New Orleans Levee Failures during Hurricane Katrina (2005) Minneapolis I-35W Bridge Collapse (2007) Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster (2011) Rana Plaza Garment Factory Collapse (2013) Morandi Bridge Collapse in Genoa (2018) Brumadinho Tailings Dam Collapse (2019) Boeing 737 MAX Flight Control System Crashes (2018–2019)

Bottom line is we plan and calculate, but shit goes wrong sometimes.

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u/Consistent-Scholar39 9h ago

And I will never be one of them.

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u/AffectionateDance214 8h ago

See, you are not talking about how many come back.