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Harvested liberally from r/SweatyPalms, a favorite & also most hated subreddit.
Not all of them are fear of heights related, I just relate to those
Some of them are fear of dangerous reptiles
Or fast moving hairy spiders
Or drowning
Persistent shark
Waking up from your camping trip surrounded by dozens of crocodiles
Or the unrelenting horror that is the open ocean
potentiallyunsafe
#9 contents may have shifted during transit
DoctorRockzodoescocaine
I both hate and love these. My fear of heights makes the Nr.1 so uncomfortable but its still weirdly fascinating to me.
adrianontherocks
Okay so I’m not afraid of heights but I’m also not stupid, so I would not be doing the things the people in those videos are
thatlazylizard
malakim
9 is vertically stretched to hell and back. There is no way the cargo would stay that neat if the ship experiences ~45° tilts.
rigello
#1 Honest question: If someone dies doing something 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘭𝘺 dangerous... Should I be sad?
nik282000
LordHosk
#9 This is bad, but the way the video is stretched makes it look even worse than it is. If you don't believe that its stretched... 40 foot containers are square on the ends. they are 8 feet tall and 8 feet wide, the doors are each 8 foot by 4 foot. Look how narrow and tall these all look.
machmach
GrilledSpamNCheeze
TacticoolWolf
and it starts raining...
n0n53n53
#1 I feel like this is scary and insane, but at least it's predictable and repeatable. Climbing a giant wall of granite with no idea what hand and foot holds you'll have next is much more difficult and dangerous
GrumpyOldMan55
There's video of a daredevil who liked to hang off skyscrapers and fell. It's horrifying but you can't help but think "that's what you get."
noReallyIamPrincessBob
The ultimate FAFO.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
#1 I hope those Samsung windows are more reliable than Samsung appliances.
zFUBARz
I've been on a slightly less extreme version of @2 Wasn't too bad, granted I trusted the company who set it up. My girlfriend at the time just absolutely bolted to the end as fast as she could in terror.
zenoshogun
#9 what is it about almost every video of ships at sea that makes people mess with the aspect ratio making it too tall?
Jeremydium
NOPE
acetothermus
#3
Only this one bothered me, and I think it was more because of the camera angle.
zacknotzatch
Had to go full screen for the full effect!
FeIineDisrespectFromBehind
Why
Jonson71
Some people like the feeling? Or like hating the feeling?
LespritDeLescalier22
How in the shaved Scottish scrotum do all those containers manage to NOT fall off the ship??
idonthaveauser
The video is stretched to exaggerate the situation.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Someone cinched the straps up and remembered to slap it and say ‘that’s not going anywhere!’
cravingmeatpies
What if they get tired halfway up the building? I got tired walking up my stairs
Jonson71
Then we get an entirely different kind of video, I suppose?
captainhappen
#1 taking stupid pointless shit to the absolute next level I don't care if they fall but I do care if they land on somebody
nothingunused
I'd say maybe if they fell it would discourage others from doing similar stunts, but I know people are idiots and they'd see that as a challenge.
FrostyNeckbeard
Reminds me of the guy who was ledge hanging and slipped on camera.
Dafodarian
Thanks, I hate it! +1
BishopHastur
#8 Those look like gators.
elvisdumbledore
swamp puppies confirmed
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
yep, the guy said "quantos jacarés"
Buttsohenry
Is there more of this one? Do we know what happened? How were they not eaten
Jonson71
The surest sign that they are gators is that I said they were crocodiles. I'm wrong on that one pretty much every time.
NomadUniverse
round snout = gators. You wont forget.
darkbacon
I don't care if they're alligators or crocodiles, I don't want to wake up surrounded by them.
Ecxusemeisthisnametaken
'Gators have a broad, round snout. Croc's got a skinny, pointy snout. Caiman's just a lil' guy.
OkiyaAuntie
Only watched the first one, and my heartrate jumped. Upvoting so that front page can see this.
NoIdeaWhatToUseHere
Gee, thanks, I hate you, too.
Youhavinagiraffe
If it makea you feel any better the first is by far the worst one in the whole dump
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Jonson71
I can't fault you for this.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
#7 amateur 🔊
reimakurei
"You just lost your X axis privileges."
agonarch
In that sharks defense, someone using the -entire fucking planet- as leverage is something it's probably not run into much before
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
In that human's defense, the shark is playing home team.
DirkOrion
My sphincter did a thing that I didn't like.
FabulouslyTiti
Was it combined with a "SHOOOOMP" sound effect? :')
EmailFail
It's an inny now
Gwimyeon
I remember when I was a kid my friends grandma would say " ooh that makes my butt pucker!" Seeing things like that
heyletsbefriends
Bojovnik84
NorthSideSoldier
Like that green anaconda?
IBTCUnite
It's Pucker Time!
dbox
I feel like my colon gets squeezed about 5-7cm above my sphincter. Is there a name for that sensation?
spLagger
#9 I wonder if they gyroscopes are busted? Cuz the ocean looks relatively normal, but man is that thing looking like it's going to keel over.
idonthaveauser
The camera is busted. The video is stretched.
torbtom
That’s some extremelt soft containers as well: they bend like like made of rubber. Video is manipulated.
spLagger
oh really, dang, looks so real
ChickenChickenBurningBright
wait, do you think ships are gyrostabilized?
handsomechris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizer_(ship)
ChickenChickenBurningBright
Whelp, today I learned. Takeaway from that is active gyro-stabilization was attempted but discarded as inefficient compared to active fins, using a much smaller gyro as a sensor. however the article only seems to discuss warships, so it's unclear if these systems are used on bulk freighters.
spLagger
i know they have mass flywheels for smaller vessels I'm sure there's a means where they gyroscope is used in conjunction with something else for figuring out how to stabilize. Here's a bigger one on a 50m vessel https://vimeo.com/291637819
spLagger
same company goes up to 3000 tons, which is far shy from 200,000 ton cargo ship. I just figure they use gyroscopes in some form or another either sensors or direct stabilization.
spLagger
2/2 like you need some kind of gyroscope to figure out orientation in order for other systems to work. Even in more advance traction control on cars they'll have some form of gyroscope sensor to figure out angular momentum.
depressedscientist
If you’re going to climb a building in public. At least wear a parachute to prevent traumatizing pedestrians in the off chance something goes wrong and you fall.
Magnar1183
Why?
jbrightmans
If they could think of wearing a parachute like that, they probably wouldn't be the type of people to climb a building in public.
HandoB4Javert
They're just trying to get a mobile signal..
johnnyrokit4
Or maybe just not climb a building while potentially scaring the shit out of people and wasting resources- i.e first responders’ time.
Fifofu
Also, pay the windows cleaner and extra for the calc fingerprints mess.
HardyandRamanujan
But then they get less internet points?! Are you crazy??!!
innagaddavidababy
Do they get arrested at the top?
PorneliusHubertII
Usually, yea.
chronologicalvoid
Imagine if they saw cops on the roof and started climbing back down
Sanztrack
I dislocated my should mid-free climb once... never again
bitemark
I'm curious how many floors you'd have to be up for it to be effective. I think almost certain death is from 4-5 floors up
depressedscientist
It looks like about 200ft. So about 20 floors. That’s about halfway up the building they were on.
youreathing
Yeah this is the only one I had an issue with. It becomes dozens of other peoples' problem(s) if you fuck up.
snarkybitch
Also if you land on someone you're killing them
JoeyJoeJoeSeniorShabadoo
That would be another 8+ kg on their back, skewing the center of mass away from the building.
EnokMolkeHansson
well tough shit for those egoistic losers
craigwilliams69
BASE rigs weigh half that and are pretty low profile and easy to climb with. Once you’re above about 50m might save a mess on the sidewalk.
oldguyexlurker
Thought maybe that was what was hanging out the back of the guy's shirt.
vilhjalmr26
That looks like a chalk bag
oldguyexlurker
Maybe. Looked too small to be the kind they throw on a base jump, but I figured I wasn't seeing all of it. If they're up there without one, then they're idiots.
depressedscientist
And yet a lot of pro free climbers do it.
n00bst4
No. Pro climbers usually do not free solo. And out of the few that do, fewer climb buildings. Out of those who do, even fewer would carry a parachute.
depressedscientist
I didn’t say they climb buildings. I said they use parachutes. It’s a growing practice. Honnold, Davis, and Hubor have all used them in some recent climbs I’ve watched.
n00bst4
You said a lot of pro use parachutes. And it is wrong. Some use a parachute for some climbs. This is true.
RustyRedbeard
I can't hold my breath for the duration of the ice swimmer clip, and I'm sat down.
astrangehop
Didn't he die?
Gish99
That is the scariest one to me.
Grizabellakat007
This is my childhood fear. And my current fear.
PezHead13
It looked sped up if it helps you feel better. Doesn’t assuage the panic though
CharliePapaBravo
That's worse. The swimmer held their breath for longer then.
redsmerf
He broke through at one point, didn't take a breath, and kept going.
Calicious
Didn't break through, a chunk of ice just fell off the bottom. Still, I'm betting dude is a pro and was hamming it for the video.
venompreacher
Drowning is my biggest fear so yeah.. that was uncomfortable
blunte
Hey i know you're just trying to be funny, but for real if you can't hold your breath for 27 seconds at a resting heart rate you should see a pulmonologist, that shouldn't be particularly challenging.
RustyRedbeard
It's very kind to offer advice like that to a complete stranger on the internet. You could change a person's life like that. <3
blunte
Hey i reread my comment and I came across as a bit of a dick. Apologies, it wasn't meant to be that way. I really did mean it to be helpful, on the off chance you weren't joking. Barring an extant medical condition if you can't do a 30 second breath hold you really should see a doctor.
RustyRedbeard
Not at all, I took it as good advice. I'm glad to see that is indeed how it was intended.
TuckerTheGuy
Don't bother. When I used to dive I was proud with the ability to hold my breath for a solid 10 minutes. It's nothing compared to these free divers. They are like dolphins. A friend of mine could hold it for nearly half an hour and that's with moving. They are built different.
theobituator
I call BS
TuckerTheGuy
You can call BS all you want, but any pro or semi pro diver worth his salt can do that. If you breathe in high oxygenated air, you can do it longer without effort. I don't recommend it if you're not going deep. Free diving releases the need for decompression, so shallow diving with scuba is better. That said, I'll never go 150m deep on a free dive. That takes a different type of monster.
blunte
You're right he's full of shit. World record for static apnea (literally laying down and not moving under water) is just shy of 12 minutes, anything over 9 minutes is world class. When I was freediving (well...spearfishing) competitively I was very proud of my 4 minute breath hold.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_apnea
ImNotActuallyEvilAfterAll
You are not OK.
RustyRedbeard
I'm an absolute train wreck, thank you for noticing <3
howwouldyoudescribeyourself
:D Wishing you well <3
RustyRedbeard
ImNotActuallyEvilAfterAll
Train wrecks are pretty impressive, everyone wants to see them!
RustyRedbeard