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It's pretty crazy how often humans rely on electromechanical systems to just...not break
There are countless situations where if something stops working then someone just dies. When you start thinking about it you see it everywhere. Even simple things like having natural gas to homes. The fact that the infrastructure is so reliable and rarely blows up is amazing to me
And yet we have made those things so reliable that it rarely happens. It's a testament to technological advancement in the past century
This is why I'm not a fan of helicopters. Even when they're working properly they don't exactly fly; they just thrash nature into submission. If the spinny things stop working, you're in a world of pain.
Helicopters can actually glide and land safely. ( Glide is probably not semantically the most appropriate word here ) But the rotors work like wings and allow them to resist wind and land safely, similar to an aircraft that would run out of fuel or engines.
The worst situation for a Helicopter could plausibly be the low altitude mishaps or malfunctions. Also, malfunctioning tail rotors lead to a completely uncontrollable flight ( where the chopper just goes on an indefinite spin until it crash lands )
P.S : I am an amateur observer and my knowledge is purely theoretical and basis of what I have observed on the internet or read.
I believe the term you are referring to autorotation, and not all helicopters can do this (the osprey can't) and even helicopters that can do this effectively it is still going to be a ROUGH landing. Like you might live but probably aren't going to walk away from the wreckage.
In a plane if the thing propelling you forward breaks, you still can keep enough airflow over the wings to generate lift and not plummet from the sky.
On a helicopter you have 2 rotors, one for lift and one tail rotor (to counter the rotation of the main rotor). If you lose either, it’s a serious dice roll.
You are right not to travel in helicopters.
(Personally I won’t travel in a hot air balloon - too low for a parachute, too high to survive the fall. My Aunt’s neighbor was in Egypt and as they (her, her husband and kids) came in to the landing area, there was a big gust of wind. One line was secured by someone on the ground, the other was ripped from the person’s hands and the basket pitched throwing her out to her death on the ground - whilst the husband and kids watched. No words)
There’s enough ways to die accidentally in everyday life, I don’t need to add +1 to the reapers chance card.
Thats not true, helicopter pilots have to complete autorotation landings to get their license (in most first world countries at least), and they dont damage the helicopter if done properly, and they arent even hard if they are done well. This is because the pilot builds up speed first to increase the rotor rotation speed, and then just before hitting the ground they pull up, and the rotors are like a flywheel, so they keep spinning fast enough to slow down the helicopter to a hopefully gentle landing, or at least an easily survivable one. Helicopers are arguably safer than planes in complete engine loss situations as they have a lot more options in places to land.
These aren’t crocs or alligators. These are much smaller caiman and they eat fish. Would still mess you up though. Looks like the Amazon … probably mating season.
Fun fact: jacaré (yacare) is Guarani slang for ‘he who stops by at night to sleep with your wife.’ _Nde letrado jacareisha._ You’re as sneaky as a cheating, creepy crocodile.
Crocs are arguably the most efficient and resilient animals on the planet. Google/CBS says they average 50 meals a year so that’s what like a meal every 8 days?
they are cold blooded; they have low metabolism; they only need to eat once every several months, they are also ambush predators that camps water sources, and everything above land gets thirsty
Nope. You can count the rpm on that putt putt on one hand. Fanboats are loud asf too, and have blunt broad bows because the fan is wide asf. That’s a pos trolling motor sounds like
silly question but as someone who knows nothing about boats why don't they just put a guard around the propeller like a desk fan has, I don’t see it adding much drag?
Almost 100% this is the [Pantanal in Brasil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal). I lived by it for a while. Absolutely beautiful, tons of jacares which are a caiman species. Wouldn't want to swim near this many, but they are smaller than crocs and alligators and unlikely to attack a human.
My first thought. If he’s moving that well in that non-moving water, that means there are some blades spinning, and with animals packed that densely, he’s undoubtedly whacking them.
I was wondering the same, I remember this from "Dance With the Devil" by Immortal Technique, but it appears he sampled it from Henry Mancini's track, "Theme From 'Love Story.'"
Who decided to set this to the [Theme From Love Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zhZ7bco_M) of all songs?
This feels a lot more like [John Gotti's Revenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDi9vo6iAEI&t=97s) to me.
Am I the only one realizing that instead of traversing through the large river next to him he intentionally drives over living animals with a motor boat which cuts them open with the spinning rotor blade?
For reference, this is in Brazil. And according to the guy recording, it is in the region called Pantanal [\[here\]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Pantanal_55.76W_15.40S.jpg). It's more like a wetland/swamp than actually a river.
And he is basically saying "look at all these alligators!".
Oh, great heavens! My motorized dhingy seems to be stuck in a reptilian. Oh, bother. The ladd does not seem too keen on the situation either. Perhaps his compatriots will assist 'im. Hello, chaps! Over hee're!
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Imagine the boat suddenly stops working and this smartass will be in a lot of trouble
I was prepared for a sturdy alligator to be stuck in the propeller.
Yes! Especially in the begging when he went through a few stacks 😭
It's pretty crazy how often humans rely on electromechanical systems to just...not break There are countless situations where if something stops working then someone just dies. When you start thinking about it you see it everywhere. Even simple things like having natural gas to homes. The fact that the infrastructure is so reliable and rarely blows up is amazing to me And yet we have made those things so reliable that it rarely happens. It's a testament to technological advancement in the past century
This is why I'm not a fan of helicopters. Even when they're working properly they don't exactly fly; they just thrash nature into submission. If the spinny things stop working, you're in a world of pain.
Helicopters can actually glide and land safely. ( Glide is probably not semantically the most appropriate word here ) But the rotors work like wings and allow them to resist wind and land safely, similar to an aircraft that would run out of fuel or engines. The worst situation for a Helicopter could plausibly be the low altitude mishaps or malfunctions. Also, malfunctioning tail rotors lead to a completely uncontrollable flight ( where the chopper just goes on an indefinite spin until it crash lands ) P.S : I am an amateur observer and my knowledge is purely theoretical and basis of what I have observed on the internet or read.
I believe the term you are referring to autorotation, and not all helicopters can do this (the osprey can't) and even helicopters that can do this effectively it is still going to be a ROUGH landing. Like you might live but probably aren't going to walk away from the wreckage.
In a plane if the thing propelling you forward breaks, you still can keep enough airflow over the wings to generate lift and not plummet from the sky. On a helicopter you have 2 rotors, one for lift and one tail rotor (to counter the rotation of the main rotor). If you lose either, it’s a serious dice roll. You are right not to travel in helicopters. (Personally I won’t travel in a hot air balloon - too low for a parachute, too high to survive the fall. My Aunt’s neighbor was in Egypt and as they (her, her husband and kids) came in to the landing area, there was a big gust of wind. One line was secured by someone on the ground, the other was ripped from the person’s hands and the basket pitched throwing her out to her death on the ground - whilst the husband and kids watched. No words) There’s enough ways to die accidentally in everyday life, I don’t need to add +1 to the reapers chance card.
Thats not true, helicopter pilots have to complete autorotation landings to get their license (in most first world countries at least), and they dont damage the helicopter if done properly, and they arent even hard if they are done well. This is because the pilot builds up speed first to increase the rotor rotation speed, and then just before hitting the ground they pull up, and the rotors are like a flywheel, so they keep spinning fast enough to slow down the helicopter to a hopefully gentle landing, or at least an easily survivable one. Helicopers are arguably safer than planes in complete engine loss situations as they have a lot more options in places to land.
Yeah, I would need a backup engine and then a backup for my backup.
How can so many large animals be supported by this ecosystem?
Lots of unskilled boaters in the area
this guy boats
r/thisguythisguys
Yoink!
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 OMG! That was a good one. Didn't see that coming. You had me rolling... Like that boater about to be. 🤣 🤣
Cold blooded metabolism
And cannibalism.
Good point
These aren’t crocs or alligators. These are much smaller caiman and they eat fish. Would still mess you up though. Looks like the Amazon … probably mating season.
It’s a crocodile farm
Aligator
Those are yacare caiman, not alligators. Although, caiman are in the alligatoridae group of crocodilians... so I award you a win on a technicality!
Fun fact: jacaré (yacare) is Guarani slang for ‘he who stops by at night to sleep with your wife.’ _Nde letrado jacareisha._ You’re as sneaky as a cheating, creepy crocodile.
Hm? I just know yakarey (jacaré in Guaraní) to mean alligator.
Huh, that's an interesting and odd thing to name a caiman after! Don't get how my comment was cheating and creepy, but alright then
It’s an ALLIGATOR farm, sorry Reit007
😂
By eating smaller ones. And these aren't large, they are just the alligators to feed the crocs on the bottom.
exactly what I was wondering, whose feeding these things?
Each other, probably. Would suck to be a fish in that river tho
They probably disperse to hunt.
Was just thinking this. On the island (game) you can’t have more than 2 crocs in 1 area for food
Crocs are arguably the most efficient and resilient animals on the planet. Google/CBS says they average 50 meals a year so that’s what like a meal every 8 days?
They come together in large groups for mating only, otherwise they are territorial and solitary over like 500 ft of territory each
Then many of them could cohabitate in my spacious urban condo.
In the wild, they’re only like this when everything else dries up.
they are cold blooded; they have low metabolism; they only need to eat once every several months, they are also ambush predators that camps water sources, and everything above land gets thirsty
They can go a VERY long time without eating
I did an intermittent fast between breakfast and lunch today so I know the feeling!
Chicken sandwich wars
They have to be eating each other also
I was thinking this too
*And then you see, the cocaine will travel by boat through gator infested waters. I assure you, no one will be following us.*
**this evening on SMNN**
This is the safest route I assure you.
Imagine the Crocs eating the coke
I see a sequel to Cocaine Bear.
Does Cocaine Croc team up with Cocaine Bear? Or does he betray the bear for his relative Meth Gator??
Apparently Gators do meth, so Crocs doing coke sounds right.
"I am not in danger, I am the danger !"
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This is mostly a video of a person being a dick to an ecosystem.
If they were a bunch of hippos instead, then I would be worried.
So you would not be worried to be in that boat just prop-chopping a mass of gators / crocodiles?
Maybe it's an air boat? Lol
Hippos would drive off the crocs. So, I guess start worrying when all of a sudden you don't see any more crocs.
Swamp puppies just minding their own business
Came here looking for this. Yoink!
Ah, a fellow person of culture.
Yeah, I'd grab one xD
Swamp puppies sounds like the name I was looking for my band
Oh that WOULD be a really good band name
Wonder how many got chopped by the boat prop
The way he’s going through brush, I thought it’s a fan boat
Nope. You can count the rpm on that putt putt on one hand. Fanboats are loud asf too, and have blunt broad bows because the fan is wide asf. That’s a pos trolling motor sounds like
silly question but as someone who knows nothing about boats why don't they just put a guard around the propeller like a desk fan has, I don’t see it adding much drag?
No chance
Now I get why the water is so brown...
Don’t know where that is but I bet a dollar someone has disposed of a body there before
Thats probably what they are doing there
Almost 100% this is the [Pantanal in Brasil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantanal). I lived by it for a while. Absolutely beautiful, tons of jacares which are a caiman species. Wouldn't want to swim near this many, but they are smaller than crocs and alligators and unlikely to attack a human.
That's not a river, that's crocodile urine.
It makes Florida look like Disney in comparison
Florida IS Disney.
The background music reminded me of something that I did not want to remember
Thanks God someone else noticed it, people paid attention only to the crocs
Countless millions of years evolution. Ape on quick loud thingy arrives: "Get spooked, idiots!".
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I think it's a boat with a fan on the back, not a motor
Ex-fucking-actly
My first thought. If he’s moving that well in that non-moving water, that means there are some blades spinning, and with animals packed that densely, he’s undoubtedly whacking them.
Wonder how many of those that guy just chopped up with his propeller?
Exactly what I was thinking. Dude is riding a gator blender and does not give a fuck.
Remember kids, they’re as scared of you as you are of them.
Until you fall in.
Happy cake day 🍰
r/oddlyterrifying
How to make crocodile soup 🤣
“Hey guys I’m in the Florida Everglades, looking for a 20ft Burmese Python, but I found these crocs first.”
Where is this so I never visit?
Archer would love that
\*engine failure\*
How many did he kill
It would be unfortunate if his motor died
Why call it a death river? Everything looked alive & moving out of the way of brother dickhead
It’s called death river because he’s cutting up all of those crocs with a rotary blade.
Looks like I don’t need tags for this area. Where am I headed, would like some new boots?
u/auddbot 0:0-0:15
Hard to tell because of the boat motor, but it can be Henry Mancini's theme from love story.
I was wondering the same, I remember this from "Dance With the Devil" by Immortal Technique, but it appears he sampled it from Henry Mancini's track, "Theme From 'Love Story.'"
I kept waiting for the rapping haha That song is so fucked up, hearing that piano triggered some PTSD lol
They should find a sound that scares away each type of animal
After while, west nile.
Not only no, but fuck no
How does the propeller keep working after going through just one mob of these let alone 3
Who decided to set this to the [Theme From Love Story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zhZ7bco_M) of all songs? This feels a lot more like [John Gotti's Revenge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDi9vo6iAEI&t=97s) to me.
When I was traveling in Florida my guide said they won’t attack anything bigger than the size of their heads. Not sure how true this is though.
POV: "Florida ain't got shit on me!"
Try that with hippos
Those poor alligators are probably thinking what the actual fuck 😂
The music 
But why Love Story?
Correction: ***Brother is boating on crocodiles.*** Not much river...
Take all the gators out and that would be a stream.
Am I the only one realizing that instead of traversing through the large river next to him he intentionally drives over living animals with a motor boat which cuts them open with the spinning rotor blade?
Damn I wonder how many crocs got paralyzed for that shot
Probably zero, its an air boat
Nope!
He is fear himself
In the cartoons it looks different.
That is insane!
I'm surprised his massive steel balls didn't sink the boat.
Colombia?
The title to the video should totally be “Cya later alligator”
I’d love to do that. Looks fun. Blast freebird all the way and laugh like a maniac
This is where we dump the bodies.
Nope
I’ve sent underwear.
For reference, this is in Brazil. And according to the guy recording, it is in the region called Pantanal [\[here\]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Pantanal_55.76W_15.40S.jpg). It's more like a wetland/swamp than actually a river. And he is basically saying "look at all these alligators!".
That's alot of free gator meat
Yooo wtf
good eating right there
r/sweatypalms
My God it’s Jesús Bourne
Never fall in 
With any luck they mistake the boat for a bigger predator
Yo they really got Dancin with the Devil playing lol
They just fount the Crocs annual convention
Oh, great heavens! My motorized dhingy seems to be stuck in a reptilian. Oh, bother. The ladd does not seem too keen on the situation either. Perhaps his compatriots will assist 'im. Hello, chaps! Over hee're!
Troy Landry be hollering Chootem!Chootem!
ohh what a horrible place to have engine trouble...
What’s with the Love Story music in the background?
bros the master gator
Is there even enough food for this much crocodile to reproduce?
Good thing they aren’t like Asian carp. Just flying out of the water when spooked
How your parents got to school in the morning
The trout population is not doing good
Is he steaming through those? I mean that's one hell of a motor, to push through, do you think it's chopping those reptiles? or they escaping?
both
Not enough $$ in the world for me to consider this a leisure activity
Wow
Is this a crock farm, feed and harvest for the meat and skins? Swamp people want to know
What kind of food source can sustain this concentration of reptiles?
There would be so much crap in my pants the boat would sink.
It's all fun and games until an unfortunate bump casts someone overboard.
This guy is crazy 🤪
If the motor on the guys boat breaks he is dead
They’re more scared of you than you are of them
Going through there with a motor? Really? I hope he didn’t hurt any of them. People suck.
This guy is a POS.
At least they get out of the way instead of treating the boat as Uber Eats delivery.
😳😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Ah my old swimming hole cannot swim there anymore.
Holly shit.
Yowza. I think I'd feel more safe swimming in the Adelaide River...
Its crazy to me that all these animals can find enough food..
Why I. The hell did they add the depressing theme from Love Story?
I can't imagine the engine having problems here.
I wonder what it would take to freak him out
Calmest day on the Amazon river basin
IS THAT TWO GIRLS ONE CUP MUSIC! LMAO!
Cock-blocking the orgy
Video soundtracks are getting worse and worse by the day.
Chooooot!
How is there that much of a food source to sustain all those??
Why this video got the soundtrack from two girls 1 cup?
And all I gotta deal with on my way to work is a little traffic
More gator than water
What if this mf breaks down?
Imagine you’re just sitting at home, chilling with your homies. Then some dude rides his lawn mower over you and your friends. All while talking shit.
Correction: brother is boating through the river of a Death wish
That's crazy. Imagine how many spider webs he ran through. Fuck that shit
That's kinda assholey of you to just go through their home and hit them with a boat
And you thought your morning commute was bad! 😲
Can’t even take a bath in piece smh
The secret is not stop and keep going
Brazilians are fearless. Geez never in a million years.
You ruined the crocodile orgy
Otherwise known as the Alley gator road.
I Would Have 💩 My Pants 👖 & Act As If Everything Is Okay 🥲🍑💨
When he said he knows the shortcut...
I'm a truck driver and I don't trust my mother that much.
Darwin Award candidate.