Why this “falling rocks” sign is more important than most
In Brienz/Brinzauls, a small village in the east of Switzerland, there’s a village slipping into a valley and a road that’s surprisingly dangerous. Thanks to everyone I interviewed: pull down the description for links and more details!
CCTV footage from Geopraevent, used with permission: https://www.geopraevent.ch/
More details on the Brienz radar: https://www.geopraevent.ch/project/rockfall-radar-brienz/
CSD Engineers: https://www.csd.ch/en
Camera: Alicja Pahl
Producer: Sebastian Capeda at Viven https://viven.ch
Editor: Michelle Martin https://twitter.com/mrsmmartin
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This was a really difficult video to find a title for without giving away the story. I think it’s fascinating, but sometimes it’s really frustrating how everything has to be summed up into a single title and thumbnail!
Great video
the small town where rock n roll stops traffic hundreds of times a year
Why don’t they get clay and slingshots and shoot some seeds on that hill to help slow it down and provide homes for birds.
Repent to Jesus Christ!
âThe grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.ââ
ââIsaiah⏠â40:8⏠âNIVâŹâŹ
This wasnât the Rolling Stones concert I paid for
Is this a JoJo reference?!
I’d pay to see that honestly
Maybe not but I’d rather see this rock and roll show. Anyone remember how mad they were when they brilliantly had AC/DC open for them and half the crowd left before the stones came on? Like c’mon you had AC/DC open for you? They don’t open for anyone and they knew that when they agreed. Rick Astley is the only one who can top that trolling.
No.
Huh, the guy who was buying subs but in reality wasn’t.
It was quite jarring to suddenly hear him say “worst case scenario” in English, but not nearly as jarring as if you were driving down the road and got hit by a car sized boulder at 20 km/h!
Imagine telling your insurer the reason your car is totalled, is because a rock hit it. Not that you hit a rock, but the rock hit you.
@SeanBZA Poetry in motion, Sean.
Imagine how massive that wall would have to be to stop such a boulder
Good ol’ denglish
As software engineer developing this I would have very very swaty palms every time it goes off … A lot of responsbility for correctly judging such a complex envionment. Lots of respect for their seemingly working solution.
It going off is fine, Iâd worry all the time itâs *not* going off!
This is no big deal, even if you screw up the chance of anything bad happening is still small.
A bit more stressful job is to write software for nuclear missile launch systems. You misplace a semicolon and the world ends.
Imagine if such a system had a devastating bug, caused by something as simple as misspelling a word in the code.
Such as environment. Kappa
just wait till a data scientist just comes along with a machine learning based solution fed on all the past data
A part of me wonders if they’re willing to take responsibility for whatever happens next
@afelias “Machine learning”? Do you mean random mash of data and linear algebra that no one really understands?
Just image if this video was done in one take, and the rock fall started right on cue. Tom would have died of happiness!
@nitehawk86 You beat me to it. Voyager 2 launch.
Big props for saying âwould haveâ and not âwould ofâ
Just âimageâ?
Either of happiness… or of falling rock.
There are only two questions that remain to be answered:
1. How does a geological radar specialist in Grisons end up with an Australian accent?
2. Is it alright to wish the residents of Brienz “Guten Rutsch” ahead of the new year?
@Ned Ryerson true
@The_Reto Do you think they book a ticket home but make a little mistake then decide to stay?
doesn’t sound like any new zealand accent i’ve ever heard.
I howled with laughter at the second.
Definite hints of Kiwi.
My GCSE German is really paying off, I understood “worst case scenario” without even trying
“Worst case scenario” is English, not German.
@chluebi flores para difunto
@chluebi flores para difuntos
@Gleb Johnson But it is a swiss accent, thats correct.
Its just not faux german. đ
*wurst case scenario
Villagers: *Literally live next to a mountain where rocks come raining down.*
Geologist: “It’s not life-threatening, just unpleasant.”
âRoses are deadâ
âViolets are dyingâ
âOutside Iâm smilingâ
âBut inside Iâm cryingâ
âI just wish people would give my content a chanceâ
that has to be one of the coolest looking villages ever
Alex!!! Hi!
And the faste one with 1,5m per year
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you’re here
@kaiCast ask
Fun fact: some Dutch traffic lights use radar like this to detect if a person is waiting at the intersection, so that the system can stop the cars and let the pedestrians cross.
@InfiniteFences amsterdam, for example. OP has a video on it: Why the Dutch Wait Less at Traffic Lights
Or you can just push a button
would love to see you collab with tom on his second channel
@Peeks’n’Pokes that is very trueđ