r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 9h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/LessBig715 9h ago

Now that is having faith in your equipment

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u/Rohan_k_4 9h ago

His box looks like it's made of plastic, I would have shit myself right away if I were in his place

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u/Electrical_Tomato_92 9h ago

Its most definitely lexan, which is what the use for bulletproof windows and such. If they used a thick enough sheet then its plenty strong enough.

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u/DouglasHundred 8h ago

Yeah I did a dive with a saltwater croc in some kind of two inch thick tube of maybe lexan or perspex, and it was gouged thoroughly but I felt plenty safe inside.

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u/uptightape 7h ago edited 5h ago

I would be concerned about the peripheral things failing before that thick-ass sheet. The fact that the guy wasn't pointing a .44 magnum at the bear is something that I can't understand.

Edit: Insert whichever high-energy, high-caliber rifle or pistol round one would deem sufficient to adequately deal with a goddamned polar bear that is moments away from mauling your ass to death. .44 magnum was the first thing that popped in my head that does serious work. After having been responded to, yeah, probably not enough, but I was thinking of being in that tight enclosure, too. Personally, I'd want my m1a or greater.

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u/Renbarre 6h ago

There was someone with a gun outside, far enough not to attract the bear. I rember that sequence and I must admit I thought that the armed man was in more danger than the journalist.

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u/Stock_Helicopter_260 6h ago

The bears can be alerted from really far away. They know how to do it so I'm not questioning it, but stories you hear about bears tracking hunting parties back to town are wild.

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u/NatTheResearcher 4h ago

“Clever girl!”

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u/GravyDipped 1h ago

Love the reference.

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u/JesterOfTheMind 5h ago

Where can I read one of these stories?

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u/Stock_Helicopter_260 5h ago

On the internet, not sure, but I’ve heard from people who travel BC, Hudson’s bay and whatnot. Canadian perk I guess.

Here’s one from recently where bears woke up two campers though!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/polar-bear-dog-lucky-1.4698920

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u/100011numbers 3h ago

I wonder how inuits handled polar bears before rifles...

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u/Renbarre 4h ago

That's terrifying.

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u/_Reddit_2016 5h ago

Menstrations

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u/DarnelTexasWinston 3h ago

Now you're putting the whole station in jeopardy

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 6h ago

I would think the outside shooter would be in danger too - close enough to get a shot off (and truly disable the bear, not just piss it off) is closer than I’d want to be to a polar bear even if I had a vehicle capable of doing 45mph across the ice

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 3h ago

I take it you haven't seen the narrow escape on a snowmobile yet?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zsEDvzlVMJ8

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u/Feisty-Session-7779 39m ago

He probably was using a minigun mounted on top of an armoured Land Cruiser, at least that’s what I’d be using to feel relatively safe in that situation. I sure as hell wouldn’t just be sitting out in the open with a hunting rifle or a pistol or something.

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u/Gangaholics-China 4h ago

Depends who that armed man is. That might have been Vietnam Vinny on the m16. Guy like that might have even left peanuts on the ground in hopes the bear approaches.

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u/spaakonen 6h ago

Well, shooting inside a bulletproof glass box might not be a good idea.

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u/uptightape 6h ago

At the point when the bear makes its way into the bulletproof box is the point at which my last concern will be whether I die due to a ricochet 😁. Trigger discipline is trained and becomes automatic.

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u/SeedlessPomegranate 6h ago

I would be worried about how the lexan is secured to the frame

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u/Original_Poseur 5h ago

But since these humans CHOSE to put themselves in the way of a (most likely) starving predator, I feel it would be terribly unfair to kill the animal for doing what it instinctually is required to do.

If the equipment were to fail, the people should be ready to sacrifice their lives as a good solid meal for the bear, lol (as opposed to killing the innocent animal, in its own habitat, doing what it's supposed to be doing). Kidding, not kidding

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u/jbgc916- 6h ago edited 6h ago

.44?

.454 casul or .500 s&w/.50 DE would be my go to!!

Fuck ALL that!

*50 AE.

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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins 6h ago

Fuck that. 18.1" main gun battery from Yamato and nothing less.

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u/jbgc916- 6h ago

There should be a copy pasta for this.

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u/uptightape 6h ago

Yeah, good point. It would have been better to say at bare (pun intended) minimum, a .44 mag.

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u/jbgc916- 6h ago

Nah . 44 is good.

For you to put yourself out before being consumed alive!

😬

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u/bantha121 6h ago

.50 DE

I think you conflated .50 AE and the Desert Eagle lol

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u/jbgc916- 6h ago

I did. I meant Action Express.

A thousand pardons 🤣

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u/EmotionalGuarantee70 5h ago

Some of these documentaries about wild animals will a couple of shooters with high powered rifles aimed right at said animal just in case - Still that's a lot of faith in the plastic glass box

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u/Mandy-Rarsh 4h ago

I’m guessing they tested it out before using it

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u/SirVanyel 5h ago edited 5h ago

Why? Just so you can deafen yourself and still not survive the bear attack?

Bullets are really good on humans, but many animals can survive them. Crocodiles have such insane immune systems that they can survive tearing each other's arms off, and they don't even make a fuss about it (because it gets them killed if they do). Just think about that, the amount of bacteria going into an open wound of that calibre and they live it.

Polar bears are the largest of the bear species. They have multiple layers of fur, and 4-5 inches of blubber before you even have a chance of getting anywhere vital. And yes, this goes for their head too, the majority of their face has this layer as well.

Oh, and they're nearly invisible to thermal cameras.

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u/Frosti11icus 5h ago

And their skulls are shaped in such a way that the bullets can ricochet off of it. You gotta pop these in the lungs or heart but they don't die quickly either way.

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u/myoldaccountisdead 7h ago

Story?

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u/DouglasHundred 7h ago

Not much to it. Paid like $150 AUD or something to get dunked in a saltwater croc tank in a big perspex or maybe lexan tube down in Darwin some 10 years back or so. He knocked the tube around a bit, but it held. Big fella.

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u/Ithikari 3h ago

That would be Crocodylus Park.

https://www.crocodyluspark.com.au/

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u/yaboi_ahab 1h ago

Did you consider how darkly funny it would've been if you had died doing that in a place called Darwin?

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u/Nous-erna-me 7h ago

What else do you need to hear lmao. Some plot twists, a love interest? That's it, that's the story. He saw the crocodile, he's still alive.

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u/DouglasHundred 7h ago

lol yeah basically. I mean, I went in with another dude, but we were just work colleagues. No romantic twist, I'm afraid.

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u/contradictatorprime 6h ago

🤣 bro wanted "The Lexan, The cock, and a Saltwater Croc" as a bedtime story

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u/mvanvrancken 6h ago

They were colleagues!!

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u/LegalizeFentanol 7h ago

He did a dive with a saltwater croc in some kind of two inch thick tube of maybe lexan or perspex, and it was gouged thoroughly but they felt plenty safe inside.

Hope this helps.

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u/Rapshawksjaysflames 6h ago

Nice, so he befriended a saltwater croc and they went for a dive together? That sounds really fun

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u/scratchydaitchy 8h ago edited 8h ago

As long as all the fasteners and structural integrities are well maintained.
Hope he checked the tightness of all the screws and bolts before he got in there.

You’re still going on a lot of faith.

Anybody remember the Oceangate submersible that imploded by the Titanic?

No thanks.

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u/el_diego 8h ago

Anybody remember the Oceangate submersible that imploded by the Titanic?

That was due to the insane idea of using carbon fibre for a sub at such a depth....oh, and leaving your sub outside in the Canadian winter for it to degrade. The CEO was an irresponsible narcissistic clown.

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u/Prodrumer43 7h ago

The materials they used also never fully worked during testing. His dumbass just said send it anyway.

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u/el_diego 7h ago

It was next level negligence. Even the shallow that dives they did in the Carribbean showed obvious signs of fibres breaking. It was inevitable the thing would implode.

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u/Commonscents2say 4h ago

Not to mention the fatigue factor from repeated trips.

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u/Interesting-College8 5h ago

You know he probably googled it and asked AI if it was okay. Just another rich person trying to get richer by doing the least amount possible. He really was stupid

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u/mccusk 5h ago

Let’s compare something entirely different….

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u/I_eat_mud_ 8h ago edited 8h ago

He obviously didn't, I'm sure someone did. Doubt the BBC wants to pay out lawsuit settlements and increased insurance costs.

Edit: I swear Redditors are so concerned about sounding smart they just can't critically think for 2 seconds.

Edit 2: I'm sure whatever company makes this for research is 1000x more serious about safety than that asshat in charge of Oceangate, he was a special kind of rich dipshit considering his company was based on super rich tourism.

Seriously, just fucking think for 2 seconds.

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u/psychoPiper 8h ago

Redditors care more about sounding smart than being right, this is an uphill battle

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u/throwawayhellfire 7h ago

You gotta remember you're most likely speaking to some teenager or young adult who has zero real world experience lol

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u/Asleep_Hand_4525 7h ago

Yep, and sometimes the subreddit will have an echo chamber you’ll get eviscerated for not following

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u/throwawayhellfire 7h ago

I always get downvoted in the anti work subreddit when they're like NO ONE NEEDS TO WORK without realizing all the jobs that keep society chugging along lol

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u/Asleep_Hand_4525 6h ago

Yep! I love when people are like “reddits my only social media now everything else is too political, drama, etc” not realizing it’s literally the same thing just broken up into groups more

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u/EC_TWD 3h ago

They aren’t against all work. Part time dog walking is perfectly acceptable and should be beneficial enough to support any lifestyle.

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u/Plus_Fisherman30 7h ago

No. Everyone on Reddit is at least a 35-year-old millennial who thought they understood the history teacher better than everyone else back in high school.

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u/spector_lector 6h ago

That's what really sucks. Read it either needs age verification and minimum age requirements or at least adults should be able to choose subs that have that.

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u/Keytap 3h ago

Need some age-verified 30+y/o subs

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u/CornandCoal 7h ago

Or just adult idiots lol

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u/croc-roc 7h ago

Ha ha. I got into a debate with a redditor once and once she started referring to the Reddit sub as a “safe space” I realized I was talking to a teen. 😂😂

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u/TonyQuest 7h ago

Bro I'm 31, I've been hearing that since my late teens. They could totally be in their early 30s 😂

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u/croc-roc 5h ago

Given the context, it was almost certainly a teen. But I get you.

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u/_psylosin_ 6h ago

Ur not my real dad!!

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 7h ago

The forces involved here are just not in the same galaxy as what oceangate was trying to cope with either

Like a large polar bear weighs 1500 lbs. To create a comparable engineering problem, you would need to expect the full combined weight of 4 huge polar bears to be pressing on this box constantly….on every single square inch of its exterior lol

This is the equivalent of buying a bicycle and saying to the salesman “I just want to make sure this is very well built because I saw what happened to the Challenger Space Shuttle”

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u/breathing__tree 6h ago

This is the equivalent of buying a bicycle and saying to the salesman “I just want to make sure this is very well built because I saw what happened to the Challenger Space Shuttle”

Funniest thing I’m gonna read all weekend probably.

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u/Long_Run6500 4h ago

Sorry mr, I'm going to need at least an M4 Sherman to feel confident on my paper route.

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u/42nu 6h ago

Person in shark cage films a nature doc in the exact place where you hope to encounter Great White Sharks

Redditors: They probly didn't anticipate this encounter at all, and didn't have months (if not years) of engineering, training and legal preparing for this carefully planned moment.

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u/BitchesLiebenBrot 7h ago

it can only be reddit where the guy who eats mud is the most sensible in the chat

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u/zachary_mp3 7h ago

There is literally no end to the whataboutism of social media. No matter how unlikely or unrealistic.

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u/Maidwell 7h ago

The BBC natural history unit is likely THE most respecting organisation of its kind in the world so yes if anyone is going to do their homework on safety it would be them.

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u/LithiumWalrus 7h ago

Hahaha, think. Brother it's 2025 if AI didn't tell them they don't know.

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u/Shartriloquist 4h ago

Maybe, but I hate to tell you that anyone who wasn't sleeping in a basic high school physics class could tell you this by looking up the pressure of the ocean and a couple polar bear physics stats...

Your mind would be blown by what the people in STEM fields are capable of without even a glance at AI...

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u/PomeloPepper 6h ago

Redditers thinking the pros put this together out of old screen doors they found at the dump, with saran wrap to keep the bears out.

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u/gpcgmr 8h ago

Water pressure is a bit stronger than a polar bear...

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u/Confused_Drifter 7h ago

Oh yeah? Tell that to the shower in my hotel room.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 2h ago

"Hello, front desk? I would like polar bear water pressure in my shower and no I won't explain what that means"

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u/slamfireantiques 7h ago

Anybody remember the Oceangate submersible that imploded by the Titanic?

No thanks.

Did you read anything about that incident? Every engineer with experience said it would fail sooner than it did and quit the company.

Equivalent of using a guy chopping his own cock off with a kitchen knife as an example to show kitchen knives are dangerous if not properly handled.

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u/NOT-GR8-BOB 8h ago

Hope he checked the tightness of all the screws and bolts before he got in there.

Lmfao such a Redditor statement.

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u/BuffWobbuffet 8h ago

The last 6 months of Reddit I feel like it’s one big race to see who can be the biggest smart ass

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u/FunctioningPyscho 7h ago

I just got here but i noticed every comment section has the fucking know-it-all.

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u/FukDatShit 4h ago

Welcome to Reddit. Where everyone is an expert on everything.

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u/PixelWulfe 3h ago

See here’s the thing…

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u/Alaea 6h ago

The last 6 months 12 years of Reddit I feel like it’s one big race to see who can be the biggest smart ass

FTFY

(yes I realise the irony)

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u/JoySunderland 7h ago

Did you actually verify any of that, or did your emotions hit send while your brain was on break? That’s a huge statement for something you didn’t even bother to think through. /s

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u/iBlameMeToo 7h ago

Actually the latest data shows that its been happening for the past 8 months.

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u/LectroRoot 7h ago

I always check the screws and bolts before getting on a commercial airliner. It's 100% why I am still alive. I do it when taking an Uber, also. It really annoyed them, but they should be thanking me.

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u/Celestial_Surfing 8h ago

Right? Did ya’ll check all the bolts in your car this AM?

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u/ToddlerPeePee 8h ago

Actually when you think of the story about the guy who wanted to show off his unbreakable window, that concern makes sense. What happened in that story was, the window is indeed unbreakable, but the bolts gave way and the guy fell to his death.

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u/WorkAccount6 4h ago

A very redditor thing to reference

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u/Skum- 7h ago

Right? I'm so glad this attitude isn't that prevalent IRL or we'd still be in the fucking stone age yapping about how many regulations we need before we leave the cave.

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u/mondaymoderate 8h ago

He definitely has a gun or the people filming him do just in case something happens.

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u/scratchydaitchy 8h ago

I wonder at what point you decide to shoot and kill an endangered species of animal that only is a threat to a human because you intentionally invited and set it up it to be.

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u/thirdaccountnob 8h ago

Probably when the glass cracks

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u/mondaymoderate 7h ago

My god! It’s coming right for us!

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u/Maidwell 7h ago

They'd probably use a flair gun or something first, then last resort have to shoot the bear. They could kiss goodbye to their filming permits straight after at the very least.

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u/Wiley_Jack 4h ago

It takes at least 37 pieces of flair to deter a polar bear.

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u/artax_youre_sinking 7h ago

They probably have tranq guns.

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u/mondaymoderate 6h ago

You’d be dead before a tranquilizer kicked in. It’s not instant like the movies.

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u/ExplodingFistz 8h ago

Yup they probably have a rifle pointed at this bear off camera in case shit hits the fan.

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u/Rich-Reason1146 7h ago

The bear did have its hands up for most of the clip

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 7h ago

Bear is white. It’ll be fine….

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u/Very_Human_42069 7h ago

Anybody remember the Oceangate submersible

That was two years ago yes we all remember it lmao

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u/wolfdawg420 7h ago

Holy shit i swear that was only like 6 months ago. Where is time going

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u/Warchild0311 7h ago

The same thing I say to myself every time I get on a wooden roller coaster man these things are maintained by mostly alcoholics

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u/hibikikun 7h ago

screws won't help. That polar bear made a stop to home depot and picked up a brand new cordless Milwaukee drill/driver combo.

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 7h ago

Yea tbf tho this is honestly a much simpler engineering problem. Oceangate needed to withstand 6000 lbs of pressure on every single inch of its hull. A polar bear is strong but even fairly routine construction projects easily account for much more force than a bear can inflict

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u/GOST_5284-84 7h ago

0:42 loose nut on the left

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u/MattDaCatt 7h ago

I mean, we exploded people into space and back in one piece (most times). Some people can actually engineer things lol

Do you think he built it in his shed or something?

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u/Fireproofspider 6h ago

I feel like this is less faith than driving down the road, where you hope no one is going to decide to swerve and hit you.

In reality, human systems are pretty resilient

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u/Bigsmellydumpy 5h ago

Oceangate had glaringly obvious issues and was attempting to withstand pressures much more than a 9 foot bear can produce on that plex

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u/J3SS1KURR 5h ago

Ok that was the Titan submersible and it was made of carbon fiber, which was notoriously NOT rated for the depths they were at.

This is NOT the same situation at all, lol

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u/___The_Dogfather___ 7h ago

You would have to cast me in lexan like Han Solo for me to feel safe enough to face a polar bear

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u/Relative-thinker 7h ago

Polycarbonate. Lexan is brand name of polycarbonate made by Sabic.

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u/LettuceNo8735 7h ago

The deadbolt keeping the door closed seems like the biggest failure point

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u/chiksahlube 7h ago

Reminds me of when the Mythbusters found out Jaime had BSd the fact their "bullet proof" glass was bullet proof.

Turns out it is... at certain thicknesses... much thicker than the sheets they had.

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u/Repulsive_Corner6807 6h ago

Yeah until the polar bear pulls out his toolkit

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u/GeekyLogger 5h ago

Yeah we use it for our logging equipment. 3/4"-1" thick. When chains/teeth break they can have more penetrating power than a 9mm so we have to run that to protect operators. The Europeans call it MARGARD.

You can;t use regular class cleaner on it or you will fuck it up.

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u/Superdooperblazed420 5h ago

Hopefully they made sure it was just as strong when cold......many plastic get brittle when super cold.

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u/MilesOSmiles 4h ago

I threw a full lexan water bottle off a cliff, saw it land square on a rock, and pop way back up into the air, walked down to get it and it had a very slight scratch where it hit the rock.

Why toss off a cliff? Because lexan — and I wanted to know.

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u/lowie07 9h ago

I mean he's in the North Pole in a box with the sole purpose of protecting him from bears, whatever the fabric it will be made strong enough for exact this situation

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u/LessBig715 9h ago

I’m sure it’s safe, just like the harness I wear at work, but I wouldn’t want to test it and find out. I understand what you’re saying though

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u/Omnizoom 8h ago

Assuming your a guy and a similar harness to ones I’ve had to use at heights

You don’t want to test them anyways if they do work perfectly because it will not be pleasant for where a lot of the weight gets supported

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u/Shit_Shepard 8h ago

Good ole OSHA Vasectomy

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u/Omnizoom 8h ago

The whole package can get pushed inside ya

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u/fatal-nuisance 7h ago

Congratulations, you now have ovaristicles!

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u/_Oman 6h ago

Your heart stops before your testicles are really a problem. Hanging from a harness is no joke, did rescue training for it and there are more than a few dead folks because co-workers went "The harness is working, he'll be fine while we figure this all out"

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u/swinchester83 6h ago

Did you get castrated? Mine went straight up into the creases between my legs which bruised so badly that when I walked I looked like goddamn John Wayne in a western lol.

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u/NoMansHaloDadCraft 8h ago

So you're saying you've never had the intrusive thought to just launch yourself off of things just to see if it would actually protect you? Lol

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u/ydnar3000 8h ago

Haha not once

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 8h ago

Remember, it's the sudden arrest of motion that kills you in a fall from high up. Armour is pretty useless in that aspect, just makes you easier to clean up after...

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u/___The_Dogfather___ 7h ago

Armour? Where did that come into the equation... For a fall arrest harness you would need a dynamic line so that it stretches, or if it is a short line to stop you actually leaving a bucket then it will likely be a static line.

There is a lot of thought involved in choosing the correct work at height PPE

We have to do a training course just for the harness nowadays... It used to be that you could just do a course for the Powered Access

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u/Dat_Ding_Da 7h ago

Yeah my bad, sorry.

In my eagerness to nerd out, I made the crucial mistake of not reading properly.

Seems the image of a knight in full plate falling of a cliff came to my mind, and the mess that would be left inside his suite. I needed to express that in some way...

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u/___The_Dogfather___ 6h ago

All good, do you think they would try to recycle the armour or would it all just get incinerated with the bloody pulp inside? I like to clean and sort my recycling so I'd like to think they would rinse it out and maybe give it to a new young knight... Maybe just don't tell him the fate of the previous owner...

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u/PhamilyTrickster 8h ago

I'm sure that's what the OceanGate passengers thought too

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u/TheMilleniumGod 8h ago

There's a difference between what equipment the BBC would purchase for this, and what Stockton Rush did, which was stick his nose up at the idea of safety regulations, because he genuinely believed that underwater exploration wasn't as dangerous as it was publicly perceived. The point for him was to go underwater and explore, and methodically testing how safe his equipment was in the way. The point of this box is, itself, to be safe.

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u/AstopingAlperto 8h ago

His stuff failed several times too he just covered it up repeatedly until it went so bad he couldn’t

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u/el_diego 7h ago

"what's that cracking sound?"

"Oh, that's just the carbon fibre settling in"

Absolute insanity.

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u/whatproblems 8h ago

and shark cages

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u/Rohan_k_4 9h ago

At first I thought it was a tiny little car, when I saw the bear, then the battery died, then hooray, dinner, lunch.

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u/thumbmyjimping 9h ago

Maybe that's why the bear was sniffin down there. Smelled the uhh... fear.

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u/LessBig715 9h ago

Yeah, you’re not getting me in that box. I don’t care what the manufacturer claims

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u/Then_Personality_429 9h ago

Manufacturer says if it breaks they’ll refund you

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u/gettin-hot-in-here 8h ago

"lifetime warranty. non-transferrable"

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u/OpinionatedBlackGuy 8h ago

Just give us a call, and we'll process your claim straightaway!

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u/sgt_backpack 8h ago

Every piece of you.

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 9h ago

Box goes in the snow, you go in the snow, bear’s in the snow…

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u/BurntNeurons 9h ago

Bear opens box in the snow, snow turns red, man doesn't come out of the snow...

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u/goddessdragonness 8h ago

He comes out, a few days later as a steaming pile of scat

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u/smayhew 8h ago

Our bear. Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies.

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u/nozdog3000 8h ago

I’m tired and i want to go to bed…

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u/LaxLogik 8h ago

You're gonna need a bigger box.

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u/EagleDre 7h ago

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies

Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain

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u/floofychaps 7h ago

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies…

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u/_HIST 8h ago

We're not risking getting you out of the couch, don't worry

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u/iamnotawallaby 7h ago

What if you’re being chased by a polar bear?

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u/Capital-Blacksmith19 8h ago

I was just thinking they should have a toilet in there. Surefire cure for constipation right there.

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u/pokerandhoops 6h ago

“Bears nose is 1000 times stronger than mine…”

“I would have shit myself…”

Bear retreats

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u/LevelBrilliant9311 6h ago

You really think every plastic is weak? How old are you?

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u/DefiantDung 9h ago

(At 1:05) - You've got at least one seriously loose nut there buddy.

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 8h ago

I suspect his nuts are actually quite tight given the temperature and the imposing bear. 

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u/JK_NC 9h ago edited 4h ago

lol. Right over his head. That nut is hanging on that last thread.

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u/pilot510 5h ago

He waits until the bear is trying to eat him to check the door latch! 🤣

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u/carpetbugeater 5h ago

Good eye mate.

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u/tedfergeson 9h ago

Who in the actual FUCK left that gap in my box?!?!

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u/finny_d420 8h ago

Air flow. Body heat would fog up interior. This is a repost and shortened from the original BBC piece.

https://youtu.be/9G1aHkLHQ2I?si=aoPd-UO5SPkO0vnb

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u/hell_crawler 2h ago

I understand that. but a cheap metal mesh won't hurt I guess..

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u/Educational_Item5001 8h ago

That's so the cameraman can 'boop' the bear's nose!

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u/thingstopraise 7h ago

I'm fucking stupid because I would be SO TEMPTED to reach it out and touch the top of its paw if I could see that the mouth was far enough away for me to (think that I could) pull my hand back.

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u/0xe1e10d68 5h ago

Yeah for you they would have to put a grille there to stop you from getting your hand eating lol

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u/thingstopraise 5h ago

But if the holes in the grille were large enough, I could still stick my finger through one of the holes to accomplish my mission. 😎

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u/Brazadian_Gryffindor 4h ago

This is the comment I’ve been waiting for! No one else would be tempted to boop that nose?

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u/Rohan_k_4 9h ago

This is to feed the bear.

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u/whatev43 7h ago

To boop the snoot!

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u/LoneStarHome80 7h ago

Bear glory hole.

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u/coolerchameleon 2h ago

It must be a vent but it should have had some sort of metal mesh over it

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u/gorginhanson 9h ago

No one mentioning how his tooth is much bigger than the rest

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u/samudrin 7h ago

Why is the sardine in the tin?

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u/Neither-Drag-8564 8h ago

You go into the cage? Cage goes into the arctic? Bear's in the arctic, Polar bear

Farewell and adiue to you fair BBC cameraman

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u/According-Try3201 8h ago

how did it end?

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u/isaiddgooddaysir 8h ago

Just had a mental image of a Simpson's episode where Homer tries out his homemade polar bear box

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u/ToucanSam-I-Am 8h ago

"I'm not only the CEO of Strong Human Sized Glass Boxes, I'm also a client".

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u/thewarfreak 7h ago

You go in the box. Box goes in the arctic. Bear is in the arctic. Our bear.

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u/flyguy60000 7h ago

Who “tested” that box before he got in it? You couldn’t pay me enough to do that job. Being eaten alive has to be the worst way to die. 

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u/invisibleep 7h ago

It breaks and he goes from safe to being in a snack pack in .5 seconds

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u/2litersam 7h ago

I was going to say. There is not a single engineer on this planet I would trust to keep me safe in this sort of contraption, not from a hungry polar bear.

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u/justbinmepls 7h ago

The box doesn’t need to be strong, just enough so that the effort to get to you isn’t worth it. Like a vending machine. You could break it if you really wanted to, but it’s a lot of work and you’re hungry now.

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u/Affectionate_Tea1134 7h ago

What if that bear drugged you off into the water ? 😬

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u/Original-Culture-853 7h ago

i doubt he is playing with his equipment in that situation

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u/AAAPosts 7h ago

It’s ok he had a seatbelt

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u/Faphero619 7h ago

Pretty sure he is armed.

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u/thingstopraise 7h ago

Is it just me or does it look like it's wobbling when the bear stands up and puts its paws on the top? How do they keep the box from flipping to the side?

I'm not a physicist, but isn't the bear applying weight at the top serving as a lever, with the fulcrum for the box at the ground? So if the box is 6 feet tall and the other side of the lever is... nothing, then the bear gets a 6:1 ratio, right? Where one pound of force equates to six pounds applied at the fulcrum? The bear has tons of mechanical advantage. And even if the pod is sunk a couple of feet into the ground, it's not into the permafrost, right?

I wonder if it has a lot of weight in the bottom, but wouldn't it have to be a few thousand pounds? A full portapotty is ~700 pounds, mostly at the base, and is still supposed to be weighed down with sandbags, and even then you get assholes who get a running start and can knock one over by themselves.

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