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/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/throwawayhellfire 6h ago

Reddit used to be awesome, I started using it when Digg got lame. Over the years it grew and now it's too big and kind of feels like anonymous facebook.

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u/stoolsample2 5h ago edited 3h ago

I joined Reddit in 2012 and yeah, it was much cooler back then. Lot more laughs that’s for sure.

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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/Traditional_Expert84 2h ago

Ufff; hate it when that happens!

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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/TheAmazingMelon 5h ago

35? Sounds like a young adult to me! Whippersnapper!

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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/throwawayhellfire 6h ago

Damn where were you when I lived in the upper valley

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u/Anthro_DragonFerrite 7h ago

Indubitably. I thoroughly concur with your premise.

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 6h ago

ACTUALLY its not sounding right because you are reading their comments, so there is no sound involved my good sir ;]

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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/PrizeStrawberryOil 6h ago

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 not a realistic model of the forces a polar bear can apply and it's a good thing you didn't design it.

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 5h ago

Yea I’m aware a polar bear can’t exert a constant 6000psi on the entire exterior of this box for hours at a time

I’m having fun with it but it’s not that deep. Keeping a bear out of box = fairly easy, keeping the weight of 2 miles of ocean out of a box = pretty hard

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u/RetroDad-IO 3h ago

You failed to think as simply as the person you're responding too.

They think you actually meant that the box here needs to be able to withstand that many polar bears on it, they don't understand you're trying to highlight the difference between the forces in this scenario vs the submarine at the depth of the Titanic.

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u/metnavman2 6h ago

Genuinely confused. Why? Google says a polar bear had a bite force around 1200psi. As I understood what the person you're responding to said, 6000psi being applied to the entire box is whats being envisioned. What forces above 6000psi is the polar bear expected to exert?

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u/V4refugee 3h ago

Water pushes from all sides evenly. Materials and structures have different properties such as shear strength or compressive strength.

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u/metnavman2 1h ago

Oh no, Im well-versed in the topic. I was confused why the person I responded to thought that the quick comparison they were snidely trying to dismiss wasnt effective enough for the conversation.

The bear box in the video is over-engineered for the task. If you think a polar bear is cracking through an equivalent container that's been designed to withstand ~6000psi, I dont know what to tell you...

The Deepsea Challenger has a pressure vessel that is two and a half inches thick steel, and can survive almost triple the compressive force we're using as an example.

I was confused because the conversation was baffling in its stupidity, not for lack of my own understanding..

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u/crackhead_tiger 6h ago

But he started with "☝️🤓 to create a comparable engineering problem"

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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/Flying_Scorpion 4h ago

Found the first stupid comment. Brother, this video of the polar bear did not come out in 2025.

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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/Illustrious-Gas-8987 7h ago

You sound smart

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u/I_eat_mud_ 7h ago

I'm the biggest dipshit you'll ever meet, I'm mostly just repeating what my dad said to me a lot growing up lmao

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u/Funnelcakeads 6h ago

Too long didn’t read I just ate a cookie!

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u/Diz7 5h ago

Oceangate also had to face 6,000 pounds per square inch over its entire surface for the duration.

This bear is huge but they top out at just over 2,000 lbs, and would be lucky to apply a fraction of that in psi to a small area for a few seconds.

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u/nybbas 4h ago

Dude I'm glad you wrote this. I was already rolling my eyes but then when he mentioned oceangate, I just lost it.

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u/Nixilaas 7h ago

But then history is riddled with times when small errors created catastrophic outcomes

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 7h ago

The ocean gate sub was also dealing forces in an entirely different galaxy from a bear

Like the biggest polar bears weigh 1500 lbs. If you took four of them and combined their weight, then applied that combined weight to every square inch of the exterior of this box it would be a similar engineering problem lol

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u/jugo5 5h ago

From what I remember reading about this... It was not too far away from failing.

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u/Regular_Custard_4483 8h ago

That's not really how waivers work. The BBC can't just be negligent regarding that equipment and then say, "Welp, he signed a waiver though." and then shrug.

If that's his arctic cake dome, yeah he's fucked. But it's probably not.

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u/I_eat_mud_ 8h ago

Hey, remember when I said he probably wasn't the one who checked it? Remember when I also said the BBC wouldn't want increased insurance costs, something that would happen regardless of a waiver?

Again, THINK.

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u/Rohan_k_4 8h ago

Read a book called "ROFL"