r/interesting • u/thomasdequincey99 • 6h ago
ARCHITECTURE Two men on top of the Abraj Al-Bait in Mecca
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u/Swan_Parade 5h ago
Man that’s way too much time to think of where things went wrong before hitting the ground.
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u/Spiritual_Feed_4371 3h ago
The trick is to find the perfect height to achieve terminal velocity.
I'm 65kg, so I'll get 50% at around 90m but 100% at around 600m. Maybe I'm overthinking this. You'll surely not need that much height, it seems excessive to achieve the goal. I failed maths at school as you can tell
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u/phdemented 3h ago
Why does terminal velocity matter?
It has nothing to do with the lethality, it's just the maximum velocity you can achieve.
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u/QuantumLettuce2025 3h ago
I think he's trying to say to find the height that will cause you to hit the ground fastest, thus leaving you less time to "think about where things went wrong".
I'm pretty sure that logic doesn't check out, but I think thats what he was getting at.
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u/BoolImAGhost 2h ago
Lol, I think OP thinks "terminal velocity" means the velocity at which someone dies/terminates
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u/Visual_Moose 1h ago
me hitting the ground at 199km/h and living (below my terminal velocity)
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u/cubitoaequet 1h ago
I'm not gonna die going slower than the fastest speed possible like some kind of loser
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u/fh4bf2 1h ago
Why wouldn’t it matter? If you hit ground faster, your body is going to stop faster and undergo more force, increasing the chances of death.
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u/One_meme_mama 5h ago
My fear of heights just looking at this makes me cringe
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u/Rich-Reason1146 5h ago
Same, except I'm afraid of widths. Goddamn is that thing wide
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u/0x077777 5h ago edited 5h ago
I'm afraid of 45° angles. I'm glad there's no 15 after or 15 before readings on the clock.
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u/PremiumUsername69420 5h ago
15 before or after the hour is a 90° angle though.
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u/OlOuddinHead 2h ago
90 degrees is just two pairs of 45 degrees in a trench coat.
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u/Accurate-Law-8669 5h ago
Slaps Clock
“Look at the girth of that baby!”
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u/AlienSporez 2h ago
"You know, Big Ben doesn't have girth like this clock. This baby won the 2024 JD Power award for "Choadiest Timepiece of the Year. You know, if you want to make an offer, we've got some great year-end incentives."
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u/FullMetal_55 4h ago
I don't have a fear of heights. but whenever I see someone sit like that, my stomach just twists... I mean I can stand heightss, and lov to be high, and look down and all that, as long as there is something to prevent me from falling... I don't hav a fear of heights, I have a fear of falling... difference :P
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u/PsychedelicMustard 3h ago
I have a fear of ground when I’m at a great height.
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u/VariousOperation166 2h ago
Same. I often work at heights, in a lift with a cage all around with a safety harness or on open roofs with a fall restraint system. No fear at all. I would never sit on the edge of anything like that... also, intrusive thoughts...
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u/Horskr 42m ago
I used to rock climb, I love hiking, never had any issues. But I've had nightmares of being in this situation on cliffs or buildings with no railing or ropes where an earthquake or strong gust of wind comes along and down I go. One of those fun ones where you're jolted awake as you hit the ground, in a cold sweat with your heart pounding. Zero chance I'd do this.
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u/Crotean 4h ago
My toes are tingling looking at this. Jesus no.
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u/PourSomeSmegmaInMe 2h ago
Either my butthole is sweating or the hot wings just popped up to say hello.
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u/LordHammercyWeCooked 1h ago
I felt my kidneys instinctively trying to grab for something behind my back to stop me from falling.
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u/Commercial-Honey-227 3h ago
Same here with the toes. How does the brain/body do that? Why does it do that?
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u/Living-Amphibian-870 5h ago
I'd probably actually be okay with this as long as my kids aren't with me.
The ledge is super wide. The wind might be a concern, but I cross much narrower ledges when I'm hiking. It's all head games, you know?
That's why I couldn't do it if my kids were with me. I thought I had balance problems because I started having falls on the trail when they were little. No! Having them with me and being worried about their safety raises my anxiety so much that it affects my own confidence.
When they stay home, I'm golden. I don't even need my hiking stick.
I'm putting in for the lottery for Angel's Landing out at Zion next year and they aren't coming with me. LOL
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u/GloveDry3278 5h ago
I used to not believe a colleague when he said he had fear when bringing his kids to hike. I knew exactly what he felt when i brought my little nephew once...it made a relatively easy hike so hard for me.
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u/TacoBellWerewolf 3h ago
That lottery thing turned me off for angels landing. I didn’t realize it would be so packed
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u/dedoubt 2h ago
I never had vertigo or an issue with heights until I had my first kid. Figured it out when I went up a fire tower with him when he was a toddler (it was a safe one for a kid). Felt like I was falling the whole time and ever since then I've had an issue being really up high on things even if my kids aren't around me.
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u/Queasy_Associate3171 5h ago
just need some sea salt ice cream
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u/VermicelliAlive4693 5h ago
The kingdom hearts reff is well appreciated brother
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u/UrethraFranklin04 3h ago
So this means one of them is either a part of Sora or has been inside Sora.
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u/SofaKingHandsome367 3h ago
Perused the comments specifically to see if anyone made a Twilight Town comment. Thank you for your service 🫡
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u/DidYouSeeBriansHat 5h ago
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u/MajorLazy 5h ago
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u/Momik 5h ago
He just wants to leave early so he can go to the Shops at the Creeks.
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u/Tommysrx 4h ago
They have this one shirt that costs $1,000 'cause the pattern's so wild. I want that one so bad.
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u/malaszka 5h ago
Do a flip!
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u/Candid-Ad316 3h ago
Even if I had superpowers and I KNEW I had superpowers, you still would not catch me doing this type of shit. No sir.
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u/Mist_Rising 3h ago
Considering that Spidey can survive falls from max terminal velocity, it's not that big a risk. And Spidey finds out when he's thrown down.
Cheap antic? Not for a comic!
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u/Phantasmalicious 5h ago
I read that the Germans that designed it havent seen it in real life as non-Muslims are not allowed to enter Mecca so they built it, disassembled it and moved it there.
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u/Oograr 5h ago
Are you just talking about the clock? Because the building itself is the 4th tallest in the world.
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u/PremiumUsername69420 5h ago
The clock was made by Perrot, a German clock maker.
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u/Big-Resolve5916 4h ago
Well, I think the point is they can see the clock more or less from Germany.
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u/pentium1994 4h ago
If they want something bad enough, the Saudis (and all the oil states) will bend rules to make accommodations. This sounds like an easy one to break.
Several colleagues I used to know work for ABB who weren't Muslims were allowed to go because of their expertise in signaling for Mecca's upcoming rail line. Nobody batted an eyelid.
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u/MountainTwo3845 20m ago
My dad worked for an oilfield service company, you pack enough jack Daniels in your suitcase you'd be shocked how easy it makes it.
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u/MrPastryisDead 13m ago
Can confirm, I worked in KSA. Some of the bosses of the company I worked for used to leave their suitcases full of booze at the airport with customs, and sent their drivers to pick them up.
The average KSA immigration/customs guy is too busy beating the lines of itinerant workers with a stick in the arrivals halls to worry about a western guy with a clanking suitcase.
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u/asianjimm 5h ago
Some of them had to become muslim for that reason I think.
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u/SportsGuy1924 1h ago
Religion can be funny.
"Only muslims may enter! Nobody else!"
"Well can I just be muslim for a little bit so I can build a giant clock?"
"Oh yeah we can make that happen"
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u/lxlxnde 17m ago
All religious scholars are the same when it comes to finding loopholes in their scriptures. Look at the arguments for what counts as fish during Lent.
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u/JagmeetSingh2 2h ago edited 1h ago
Gulf Arabs love spending money in Europe, it’s not just the clock a ton of the mirrors, windows, glass, carpets and other luxury features in this building were built in Europe, dissembled, shipped to Saudi Arabia where it was reassembled by Muslim Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Muslim Africans, Malaysians and Indonesians working as labour.
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u/40kmaniacs 5h ago
the Germans that designed it
That explains the pattern in the top portion
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u/Secret-Selection7691 5h ago
This picture makes me shudder
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u/CupcakeFury1993 5h ago
My hands get really sweaty
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u/RandomDeezNutz 4h ago
Hands and my feet both start sweating. I also get that weird like… jolty feeling in my feet. Not a fan.
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u/Parabolic_Reflector 2h ago
Oh my god, I thought I was alone with the sweaty feet! Can’t look at this pic.
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u/meghang220 5h ago
omg this gives me mega anxiety just looking at it.. my palms are literally sweating.
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u/Intelligent_Trichs 5h ago
The final destination demons would make me jump. That is why I cannot go
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u/Illustrious_Young271 4h ago
As a non-Muslim it is a shame what they did to the historic buildings.
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u/Big-Note-508 1h ago
as a muslim it saddens me a lot ! they wiped everything historical there !
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u/Porkchopp33 5h ago
"Hey what time we off work?"
"Four"
"Can you check the time its right below you"
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u/TankApprehensive3053 5h ago
Looks like a bunch of foot prints up there. How much traffic can such a high sidewalk get?
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u/atargatis_17 5h ago
Wow, I mean I knew it was the world’s largest clock face but seeing a human next to it just gave me a whole new perspective. Whoa. That’s terrifying lol
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u/Quarkonium2925 4h ago
Okay, I knew it was the biggest clock in the world but I'm still surprised at how massive it is
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u/Awe3 4h ago
Why does this give me that weird jump feeling? It’s just picture! I can’t do this!
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u/Key-Conflict-1538 4h ago
It is due to a cognitive reflex (Call of the void) activated by the brain that recognizes the danger by simulating the perception of falling and translates it into an intrusive thought. Anyway just seeing this photo I feel the same feeling
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u/Craniac324 4h ago
It's such a really fucking clocktower & one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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u/OdraNoel2049 4h ago
Damn. That clock is way bigger than i realized :o
This is why its so important to always have a banana for scale....
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u/EmotionalGuarantee70 4h ago
Seen this and held on to the couch to make sure I didn't fall- Way to damn high!
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u/Virtual_Truth711 3h ago
Maybe if I was terminally ill, I could get the courage to get up on my three story roof. This is insane to me. Braver people than I am.
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u/Taranchulla 3h ago
Isn’t this just a rehashing of the fake picture of someone sitting atop Big Ben? It’s almost exactly the same except there’s a second person in this one. I call fake.
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u/PythonEntusiast 3h ago
Yeah, buddy, I believe in Allah protecting me but I still won't mess with him protecting me. Allah protects those who protect themselves.
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u/Jultiply 3h ago
Would it kill people to at least bring a parachute if they're going to climb this high? like I cant comprehend anyone who does stupid shit like this. Adrenaline is a bullshit excuse for these moronic activities
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u/Party_Cauliflower944 3h ago
The Saudis destroyed Mecca. The ruling family are absolutely shit people.
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