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Giant underground pipe mysteriously rises over 30 feet, bursting through road in Japan: "I can't believe this" (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] 30 points 6 months ago

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    [–] 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Tl;dr: Its a pile or something similar to stabilise the ground, they pumped the water out of it and it lifted up out of the ground.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's not a pipe at all. Crap article.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds like the pipe was used to great an underground work space for the connection the workers were doing below. The steel walls kept the giant hole’s dirt from falling in.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It was a support jack. It's not a pipe, nothing gets piped in it.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Pipe just means tube, not that you have to use it as a fluid vehicle. There is structural Pipe. And they said they pumped the water out of it, which then let it float up on a presumes rising water table below, meaning it was hollow inside.

    From JapanTimea article:

    The pipe was being used as a retaining structure to prevent excavated soil from collapsing. Workers had been pumping groundwater out of the pipe until early Wednesday morning, but no abnormalities had been detected before the incident.

    Support pipe use, like when you dig a hole and shore it up on the sides. Rathen than a pile driven in to stop layered geology from aliding off a slope. The articles mentioned they were using it to get to the bottom and do their connection work...not connect too this pipe, but it can still be called a pipe by definition of what piping is.

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    • [–] 13 points 6 months ago*

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    in a lower voice

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    [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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    • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Nintendo really pulling all the stops to advertise the new Mario movie

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    [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    That deadbolt keeps Godzilla in his underground cell. RUN!!!

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    [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    sexy

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    The mole people reject our infrastructure

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Are you sure that the entire city didn't sink?

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I think I saw a porno about this

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Ah, it's just a matter of time before people will start being blasted into plumes of dust.

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    My engineer brain is breaking trying to understand how this could happen.

    Also, how the fuck does this work:

    By Thursday it had been lowered back to just several feet above the ground after firefighters cut a hole on the side and injected water to push it back into the ground.

    They did what now?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    From the article:

    The pipe's unexpected elevation from the ground occurred at a sewer construction site where workers had been connecting an existing sewer line with a channel designed to hold excess rainwater to prevent flooding.

    The pipe was being used as a retaining structure to keep the surrounding soil from collapsing during the operation, officials said. A short time earlier, workers had drained water from the pipe, which may have caused the empty apparatus to float, they said.

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    • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Why is it pixelated? We're all adults here.

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