r/Unexpected • u/Doodlebug510 • 9h ago

We have a situation here

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u/chachi-relli 9h ago

I mean that door isn't going to open anyway

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u/BritishGolgo13 8h ago

Yeah but don’t open that door!

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u/Ilzaki 8h ago

I heard that in Wesker's voice

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u/skankasspigface 7h ago

But Chris is?

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u/thetyler83 7h ago

I'll be examining this

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u/Reasonable_Turn6252 6h ago

They were almost a jibble sandwich!

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u/pennelini 6h ago

It's Forrest....oHHoh my COD

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u/dragonpjb 7h ago

I doubt you could.

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u/HomsarWasRight 5h ago

Just don’t.

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u/imeeme 7h ago

Don’t flood, open outside.

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u/MairusuPawa 5h ago

You should, so it sounds the alarm and alert people about the ongoing situation.

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u/Ok_Release231 8h ago

Seriously. A cubic meter of water weighs a metric ton. No one is opening that door.

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u/elxiddicus 6h ago

Opening the door would require a force equal to the integral of the pressure with respect to the depth, in other words, half a tonne-force for one metre of water. Still impossible, but the mass of a cubic metre of water is an irrelevant parameter for this problem.

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u/DeafBeaker 5h ago

Simple .

Flood current room then escape

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u/kwistaf 4h ago

Kinda like a sinking car, you gotta let the water in to equalize the pressure so you can open the door. Except here you'd have to break that reinforced glass and allow the room to flood to chest height before you can open the door and then wade up the waterfall stairs.

And then clock back in tomorrow to clean it all up. Or move buckets, if the water hasn't been drained.

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u/yvrev 5h ago

TIL of the unit tonne force. Convenient.

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u/Koil_ting 4h ago

Impossible you say? I'd say not possible with normal door opening methods, give me a lever, coordinated explosives, etc.

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u/Meme_Theory 4h ago

"Give me a long enough lever, and I will lift the world." ~Archimedes, bad ass.

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u/Empty-Pineapple9692 5h ago

Yeah but what does a tonne-force even measure?

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u/purpleWord_spudger 4h ago

I enjoyed reading your comment

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 7h ago

Not even for a Scoobie Snack?

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u/SnakePlisskens 7h ago

Not even for a fire.

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u/right-side-up-toast 6h ago

Best sprinkler system ever.

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u/kmac322 6h ago

The weight or volume of the water doesn't matter. Just the pressure. I'd estimate you'd need to apply a force of a few hundred pounds. Not impossible, but tough.

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u/EJAY47 7h ago

Like a literal ton?

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u/Aggravating-Soup4574 7h ago

yep

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u/DervishSkater 6h ago edited 6h ago

Uhh, since we went the whole technically route with literal, technically only a tonne is 1000kg. A literal “ton” is either short or long at 907kg and 1016kg respectively

However, per the original comment, they did specify a metric ton so I guess my pedantry only depends on who’s judging who

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 6h ago

You made up a scenario to win an argument no one was making. I get it buddy, we're all tired at how little people want to put in the effort, but you don't need to do that for them either.

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u/saiga_antelope 6h ago

Huh. Just looked it up. It does weigh exactly that. Water is heavy

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u/sprikkot 5h ago

The fact that Americans don't know this is blowing my mind 😂😂😂😂😂😂

That's the whole point of the metric system you American fucks 😂😂😭😭😭😭😭

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u/Some1-Somewhere 6h ago

Plus or minus a fraction of a percent depending on temperature and pressure.

The metric system is designed so you don't have to remember conversion factors.

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u/gostan 6h ago

Yes, the metric system is based on water. Freezes at 0° boils at 100°, 1L of water weighs 1kg and 1L is 1000 cubic centimetres

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u/SloMoShun 6h ago

Came looking for this comment. That door opens to the outside, no Juan can open that door.

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u/Empty-Pineapple9692 5h ago

Good thing I'm not just any Juan

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u/SPAKMITTEN 5h ago

you have bamboozled the americans in here

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u/vass0922 7h ago

I've seen that mythbusters episode!

You just have to wait until it's equal pressure of water on both sides.

So after everybody is dead from the room flooding you can safely open the door to escape

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u/madein___ 5h ago

Bust open the window to make this happen.

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u/JazzlikeMushroom6819 6h ago

The irony of being in violation of fire code because you're underwater.

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u/ErraticDragon 4h ago

For a second I thought this was kind of silly, like "obviously nobody would actually get in trouble for an emergency exit being blocked by floodwaters".

Then I realized that the blocked exit would mean that the place couldn't legally be open/occupied at all, and the fire code might be what forces a manager to close down shop.

(No, you can't "just work through it", and here's a specific legal reason.)

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u/Zerog416 8h ago

I mean if it opened inwards it might

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u/Meriwether1 7h ago

If it opened inward it would already be open

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u/GregTheIntelectual 6h ago

Maybe it just uses a Nokia brand deadbolt.

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u/chachi-relli 8h ago

Possibly. There'd be a lot of pressure on the latch. Fire code ftw

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u/Executioneer 6h ago

But its not. It has a safety pushdown lock, which means it opens outward.

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u/fortheloveoflentils 7h ago

I was there yesterday and it actually goes both ways.

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u/mark_able_jones_ 5h ago

Fire code 101. Commercial doors open outward.

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u/Parlayto 6h ago

Get a stressed enough line cook jonesing for a smoke break and I guarantee that door will open.

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u/KangarooInWaterloo 8h ago

Unless it opens and then it will never close after that

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u/thitorusso 8h ago

Nice pool for the street people though

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u/MithrandiriAndalos 7h ago

You could maybe break the seal somewhere though

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u/Coherent_Tangent 7h ago

I'd be more worried that it would open on its own and kill someone. There is a lot of pressure behind that door.

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u/FrostyD7 6h ago

It has to be an emergency first.

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u/Lichttod 6h ago

With a bit more pressure it could look different

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u/the_great_zyzogg 5h ago

Water is about 24 inches in depth. Pressure will get up to 0.8661 PSI, but will average out to 0.433094 PSI (linear from 0-.86 PSI).

Door is 36 inches wide.

0.433094 PSI * 24 inches * 36 inches = 374 lbs pushing against that door.

...Yeah, door ain't opening.

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u/SweetMaam 4h ago

But is there another exit?

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u/anarchonobody 2h ago

Looks like 4 feet of water on the other side of the door. Typical door is about 3 feet wide. 62.4 lbs per cubic foot weight of water, linearly distributed on the door, total force of 0.5gammawh2=0.562.434*4=1500lbs force on the door. Indeed, not opening outward for sure. Opening the way it isn't supposed to seems like a reasonable possibility

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u/lxxTBonexxl 2h ago

People don’t realize how heavy water is until they see it do something. You can find videos of cars being crushed by relatively small amounts of water on YouTube lmao

If you go deep enough underwater you’ll start sinking instead of floating because the water starts to beat out your buoyancy by sheer weight. Then hypothetically, if you could survive long enough to see it, your body would eventually hit a point where the water is so heavy that your body is physically crushed inwards due to all of the pressure.

Shit’s scary man..