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Bodhipaksa | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Did you watch this video from the article, @0c1a9324 

It starts off slow but interesting, in an understated Open University kind of way, as you learn about the physical changes that take place in clays when they're compressed. Then you see how a farmer digging a new foundation triggers a landslide, and for the next ten minutes you're going Holy crap! HOLY crap! HOLY F-ING CRAP!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-qfNlEP4A
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Charlie Stross | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @bd280af2 I don't watch random youtube videos. Or indeed almost any video, TV, or movies at all.

(NB: I did courses in rheology and viscometry as part of a pharmacy degree. Phase diagrams and flow kinematics were part of the field. Not quite the same, but a lot of overlap.)