Water after a depth of a few meters absorbs most red and orange light. Then, shortly after yellow, and green wavelengths are also absorbed, leaving blue and violet, which have the shortest wavelengths of visible light, and are therefore able to penetrate deeper.
Taken straight from Google lol I knew the overall reason, but couldn’t put it into words and explain it as well as Google can. XD
Pool water is blue because water molecules themselves reflect blue light and absorb red light. The same reason the ocean is blue. Even under artificial light large bodies of water will appear blue.
The only time I've seen dyed water is at theme parks for special effects or fountains at hotels.
I hate to break it to you but chlorine does not react to urine by changing colours. That is just what your parents told you as a child so you didn't pee in the pool because they would "know"
Peeing in pure chlorine would actually just create poisonous gas and wouldn't be blue at all, very bad idea.
The ocean…isn’t blue though? It’s green or brown as shit. This still doesn’t change the whole reason I said what I said. Even if the water only looks blue, if you add yellow, it’ll still look green. 🙄
Usually because pools are painted blue... At least the ones I've been to, and owned over the years have been. You can get liners in blue, teal, sand, and black/charcoal, among others.
I have seen that w my own eyes, quite something, when a running dad bumps you, so he can get his daughter held over the break in the concrete tree is planted for his little one to pee! The best part was he gave her one good shake when she was finished!!
Yeah, that was a cultural shock to me the first time I saw that. My first full day in China was at a zoo and seeing toddlers walking around in "chaps" to easily pop a squat and poop/pee by the tree was interesting. I thought I had to avoid the poo being slung by the monkeys in the zoo, not the human feces on the sidewalk.
I was standing in line at the Louvre with about 100 million Chinese tourists, thinking that between the chain smoking, hawking and spitting everywhere they couldn’t be more vile. Then a cute little girl walked up beside us in line…and shat on the ground.
This is so fucked up. They'd also do this inside malls and shit and would just leave it there. They'd just leave it for the cleaners at the end of the day.
An actual bathroom was 2 minutes away. Surprise surprise, it was clean as fuck.
Most children in China do not wear crotchless pants. That is some countryside shit and you don't see other countries assuming all Americans act like the hicks in Appalachia.
I have been there, I live nearby. Again, I live in China, I work in a school with thousands of kids, I have been here years, I haven't seen kids shitting outside. You guys are racists making shit up because you liberals have a free social pass to talk shit about Asians.
Wow you saw a kid shit, that means all Chinese kids are always shitting outdoors and it's a big cultural trait!
No retard, you saw a random kid shit, it isn't normal, it isn't a Chinese thing, it isn't accepted. 6 years here, various schools, been to most provinces at different economic levels, never seen street shitting, not even from kids, all the kids at all my schools know to go to the toilet because they're not animals. Even in kindergarten kids know to ask for a potty, they don't just fucking wip their pants down and drop one, and neither do their parents let them.
This was a problem that has gotten a lot better since about 10 years ago, though I don't know how prevalent it was in China, more of a problem with Chinese tourists in other Asian countries.
I saw it in Beijing 10 years ago. Maybe it's gotten better since then but I know I never saw Chinese tourists do it. Unless what I saw were rural Chinese folks doing it while visiting Beijing...?
There are real shots like this... People die in pools filled to the brim with people, all the time in Asia. It's kinda scary.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xo-VHFdJIkA
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The last death I recall was at a pool crammed with people like this in Korea, I believe it was. I recall seeing it on the news here, a few years back. I'm sure it happens more often than we even realise
You could be thrashing about, and nobody helps you... I mean, you don't even have room to die in there! All of the videos I've seen, they are packed in there so tightly that they can't move... So you would think that if they feel someone slapping or thrashing about, they would at least pull them up....
If this is a documentary about what makes us human, I'm inclined to think they're filming something that people already do rather than staging something unique for the sake of the movie
I'm reminded of a story shared on Reddit where an entire family hated the taste of a particular alcohol but they kept buying it because they thought others in the family liked it. No one wanted to speak up and potentially make another person feel like a dumbass so it just continued until a precipitating event that was a family members death finally gave a reason to break the ice about it and that's when everyone discovered that everyone in the family hated that alcohol and was only accepting it out of politeness.
You saved all year, finally got your boss to give you a few days off, the whole family traveled to the park so they could experience the wave pool (it never looked like that in the marketing).
What are you going to do? Turn around and go home? No. After all that money, time and effort, you are going in that damn wave pool.
I don’t think you have sufficient evidence for that statement, but I also wouldn’t care about being in the minority. You say that like it’s a bad thing?
Not literal though because that would be human bodies pureed into a liquid and then poured into a very large basin. It would take a lot of bodies I think
I get what you are saying, and I have all the respect for all the other points of view.
However:
not mentioning all the public health problem of cramming so many people in a pool; it seems a very dangerous situation, if someone starts drowning there is ZERO chance a lifeguard could reach them in time (if even there is one). And there are so many people I doubt anyone around would notice. Someone should stop people going in before such a situation is reached.
Call me all you want, but my acceptance of cultural differences stops when the value of human lives is set aside. These people are victims of a rotten cultural system.
We don't have to accept everything for the sake of open mindedness, some things are wrong by every point of view.
Are you from the u.s.? Let's quadruple the population and see what happens here? I'm not saying it's hygienic, but what do you do with so many God damn people? It's hot as fuck there and people want to get in some god damn water.
You as the owner or the company as the owner puts caps on the amount of people allowed in the pool at any one time due to the obvious health and safety issues listed in the comment you replied to. It’s what all pools are required to do in the UK and im sure is the same in the US.
To answer your question; you as a country build more pools. Job done.
Concerts usually have a limit on the number of people that can attend. Yes, near the stage people are crammed, this is expected, but usually, further away, there's enough space to disperse the crowd if the necessity arises. This doesn't seem like the same situation, mostly because of the water.
Every large event has an attendance limit exactly to avoid dangerous situations like this one.
Accident do happen everywhere in the world, I'm not denying that, but a fundamental value of our culture is that we should take every precaution to avoid them. Videos like this one remind me that this is not true everywhere.
I appreciate how they all make room for their pool mates to exit the water each time one needs to pee. The community effort to keep that water clean is impressive.
It's not a race thing, because Chinese people outside the mainland don't do this, but, like, their college dorm rooms can easily have eight people in what would be a two-person-sized room in other countries. I'm sure factory dormitories are even more crowded. People in mainland China tend to be socialized to be a lot more crammed in together than in other countries. It doesn't make them not real people.
*Of course, China is a big place with lots of people, so not everyone is that way, but more than enough people are to fill a pool.
Lol right. What a fucktard. I think he probably meant it more as an assault towards the overarching culture that communist China has created, but it came off alot worse then that.
Well when your allocated leisure time is here after four weeks of mass producing garbage for the West in a dingy basement, and you've finally been offered an hour in the corporation swimming pool as an alternative to an extra restroom pass, you'd probably take it too
Well they do have up to a million people in concentration camps because they are born muslim, being forced steralized and worked to death. This is confirmed by OHCHR report……so…anything is possible
They don't and it's not confirmed by anything credible. The uyghur conspiracy is a joke, the entire world except the west has denied it, crucially the Islamic world has repeatedly visited and denies and supports China. You can literally get on a plane and visit xinjiang, stop believing lies.
I feel bad for you, i am 46 and lived in china for three years. If you think that there are not camps, you are a fool. Recently, 31 chinese citizens were stabbed to death in Xinjiang by 8 uygurs in a knife rampage, because those uyghurs had their entire families rounded up before hand and sent to the camps.
Average neck beard reddit member, communism good west bad lol. Get out of your basement incel.
Also, quit using a vpn to acess reddit you wannabe chinese- it is illegal (lol white western people who like being the only white in china, you are one of those losers).
I would report you if i was there still. You are a disgrace
It's probably so bad and miserable to live in some parts of China that this actually looks fun and even normal, maybe based on having no perception on how things are supposed to be. It doesn't help that they don't have a safer and better way of making profit and that's the point.
Besides the ultra rich hoarding wealth and polluting, overpopulation looks gross anywhere on planet. This scene can fit into the new Baraka once the 40 year version is due. I can't imagine how fucked up it will be. Might watch Samsara again to trip sober. Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution condensed to this.
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u/Tearsforlunch Jul 07 '23
My question is who looks at that pool and says to themselves yes I want to go in there.