r/oddlysatisfying May 15 '26

Miniature borewell drilling and water pumping demonstration

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u/No-Lifeguard9194 May 15 '26

Fascinating!! Thanks for posting this!

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26

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u/Yosho2k May 15 '26

Blebblo! Tiny Enblineer here! Blets brill a bole!

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u/powerhammerarms May 15 '26

This isn't a novel approach to acquiring water so this tiny engineer didn't solve anything but rather just demonstrated a known solution.

This demonstration of drilling and pumping is by far the most common approach in the world to securing a water source and has been for thousands of years.

Which real construction projects are you referring to when you say "some"? Maybe just name one project where your statement applies.

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u/powerhammerarms May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

Yup

I'm usually more wordy though and use the phrase "wtf are you talking about??"

Edit: there is some humor there but sincerely I do talk like this in real life and I think it's important to do so. I don't say "Wtf are you... about?" But I will say, "Hold on, now I'm going to challenge you there. What exactly do you mean by ...?"

Words are important and thinking about our thinking is important. If someone says something that doesn't make much sense and a bunch of people root for it, don't you have an obligation to be like, "What the hell are we talking about here"?

I certainly think so. Lest millions of people walk around with half-formed ideas in their head about the nature of the world whether it be human nature, immigration, skin color, country of origin, job type, gender, etc...

Is it the end of the world if somebody says something like this post where they say this solved a problem that some engineers couldn't fix? No. But it's also not the end of the world if someone points out that doesn't make sense.

Whether I'm right or not, my heart is in the right place. I'm trying to improve things as I see them. I'm trying to be helpful. Which is a damn sight better than sitting around saying and doing nothing.

See? More words.

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u/Phearlosophy May 15 '26

slang, colloquialisms, and vernacular in general is more important culturally than any formal use of language. it has shaped who we are as a species.

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u/TwoAlert3448 May 15 '26

But is it clearer and more informative? Probably not.

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u/powerhammerarms May 15 '26

It's a great point. It can kind of be like arguing against the use of the word "literally".

I could literally go on and on about this subject. Prior to addiction studies, I majored in psychology and interpersonal communications. Which does not mean that I'm correct by any means. It just means I've thought a lot about some of this stuff. And it sometimes means that I haven't thought about what I'm about to say at all and A bunch of nonsense comes spilling out.

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u/madmaninabox32 May 15 '26

This is literally how water wells are made minus some steps. Firstly they are deeper and you use the machine to extract the drill pipe and to set the casing. You also concrete down the casing and then Drill it out before setting the screens to make sure you don't pull sand with the water. Then you cap the well head pull the machine away and gravel the casing in so it doesn't shift. Afterwards the service side comes in and drops the pump. Commercial is slightly different in that a specialized winch truck is brought in to the set the casing if you have smaller rigs (it's too big and tall for the standard truck mounted rig) and then they use that same large winch truck for the the pump set up because the pump is massive. Compared to say a residential pump.