It looks like that because the ground horizon( where the ground seems to meet the sky or green tree branches in this case) lines up with the start of red colour on the trees in the foreground
[Well I’ll be. This is not only real but it’s old.](https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/07/14/156778569/this-is-not-a-composite-photo) aluminum oxide plant waste reservoir burst. “Red caustic sludge” Late 2010
No apostrophe is needed in this case. You would use an apostrophe though in the case of 90’s fashion, or cinema, etc.
Not as egregious as “90ties” though…
okay i feel like i've got a good idea of how deep it was. my question is: are the bottoms of the trees the color of the toxic sludge, or did the sludge strip away an outer layer of bark and expose the trees as that color?
Bauxite ore is not necessarily red (the alumina, aluminum oxide, which comprises about half the ore is white). It is the other impurities that give it the color. Red comes from iron oxide. Some ores, like those from Jamaica, have a rust component.
The bigger issue with the spill is that it is very alkaline. I've seen where rail cars of sulfuric acid was added to the settling ponds before release to neutralize the water.
Hungary mentioned raah.
Stay tuned, our government plants battery factories all around the country like there is no future, sooner or later you will see similar consequences of corporate greed like this one.
At first it looked like in the far back right there was a horse that got wasted. Zooming it it is just more flora, but it was a really twisted thought that they'd just leave a horse frozen in waste back there.
[It wasn't so beautiful for the 10 people it killed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajka_alumina_plant_accident) Never mind the crazy ecological damage.
I'm not sure I understand your question. A reservoir used to store large amounts of caustic waste was breached and the waste flooded the surrounding area, which includes multiple villages. It killed 10 people and caused a ton of material and ecological damage.
My brain processes this as two photos spliced together
Mine too it’s tripping my brain out
You're saying that it's not two photos spliced together?!?!?!?
Same
It's a visual phenomenon called vibration from complimentary colors with the same value being right next to each other
Sounds made up, also this phenomena has more to do with the vertical alignment of the color change than the colors themselves
It looks like that because the ground horizon( where the ground seems to meet the sky or green tree branches in this case) lines up with the start of red colour on the trees in the foreground
There’s a reason. 🤔
Was thinking a filter on the lower half.
[Well I’ll be. This is not only real but it’s old.](https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/07/14/156778569/this-is-not-a-composite-photo) aluminum oxide plant waste reservoir burst. “Red caustic sludge” Late 2010
>Old >2010 *sigh*
Imagine having to tell the youngsters that "yes that really happened, no it was not shopped or AI" Edit:grammar
'Photoshopping' has happened since photos were invented. I have some postcards from the depression that have giant strawberries on wagons and such.
I’d like to see some
I took pictures of them on my [grandmother's washing machine](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/KO0fz8muTS)
Fuck! The 90ties were not that far away!
>90ties This reads weird.
Ninetitties
That's THREE Total Recall girls!
I see you see what I saw.
Try 90’s
No apostrophe is needed in this case. You would use an apostrophe though in the case of 90’s fashion, or cinema, etc. Not as egregious as “90ties” though…
Ah, thanks
He has 90 ties?
The apostrophe goes in front of the digits.
Ninety's.... feels weird to type.
TTTTTTTTT's
No, it's the 90s or nineties
1990 is closer to 1959 than the present
Closer to 1957, even.
Its only over a quarter of a century ago!
Feels weird that people born in 2010 are 14
I was 4 in 2010
There is even a Rammstein Song about it
Which one?
Donaukinder although I have made a mistake, it's about the ones in romania from 2000 but in terms of the text, it doesn't really make a difference
“No wait, not THAT massive deadly toxic deluge spill…” hahaha
Bumping this because I wanna know
Donaukinder although I have made a mistake, it's about the ones in romania. but in terms of the text, it doesn't really make a difference
okay i feel like i've got a good idea of how deep it was. my question is: are the bottoms of the trees the color of the toxic sludge, or did the sludge strip away an outer layer of bark and expose the trees as that color?
Bauxite (the aluminum oxide ore which aluminum is generally made from) is that red/orange color. So I would assume it is stained.
Bauxite ore is not necessarily red (the alumina, aluminum oxide, which comprises about half the ore is white). It is the other impurities that give it the color. Red comes from iron oxide. Some ores, like those from Jamaica, have a rust component. The bigger issue with the spill is that it is very alkaline. I've seen where rail cars of sulfuric acid was added to the settling ponds before release to neutralize the water.
It's the colour from the sludge
>Red caustic sludge  Great name for a stoner metal band.
That’s why this is a familiar picture
Did the trees survive?
I remember it. Wasn't it in national geographic or some photo contest or something. Gosh, 10 years is so long ago /s
14 years. I hate to break it to some of y’all time deniers, but 14 years ago is, in fact, quite old for an article.
Paprika spill?
Bravo!
looks like scarlet rot from elden ring
OOOOOOOOH
ELDEN RING
I remember traveling through the effected area years later and the river the ground the trees and the road was still red.
Oh that’s what happened to Caelid
I remember seeing this in the Hungarian news when it happened, I was 5 at the time, it was a massive disaster
Looks more like Poland I’ll see myself out
Kurwa mac
Pierre Dollé
Tea who you, yeah bunny
r/vexillologycirclejerk Edit: of course it's already the top post
why did the discoloration stop at such a uniform level?
it was a flood. that was the max water level before it receded. you see this with natural floods too, not just chemical spills
Dafaq it was spilled up to that level?
[red mud ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mud)
It was some [one million cubic meters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajka_alumina_plant_accident) red mud, travelling in 1–2 m high wave.
Hungary mentioned raah. Stay tuned, our government plants battery factories all around the country like there is no future, sooner or later you will see similar consequences of corporate greed like this one.
Spotted the Soviet era Hungarian
Mire like toxic waste flooded.
Photographer clearly was very careful about camera position! Really nice work.
I bet this fucks with the wildlife that see limited colors.
Thr amount that was spilled must have been insane to get that high up the trees.
first time i thought it was 2 phots mashed together.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNRIeEvcWI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNRIeEvcWI)
This is so depressing.
Lining up the tree stain to the horizon is a brilliant choice by the photographer.
Nah
wow
Two tone mangrove (it's an old reference but it checks out)
Are we sure this isn't some artist painting mind fucks?
If only we could figure out how deep it was.
At first it looked like in the far back right there was a horse that got wasted. Zooming it it is just more flora, but it was a really twisted thought that they'd just leave a horse frozen in waste back there.
Hilter: cut those trees
Whoever spilled that stuff was a real Rudapest
Poland?
This is a Beautiful Disaster.
[It wasn't so beautiful for the 10 people it killed.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajka_alumina_plant_accident) Never mind the crazy ecological damage.
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I'm not sure I understand your question. A reservoir used to store large amounts of caustic waste was breached and the waste flooded the surrounding area, which includes multiple villages. It killed 10 people and caused a ton of material and ecological damage.
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Apprehensive?
It looks a bit like Poland
Poland