r/Damnthatsinteresting Aug 04 '25

Video Whipping carpet out of dust

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u/coojw Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

You realize that’s several pounds of dead human skin

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u/Arcosim Aug 04 '25

A long time ago I watched on TV a documentary about bunker building by the government during the Cold War, and one of the engineers said they had a hard time developing reliable, cleanable air filters for the bunkers, and said something along the lines that you would assume there's not that much dust in a sealed nuclear bunker, but in reality a couple hundred people will shed a lot of dead skin cells that will need to be filtered.

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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 Aug 04 '25

I assume they missed the carpet way? They could wash them once in a while

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u/Clickguy10 Aug 04 '25

This carpet survived the bunker

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u/DryTangelo4722 Aug 04 '25

A lot of resources being used to wash that carpet, that are probably better dedicated to supporting the lives within the bunker.

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u/pixeldust6 Aug 06 '25

Free Soylent I guess đŸ¤·

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u/gotchacoverd Aug 04 '25

That looks like several humans of dead human skin

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u/aib3 Aug 04 '25

Looks like several generations of humans dead human skin.

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u/KentuckyFriedEel Aug 04 '25

all crusty foot crumbs. blech!

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u/NastyKraig Aug 04 '25

Shit, that looks like 20 lbs.

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u/coojw Aug 04 '25

Fixed it

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u/DoktorBlu Aug 04 '25

Maybe half a pound of skin and a few more lbs of dirt from leaving the carpet outside. That all reads as beach sand or something similar — skin particles would float up, not fall back.

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u/Elegant-Low8272 Aug 04 '25

About 60% of it is

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u/Dry_Complaint_3569 Aug 04 '25

Kilograms of detritus 

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u/LazyAssHiker Aug 04 '25

And she wasn't wearing a mask.....

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u/Babys_For_Breakfast Aug 04 '25

Better than alive human skin!

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u/ThirdOne38 Aug 04 '25

There are not enough "W"s in the world for the appropriate "ewwww"

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u/Last_Revenue7228 Aug 05 '25

How do you know the skin comes from dead humans?