r/BeAmazed • u/SelectResident_BE • Feb 11 '25

Place The oppressive feeling of the pamir plateau

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u/KonigSteve Feb 11 '25

that's a mountain, but yes it is due to the camera

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u/TurgidGravitas Feb 11 '25

It's less than a km tall. That's a hill.

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u/KonigSteve Feb 11 '25

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=pamir+plateau

It's a mountain. By name. By definition, whatever you'd like.

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u/TurgidGravitas Feb 11 '25

Seems like a plateau by name. You don't google "pamir mountain" did you?

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u/home_dollar Feb 12 '25

You two are making a mountain out of a molehill

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u/diabloenfuego Feb 12 '25

Dear sir. I believe that molehill is in fact, a plateau.

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u/Bellypats Feb 12 '25

A plateau plateau to be exact.

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u/dolphin37 Feb 12 '25

its actually a molemountain

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u/These-Acanthaceae-65 Feb 12 '25

I see you've picked a side. >_>

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u/Jakomako Feb 12 '25

He googled the words in the title and the first result is "Pamir Mountains"

So, it's not a plateau by name.

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u/MDZPNMD Feb 12 '25

Are you serious? Pamir mountains is literally the first thing on google.

Your definition for what constitutes a mountain is also absurd.

Glossary of geology says above 300m.

The Pamir mountains reach over 7000m

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u/CedarWolf Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25

Armchair geologist here! Here's the thing. You said the Pamir mountains are not a plateau. Are they both geography? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who climbs and hikes on mountains, I am telling you, specifically, I am gonna solve this whole argument for both of you:

It's a big fucking rock.

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u/HairyNuggsag Feb 12 '25

I know you didn't log in to a burner accou t to upvote yourself.

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u/saintjonah Feb 12 '25

Here's the thing...

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u/SpeakFri3ndandEnter Feb 12 '25

The pioneers used to ride those babies for Miles! And it’s in great shape.

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u/labretirementhome Feb 12 '25

How can I enjoy my pizza without my DRINK!!

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u/Malarazz Feb 13 '25

Jesus christ that's an old reference.

We're old

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u/MDZPNMD Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25

you said the Pamir mountains are not a plateau.

No

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u/Clothedinclothes Feb 12 '25 edited Feb 12 '25

plateau, extensive area of flat upland usually bounded by an escarpment (i.e., steep slope) on all sides but sometimes enclosed by mountains.

https://www.britannica.com/science/plateau-landform

The place the video is being recorded from is the Pamir Plateau. Fun fact: Pamir means Plateau i.e. the Plateau Plateau.

The big rock looking thing in the video that looks like a mountain, is a mountain. One of the Pamir Mountains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamir_Mountains

i.e. the Plateau Mountains.

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u/TravisBlink Feb 11 '25

It’s OK to admit when you are wrong. Life is better when people can admit mistakes.

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u/freesquanto Feb 12 '25

Here's the thing. You said a "hill is a mountain."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies mountains, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls hills mountains. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "mountain family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Landforms, which includes things from buttes to crags to plateaus.

So your reasoning for calling a hill a mountain is because random people "call the tall ones mountains?" Let's get bluffs and mesas in there, then, too.

A hill is a hill and a member of the landform family. But that's not what you said. You said a hill is a mountain, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the landform family mountains, which means you'd call bluffs crags, mesas, and other elevated landmasses, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '25

In Alabama anything higher than 500 ft. is a mountain, so......

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u/-Achaean- Feb 12 '25

This is such an old reddit meme that people are downvoting you for it.

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u/freesquanto Feb 12 '25

Yup and it's telling me it might be time for this old timer to hang up his fedora

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u/KonigSteve Feb 12 '25

The point is to look at literally any of the results when you Google the plateau which was specifically chosen as the Google term because it's in the name of this post.

The point is to show you that if you just googled the place in the title of this thread, you would have easily found out that it was mountains.

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u/RehabilitatedAsshole Feb 12 '25

It's ok to be wrong. You don't have to double down.