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I guess they use really, really precise timing and explosives to knock one blade loose in order to do the containment tests. They want it to come loose at a spe

by KGIII 9y ago

I guess they use really, really precise timing and explosives to knock one blade loose in order to do the containment tests. They want it to come loose at a specific point in the revolution. The documentary didn't say why they wanted it to be at such a specific place, only that they did. I've long since forgotten the margin of error, but it was very small. You probably noticed that the individual blade is painted a different color and is different colors. My recollection is that they use the multiple colors because they do very high definition recording and the colors are all in different areas of the spectrum, so they can observe it better as the thing tends to be quickly obscured by fire and smoke. I probably do watch too many documentaries.

dba7dba 9y ago
> I probably do watch too many documentaries. You are not alone. I actually watch more and more documentaries than movies or TV series. Reality is even stranger than fiction often.
- KGIII 9y ago
  It has been great to see the proliferation of documentaries on the web. Streaming services have been a great thing for me. I watch documentaries pretty much to the exclusion of all other genres, except American football. Even if I'm not actively paying attention, I'll frequently have a documentary playing in the background. It's not a scholastic pursuit. It is purely entertainment. I watch them because I enjoy them. Learning is incidental and not the objective. I like to queue up playlists of documentaries and let them play through. The 'net has been excellent at facilitating this.
  - woodandsteel 9y ago
    One reason I love documentaries is the people in them are often truly intelligent and knowledgeable, where as tv and the movies are full of people who are supposed to be that but don't talk and act like it. And even if the people in the documentaries are not particularly intelligent, at least they are real human beings confronting real situations, instead of phony imitations.

by KGIII 9y ago

dba7dba 9y ago

> I probably do watch too many documentaries. You are not alone. I actually watch more and more documentaries than movies or TV series. Reality is even stranger than fiction often.

KGIII 9y ago
It has been great to see the proliferation of documentaries on the web. Streaming services have been a great thing for me. I watch documentaries pretty much to the exclusion of all other genres, except American football. Even if I'm not actively paying attention, I'll frequently have a documentary playing in the background. It's not a scholastic pursuit. It is purely entertainment. I watch them because I enjoy them. Learning is incidental and not the objective. I like to queue up playlists of documentaries and let them play through. The 'net has been excellent at facilitating this.
- woodandsteel 9y ago
  One reason I love documentaries is the people in them are often truly intelligent and knowledgeable, where as tv and the movies are full of people who are supposed to be that but don't talk and act like it. And even if the people in the documentaries are not particularly intelligent, at least they are real human beings confronting real situations, instead of phony imitations.