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Scott Manley synced up the footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSrEowtIOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSrEowtIOo
by neom 6y ago
Scott Manley synced up the footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSrEowtIOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSrEowtIOo
- modeless 6y agoA very similar event was depicted in Battlefield 4, surprisingly accurately as it turns out: https://youtu.be/KiOQdVvGdQE?t=38 https://youtu.be/KiOQdVvGdQE?t=38
- xster 6y agoThat's how <25 year old spoiler> how 006 died too </spoiler> https://youtu.be/wGmDAjRRNXs?t=160 https://youtu.be/wGmDAjRRNXs?t=160 Surprisingly inaccurate and led me to think up until today that the reflector dish was a concrete bowl rather than a metal mesh.
- jessriedel 6y agoCan anyone please characterize that accent/cadence to me?!? It reminds me very strongly of an accent I've been hearing on tech support telephone call frequently in the past 5 years but never recalled hearing before that. I have a pet theory that it's actually from a new technique for more rapidly teaching intelligible English pronunciation to folks learning it as a second language. But maybe it's just an accent from a region that only recently started hosting lots of tech support calls?
- zandor 6y agoDutch.
- ehnto 6y agoSounds like a Northern to North Eastern European accent to me. But I will say that YouTubers have their own accents that permeate different genres of videos as well, which can add ambiguity. My favourite accent tidbit is the English voice of the Shinkansen in Japan. It is voiced by an Australian, imitating a Canadian, who was imitating a British accent. The result is a totally ambiguous accent that sounds almost disconnected from geography. I say that as an Australian with a british twang.
- interestica 6y ago> But I will say that YouTubers have their own accents that permeate different genres of videos as well, which can add ambiguity. That's like the modern version of the "mid-Atlantic" accent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
- lovemenot 6y agoFairly sure that's a native Dutch speaker. e.g. "Thingss" rather than "thingz"
- jessriedel 6y agoHmm, you could be right of course, but I had a few Dutch friends in grad school and this did not remind me of their accents at all.
- lovemenot 6y agoI lived in Rotterdam for a while before internet was so widespread. It's a Dutch person. They were always good at English and sounded like this.
- tdumitrescu 6y agoNothing new, engineered, or special about it, that's a bog-standard Dutch accent.
- blunte 6y agoI would not consider this representative of any Dutch accent I've heard from living in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, or Nijmegen. Nor even for the strange Zeeland Belgian accents. This sounds like an odd Russian Dutch English combination.
- acqq 6y agoThe author's twitter account: Location: "Amsterdam & Everywhere" https://twitter.com/DANNYonPC https://twitter.com/DANNYonPC
- brnt 6y ago100% Dutch accent. I wish we could pin it down to a teaching technique, this is just how we sound.
- willis936 6y agoHalo 2 also has a similar fall in the level “The Oracle”. You cut three cables then ride the station down into a gas giant as you hitch a ride out. https://youtu.be/Otu_B5eEQpc https://youtu.be/Otu_B5eEQpc
- porknubbins 6y agoThanks for the reminder Halo games were so epic, more sci-fi adventure than shooting. I wish more games were like this.
- bschwindHN 6y agoBetter use of the cabling on the towers: https://youtu.be/7_Y1CKv5728?t=65 https://youtu.be/7_Y1CKv5728?t=65
- siliconmountain 6y agoI'm amazed they had a drone up there to catch that. Were they flying drones multiple times a day just to catch this footage?
- SkyMarshal 6y agoProbably, it seems they knew it was imminent.
- wolrah 6y agoThe drones were being used by the engineers on site who to monitor things and help plan for the intended demolition. It was more or less pure luck that one happened to be there at the time it happened. Unfortunately for the viewing public it was facing the wrong way for the spectacle, but it'll probably be a fixture in engineering classrooms for years to come as a real world example of cable failure caught on video from up close.
- swader999 6y agoOr the drone wash was the straw that broke the observatory's back.
- wolrah 6y ago> Or the drone wash was the straw that broke the observatory's back. Technically not impossible, the drone was close enough to the cable that it was likely exerting some force, no matter how small, on them. There is certainly some chance that in that moment that force was all that was needed to push it past the breaking point. That said obviously from a practical standpoint if it were that close the the edge then the next gust of wind would have done it in anyways.
- im3w1l 6y agoSome neat things going on there regarding the cable. If I see it correctly, it looks like a few fibers snap at 0:02. Then nothing happens until 0:05. Stepping frame by frame with comma and period, it seems like a few more fibers snap, after which the strain is too much and the cable just explodes. Cable number 2 goes in a more gradual way. And on cable 3 there is a prominent wave before it falls to the ground.
- bisby 6y agoIt's interesting how spot on Scott Manley's MS paint slideshow of what happened was too.