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woodsprite

(11,940 posts) Fri Sep 7, 2018, 12:37 PM Sep 2018

You've found a viewer that allows you to watch in full detail one, 24-hr segment of history.

What do you choose to see?

For me, it would be a day in the life of Pompeii (before Mt. Vesuvius erupted).

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You've found a viewer that allows you to watch in full detail one, 24-hr segment of history. (Original Post) woodsprite Sep 2018 OP

Here is an amazing digital recreation of that day Aristus Sep 2018 #1

Thanks for that. That is awesome. Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #7

Yeah, the image of the pyroclastic flows remind me very much of the Mt. St. Helen's eruption. Aristus Sep 2018 #8

Oh, I remember it very well. Dave Starsky Sep 2018 #10

The end of the world! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2018 #2

Since the viewer only sees history, I'm thinking woodsprite Sep 2018 #4

Future history! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2018 #5

dealey plaza, nov 22 1963. Mosby Sep 2018 #3

that would be mine, too flying_wahini Sep 2018 #9

The March on Washington with Upthevibe Sep 2018 #6

I'm not there. I'm just watching on the viewer, right? Iggo Sep 2018 #11

Aristus

(66,520 posts)

1. Here is an amazing digital recreation of that day

Reply to woodsprite (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 12:45 PM

Sep 2018

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

7. Thanks for that. That is awesome.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 04:13 PM

Sep 2018

It reminds me a lot of what happened locally when Mount St. Helens blew its stack. They probably used that in their model.

Everyone needs to watch this. We have only each other to help us out when the chips are truly down. Nature doesn't give a fuck, and it is terrifying and brutal.

Aristus

(66,520 posts)

8. Yeah, the image of the pyroclastic flows remind me very much of the Mt. St. Helen's eruption.

Reply to Dave Starsky (Reply #7)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 04:57 PM

Sep 2018

I was only forty miles away from the mountain when it blew, but the wind was blowing the other way, so I didn't know a thing about it until a fleet of helicopters from Ft. Lewis flew overhead like a bat out of hell heading for the mountain.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

10. Oh, I remember it very well.

Reply to Aristus (Reply #8)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 05:29 PM

Sep 2018

I was in southern Idaho. The following morning, there was a quarter inch of gray "snow" covering everything outside. It was ash from the volcano. it was hard to clean up! And, yet, we were hundreds of miles away.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,700 posts)

2. The end of the world!

Reply to woodsprite (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:07 PM

Sep 2018

woodsprite

(11,940 posts)

4. Since the viewer only sees history, I'm thinking

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:12 PM

Sep 2018

the 'end of the world' was either the dino extinction event OR 11/9/2016 (and unfortunately we're all witnessing that live in slow motion).

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,700 posts)

5. Future history!

Reply to woodsprite (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:18 PM

Sep 2018

Mosby

(16,411 posts)

3. dealey plaza, nov 22 1963.

Reply to woodsprite (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:12 PM

Sep 2018

That would be for modern history.

For ancient history it might be something along the lines of the second temple on Yom kippur.

flying_wahini

(6,695 posts)

9. that would be mine, too

Reply to Mosby (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 04:59 PM

Sep 2018

Upthevibe

(8,106 posts)

6. The March on Washington with

Reply to woodsprite (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 01:19 PM

Sep 2018

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech...

Iggo

(47,591 posts)

11. I'm not there. I'm just watching on the viewer, right?

Reply to woodsprite (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2018, 06:04 PM

Sep 2018

In that case, I'd like to watch the first intentional and successful production of fire (where there was none) by whichever hominid was responsible for achieving it.

That'd be something.

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