I wish the producers were less enamoured of their slow-mo and showed us the whole thing in real-time. The "weird" thing is seeing feathers plummet to the ground and I wish we got to see more of that.
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#23I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not post the Youtube link directly? This isn't really Hacker News material, anyway.
> What to Submit > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What to Submit > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
I think the guidelines are mis-guided in this sense. Sometimes the original, raw content is somewhere else, but a page that points to it can sometimes add context, or otherwise enhance that original post/material.
But this is meta, and getting off-topic. To go meta-meta, I do wish there were somewhere sensible to discuss these sorts of issues.
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#26I wish the producers were less enamoured of their slow-mo and showed us the whole thing in real-time. The "weird" thing is seeing feathers plummet to the ground and I wish we got to see more of that.
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#27If you want to see more of it in video, it's also where the opening scene to "The Avengers" was filmed. Plum Brook Station has a whole collection of really cool (though mostly single-purpose) buildings.
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#29I know how this will turn out but my intuition is screaming otherwise.
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#30I wish the producers were less enamoured of their slow-mo and showed us the whole thing in real-time. The "weird" thing is seeing feathers plummet to the ground and I wish we got to see more of that.
This is a Brian Cox show we're talking about, not a science show. I'm surprised there weren't more slow mo shots of Cox doing his "boyish wonder" face.