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Can 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…
Fairly sure that's a native Dutch speaker. e.g. "Thingss" rather than "thingz"
Scott Manley synced up the footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSrEowtIOo
A very similar event was depicted in Battlefield 4, surprisingly accurately as it turns out: https://youtu.be/KiOQdVvGdQE?t=38
Wow. As tragic as the collapse is, at least it has been filmed (i thought it had not when I saw the announcement tweet with its far-away photo). If nothing else it's about as spectacular as I had expected. Had I been in the area I'd have been tempted to set up my camera somewhere close (remember that the risk of collapse was known to be high).
346 people dying in 737 MAX crashes is tragic. This is a 50-year-old telescope; the word I'd use is "unfortunate."
Is there any chance at all that this gets rebuilt? Is anybody even putting the costs requirements together to do it, or is this just a total loss? This is so unbelievably sad to see. It reminds me of seeing Notre Dame burning last year.
We could build an entirely new one from scratch if we decided to manufacture one less F-35.
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And they must have known it was imminent, it seems unlikely they had a drone over it 24/7 given the available hover time.
For a use case like this, I'd imagine that tethered multicopters could be a very nice fit. If you can just plug the base station into a power outlet, suddenly 24/7 doesn't seem that crazy. PS: Apparently I'm not alone with this idea, search engine comes up with hits. https://elistair.com/ even have a tether kit you can plug into some DJI models (and others) instead of the conventional battery pack. Out of Lyon, Franc…
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A very similar event was depicted in Battlefield 4, surprisingly accurately as it turns out: https://youtu.be/KiOQdVvGdQE?t=38
Halo 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