Monday, March 3, 2008

Things We've Never Seen Before

I decided to take a look at Youtube this week and see just how entertaining the videos there can be and see where we are today in terms of entertainment.

So I went into the "Most Viewed" Section and found an interesting video of a plane landing where the plane very nearly crashed.



(related article)
I think the most interesting thing about this segment is that it's something that I've never seen before. We've all seen staged airplane crashes, but this was real. It was so real that it looked fake. As the plane took off again my thoughts I thought about what some of the bumpy rides I've taken on airplanes must look like from outside the plane.

This was just some guy taking videos, but do airports all have cameras on the runways? Are all take-offs and landings recorded? Could these recordings change the design of planes and the rules about flying for the future? Do we want to know this much detail?

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