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| Tacoma Bridge Disaster |
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Color video of the The Narrows Tacoma Bridge
Disaster of 1940. Before asking questions, please
visit this wiki article, which has a lot of
information on its collapse and why it happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Bridge#Gallopi
ng_Gertie
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Affichage : 460477
Durée : 265 s |
| Challenger Disaster Live on CNN |
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January 28th, 1986 at 11:39am EDT - The Space
Shuttle Challenger Explodes on its 10th flight
during mission STS-51-L. The explosion occurred 73
seconds after liftoff and was actually the result
of rapid deceleration and not combustion of fuel.
CNN was the only national news station to
broadcast the mission live, so thus what you are
witnessing on this video is the only coverage of
the disaster as it happened when it did.
Approximately 17% of Americans witnessed the
launch live, while 85% of Americans heard of the
news within 1 hour of the event. According to a
study, only 2 other times in history up to that
point had news of an event disseminated so fast -
the first being the announcement of JFK's
assassination in 1963, the second being news
spread among students at Kent State regarding the
news of FDR's death in 1945. It has been estimated
at the time that nearly 48% of 9-13 year olds
witnessed the event in their classrooms, as
McAuliffe was in the spotlight.
The 25th Space Shuttle mission altered the history
of manned space exploration and represented the
first loss of an American crew during a space
mission (Apollo 1 was during a training exercise).
Christa McAuliffe was slated to be the first
teacher in space for the Teacher in Space Program.
As her maximum altitude was ~65,000ft (12.31
miles), she never made it to space. That title was
given to Barbara Morgan of STS-118 aboard the
shuttle Endeavour in August 2007, 22 and a half
years after the Challenger Disaster. Morgan served
as McAuliffe's backup during STS-51-L. As Morgan
is now part of the Educator in Space Program, she
will be credited as the first "educator" in space,
to distinguish her from McAuliffe.
Aboard Challenger during STS-51-L:
Francis "Dick" Scobee (Commander)
Michael Smith (Pilot)
Judith Resnik (Mission Specialist)
Ellison Onizuka (Mission Specialist)
Ronald McNair (Mission Specialist)
Gregory Jarvis (Payload Specialist)
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (Payload Specialist -
Teacher in Space)
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Affichage : 309549
Durée : 143 s |
| Sinking Of Japan Disaster Scenes |
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This is a video of disaster scenes from the 2006
movie Sinking Of Japan (Nihon Chinbotsu). It
includes volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and
earthquakes. I edited all the disaster parts for
your pleasure. And to clear things up, yes this is
a DVDrip, it is in Japanese but there ARE english
subtitles. Here are the subtitles:
00.01 - Daisetsuzan Range, Hokkaido
00.22 - Mts Tokachi & Furano erupt
00.48 - City of Kumamoto
01.05 - Hakodate
01.57 - D1 reports... ..multi-centered earthquakes
in Shizuoka, Nagano and Niigata!
02.04 - Magnitude 7....7.4...still rising!
02.06 - Tokyo, scale 6!
02.11 - It's coming!
(And it's kinda obvious that the earthquake scene
is Tokyo.)
Tags : Sinking Of Japan Nihon Chinbotsu NC06 Sinks Destruction Disasters Earthquakes Tokyo |
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Affichage : 188045
Durée : 190 s |
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