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Re:Ask HN: What do you watch on YouTube? by archduck on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:06PM (#32503946)
Oh hell yes. Several times I've found my evening abruptly derailed by Admiral Cloudberg's true stories of plane crashes. It's a strange feeling, but fascinating and engrossing. The forensics of the accident sites, the failure analysis, the way the pilots are presented as humans making decisions in critical moments, often unaware of the factors which will determine their fate, and other times knowing their fate is sealed ... hazardous weather conditions, hubris, miscalculations, miscommunications, engineering failures which put them in a death trap, the brief instances of negligence, the systemic failures and oversights, the political contexts influencing people's expectations and behavior, ... All of it comes together, often in predictable ways, often in ridiculously unlikely ways, to bring about a catastrophe. Highly recommended.
Re:Ask HN: What do you watch on YouTube? by highhedgehog on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:34AM (#32562795)
Yeah, he is an incredibile story teller and his attention to detail is great. I feel he should do a youtube series with the same content.