Notre Dame Cathedral is burning
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Robin
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Sadly this often seems to happen when renovation work is taking place. Stood for 850 odd years and then you put scaffolding on something and it catches fire...
I really hope they have digitally scanned and documented the building so they can rebuild it but unfortunately many priceless artifacts might be lost.
I really hope they have digitally scanned and documented the building so they can rebuild it but unfortunately many priceless artifacts might be lost.
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A sad sight indeed, and hopefully no-one has been injured and they can salvage as much as possible from the building...
This kind of incident, however, is exactly what 24 hour news channels make a total meal out of... I flipped over to BBC News 24 and heard one commentator declare "I once read a book called 'Is Paris Burning?'..." as if that was going to lead to anything even remotely useful or informative.
Other gems have included astute observations on how fires can result in bits of the building "completely collapsing in on itself" and there has also been a debate on why Paris doesn't seem to have the same airborne fire-fighting equipment as, say, California ("they just don't normally need that kind of equipment in the French capital")... it would be comedy gold if it wasn't so dumb. And the night is young...
This kind of incident, however, is exactly what 24 hour news channels make a total meal out of... I flipped over to BBC News 24 and heard one commentator declare "I once read a book called 'Is Paris Burning?'..." as if that was going to lead to anything even remotely useful or informative.
Other gems have included astute observations on how fires can result in bits of the building "completely collapsing in on itself" and there has also been a debate on why Paris doesn't seem to have the same airborne fire-fighting equipment as, say, California ("they just don't normally need that kind of equipment in the French capital")... it would be comedy gold if it wasn't so dumb. And the night is young...
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Those damn imbecilles (and chief amongst them, the US Imbecille-in-Chief) seem to ignore the fact that water has weight and dropping several thousand litres of it on an ancient, and stressed structure would make it collapse like a house of cards.
As a heathen without God, I understood inside of Notre Dame that faith is a powerful force we should not joke about. I now weep as I see something so irreplaceable go up in flames.
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https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/notre-dame-fire/index.html
This is a great tragedy. Not just the apparent loss of the cathedral that has stood for nearly 800 years, but all the art and historic items and documents inside.
This is a great tragedy. Not just the apparent loss of the cathedral that has stood for nearly 800 years, but all the art and historic items and documents inside.
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lol yea. There is a reason they are used exclusively for wildfires.
The people suggesting to use waterbombers are probably the same people who think you could survive a 600ft fall into water because "it's only water".
Now a helicopter with a water tank and a hose would be a different story but probably no more effective than "ground forces"
The people suggesting to use waterbombers are probably the same people who think you could survive a 600ft fall into water because "it's only water".
Now a helicopter with a water tank and a hose would be a different story but probably no more effective than "ground forces"
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I heard about this a minute ago, but I didn't get to see any pictures of it until I got home just now. I thought it was just a small thing that could be fixed, but then I saw a video of the spire coming down and the entire roof of the church blazing. My French class is probably going to be sad...
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Part of the basement are 2,000 years old, the site was important to the Romans and the Vikings before the Carolingians/Franks. It's devastating, the church is one of the symbols of Europe (imo), even as an atheist.
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This is just a building, I'm hoping that nobody is gonna get hurt by anything, that is much more important. I would say the same if a historical building was on fire in my country too, the most important is that nobody get hurt.
