Rebuilding Notre-Dame with Lucy Worsley 2

[drawoh]

Lucy Worsley is not an engineering disaster, however, the burning of Notre Dame was. I am sure some of you are fans. This is all up on YouTube.

Rebuilding Notre-Dame with Lucy Worsley

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JHG

 

[spsalso]

I can only assume that the awfulness of the "coverage" continued past the beginning. I was so repulsed that I could not continue.

The building deserves better. It was, and is, a glorious thing!


spsalso

 

[dik]

Thanks draw... a great presentation. It could have been improved in a couple of areas and could have 4 or 5 hours long... Maybe a series of shorter clips detailing specific areas. I really liked the stainglass part, but thought it could be more technical. I used to do stainedglass stuff when I was younger, both solder foil and leaded cames. I thought it was well done.

It shows the coordination of several areas of science to produce an 'end product'. It also opens a lot of areas for material sciences. It also shows the skills of the early stone masons; their early work was one of skills and training and not science. I suspect a lot of their information was passed on from generation to generation... such as sourcing lime with the right impurities to produce a hydraulic mortar, etc.

It would be nice if the original documents were scanned for future generations as well as a massive systematic series of high definition digital photographs were included.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Do you feel any better?

-Dik

 

[Brian Malone]

The reconstruction is quite an endeavor. Looking at all the modern scaffolding and temporary supports makes me marvel even more about the ingenuity and mechanical acumen of the original craftsmen and fabricators! They did not have the luxury of modern scaffolding and falsework with its standardized shapes, sizes and known load capacities. Their falsework was a lot of hand-hewn timbers, assembled with hand-forged pegs/nails, and a lot of rope, all erected using human strength, tackle block pulleys, mechanical advantage and few draft animals on turnstiles. No electrical lighting. No power tools or diamond / carbide bits or blades. No computer modeling or laser scanning. Totally amazing engineering and construction. Of course, their schedule was on a completely dfferent time scale as were the labor rates!

 

[spsalso]

OK. Thanks to dik, I took off my crankypants and went back and saw the whole video.

The first couple of minutes still seem overly dramatic and precious. But it fairly quickly toned down, and I think I even saw her not-smiling a couple of times near the end. It WAS a nice presentation of what's going on there (though using the same graphic repeatedly is unfortunate). I especially liked the comments by the workers.

Hooray that it's being repaired!

Thank you drawoh,

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[dik]

Didn't think you were being cranky. I watched the thing in entirety and liked it... started out a little slow and glossed over a few items that should have been included. I think it's a wonderful effort on all the different fields working together... That they didn't establish a cause is a little problematic. There are lots of timber framed and stone structures out there and a 'heads up' would have been nice. With the wealth of the church, I'm disappointed that sprinklers weren't installed. They have ones that are unobtrusive. The next one may not be so lucky.

About 50 years back I took photos at one of my drinking buddie's ordination in an old wood church in Winnipeg. I think the church was the oldest wood framed church of it's kind, and in its original condition, in Western Canada. A decade later, vandals burned the church. A few years back I turned my negatives into the diocese archivist (I found them accidentally, while scanning all my colour negatives). The church was lovely.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Do you feel any better?

-Dik