Notre-Dame de Paris - cathedral on fire!

[alfaniner]

The dinosaurs were killed off by a teateor.

I thought it was maybe an aureola borealis.

 

[8enotto]

Rebuilding a rural community church anywhere is a small quantity of funds. I have seen some here that are little more than a converted four car garage.

Those the ceremony and community are the treasure and the building a bit more than a place to do it.

This building is a national treasure that cannot be replaced by a big pole barn on the site. Rome may staff it but France owns it. Art and architectural elements one place in the world and not likely ti be copied accurately as the masters and methods are gone.

Well worth a restore just for being a part of history.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I can’t see Donald Trump sending money to refugees in the EU when he is branding himself an anti-immigrant US president. No, send money for a big old church instead. One that he might like to visit.

Actually I had all those billionaires coughing up millions in mind. Sorry if it wasn't clear.

 

[dudalb]

Rebuilding a rural community church anywhere is a small quantity of funds. I have seen some here that are little more than a converted four car garage.

Those the ceremony and community are the treasure and the building a bit more than a place to do it.

This building is a national treasure that cannot be replaced by a big pole barn on the site. Rome may staff it but France owns it. Art and architectural elements one place in the world and not likely ti be copied accurately as the masters and methods are gone.

Well worth a restore just for being a part of history.

This.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

You know it had to happen:

MULTIPLE PEOPLE CLAIM THEY CAN ‘SEE JESUS’ IN THE NOTRE DAME FLAMES
(not my caps)

There are two different sightings, one in the smoke and one in the flames. I can see 4 different possibilities so it's not hard to imagine anything.

 

[quadraginta]

Sorry to divert from how many bodies should dance on the head of a monument or whether the Catholic Church deserves its rep for protecting pedophiles (it does).

But I thought this might interest a few of the more technically minded.

Notre Dame fire: How drones and a robot called Colossus helped limit the damage.


Includes some good video of the robot.

 

[Trebuchet]

You know it had to happen:

MULTIPLE PEOPLE CLAIM THEY CAN ‘SEE JESUS’ IN THE NOTRE DAME FLAMES
(not my caps)

There are two different sightings, one in the smoke and one in the flames. I can see 4 different possibilities so it's not hard to imagine anything.

Well of course they did. Some probably saw Satan, or Muhammad, or Vishnu or something.

Notre Dame fire: How drones and a robot called Colossus helped limit the damage.[/URL]


Includes some good video of the robot.

Please let us disable your ad-blocker. No.

 

[Meadmaker]

You know it had to happen:

MULTIPLE PEOPLE CLAIM THEY CAN ‘SEE JESUS’ IN THE NOTRE DAME FLAMES
(not my caps)

There are two different sightings, one in the smoke and one in the flames. I can see 4 different possibilities so it's not hard to imagine anything.

Are police searching for him for questioning? Sounds like it might be arson.

 

[quadraginta]

Well of course they did. Some probably saw Satan, or Muhammad, or Vishnu or something.

Please let us disable your ad-blocker. No.

I expect there are other sources if you don't like that one.

Probably not too hard to find.

The video clip really is worth a peek. It's right inside the cathedral while the fire's still burning.


ETA: Here's the same clip on YT. It's from Le Parisien.

 

[Steve]

You know it had to happen:

MULTIPLE PEOPLE CLAIM THEY CAN ‘SEE JESUS’ IN THE NOTRE DAME FLAMES
(not my caps)

There are two different sightings, one in the smoke and one in the flames. I can see 4 different possibilities so it's not hard to imagine anything.

Good ol' medieval Jesus. Pops up in the most unlikely places.

Jesus shows at a church fire. Satan shows at the WTC fires. They each obviously have their priorities sorted.

 

[dudalb]

Sorry to divert from how many bodies should dance on the head of a monument or whether the Catholic Church deserves its rep for protecting pedophiles (it does).

But I thought this might interest a few of the more technically minded.

Notre Dame fire: How drones and a robot called Colossus helped limit the damage.


Includes some good video of the robot.

Damn, when I saw "Colossus" I though the X Men helped out....

 

[CaptainHowdy]

You know it had to happen:

MULTIPLE PEOPLE CLAIM THEY CAN ‘SEE JESUS’ IN THE NOTRE DAME FLAMES
(not my caps)

There are two different sightings, one in the smoke and one in the flames. I can see 4 different possibilities so it's not hard to imagine anything.

But nobody knows what Jesus really looked like so it might not have been him.

 

[TragicMonkey]

But nobody knows what Jesus really looked like so it might not have been him.

Ever since he gained all that weight Jesus has pretended to be Buddha.

It's okay, though, he's planning to get in shape with Cross Fit.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Peekaboo! Jesus here, sorry about the fire.

 

[Steve]

But nobody knows what Jesus really looked like so it might not have been him.

Sure they do. there were lots of paintings of him inside that very church. Each and every one showing a non-Jewish long-haired western European in long flowing robes just like everyone wore in Roman occupied Palestine. Anything that bears a vague resemblance to that is, by default, a Christian Jesus. Pareidolia = proof.

 

[Oystein]

By that token Kim Kardashian’s bum is worth more than Notre Dame.

That's a bit over the top - Kim Kardashian’s bum has yet to make presidents stop election campaigns, billionaires to pledge hundreds of millions, or entire national populations join in prayer, etc.

But you could say that celebrities are "worth" more than plain people - in the sense that I alluded to. Lady Diana comes to mind.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

But nobody knows what Jesus really looked like so it might not have been him.

He looks like his paintings, d'uh.

 

[Steve]

He looks like his paintings, d'uh.

Hey! That's what I said. I just used a lot more words to make myself appear smart.

Sure they do. there were lots of paintings of him inside that very church. Each and every one showing a non-Jewish long-haired western European in long flowing robes just like everyone wore in Roman occupied Palestine. Anything that bears a vague resemblance to that is, by default, a Christian Jesus. Pareidolia = proof.

 

[William Parcher]

Daily Mail reports that investigators initially are saying that it was started by an electrical short circuit.

 

[Bob001]

Apart from its age and unique history in the center of Paris, how does Notre Dame compare to other cathedrals across Europe and the UK in size, structure, etc.? I don't want to say "If you've seen one Gothic cathedral, you've seen 'em all," but they do share many design elements.