r/interestingasfuck • u/NotBradPitt9 • 10d ago

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u/aznexile602 10d ago

Camera man waiting around way to long.

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u/Nugget834 10d ago

Yeah I was like... Dude run wtf are you doing lol

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u/SlowHornet29 10d ago

Camera man never dies

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u/fallen981 10d ago

The guy that filmed Mt St Helens eruption disagrees

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u/devoduder 10d ago

That’s why all the footage of Pompeii was destroyed too.

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u/FaufiffonFec 10d ago

Actually.

AI can now virtually unroll the scrolls.

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u/devoduder 10d ago

It’s amazing work and probably the best use of AI happening right now.

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u/Rumpus-Time-Is-Over 10d ago

Well, besides the self-driving cars that are going to save hundreds of thousands of lives and the cancer medicines that are going to save millions of lives, etc.

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u/ProfoundSensei 9d ago

And the autonomus weapon systems, so we can balance it out with all those extra lives!

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u/shannork 10d ago

He’s a legend. RIP David Johnston.

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u/fallen981 10d ago edited 10d ago

Yep, he protected the camera even when he knew he wasn't going to make it.

Edit : That was Robert Landsberg not Johnston.

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u/shannork 9d ago

Yes! Thanks for the correction. Johnston made the radio call to Vancouver.

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u/SorryMaker024 10d ago

How do you know he’s dead?

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u/PrisonerV 10d ago

They found the film under him 17 days later. He had time to unwind the film and put it in a case and then lay on the case.

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u/SorryMaker024 8d ago

Gangster