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So I've been umming and ahhing over whether to post here about my special interest. I am obsessed with disasters and accidents of any sort, but mainly air crashes/accidents. Related to this is my overarching obsession with 9/11. I can quite happily watch any episode of Air Crash Investigation(MayDay in other countries), even though I have watched them all many, many times before. My husband is very patient putting up with this, especially as I have a tendency to tell him what is going to happen and why the crash happened.
I watch any and all documentaries about 9/11 (except conspiracy theory ones; I cannot even get through 10 minutes before I'm basically screaming at the TV). I don't like to go to sleep in a silent room, and usually have a documentary or NIST FOIA footage of 9/11 on. I came to the realisation last year that I'm not interested in the human side of either 9/11 or disasters, but rather the mechanics iykwim? So in terms of 9/11, things like how fast the planes were travelling, what precisely happened to the structure of the buildings, why they collapsed, how they collapsed etc etc and in terms of planes accidents, what were the series of events that caused it, how the plane works, what happened to it when it hit the ground/water/another plane...I don't think I'm doing an awfully good job of explaining it to be honest!
I also enjoy documentaries about things like train crashes, nuclear power accidents and to a much lesser degree natural disasters. I also don't mean to come across as a cold hearted b***h when I saw that the human side doesn't interest me, but it really doesn't. Yes, I understand it must have been awful for people to live through or witness such things, but I am far more interested in how and why and the facts.
Being so interested in such things does mean that I have a hard time when watching things with plane crashes in when they don't get things right. The film "Flight" was one that I was interested to watch, but didn't make it that far in, as they showed the plane flying upside down. We also watched an episode of Family Guy last week where the main characters were on a plane which was high-jacked. My husband couldn't understand why I couldn't just "suspend my disbelief" and enjoy the episode, but when they got things wrong in terms of how the plane would react and things like that, I just couldn't help but point it out.
I hope that I haven't offended anyone by posting all of this, and I hope that you can understand what I'm trying to say, through all of my rambling. Is anyone else interested in the same thing(s)?
I watch any and all documentaries about 9/11 (except conspiracy theory ones; I cannot even get through 10 minutes before I'm basically screaming at the TV). I don't like to go to sleep in a silent room, and usually have a documentary or NIST FOIA footage of 9/11 on. I came to the realisation last year that I'm not interested in the human side of either 9/11 or disasters, but rather the mechanics iykwim? So in terms of 9/11, things like how fast the planes were travelling, what precisely happened to the structure of the buildings, why they collapsed, how they collapsed etc etc and in terms of planes accidents, what were the series of events that caused it, how the plane works, what happened to it when it hit the ground/water/another plane...I don't think I'm doing an awfully good job of explaining it to be honest!
I also enjoy documentaries about things like train crashes, nuclear power accidents and to a much lesser degree natural disasters. I also don't mean to come across as a cold hearted b***h when I saw that the human side doesn't interest me, but it really doesn't. Yes, I understand it must have been awful for people to live through or witness such things, but I am far more interested in how and why and the facts.
Being so interested in such things does mean that I have a hard time when watching things with plane crashes in when they don't get things right. The film "Flight" was one that I was interested to watch, but didn't make it that far in, as they showed the plane flying upside down. We also watched an episode of Family Guy last week where the main characters were on a plane which was high-jacked. My husband couldn't understand why I couldn't just "suspend my disbelief" and enjoy the episode, but when they got things wrong in terms of how the plane would react and things like that, I just couldn't help but point it out.
I hope that I haven't offended anyone by posting all of this, and I hope that you can understand what I'm trying to say, through all of my rambling. Is anyone else interested in the same thing(s)?