Currently Watching (Documentaries)

[Ulrich]

I watched this one. Never been a big fan of the Birthday Party (musically), although I'm certain they were an intense live band. Interesting to watch a documentary about them!

[MeltingMan]

Why Catholics in Poland leave the churches (DW)

I find it extraordinary that a Catholic priest would go so far as to call his believers "hypocrites". He must be known beyond the city limits, otherwise the church wouldn't be so full. Where only "service by the book" is performed and a priest may have to care for several congregations, "the Spirit cannot give life". 

PS: Catholics are encouraged not to interfere too much in politics. This seems to have been forgotten or ignored, and not only in Poland.

[MeltingMan]

[MeltingMan]

Two SRF documentaries that I watched last night: first, the Flükiger case (already time-barred) and then the Grünbaum case. Both on yt. 

In the first case I believe the first version, that is an encounter with members of the Red Army Faction. He may have come too close to the Schleyer hiding place. That would make it not suicide but murder. And in the Grünbaum case, the proximity to 911 is striking. Furthermore, the perpetrator and victim must have known each other. Why would he take a detour late in the evening if Mr. Grünbaum wasn't "have an appointment" at the time? Not always, but often, the perpetrator comes from the immediate environment. 

[MeltingMan]

AS 204 (Apollo 1) - The True Story - ARTE

You think you've seen and heard everything, and then documentaries like this come along! I've put Apollo 1 in parentheses because that term wasn't used until after the disaster. I don't want to give too much away, but if you look at the footage from the "white room", you can see that the spacecraft wasn't finished yet, presumably intentionally to save time during upcoming changes. Launch Pad 34 has since become a pilgrimage site of sorts – at least once a year. In general, 1967 was not a good year for manned spaceflight. Vladimir Komarov died just a few months later, and Starfighter accidents increased in West Germany. Could Ed White have heard about this?