Pompeii: The Last Day

The history of the eruption that buried Pompeii.
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[Griffinltd]

This documentary is pretty inaccurate, most people in Pompeii died within 10 minutes of the eruption. The gas reached the city within 3 minutes and caused almost instant suffocation.

[littleniyah]

@JazzieJ4eva Well, for certain, the messenger that made it to Pliny asking for rescue for Rectina.

[littleniyah]

@CombatArmsPeteFredlo OMG, you can't be serious! Helpless people, who'd never heard of your Jesus? How is that a godly thing to do? If your God does evil things like that, why do you worship him? Gods can't survive without worship.

[littleniyah]

@Funny0Grrrl I think that is from a novel. Many ppl seem to think it's true.

[littleniyah]

@Kenshiroit Lucky you! I have been there, but only for one day.

[littleniyah]

This is not accurate. The eruption didnt happen like that, with no warning. Many ppl knew it was coming and had left. All the fish were dead, poisoned by sulphuric acid, the wells were dry, the mountain shaking and smoking and earth tremors common. And they did know it was a volcano, the geographer Strabo had identified it as one about 300 years earlier, but they had believed it extinct.

So it wasn't 'like any other day'. They were expecting another earthquake like the one in AD63

[littleniyah]

I cannot put my finger on it, but for some reason the guy playing Pliny the Elder is so hot. He looks so....manly.

Tim Pigott-Smith, that's it.

[simbakafiri]

@EilisLornaWalsh2 since your response was more civil than previously noted...i shall withdraw my slander

[EilisLornaWalsh2]

@simbakafiri We DO have heads. They're attached to our necks. And when a did a woman make a bad critical decision in this documentary? Doing nothing is worse than doing something and being wrong. As the narrator so eloquently put; this is a time for decisive action. And besides; you could have made all the right decisions in record time and still have died. Who got out was largely based on who had luck's favour than on who choose right. (And who choose right was largely luck and chance anyway).

[MsEmmafrances]

@ livemusicskatedie - I havn't watched that bit yet! Spoiler! :p