Anyone remember the reporter who described the Hindenburg flame out as it was happening?

[Baitball Blogger]

He says, "Oh the humanity."

But wouldn't it have been more accurate to have said, "OH, the inhumanity!"

[hlthe2b]

1. He was referring to the loss of life before his eyes...

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Wouldn't inhumanity say the same thing, only better?

inhumanity: the quality or state of being cruel or barbarous

[hlthe2b]

3. The humanity was lost. Not the inhumanity. Had someone purposely blown it up, one might

exclaim about the 'inhumanity' of the person doing the bombing, but at the time all those watching were thinking about were the many many people on board, given this was such a new technology.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Only humans can commit inhumanity.

The Hindenberg was an accident.

[unblock]

5. Coincidentally, mini-unblock recently developed a fascination with that tragedy

And did a lot of research on it.

An interesting thing he found was that the recording of that radio report is usually played back at the wrong speed. I don't remember the details, but they compared the voice on that playback with other recordings from that reports voice when recorded in the studio, and the pitch and speed of talking was consistent with the playback being too fast.

There was some technical reason how this could have happened with the equipment they used to make the field recording also.

Anyway, there's a version online somewhere played back at the "proper" speed and it sounds much more professional, but still powerfully emotional.

[TomVilmer]

6. Here is the reporter's normal voice - and full report

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster/oh-the-humanity-herbert-morrison-and-the-hindenburg/