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| Like In Slow Motion, Because Filmed From A Far.
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Alexander on September 13, 2001 22:04:46 UTC |
If you watch a large-scale event from a distant far, all velocities are small (angle per second), thus the effect that it goes slow. Being right next to explosion/fall does not make such an impression, vice versa - most of close witnesses refer to it as "it happens too fast". |
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