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- WuTang
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Pretty incredible how some people are hailed for their inventions, but at the same time seem prime candidates for the Darwin Award!
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VERY interesting read indeed! Also, what a funny concept! Great post.
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- DeliaTheArtist
- 11 months ago
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my favorite is Franz Reichelt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BepyTSzueno,
so painful to watch, yet so funny-
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- libberator
- 11 months ago
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"She had carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket and stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the pretty blue-green light that the substances gave off in the dark"
Christ that's sad - i could have done without knowing that!
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- Mr_Costello
- 11 months ago
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Who would jump off the Eiffel tower without using a test dummy first? Oh wait, he was the dummy.
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Obviously this article is really sad, but there's a certain nice poetic symmetry to it; they were killed by their passions in a way.
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This is kinda sad really.
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- cantucwearebrothers
- 11 months ago
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If I invented something and knew that it would kill someone.. I think I would want that person to be me. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if my invention killed someone else..
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- ChickenTrain
- 11 months ago
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great clip, interesting mixture of more obscure daredevils and famous names. damn, that vid clip of Franz Reichelt is terrifying. just what made him think it'd work? and didn't he test it first?
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J. G. Parry-Thomas
"one of the chains snapped and flew into his neck, partially decapitating him."Brutal
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- Sam_the_Wizer
- 11 months ago
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Ugh. I just read the related article at http://listverse.com/people/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experim...
Louis Slotin accidentally initiated a fusion reaction and died of radiation poisoning 9 days later. What an awful way to go.
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- Sam_the_Wizer
- 11 months ago
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talk about dying for what you believe in.
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- notoriousBRE
- 11 months ago
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That is interesting to think about
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- ash_theory
- 11 months ago
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Does the gun not make this list?
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Radioactive isotopes in her pocket. The office secretaries where they were first blowing off atomic weapons would hang the "green glass" from ground zero around their necks for jewelry. The military didn't mention it was dangerous.
