An apparent case of mistaken identity in Galveston landed a man in jail for days in May after police thought the innocent patient leaving the hospital was an escaped prison inmate. There were no escapees. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 2 weeks ago • 144 views • 2:36Videos (39) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
From YouTube, "A CSB safety video about the June 21, 2019, fire, explosions, and toxic hydrofluoric acid (HF) release at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A severely... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 260 views • 18:02From YouTube, "A CSB safety video about the September 21, 2020, hot work incident at the Evergreen Packaging Paper Mill in Canton, North Carolina. A fire erupted in a confined space when a heat gun fell... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 360 views • 11:44Does a green laser pointer stop working when it is cold? Or does it turn into an invisible laser? That is nice to know for safety reasons if you are using a green laser pointer to point out stars on a... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 811 views • 9:01https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59YouTube description: It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months ago • 731 views • 5:10So you want to visit a black hole? Before you do, here's one piece of advice from NASA.
posted by noims 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 110 views • 2:40YouTube description: We use some cherry tomatoes and Krakatoa Tubes in a classic demonstration of the value of safety goggles. Krakatoa on Objectivity: https://youtu.be/1bnvNI-j22E Previous Krakatoa... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 986 views • 3:27YouTube description: I graduated from Advanced Helo Underwater Egress Training at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. When life gets hard THINK CLEARLY, and take small steps towards safety. Please subscribe... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 1,831 views • 11:19Pro Mod driver Mike Bowman's parachutes failed during qualifying at St. Louis putting him into the safety net. The driver was not seriously injured.
posted by newtboy 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,681 views • 1:21Back in the 1920s, wingwalking claimed lives. Daredevils would move around on the top of a plane's wings, in mid-flight, often without any harness or any safety line. Maybe they'd be able to clip onto... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 8 months ago • 74 views • 4:09https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 846 views • 4:33In this video I will continue my failure management series with a pilots worst nightmare. Very few things will scare a pilot more than todays subject. I hope you will enjoy the video. Make sure to watch... continue reading
posted by BSR 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 21 views • 17:05Between 1950 and 1970 the number of deaths on Sweden's roads more than doubled. Today though, it has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities. This is the story of how the Swedish Government... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 12 months ago • 1,871 views • 3:31Police in West Midlands, UK have released footage of criminals stealing a car by relaying a signal from the key inside the home, to the car in the driveway. Source: CNNMoney I've always wondered... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 961 views • 1:30US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 398 views • 4:59In which Derek drives a replica of the first internal combustion engine car patented by Karl Benz in 1886 and talks about how cars have improved since then (claims about Nazi speed records on public roads... continue reading
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