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Are there really good ways to die?
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14/08/2008 17:27:44
 
 
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13/08/2008 21:00:57
Dragan Nedeljkovich (En ligne)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Divers
Thread ID:
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>>>Yep!
>>>
>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043775/Champagne-corks-Inflatable-elephants-Too-Viagra--new-book-revealing-unlikely-ways-people-meet-maker.html
>>
>>"In July 1982, Japanese factory worker Kenji Urada became the first known fatality caused by a robot. While repairing a faulty robot, the 37-year-old failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him in to a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm."
>>
>>But that's impossible! The first law of robotics forbids it!
>
>I figure that's what the poor guy was trying to fix, eh? And... if the robot performed an illegal action, does that mean that the robot is capable of legal action. If so, bye bye lawyers ;).
>
>>"Coconuts kill around 150 people each year, 15 times more than sharks. They can build up an impact speed of 50mph as they fall and a force of as much as 1,000 kg."
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>>Too true.
>
>Absolute nonsense. Kilograms are MASS, not FORCE.

Oh yeah. But I didn't really read that as I had the vivid memory of their force. I was referring to how dangerous they are. I think on Koh Samui they are the biggest killer (or accidental killer).
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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