34 Times Inventors Unknowingly Built Their Own Doom

She used to keep samples next to her bed because she liked their glow.

Back in the day, Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of 'Tarzan' and 'John Carter of Mars') wrote a similar book, 'The Moon Maid', in which our heroes find that the moon is hollow (a la the 'Hollow Earth' fantasies), with an atmosphere and a civilization. There is a 'soft, uniform lighting' throughout the interior caused by the h**h radium content. Burroughs made a better fantasy writer than a physicist. Sort of.

Her casket is made of lead to protect the public from radiations from her body. She is in the Pantheon in Paris.

She also kept a rod in her amulet around her neck.

Main hypothesis is that this magnificent genius, 2 different fields Nobel prizes, 2 new elements in her pocket, died because "she was exposed to x-rays" because she went across the front taking x-rays from the wounded soldiers, and training other fellows how to do so. Unique Marie.

Can't prove he isn't in space... Particles at least !

So Po was doing a Wan Hu (if you don’t get this reference you what kind of bad Panda are you?)

He’s star stuff

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I say we send Elon Musk out into space to go find him...

An inspiration!

Love the way they fell so elegantly in those days.

This is an outstanding artist’s depiction of!

Read up on how they were playing with electricity in the 18th century, it’s weird as h3ll

Now that's falling with style.

At first I thought he had nailed his friend in the gonads.

There is safety and there is taking stupid risks.

It was made of carbon fiber and layers of hubris.

the ocean requires more billionaires

I saw an engineer's video about this and they claimed in addition to a composite hull not being a good material for a sub, he also didn't even properly cure it because it was too expensive.

Think of it as Evolution in Action.

He did use a dummy.

There's actually footage of his jump.

The pathology slides from his autopsy showed that his myocardial tissue had seized due to the adrenalin surge, before his fall abruptly ended. So it was not the sudden stop at the end that killed him, but the OH $@#%!! moment beforehand.

This is unfortunate but you have to respect anyone brave enough to try something for the first time, even if it does end up tragically like it did in this case. Moments such as this are massive factors in human advancement. We need people who are brave enough to be the first to try dangerous things. That's why we have planes. That's why we went to the moon. So many of the incredible things humans have achieved could not have happened without people like this man.

With a moustache like that the guy probably thought he'd been rendered invincible.

From Wikipedia: "Even though the Pinto was a light car, the total aircraft without passengers or fuel was already slightly over the certified gross weight of a Skymaster. However, in addition to poor aircraft design and loose parts, the National Transportation Safety Board reported that bad welds were partly responsible for the crash, with the right wing strut attachment failing at a body panel of the Pinto." NO S**T IT CRASHED

First time I've read about a Pinto crash that didn't end in an explosion.

Flying cars are such a joke. Most drivers can barely operate a car in two dimensions on a road. Add a third dimension and roads to guide them and there will be a huge pile of dead bodies.

This is why we don't have flying cars yet.

...oh my god. what the hell.

Called Blucifer by locals. Edit: the "industrial accident" is that it k****d its creator by falling on him.