13 posts tagged ‘disaster accident’
Boeing's Latest Problem: A Cargo Plane's Exploding Engine
Gizmodo,
Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo plane was forced to make an… Read more...
Surreal Photos Show Exactly Where the Earth Shifted During Turkey’s Devastating 2023 Earthquake
The earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023 caused widespread devastation and killed more than 50,000 people. Now, a team of geoscientists have released striking images and drone footage of the fault line that shifted the ground across the region, and used it to map how the quake started and spread. Read more...
Ted stars reveal the worst trouble they got into during high school
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A weary nation breathes sigh of relief as Kevin Hart vows to never host the Oscars
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Woman Sues Lyft After Driver Raped & Impregnated Her, Accuses Them of ‘Prioritizing Profit Over Safety’
Jezebel,
A Florida woman filed a lawsuit against Lyft this week alleging that her driver raped her twice in 2019 while she was intoxicated and impregnated her, resulting in a child that was confirmed to be biologically his. In her lawsuit, Tabatha Means says her driver, who isn’t named in the suit, made inappropriate comments… Read more...
How Ferrari's controversial CG crashes play a crucial part in the story
There’s a scene in Michael Mann’s Ferrari where beleaguered, self-obsessed car-manufacturer Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is looking over race car designs alongside his son, Piero, whom he had with his mistress, Lina Lardi (Shailene Woodley), and has been raising in secret—from both the public and his wife, Penélope… Read more...
There's a Billion-Dollar Industry Between You and FEMA’s Flood Insurance
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Something Unearthly Could Switch Train Signals From Red to Green
Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun’s surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme space weather. Read more...