From 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 1 month 2 weeks ago • 352 views • 11:44

Does 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 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago • 807 views • 9:01

https://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 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 922 views • 7:59

YouTube 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) 2 years 6 months ago • 725 views • 5:10

So you want to visit a black hole? Before you do, here's one piece of advice from NASA.

posted by noims 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 109 views • 2:40

YouTube 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) 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 986 views • 3:27

YouTube 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) 3 years 7 months ago • 1,826 views • 11:19

Pro 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 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,678 views • 1:21

Back 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 3 years 8 months ago • 71 views • 4:09

https://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) 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 844 views • 4:33

In 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 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 20 views • 17:05

Between 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 4 years ago • 1,868 views • 3:31

Police 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 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 958 views • 1:30

US 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 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 398 views • 4:59

In 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

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months ago • 475 views • 9:14

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 670 views • 7:24

From YouTube: "SAFETY FIRST!!!!! Extremely Dangerous Experiment, I hold no responsibility for your actions!!!!! DEAD SHORTING A BATTERY IS NOT GOOD!!!!!!!! BE CAREFUL!!!! This is an extremely easy... continue reading

posted by chicchorea 5 years 2 months ago • 21 views • 10:01