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Designing A Dumb Flying Robot That Can Safely Crash Is Easier And Cheaper
As the story goes, when farmers were looking for a better way to deliver tomatos undamaged, they just engineered a more resilient vegetable. And that’s basically the same approach being taken by crash-friendly flying robot researchers at the EPFL.
This 727 Was Deliberately Crashed In The Desert For A TV Show
When a plane crashes in an accident, there’s no shortage of photos and video of the wreckage, while footage of the actual impact is rare. So to appease our morbid curiosity of what really happens when a large airliner crashes, the Discovery Channel deliberately downed a 727 in the desert for an upcoming show.
How Car Crash Modelling Technology Could Predict Drilling Disasters
How Did No One Die In This Horrific Crash?
When first responders arrived at the scene of a crash on Indiana’s Sam Jones Expressway they saw the type of accident firefighters dread: A dozen crushed cars and an overturned 18-wheeler. Amazingly, there wasn’t a single fatality. How? [Jalopnik]
Le Mans Driver Walks Away From 320km/h Crash
Watch This Insta-Roadblock Murderise A 6800kg Truck
If you like your vehicle carnage fast and total, then you’ll probably just maybe be slightly interested in seeing what the Barrier1 Vehicle Arrestor does to a 6800kg truck travelling at 80km/h. Spoiler: it’s a bad day to be a truck.
No One Was Hurt In This Google Maps Plane Crash
Follow this link to a Google Maps shot of Alameda, California, and you’ll see an arresting site: a downed commercial aircraft spewing debris, with its wings snapped into pieces and its hull cut cleanly in half. It looks like a crash perfect enough for a TV show. And in fact that’s just what it was.
Three Russian GLONASS Satellites Are In The Pacific Following Catastrophic Rocket Launch
Heads up, Hawaii! Three Russian GLONASS satellites just went into the Pacific drink courtesy a failed Proton-M rocket launch in Kazakhstan. Дерьмо!
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