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9 Inventors Who Were Killed by Their Own Inventions
When most of us think of “inventors,” we’re probably thinking about folks like the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, or Thomas Edison — folks who changed the world by creating something new and lived to tell the tale. What gets talked about less frequently are the folks that aren’t so lucky: the people that tried…
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These Are The Sad Remains Of The Soviet Space Shuttle Program
Russian photographer and urban explorer Ralph Mirebs just published one of the saddest photoseries on space exploration. He managed to get inside an abandoned hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where two Burans — the prototype space shuttles of the Russian space program — are slowly decaying in their burial crypt.
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10 Cold War Weapons That Terrified US Military Intelligence
When US-Soviet relationships were at their frostiest in the 1980s, there was no telling what sort of exotic threat was about to come roaring through Russia’s Iron Curtain. That’s where the Defence Intelligence Agency came in.
