Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[Martin4x4]

Two for the price of one, How to turn well balanced, well educated people in to psychopaths

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_exper...

Edited by Martin4x4 on Friday 25th July 13:16

[Martin4x4]

Halb said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Perhaps a Numbers station for the information age?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLiV4WJfkTEHH0b9...

[Mosman]

Martin4x4 said:

Halb said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Perhaps a Numbers station for the information age?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLiV4WJfkTEHH0b9...

Nothing so interesting I'm afraid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdriver_Torso

[eldar]

Nuclear passenger ship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

[John D.]

RobbieKB said:

Mastodon2 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_accident...

Some pretty grim reading here, definitely worth a look though.

I had NO idea there had been so many horrific injuries and deaths in such recent films.

Jackie Chan has taken a right pasting over the years!

My favourite out of that lot is the guy who plays Russian roulette with a pistol loaded with blanks. Because that isn't going to hurt when you place the end of the barrel on your temple and pull the trigger?!

Love this thread. Have been working my way through it for weeks.

[John D.]

RobbieKB said:

Mastodon2 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_accident...

Some pretty grim reading here, definitely worth a look though.

I had NO idea there had been so many horrific injuries and deaths in such recent films.

Jackie Chan has taken a right pasting over the years!

My favourite out of that lot is the guy who plays Russian roulette with a pistol loaded with blanks. Because that isn't going to hurt when you place the end of the barrel on your temple and pull the trigger?!

Love this thread. Have been working my way through it for weeks.

[Silent1]

John D. said:

RobbieKB said:

Mastodon2 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_accident...

Some pretty grim reading here, definitely worth a look though.

I had NO idea there had been so many horrific injuries and deaths in such recent films.

Jackie Chan has taken a right pasting over the years!

My favourite out of that lot is the guy who plays Russian roulette with a pistol loaded with blanks. Because that isn't going to hurt when you place the end of the barrel on your temple and pull the trigger?!

Love this thread. Have been working my way through it for weeks.

IIRC a blank pistol held against the head has a high likelyhood of killing you, certainly some blanks I use will blow holes in wood and decimate watermelons.

[Risotto]

Have we had the Thylacine? Countless species have become extinct but, perhaps because they were so unusual or perhaps because some of the last survivors were captured on film, the thylacine seems to live on in public imagination - indeed there are some who claim they still exist...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

[eldar]

From billions to extinct in 50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

[Vaud]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Fraser

Francis Davidson Fraser, better known as "Mad" Frankie Fraser (born 13 December 1923), is a former English criminal and gang member who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offences

He is now resident at a sheltered accommodation home in Peckham. In June 2013 the 89 year old Fraser was served with an Anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) by police after a row with another resident.

[John D.]

Silent1 said:

John D. said:

RobbieKB said:

Mastodon2 said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_accident...

Some pretty grim reading here, definitely worth a look though.

I had NO idea there had been so many horrific injuries and deaths in such recent films.

Jackie Chan has taken a right pasting over the years!

My favourite out of that lot is the guy who plays Russian roulette with a pistol loaded with blanks. Because that isn't going to hurt when you place the end of the barrel on your temple and pull the trigger?!

Love this thread. Have been working my way through it for weeks.

IIRC a blank pistol held against the head has a high likelyhood of killing you, certainly some blanks I use will blow holes in wood and decimate watermelons.

Quite.

My sarcasm obviously didn't come across

Just thought what an idiotic way to die that was.

[200bhp]

doogz said:

eldar said:

From billions to extinct in 50 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

Humans are dicks.

Similar article on the way with the title "Polar Bear"

[Hugo a Gogo]

ah yes, the majestic herds of Polar Bears sweeping across the savannah, until they were trapped and put in pies

[bicycleshorts]

Great American streetcar scandal

GM buys a load of streetcars. Then scraps them in favor of buses. Get convicted for "conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to local transit companies". Get fined $1. The story then influences the plot for Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

[FredClogs]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov

Russian billionaire and politician who currently runs world chess (a leadership vote happens today, Kasparov is hoping to take over). Interesting bloke in general but he believes that chess was given to us by an alien race and that it contains secret messaged, claims he has been abducted by aliens and that founding a chess religion is the only route to human enlightenment...

[Chunkymonkey71]

Still my favourite thread. Does anyone have anything new to add?

[vonuber]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_dressing

Relevant for some.

[FredClogs]

How to be your own grandfather....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_My_Own_Grandpa

[VxDuncan]

Silent1 said:

How the russians tried to deceive the americans about the missiles in cuba:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anadyr

Related to that I wasn't aware of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59

Sub that was part of the Cuban missile crisis.

[VxDuncan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_c... B52 bomber crashes while carrying two nuclear warheads. Nearly takes out North Carolina.