Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[anonymous-user]

when he died from a heart attack there was still 10 million missing from the failed venture with Deleoran.

[Roofless Toothless]

I met a marshal once at Brands Hatch who spent an entire lunch break explaining to me how Chapman had absconded with a load of De Lorean money, mafia all over the world were looking for him, and nobody had ever seen him dead. Real Lord Lucan stuff.

[carrottop]

Business jet armed with Exocet missiles fires them at USS Stark killing 37 US Navy Personnel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident

[glazbagun]

carrottop said:

Business jet armed with Exocet missiles fires them at USS Stark killing 37 US Navy Personnel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident

You wonder if this was playing on peoples minds when the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian passenger jet headed for Dubai just over a year later, killing 290.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_65...

Also interesting how imprecise the language used in each case was. I believe the vocabulary in air traffic is updated when a misunderstanding leads to a crash, for example. I wonder if the militaries follow suit?

[wst]

This little horror story of a nuclear accident in Brazil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_acciden...

[LordLoveLength]

On a similar theme David Hahn - the radioactive Boy Scout
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

[MissChief]

wst said:

This little horror story of a nuclear accident in Brazil - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiânia_acciden...

The day before the sale to the second scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate a sandwich while sitting on this floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. Dust from the powder fell on the sandwich she was consuming; she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, more than a fatal dose even with treatment.

Leide das Neves Ferreira, age 6 (6.0 Gy), was the daughter of Ivo Ferreira. When an international team arrived to treat her, she was discovered confined to an isolated room in the hospital because the hospital staff were afraid to go near her. She gradually experienced swelling in the upper body, hair loss, kidney and lung damage, and internal bleeding. She died on October 23, 1987, of "septicemia and generalized infection" at the Marcilio Dias Navy Hospital, in Rio de Janeiro.

[anonymous-user]

Always knew his name but never the details of his life.

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

Wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang as well.

[matchmaker]

If we're on the subject of nuclear disasters, here's our very own...

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

[MissChief]

Tom and Eileen Lonergan, left in the middle of the Coral sea to die by accident by their Dive Boat.

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

[Veeayt]

matchmaker said:

If we're on the subject of nuclear disasters, here's our very own...

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

Have another - long before the Chernobyl accident, there was another Soviet one, slightly less disastrous, if such words can be applicable on this matter. It was largely kept in secret, but I hear the locals still suffer from the aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

[lufbramatt]

Veeayt said:

Have another - long before the Chernobyl accident, there was another Soviet one, slightly less disastrous, if such words can be applicable on this matter. It was largely kept in secret, but I hear the locals still suffer from the aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

and another

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

the two guys that fell in the pool

[thatsprettyshady]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology...

An area of psychology that focusses on our brain’s (mostly developmentally) pre conditioned responses to various situations/social interactions/experiences.

It can go a long way to explain why anxiety problems can take hold in known difficult situations and why it’s very hard to break free from certain behaviour’s and “mental barriers”.

Moving on beyond that, I can see that through careful use of various (verbal and nonverbal) psychological triggers, a third party would be able to “precondition” certain responses from a human subject should they do desire.

Election contests, Advertising and PR campaigns any other events in which “spin” is usually employed - this technique explains how a persons vote/purchase/opinion is influenced to a large extent before they even know it - Clever stuff!

Makes me think we are just a bunch of animals really.

2nd thought - I’m going into PR!

[Gilhooligan]

lufbramatt said:

Veeayt said:

Have another - long before the Chernobyl accident, there was another Soviet one, slightly less disastrous, if such words can be applicable on this matter. It was largely kept in secret, but I hear the locals still suffer from the aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

and another

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

the two guys that fell in the pool

And a couple of others:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_...

Operator error seems to be a common theme.

[llewop]

Gilhooligan said:

And a couple of others:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1


Operator error seems to be a common theme.

not necessarily error!

wiki said:

The most common theories proposed for the withdrawal of the rod are (1) sabotage or suicide by one of the operators, (2) a suicide-murder involving an affair with the wife of one of the other operators, (3) inadvertent withdrawal of the main control rod, or (4) an intentional attempt to "exercise" the rod (to make it travel more smoothly within its sheath).

which I remember being discussed on a course 30 years ago! I suspect the theories are unlikely to be changed/proved/disproved after all these years.

[SystemParanoia]

lufbramatt said:

Veeayt said:

Have another - long before the Chernobyl accident, there was another Soviet one, slightly less disastrous, if such words can be applicable on this matter. It was largely kept in secret, but I hear the locals still suffer from the aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

and another

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

the two guys that fell in the pool

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

worth a read

[carrottop]

Radiation poisoning from watches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

[glazbagun]

Not a wiki, but a BBC article on why flies are so difficult to swat:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-4128...

I'm also trying to find an old BBC documentary called "supersense" which covered a lot of stuff like this with 1980s SFX to no avail. Can't find it on youtube.

[dudleybloke]

glazbagun said:

Not a wiki, but a BBC article on why flies are so difficult to swat:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-4128...

I'm also trying to find an old BBC documentary called "supersense" which covered a lot of stuff like this with 1980s SFX to no avail. Can't find it on youtube.

Is this it?

http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/supersense

[matchmaker]

The area of the USA most polluted by radioactive waste..

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