the bolt behind the blue

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   List of inventors killed by their own inventions

   “Wan Hu, a sixteenth-century Chinese official, is said to have attempted to launch himself into outer space in a chair to which 47 rockets were attached. The rockets exploded and, it is said, neither he nor the chair were ever seen again.”

   I am sorry to say I laughed at that one. 

   (Source: readmorewikipedia, via giddygirlie)

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   This is so interesting!

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    …isn’t it ironic… don’t cha think?…

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    irony at its best

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    Physics Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934) invented the process to isolate radium after co-discovering the radioactive...

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    i don’t know if i call it amazing or stupid.. eh? :|

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