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Dead man's switch. A pedal acting as a dead man's switch in a bucket lift truck. A dead man's switch is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control. Originally applied to switches on a vehicle or machine ...
Dead Hand, also known as Perimeter (Russian: Система «Периметр», romanized: Sistema "Perimetr", lit. '"Perimeter" System', with the GRAU Index 15E601, Cyrillic: 15Э601), [1] is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control system (similar in concept to the American AN/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket Communications System) that was constructed by the Soviet Union. [2]
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was a runaway train event involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001. Locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, was pulling a train of 47 cars, including possibly two cars loaded with hazardous chemicals, specifically molten phenol, a substance ...
Ponch gets into a series of mishaps on his motorcycle and Sergeant Getraer comes down hard. 2. 2. "Undertow". Christian I. Nyby II. Larry Alexander. September 22, 1977. ( 1977-09-22) A man posing as a tow-truck driver robs women who have called for assistance.
60 minutes approx. Release date. December 2010. Preceded by. Year Zero. Followed by. The Kraken's Lament. Dead Man's Switch is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who .
Even if there is a dead man's switch that triggers instructions to sell Satoshi's fortune, Ginns says the market would be able to absorb the shock and would eventually rally as the currency became ...
Dead Man's Switch: A Crypto Mystery is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Sheona McDonald and released in 2021. The film is a portrait of the controversy around Gerald Cotten, the Canadian cryptocurrency entrepreneur whose disappearance and alleged death in December 2018 left many investors unable to access their money because Cotten was the only person who knew the password to the firm ...
The makeup of poker's dead man's hand has varied through the years. Currently, it is described as a two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights. The pair of aces and eights, along with an unknown hole card, were reportedly held by Old West folk hero , lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered while ...