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  2. Dead man's switch - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Dead Hand - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. 1986 Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis occurred on Friday, May 16, 1986 in Cokeville, Wyoming, United States, when former town marshal David Young, 43, and his wife Doris Young, 47, [1] took 154 hostages – 136 children and 18 adults – at Cokeville Elementary School. Transporting ten firearms and an improvised gasoline bomb, the ...

  5. Pallet jack - Wikipedia

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    The powered pallet jack is generally moved by a throttle on the handle to move forward or in reverse and steered by swinging the handle in the intended direction. Some contain a type of dead man's switch rather than a brake to stop the machine should the user need to stop quickly or leave the machine while it is in use. Others use a system ...

  6. Equipment of Strategic Air Command - Wikipedia

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    Equipment of Strategic Air Command. Strategic Air Command equipment includes weapon systems and ordnance (e.g., strategic weapons such as ICBMs), ground radars and computers (e.g., at SSN 1979-82), and other Cold War devices of the USAF major command.

  7. Automatic activation device - Wikipedia

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    In skydiving, an automatic activation device ( AAD) is a dead man's switch consisting of an electronic- pyrotechnic or mechanical device that automatically activates the opening sequence of the main or reserve parachute container when the AAD is falling below a preset altitude and above a preset decent speed. AADs are typically used to open the ...

  8. Does Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto have a dead man’s switch?

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    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 ...

  9. Dead man - Wikipedia

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    Dead Man, a 1995 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Dead Man (soundtrack), a soundtrack album for the 1995 film by Neil Young. The Dead Man, a 1989 comic strip in 2000 AD. "The Dead Man" (short story), a 1946 short story by Jorge Luis Borges. "The Dead Man", a 1950 short story by Fritz Lieber. "Dead Man", a gimmick used by retired ...