[ExI] epic fail videos save lives

[Anders Sandberg]

On 29/04/2013 21:22, spike wrote:
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> Ja!  The don't-try-this-at-homers always proceed to show some fun successful stunt, and of course you want to try it at home.  You never see someone say don't try this at home, then proceed to mangle themselves or others, never.

That is what I love about http://www.periodicvideos.com/index.htm - the 
Nottingham researchers sometimes mess things up, and you often have a 
feeling even the trained professionals are perliously close to accidents.

Check out this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLUyeCC-2Ko
not terribly dangerous, but lovely to watch them mess with it.


-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University

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