Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Imperial War Museums"
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@freeculture Soyuz I, far more impressive. It actually made its flight before incinerating its occupant.
The parachute got stuck, due to paint and the capsule hit the ground at 300 mph and burned the capsule and cosmonaut into oblivion.
The cosmonaut had put in his will that the generals that ordered the unready flight to launch had to be photographed with his remains and they actually did do so, photographed with a charcoal mass that didn't at all look like it was once a human. Good for him!
Pity that they launched the damned thing though.
Soyuz 11, valve dislodged, venting the atmosphere into space, killing all 3 crew. The valve, right under a cosmonaut's seat, where it couldn't be reached in time.
Still, we're ahead in fatalities, courtesy of the space shuttle.
Because, complacency kills.
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@zoiders I was speaking of both the UK and Germany, the last I recall was in Munich in 2021, injuring 4, a few years previously, techs were killed when a 2000 pound bomb detonated. Around every 5 years a team gets one that goes off in their face.
Other than boobytrapped bombs, corrosion and chemical instability from all that time underground can make the bomb extremely unstable. In some cases, the bomb is too badly damaged to defuse and the bomb has to be detonated in place, which is labor intensive as hell, as one has to make trenches to protect nearby buried utilities and building foundations.
Can't remember the UK organization, but Germany has teams by state. Of course, Germany was the only nation bombing the UK, a whole lot of folks were angry at Germany during WWII.
Then, there are French farmers fields, where frost pushes up old WWI UXO's, farmers literally stack them at collection points, where they're collected, trucked off and destroyed.
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