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  2. High-g training - Wikipedia

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    The 20 g centrifuge at the NASA Ames Research Center. High-g training is done by aviators and astronauts who are subject to high levels of acceleration ('g'). It is designed to prevent a g-induced loss of consciousness (g-LOC), a situation when the action of g-forces moves the blood away from the brain to the extent that consciousness is lost.

  3. Still Wakes the Deep - Wikipedia

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    Still Wakes the Deep is a 2024 psychological horror video game developed by The Chinese Room and published by Secret Mode.The story follows an electrician who is trapped on a damaged oil drilling platform in the North Sea in the 1970s, having no way to escape while being pursued by mysterious monsters under harsh weather conditions.

  4. Uncontrolled decompression - Wikipedia

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    Decompression can occur due to structural failure of the pressure vessel, or failure of the compression system itself. [1] [2] The speed and violence of the decompression is affected by the size of the pressure vessel, the differential pressure between the inside and outside of the vessel, and the size of the leak hole.

  5. Jack-in-the-box effect - Wikipedia

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    A destroyed Russian tank, with the turret to the right showing the results of the jack-in-the-box effect. Many modern Western tanks (for instance, the M1 Abrams, Leopard 2, and Leclerc) feature ammunition compartments designed to fail safely under fire, reducing damage to the level of a firepower kill.

  6. Jet fire - Wikipedia

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    A jet fire is a high temperature flame of burning fuel released under pressure in a particular orientation. The material burned is a continuous stream of flammable gas, liquid or a two-phase mixture. A jet fire is a significant hazard in process and storage plants which handle or keep flammable fluids under pressure.

  7. Local landmarks lost and damaged by raging Los Angeles fires

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    The Reel Inn, one of the Pacific Coast Highway's most iconic landmarks, burned in the fires, according to a GoFundMe page shared by the restaurant's social media and its owners.

  8. Blast shelter - Wikipedia

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    Blast shelters deflect the blast wave from nearby explosions to prevent ear and internal injuries to people sheltering in the bunker. While frame buildings collapse from as little as 3 psi (20 kPa) of overpressure, blast shelters are regularly constructed to survive several hundred psi. This substantially decreases the likelihood that a bomb ...

  9. 24 Discontinued '70s and '80s Foods That We'll Never ... - AOL

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    3. Keebler Fudge Magic Middles. Neither the chocolate fudge cream inside a shortbread cookie nor versions with peanut butter or chocolate chip crusts survived.