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Incapacitating agent is a chemical or biological agent which renders a person unable to harm themselves or others, regardless of consciousness. [1]Lethal agents are primarily intended to kill, but incapacitating agents can also kill if administered in a potent enough dose, or in certain scenarios.
According to folklore, a pishtaco is an evil humanoid creature—often a foreigner and often a white man—who seeks out Indigenous people to injure and kill them. This character is also often shown as extremely pale, hyper-masculine, and sometimes brandishing extremely flashy cars or modern technology. [3]
Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales. [1] Oil from the bowhead whale was sometimes known as train-oil , which comes from the Dutch word traan ("tear drop"). Sperm oil , a special kind of oil used in the cavities of sperm whales , differs chemically from ordinary whale oil: it is composed mostly of liquid wax .
Mink oil is an oil used in medical and cosmetic products. It is obtained by the rendering of mink fat which has been removed from pelts bound for the fur industry. [1] In spite of the term on products labeled “mink oil“, many commercial versions of so-named leather conditioner contain no natural mink oil.
A dead animal may be flayed when preparing it to be used as human food, or for its hide or fur. This is more commonly called skinning. Flaying of humans is used as a method of torture or execution, depending on how much of the skin is removed. This is often referred to as flaying alive.
Humans have been lucky when it comes to avoiding sizeable meteors and mass die-offs. However, if one measuring 50-meters-wide and speeding towards Earth at roughly 9 miles per second exploded in ...
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually applied to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters , but spills may also occur on land.
Sam Altman thinks the technology underpinning his company’s most famous product could bring about the end of human civilization. In May, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman filed into a Senate subcommittee ...