Cracked Archive - Tech
5 Famous Space Missions That Almost Ended In Disaster
When it comes to the reality of space, you can't just make up some tech jargon and reconfigure the deflector shields. It involves a lot more effort to think through panic, fire and toxic fumes.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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495 6 Terrifying User Agreements You've Probably Accepted
We're not saying that these companies intend to screw you over. All we're saying is that their legal teams have gone to great lengths to reserve the right to ... and to make sure you can't do a damned thing about it.
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- By Erik Germ
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5 Simple Ideas That Could Make Travel (And Life) Way Easier
We're sitting on some pretty revolutionary ways to greatly increase the speed at which we physically move from A to B. What's infuriating is that those breakthroughs are ridiculously simple.
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- By Adam Wears, John Champion
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The 5 Most Insane Original Uses of Famous Products
What's more interesting than how some world-changing inventions were created? The fact that they were created for a completely different, and often stupid, purpose.
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- By Daniel Crow
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The 6 Most Reckless Uses of Radioactive Material
Some people are, let's just say, a little more casual around nuclear material than the rest of us. And by people we mean governments, corporations and just random, everyday dumbasses.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon
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6 Teenage Inventors That Changed The World
Give a kid a car and he's probably going to see how high he can ramp it off something. But that sholdn't negate the fact that some very ambitious teens have changed the world.
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- By Robert Evans, Mohammed Shariff
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8 Apps Designed Specifically for Modern Douchebags
If you're a regular person, your regular-person-shield (otherwise known as common human decency) will repel you from apps like these. Of course, that doesn't mean there isn't a market for these things -- which is most frightening of all.
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- By Benjamin Buso, Dennis Fulton
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6 Awesome Vehicles of War with Ridiculous Weaknesses
These weapons almost worked, in a world where 'almost working' might as well be 'hilarious failure.'
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- By Xavier Jackson
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7 Nuclear Weapon Screw-Ups You Won't Believe We Survived
Suprisingly, Stanley Kubrick was probably closest when he imagined the nuclear era as a game of poker between cocky, absent-minded lunatics. Only he probably didn't go far enough.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon
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8 Gadgets That Lie to You Every Day
Now that we have all the fancy gauges and buttons modern life provides to us, we may have gotten a little bit overdependent on them. As it turns out, many of these gadgets are scarily inaccurate or even deliberately configured to lie to and appease us.
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- By Christina H
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7 Ways Your Cellphone Is Screwing With Your Body and Mind
The cancer thing seems to have been overblown, but apparently the jury is still out on a whole host of much weirder effects your phone could be having on you right now.
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- By Andrew Martin
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5 True Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Piss Off The IT Guy
In some offices, the IT guys wield more power than the owner of the company. And if you want proof, just look at what happens when they get pissed off.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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6 Terrifying Emergency Escape Pods (That Aren't Worth It)
We tend to think of escape pods as a science fiction trope: They jettison off of Star Destroyers or launch out the top of giant mechanical spiders just before Will Smith destroys them with a pun. But they're not all fictional: When everything has gone to hell, when the ship is sinking, when the shuttle is exploding, when that natural disaster is be
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- By Greg Taylor
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5 Tiny Computer Glitches That Caused Huge Disasters
There are certain jobs where making the same mistakes can cost companies billions of dollars, and sometimes costs people their lives.
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- By Robert Evans
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The 5 Most Mind-Blowingly Huge Machines Built By Science
Right at this moment, scientists and engineers are in the process of building -- or using -- instruments that look like the engine for a Star Destroyer.
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- By Josh E
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