"Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something—if it ain't one thing, it's another."
God bless her.
Posted on 08/09/2014 10:49:50 AM PDT by Enterprise
A UK man was killed after his device misfired and ignited his oxygen equipment, reports the BBC. Fire officials say David Thomson, 62, was charging his e-cig in his bedroom when it "exploded, caught fire, and ignited the oxygen tube of an oxygen concentrator, which may have been in use by the occupier."
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Ignitions have consequences.
Smoking kills
more proof that smoking kills.
I knew I would see some technological changes in my lifetime but I never imagined a world where people would smoke electronic cigarettes.
I can’t imagine an E-cig having that much power that it could cause an arc-flash.
LI battery.
/johnny
“I knew I would see some technological changes in my lifetime but I never imagined a world where people would smoke electronic cigarettes.”
I suspect that the time is coming when illegal surgeons will, for a price, insert brain probes in “users” that will electronically stimulate their pleasure centers.
Also, we’re probably less than twenty years away from neurologically controlled implantable phones that will have a head’s-up display built into your eye.
In fifty years people will no longer know how to write.
I will never understand why people go to such extremes as e cigs, patches, and all that crap to quit cigarettes when simply stop smoking works, and requires only one be determined.
I smoked fifty years. I didn’t want to quit, because I enjoyed smoking, but I didn’t want to pay the outrageous taxes on my cigarettes to support leftist causes, and that was my only incentive to stop smoking.
One day I put the last pack of cigarettes on the top shelf of the cupboard over the stove in the kitchen, and never lit another. It was so easy. I never turned into some monster, or had any moments of high anxiety, withdrawals, or other. Those things happen to people that believe others who say it will happen.
There were the same eighteen cigarettes in that pack a year, and a half later when I threw them in the trash with absolutely no remorse.
This time next month will mark five years since I quit smoking on September 9, 2009.
I watched a women fiddling with her smart phone while pumping gas. Few cellphones are intrinsically safe. I left quickly.
Brand Idea Failures: RJ Reynolds’ smokeless cigarettes (early 1990s)
http://brandfailures.blogspot.com/2006/11/brand-idea-failures-rj-reynolds.html
Oxygen kills.
Isn’t it time we ban oxygen.
If not for you, but for the children?
I DID NOT KNOW THAT OXYGEN COULD IGNITE!!!!!!!!!!!
"Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something—if it ain't one thing, it's another."
God bless her.
Eerie predictions. Unfortunately, many of them will probably be proven correct. Those prophecies remind me of the song “In The Year 2525- If Man Is Still Alive”. Google Glass is just the beginning.
My mother, now 97, rode a horse to school. She saw the Wright brothers perform at the Ohio state fair. She saw men land on the moon. The pace of technological advancement has accelerated. Imagine what somebody who lives to 100 starting today will see. Amazing, I’m sure.
I remember a Caucasian America. I suspect America will be so transformed racially and culturally that if I jumped ahead just 50 years right now I’d probably not be able to talk to most of the people I’d meet. I suspect, though, that America will look like a third world country and we’ll look back on sewers and a power grid that worked without fail as our golden age.
Yep, cheap or abused, unprotected lithium ion rechargeable batteries mixed with cheap chargers.
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