Lighter explodes in dryer: man cheats death

(Sky News Australia

Cloud-chasing toxic vapor smoke screen e-cig

) April 4, 2023. A laundromat in Spain explodes after someone unmindfully leaves a [USB (lithium battery) device] cigarette lighter in dryer. Sky News Host Chris Kenny reviews and has a good chuckle about the Spanish laundromat that exploded after someone left a cigarette lighter in the dryer. “It just blew the shop front out,” Mr. Kenny said.

Mindfulness

If Jesus had been a white teen, would he be bad?

(WQ) That mindfulness (sati, dispassionate presence of mind, vigilance, wakefulness, disinterested bare awareness) comes in handy, the Buddha said, whatever one is engaged in, good or ill.

Even in wrongdoing it is of benefit. When pursuing merit and progress in meditation, it is invaluable. It serves as the support for concentration (samadhi) and concentration supports it in a mutually beneficial way.

Leave a lighter when tossing wet clothes into a staticky dryer? Prepare for the boom. This man would have been killed or burned alive.

The concussive force was so great it blew out the windows before starting a fire and gutting the building. Fortunately, it was all caught on security cam or it would have been labelled a suspicious bombing.

Daily Show w/Chelsea Handler: China's balloon

Biden murders a Chinese weather/spy balloon & Marjorie Taylor Greene hates her job

(The Daily Show) Feb. 6, 2023. Chelsea Handler tackles the latest news, including a Chinese spy balloon getting shot down in South Carolina, Marjorie Taylor Greene complaining about her job, George Santos being accused of sexually harassing and groping a male aide, and Mount Washington being reportedly colder than Mars. #DailyShow #Comedy

Catching a Falling Star (Science)

12/08 NASA photo of a black chunk of rock found in the Sudan desert, the first time astronomers have tracked an asteroid from space, through the atmosphere, down to the ground as a meteorite (AP/NASA). Click to enlarge.

WASHINGTON – For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon.

Last October, astronomers tracked a small non-threatening asteroid heading toward Earth before it became a "shooting star," something they had not done before. It blew up in the sky and scientists thought there would be no space rocks left to examine. But... More>>

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