Smartphone Trends to Watch in 2017
Feb 28, 2017 05:43
Cyclist cheats death by changing flights - twice
Maarten de Jonge is a Dutch cyclist riding for the UCI Continental Bike Aid. Surely he's had quite a few near-death situations during his biking career - things like this are unavoidable in traffic. Yet nothing in the life of an average human can be compared to how he cheated death twice when preparing for flights. De Jonge, 31, was scheduled to take both Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 AND Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014. He changed his mind both times, though, so he didn't board any of these flights. The results: one plane crashed in the ocean, one plane shot down in Ukraine, and one cyclist who has survived both times.Fidel Castro - the leader supremo who cheated death hundreds of times
Fidel Castro was surely a mote in many eyes. Being the leader of one of the last remaining Communist countries is not what you would call a life insurance. During his reign in Cuba, Castro was the target of over 600 assassination attempts, including ones using poisoned cigars, exploding cigars, hidden needles and its likes. Whether his survival can be attributed to luck or the preparedness of his security detail is unknown. Castro survived all the attempts to his life. He passed away on November 25th, 2016, at the age of 90. The cause of his death was not disclosed.Tsutomu Yamaguchi - the man who survived two atom bombs
Nuclear weapons are so destructive that they only needed to be deployed twice to convince the world that they are too horrible to use. Surviving one of the two would be an achievement on its own. And how about surviving both? Well, that's what happened to Tsutomu Yamaguchi, an oil tanker designer.Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Nagasaki resident, was on a business trip to Hiroshima when the bomb fell. Ironically, he was preparing to leave the city - he was on his way to the train station when he remembered he forgot his hanko (a stamp allowing him to travel) at his workplace.
He was on his way to retrieve it when the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy, leveling the city. Yamaguchi suffered severe burns, temporarily lost his sight, and suffered eardrum ruptures - but he lived. He returned to his hometown the next day. Three days later, back home, Yamaguchi was describing the blast to his supervisor when Bockscar, the American bomber dropped the Fat Man on the city.
Being two miles away from ground zero, this time he was not harmed by the explosion. Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person to have been in both of the explosions and survived. He died in 2010, at the age of 93, of stomach cancer.
The Luckiest People Ever to Be Alive Trying your luck today is easy. You can simply buy a scratch card, a lottery ticket or head over to the Vegas Palms to play the best online slot games and possibly win a fortune. The Vegas Palms has a history of making people richer - its Winner's Wall has a constantly updated list of the significant winners of the day. And even if you don't win, the Vegas Palms will offer you cross-platform fun to take with you wherever you go, so you will always have the chance of feeling like the luckiest bastard of the world. The people below didn't try their luck, though. They didn't play to win - they did nothing more than living their lives as they saw fit. Whether their luck can be attributed to a supreme being or the random collusion of probabilities, we will never know. This doesn't change the fact that they have come out of situations that would've slain and destroyed an average human mostly unharmed.
2016 is starting to draw to a close, so what should we expect from smartphones in 2017.
