this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, the segway guy, Dean Kamen, is alive. The owner of the company or something like that died though.

So having removed one, I'll add in the guy that made leaded gas.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

A British businessman purchased Segway in 2009, and in 2010 accidentally reversed off a cliff while walking his dog by the ocean, and died.

[–] cone_zombie 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody mentioned Marie Curie yet?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Marie curie wasn't really an inventor. She was a scientist discovering new physics.. which turned out to be dangerous. She died likely due to lacking safety precautions people didn't know were needed since radioactivity is harmful mainly in the long-term. Even then she lived a reasonably long time.