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Man fined for throwing stone that bounced off ground onto man’s foot, fracturing it

Man fined for throwing stone that bounced off ground onto man’s foot, fracturing it

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SINGAPORE: Frustrated at a cement truck driver who would not stop washing his vehicle, a construction supervisor threw a stone onto the ground. The stone ricocheted off some rubble and flew towards the driver, striking his foot at the part where it was not protected by his safety boots. The driver’s foot swelled and he went to hospital with a fracture. Lee Hock Seng, a 60-year-old Singaporean, was fined S$4,000 (US$2,930) by a district court on Monday (Apr 15) for one count of a rash act endangering personal safety. The court heard that Lee was a supervisor assigned by his employer to work at a construction site at 9 Pasir Ris Drive 6, Hai Sing Catholic School on Sep 23, 2023. The victim, 46-year-old Muthappa Naynar Visvalingam, was also assigned by his own employer to drive a cement mixer truck to the same site and unload cement there. After the victim unloaded the cement that day, he drove the truck to the side and ascended a ladder to wash the discharging chute. Lee, who was standing …

Passenger says fellow flyers ‘bounced off the roof’ when plane dove during flight to New Zealand

Passenger says fellow flyers ‘bounced off the roof’ when plane dove during flight to New Zealand

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A passenger aboard a flight from Australia and New Zealand described fellow passengers being thrown from their seats hitting the roof when the plane suddenly plunged, before safely landing at Auckland Airport. At least 50 people were injured Monday after the LATAM Airlines plane experienced a “strong shake,” according to the Chilean airline. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner landed as scheduled and was set to continue to Santiago, Chile, The Associated Press reported. “The plane, unannounced, just dropped. I mean it dropped unlike anything I’ve ever experienced on any kind of minor turbulence, and people were thrown out of their seats, hit the top of the roof of the plane, thrown down the aisles,” Brian Jokat, a passenger, told ABC News in Australia. “Some of the roof panels were broken from people being thrown up and knocking through the plastic roof panels in the aisle ways. And there was blood coming from several people’s heads,” he said. A number of passengers weren’t wearing seatbelts when the flight suddenly dropped. Jokat said he was one of the …

NASA bounced a laser off a cookie-sized device on the moon

NASA bounced a laser off a cookie-sized device on the moon

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Despite some recent delays, NASA’s Artemis program is still largely on track to establish a permanent human presence on the moon. Artemis astronauts will rely on a lot of logistical information, both while traversing the lunar surface, as well as for the semi-regular traffic to and from Earth. To prepare for this, NASA is testing various tools to ensure a safe, precise, and reliable extended lunar stay for visitors—and one of the space agency’s most successful recent experiments harnessed a long-used tactic here on Earth to achieve a first for the moon. According to NASA, its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)—currently in moon’s orbit—recently aimed a laser altimeter approximately 100km (roughly 62 miles) away below at the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Vikram lander, near the South Pole region’s Manzinus crater. After firing off a series of five pulses on December 12, 2023, the LRO then recorded the signal mirrored off a small retroreflector aboard Vikram, confirming the method’s first lunar success. [Related: NASA delays two crewed Artemis moon missions.] Measuring a laser’s return time from …