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4. Aaliyah. This brilliant R&B singer and rising film star had her life and career cut dhort at age 22 in a tragic plane crash. Fans around the world mourned her sudden death. Hit: Try again.
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3. Bruce Lee. He was taken from us too soon. Bruce Lee’s fame as a martial artist was matched only by his amazing worldwide popularity as a movie star. When he suddenly died at age 32 from a brain swelling, the entire world mourned his death.
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2. Lee Thompson Young. An actor ever since he played Martin Luther King in a play when he was ten, Lee Thompson Young was born on February 1st, 1984 in Columbia, South Carolina. He found success playing the title character in The Famous Jett Jackson, expanding into roles on other shows/movies such as Friday Night Lights, Scrubs, FlashForward, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Hill have Eye II, South Beach, Rizzoli and Isles. Sadly, Lee suffered from bipolar disorder, diagnosed with the mental illness as a teenager. He struggled with the disease while he grew his career, attending therapy sessions and taking medication to help cope. Ultimately, he was overwhelmed by the condition, taking his own life in 2013 with a single gunshot.
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This list showcases actors and actresses that passed away far too early, tragically taking them and their talents from the world during what should have been the prime of their lives. 1. Paul Walker. Born in Glendale, California, Paul William Walker became a huge action star when he acted in The Fast and the Furious, a series of action-packed car chase movies with death defying stunts. He also appeared in shows such as Touched by an Angel, Varsity Blues, Who’s the Boss? and TheYoung and the Restless as well as feature films like Eight Below, The Skulls and Into the Blue. In a case of horrible dramatic irony, Walker at the height of his Fast and Furious fame was involved in a terrible car wreck on his way to a charity event to help those affected by Typhoon. The Porsche his friend was driving lost control, struck a tree and burst into flames, November, 30 2013. Source: http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/13-hollywood-stars-who-died-tragically-young/?view=all http://m.yourdailydish.com/stars-who-died-too-young/1/
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The finished product, out in the wild. Source: http://www.wired.com/2011/08/peek-inside-the-lamborghini-factory-2/
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Every Lamborghini is subjected to a road test at the hands of a professional driver.
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Everything is wrapped in protective tissue and plastic before the test drive. The last thing the driver wants to do is mar someone's new toy before it even leaves the factory.
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The wheel well of a matte-black Aventador is scrutinized by a worker as part of the final inspection process.
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Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 nears the final inspection stage.
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Installing a rear grille, which aids in venting heat from the engine, on an Aventador
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Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4s roll down the assembly line, their bodies clad in protective plastic sleeves in order to prevent accidental scratching. The car spends about two hours at each assembly station.
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Assembly line.
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Computers along the assembly line offer exploded views of parts, to illustrate how components should be properly fitted together.
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Suspension components are pulled by trolley to assembly stations for installation into an Aventador.
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A suspension assembly is put together by hand; Lamborghini relies on few robots at their factory.
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An Aventador rolls down the assembly line, its body clad in a protective plastic shells in order to avoid paint scuffs.
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A factory worker assembles a Gallardo Spyder.
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Each Lamborghini engine is bench-tested before it's installed into a vehicle and dynamometer tested, as seen here. The dyno checks braking systems, stability control, and brakes at simulatedwheel speeds up to 90 mph.
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Every Lamborghini engine is assembled in Sant'Agata Bolognese, including this Aventador V-12 powerplant.
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Preparing the interior.
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Naturally occurring defects are marked on leather hides using a wax pencil, before a computer scans the markings and determines the most efficient way to cut the leather into pattern shapes for seats and interior upholstery trim.
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Assembling the body is a painstaking process. Though every Lamborghini is run on an indoor dynamometer to ensure subsystems like stability control, brakes and transmission are working harmoniously at simulated speeds up to 90 mph, the final test is done on a far more realistic, and hazardous environment: Public roads. Each Aventador is sheathed in a protective layer of plastic to protect its body from pebbles and road debris. Its cabin is almost entirely swathed in tissue to ensure it remains utterly virginal before meeting its suitor.
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Fit is crucial on nearly every aspect of the carbon-fiber tub, as it will need to mate perfectly to subframes which constitute the vehicle’s extremities.
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Giant autoclaves are used to cure carbon-fiber components at Lamborghini headquarters.
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Though many aspects of the carbon-fiber monocoque-assembly process requires a personal touch, robots also play a part in construction. Building a 217-mph supercar requires equal doses of bold design and race-inspired performance, but it also involves the logistical challenge of wrangling hundreds of outside suppliers. There are about 2,000 parts in an Aventador, and most of those components are sourced from 500 or so companies scattered across 30 countries.The modernist headlamps, for instance, use 84 components from 14 different suppliers, all of which must fit together with a tolerance of just 1 millimeter if they are to form a focused beam oflight. The 20 black-plastic soft-touch components found in the interior are sourced from five suppliers, and they must match perfectly. To ensure that these myriad parts will "play nicely together," a full-scale Aventador model is mocked up and its tolerances measured by an ultra-precise robotic arm. It creates a digital rendering by methodically touching every last nook and cranny with a pen-like sensor, a process called fine optimization.Once the components, tolerances, suppliers and construction techniques were finalized, the Aventador finally become ready for production in the space where Murcielagos were once built, alongside the soon-to-be updated Gallardo.
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Cutting carbon fiber.
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Carbon-fiber weave is painstakingly cut and laid into a chassis.
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A laser traces a cut line for a sheet of carbon fiber. Interior material choices had to be rooted in reality.
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This mockup of an Aventador LP700-4 is used for “fine optimization,” a process in which pre-production parts are checked against each other to ensure a perfect fit before they go into production.
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A robot "feels out" a fine optimization mockup of an Aventador, in order to measure fitment of various parts and createa virtual model of the physical structure.
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The Aventador's carbon fiber monocoque roof section is mated to the passenger compartment tub.
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