If you’re enjoying your summer vacation, then here’s your fix of weird news to accompany your Margarita.
- ‘Dark Oxygen’ hidden on ocean floor could rewrite the rules of evolution.
- China’s rover used AI to take an epic photo on the moon’s far side (video).
- You’re an astronaut en route to Mars, you have a headache and the aspirin tablets onboard are expired. What then?
- NORAD detects, tracks and intercepts Russian and Chinese aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
- To The Stars publishes a press release about that Roswell piece analyzed by AARO—which turned out to be nada.
- Forbidden Science Dispatches #6.
- Why some people feel happiness near death.
- According to Musk, Google co-founder Larry Page used to think we would upload our minds to a computer. Imagine dying because the server suffered a BSOD.
- Cuttlefish can falsely remember the past in the same way that humans do.
- Researchers unearth mysterious structure beneath Maya ball court.
- Mining blast destroyed exceptional 47,000-Year record of Aboriginal history, first analysis confirms.
- Chemical analyses find hidden elements from renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe’s alchemy laboratory.
- Physicists just created an element using a particle beam. Eat your heart out, Bob Lazar!
- Last Sunday was the hottest day in all recorded history—so far.
- …Which might explain why the whales are so pissed, lately.
- Red Pill of the Day: After bringing a huge chunk of the modern world to a screeching halt, Crowdsource tried to make amends with *checks notes* bouncy $10 gift cards? I’m sure all the people who lost their flight or a crucial surgical procedure will appreciate it, you guys…
Quote of the Day:
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer