by | Mar 16, 2021 | Weirdness
from UPI via AccuWeather Massive piece of space junk tossed from ISS sets new record By Daniel Uria, UPI Photo courtesy NASA March 15 (UPI) — A pallet of batteries was released from the International Space Station last week, becoming the heaviest single piece of...
by | Mar 7, 2021 | Weirdness
from LiveScience Meteor explodes over Vermont with the force of 440 pounds of TNT It was the size of a bowling ball but exploded like 440 pounds of TNT By Rafi Letzter A meteor streaked through the night sky over Vermont on Sunday (March 7), creating a spectacular...
by | Mar 5, 2021 | Weirdness
from CNBC A sand shortage? The world is running out of a crucial — but under-appreciated — commodity by Sam Meredith Dozens of trucks dump hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of U.S. government measures to protect Florida’s tourist...
by | Mar 2, 2021 | Weirdness
from DNYUZ Did an Alien Life-Form Do a Drive-By of Our Solar System in 2017? By Avi Loeb On Nov. 12, 2018, Avi Loeb, then the chairman of the astronomy department at Harvard, and a young research associate, Shmuel Bialy, published a paper in the highly prestigious...
by | Feb 21, 2021 | Weirdness
from The Daily Beast Inside the World of Backstreet Castrators, Cutters and Eunuch-Makers The Daily Beast reports from the hidden world of backstreet castrations, where people desperate to have genitalia altered or removed undergo risky, illicit operations. by Mark...
by | Feb 1, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from GMA Network Dubai creates ‘space court’ for out-of-this-world disputes DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai announced Monday the creation of a “space court” to settle commercial disputes, as the UAE—which is also sending a probe to Mars—builds its...
