Don’t forget to scream into the void about any cool stories in today’s news briefs!
- Extraterrestrial ‘technical surprise’ is a top concern, Pentagon UFO investigator says.
- First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history.
- Hunting for the lizard people: on the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Nashville bombing.
- Related: Weaponizing conspiracy theory – the dangers in priming people for armed revolution.
- NASA’s space laser is finally revealing the unsolved mysteries and hidden secrets of the Amazon.
- Kitchen shrine serpents and more fascinating new ancient Pompeii discoveries.
- Miracles not magic: it took a tremendous effort to distinguish early Christianity from the finely tuned world of pagan beliefs and rituals.
- The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project.
- Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988, and we have no idea what it is.
- A skyscraper-size asteroid flew closer to Earth than the moon — and scientists didn’t notice until 2 days later.
- Space tourism could have a sex problem and we’re not ready for it.
- Climate collapse could happen fast – as temperature and weather records fall, Earth may be nearing so-called tipping points.
- NYPD to test public announcement drones during emergencies.
Thanks to @fringequest@mastodon.online.
Quote of the Day:
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
