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This YouTuber bolted three jet thrusters to the back of his Tesla Model S, allowing him to drive the 4,500 pound vehicle on jet thrusters alone.

Someone Strapped Three Jet Engines to a Tesla and, Uh, Wow

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers are building a massive, indestructible box that’ll record scientific data to give future civilizations insight on how exactly humanity fell.

Scientists Are Building a “Black Box” to Record the End of Civilization

By Tony Ho Tran

A Harvard astronmer corrected Tesla CEO Elon Musk after the billionaire incorrectly tweeted his Tesla Roadster was orbiting Mars in space.

Harvard Professor Roasts Elon Musk For Dumb Space Mistake

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One brave Tesla owner took a red Model 3 off-road this week, posting a video of the car driving through what appears to be the ocean.

Watch This Maniac Drive His Tesla Through the Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Florida's very cool and normal governor is proposing a "civilian military force" that would be under his control and not the Pentagon's.

Florida Is Trying to Get Its Own Military, God Help Us All

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen is now selling his prison badge as an NFT.

Trump’s Former Lawyer Is Selling His Prison Badge as an NFT

By Noor Al-Sibai

A company that provides human resources training to businesses has reportedly been using white actors to play Black characters in its VR training.

Company Under Fire for Using White Actors to Play Black Characters in VR Training

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed on Twitter today that SpaceX has begun the "construction of Starship orbital launch pad" at Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX Starts Constructing Starship’s Orbital Launch Pad at Cape Canaveral

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was one of three aeronautics companies chosen to design new “commercial destinations” in space to replace the ISS.

NASA Paying Blue Origin $130 Million for New Space Station, Even After Its Ugly Lawsuit

By Tony Ho Tran

Dozens of workers have reported anti-work manifestos randomly printing out in their company's receipt printers due to a pro-labor hacker.

Robots and Machines

Hackers Are Spamming Companies’ Receipt Printers with Anti-Work Manifestos

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk spilled the beans on a couple more details about the company's upcoming Cybertruck. It will be able to drive diagonally "like a crab."

Elon Musk Says Cybertruck Will Be Able to “Drive Diagonally Like a Crab”

By Victor Tangermann

People Disturbed by Robot With Ultra-Realistic Human Face Expressions

People Disturbed by Robot With Ultra-Realistic Human Face Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

An astronomer at the University of Regina warned how "one out of every 15 points" of light in the sky will soon be a satellite instead of a star.

A Baffling Number of “Stars” Are Actually Spacecraft

By Tony Ho Tran

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts has shown off an impressive new humanoid robot that can put on some eerily realistic facial expressions.

New Video Shows Robot With Terrifyingly Realistic Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

Famed astrophysicist and science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter on Wednesday to post a weird, potential cry for help.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Keeps Tweeting Something Sad and Weird

By Tony Ho Tran

Amazon has partnered with climate scientists to help create models that show what exactly would happen if we blocked the Sun.

Science & Energy

Amazon Is Quietly Researching How to Block Out the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA Rover’s New Selfie Will Make You Feel Like You’re on Mars, and Maybe a Little Drunk

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk seemed to take another shot at President Joe Biden early Thursday morning via Twitter — and added a trademark man-childish joke while doing so.

Elon Musk Proposes Setting an Age Limit on US Politicians

By Tony Ho Tran

The American Astronomical Society has penned a letter to NASA asking for a report of its investigation into the James Webb Space Telescope.

Influential Astronomers Call Out NASA For Telescope With Offensive Name

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is throwing shade at some "hot mess" colliding galaxies as they become one.

Science & Energy

Hubble Space Telescope Calls Out “Hot Mess” Galactic Collision

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new cryptocurrency is hitting the market named after the deadly new coronavirus variant dubbed Omicron.

An Omicron Cryptocurrency Started Spiking, Because We Are Doomed

By Victor Tangermann

A climate scientist believes that since geoengineering the earth to cool down the climate is so affordable, countries will inevitably start doing it.

Climate Scientist Warns That Countries Are Going to Start Geoengineering the Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered a brief and terse response when asked on Twitter about the company's bankruptcy conerns surrounding its Raptor engine.

Elon Musk Tersely Addresses SpaceX Bankruptcy Leak

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveled that some of the company's internet-beaming Starlink satellites had to swerve out of the way of space debris.

Elon Musk Says Starlink Satellites Had to Swerve Out of the Way of Debris

By Victor Tangermann

Russia might soon press criminal charges against a NASA astronaut for allegedly sabotaging one of their spacecraft in 2018.

Russia Legally Threatens NASA Astronaut for Allegedly Sabotaging Space Station

By Tony Ho Tran

Man With Tesla Face Tattoo Gets Slapped With DUI While Driving an Old Minivan

By Noor Al-Sibai

Paleontologist and Nature editor Henry Gee argued in an opinion piece for Scientific American that humans are doomed to go exctinct eventually.

Science & Energy

Scientist Says That Humans Are Almost Certainly Going Extinct

By Victor Tangermann

A newly surfaced video shows the astonishingly roomy interior of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft prototype, as spotted by SpaceExplored.

Leaked Video Appears to Shows Interior of SpaceX’s Starship

By Victor Tangermann

Animator and SpaceX enthusiast Corey Bass has rendered an amazingly photorealistic sequence of a Starship and Super Heavy booster launching to space.

Gorgeous New Animation Shows Starship Going Orbital

By Victor Tangermann

Space Force General David Thompson said that US government satellites are undergoing attacks from China and Russia “every single day.”

Space Force General Says China and Russia Are Attacking US Satellites “Every Single Day”

By Tony Ho Tran

60 people were trapped at the Tan Hill Inn with an Oasis cover band after a snowstorm dropped three feet of snow in Swaledale, England.

Extreme Snowstorm Traps 60 People in Pub with Oasis Cover Band

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA postponed a spacewalk scheduled for today after receiving a "debris notification" for the International Space Station.

NASA Postpones Spacewalk Due to Deadly Debris

By Tony Ho Tran

Swedish engineering firm Minesto has designed special gliders that can capture underwater currents by being tethered to the ocean floor.

Ingenious Devices Extract Power From the Ocean’s Tides

By Victor Tangermann

The Arctic is getting warm, fast, and it has been for a long time.

The Arctic Ocean Has Been Warming Way Longer Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has to dig deep to keep the spirits up for over a million people who preordered a Cybertruck over a year ago.

Elon Musk Says Cybertruck Will Be an “Insane Technology Bandwagon”

By Victor Tangermann

Somebody paid roughly $650,000 in ethereum for an NFT yacht sold by developer Republic Realm in the metaverse platform The Sandbox.

Someone Paid $650,000 for a Nonexistent Yacht in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

This Bizarre Hell Planet Might Be the Most Brutal Ever Discovered

Science & Energy

This Bizarre Hell Planet Might Be the Most Brutal Ever Discovered

By Tony Ho Tran

The aeronautics company posted a job listing for a "passionate, experienced" mixologist for their launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas over the weekend.

SpaceX Is Hiring a… “Spaceport Mixologist”?

By Tony Ho Tran

Nuclear fusion power, which is clean and basically limitless, could be just around the corner. Advancements made in recent weeks may actually tip the scale.

Experts Say Fusion Power Is Finally Starting to Look Imminent

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reportedly stepping down from his role at the social media company, according to CNBC's sources.

Jack Dorsey Is Reportedly Stepping Down as CEO of Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

The CIA is apparently struggling to keep its undercover agents, well, undercover.

Real-Life Spies Struggle to Adapt to Smartphone Surveillance

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Let this be a warning to every crypto enthusiast out there who's set on creating the next meme-worthy coin.

Tolkien’s Estate Shuts Down “Lord of the Rings” Cryptocurrency

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The smooth, gray truck has a similar shape to the Cybertruck, which is set to come out next year.

A Chinese Company Kinda Cloned Tesla’s Cybertruck

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Dumping the water into the bay as part of the decommission is an option the Cape Cod Times reported that officials discussed with Holtec earlier this week.

Massachusetts Residents Alarmed by Plan to Dump Radioactive Water Into Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Crypto-savvy hamster Mr. Goxx, whose portfolio beat out some of the biggest traders in history, has tragically passed away.

The Crypto-Trading Hamster Has Died of Unknown Causes

By Victor Tangermann

A grandmother from Ontario, Canada was shocked to find that a toy she bought at Walmart started swearing and singing about doing cocaine in Polish.

Robots and Machines

Walmart Removes Listing for Kids’ Toy That Sings About Cocaine

By Victor Tangermann

Fans of Elon Musk have review bombed JPMorgan's Yelp page after a statement from the Tesla CEO threatening to give the bank a one-star review.

JPMorgan’s Yelp Page Bombed with 1-Star Reviews After Elon Tweet

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Department of Defense is ramping up its efforts to see if the truth is really out there with a new task force dedicated to studying UFOs.

The US Military Just Created a Major New Group to Study UFOs

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA — with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — has launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on Tuesday night.

SpaceX Launches NASA Battering Ram to Crash Into Giant Asteroid

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Missile Defense Agency has awarded contracts to several military contractors to design a system to take out enemy hypersonic missiles.

US Military: Let’s Shoot Down Hypersonic Missiles With Smaller Hypersonic Missiles

Watch a Historian Eviscerate the Climate Justice Movement

Watch a Historian Eviscerate the Climate Justice Movement

By Noor Al-Sibai

University of Utah's Jake Abbott predicts the Earth could soon look a lot like Saturn. "Earth is on course to have its own rings" made out of space junk.

Professor Says Earth Is Forming Saturn-Like Rings Made of Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

Bruce Willis has turned down NASA's invite to watch the launch of the DART mission that bears a striking resemblance to "Armageddon."

Bruce Willis Apparently Refused to Watch NASA Launch Asteroid-Smashing Rocket

By Noor Al-Sibai

The United Kingdom has added an amendment to their animal welfare law that says that invertebrate creatures such as octopuses and squids are sentient.

United Kingdom Declares Octopuses, Squids Are Sentient Beings

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA is launching a spacecraft with a highly advanced ion drive, destined to slam into an asteroid as part of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission.

NASA Is Launching an Asteroid-Smashing Spacecraft Today and It’s Powered by an Ion Drive

By Victor Tangermann

A recent long-term isolation experiment on a simulated Mars base found that participants often get a little distant and rebellious as time goes on.

Simulated Mars Base Got Kinda Rebellious, Worrying Scientists

By Tony Ho Tran

Three of the aerospace company’s top executives have left their roles in the past two weeks — including one in charge of developing the Raptor engines.

Top Employees Depart SpaceX as Pressure Mounts for Next Gen Rocket Development

By Tony Ho Tran

Macy's announced it's releasing digital reproductions of some of its iconic Thanksgiving Parade floats as NFTs in the name of charity.

Macy’s Is Hawking Its Thanksgiving Parade Balloons as NFTs Because Nothing Matters Anymore

By Noor Al-Sibai

Uh Oh, Someone Built a Tesla With Dual Giant Machine Guns

Uh Oh, Someone Built a Tesla With Dual Giant Machine Guns

By Victor Tangermann

After decades of delays and billions of dollar spent, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is encountering more hiccups ahead of its launch later this year.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Pushes Back James Webb Launch After Mysterious “Incident”

By Victor Tangermann

El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele has announced the country's plans to build the world's first fully bitcoin bonds-backed "Bitcoin City."

El Salvador President Announces “Bitcoin City” Tax Haven

By Victor Tangermann

"If JPM doesn’t withdraw their lawsuit, I will give them a one star review on Yelp," Tesla CEO Elon Musk told The Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk Threatens Bank With “One Star Review on Yelp” Unless They Drop Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

In an email, CEO Elon Musk warned that any manager who doesn't execute his directions will be "asked to resign immediately."

In Leaked Email, Elon Musk Issues Interesting Warning to Tesla Managers

By Victor Tangermann

Rolls-Royce's Spirit of Innovation electric airplane just crushed the all-electric top speed record, soaring through the air at 384.4 mph.

Advanced Transport

Electric Airplane Sets All-Time Speed Record

By Victor Tangermann