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Delta CEO Says Airline Is Testing SpaceX Starlink Internet in Flights

Delta CEO Says Airline Is Testing SpaceX Starlink Internet in Flights

By Victor Tangermann

Turns out that when the Sun spits plasma at the Earth, it's actually pretty awesome.

Remember When the Sun Shot a Ball of Plasma at the Earth? It Hit and Caused a Beautiful Aurora

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists found that Europa's icy shell could be more porous than previously thought.

Jupiter’s Icy Moon May Be Way More Habitable Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto Stocks Are Doing Absolutely Horribly

Crypto Stocks Are Doing Absolutely Horribly

By Victor Tangermann

The world's top scientists have spoken — and they want to see Uranus.

Top Scientists Call on NASA to Probe Uranus

By Noor Al-Sibai

The shills are alive with the sound of crypto, apparently.

Lindsay Lohan Accused of Taking Huge Payments to Shill Crypto

By Noor Al-Sibai

Workers at Tesla's factory in Shanghai are reportedly forced to work in a "closed-loop" system, sleeping on the factory floor.

Tesla Reportedly Forcing Workers to Sleep on Factory Floor in Shanghai

By Victor Tangermann

Not everybody is thrilled about the idea of giving away our location to extraterrestrial civilizations, who may be listening in.

Oxford Scientist Worried NASA Project Will Attract “Hostile” Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

A wonderful shot by NASASpaceFlight photojournalist Nic Ansuini appears to show a chagrined face atop one of SpaceX's Starships prototypes.

Photographer Spots Tiny, Annoyed Face Welded Onto SpaceX Rocket

By Noor Al-Sibai

Spaceflight Company Mocked for Selling Useless NFTs

Spaceflight Company Mocked for Selling Useless NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto fiends have been bad, bad boys — and one adult entertainer is finally putting them in their place.

Porn Star “Punishes” Man for Buying NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

An accidentally-poignant study suggests that some planets may emit a scream-like blast of cosmic radio waves and they crumble out of existence.

Science & Energy

Planets Scream as They’re Ripped Apart, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a lengthy and freewheeling conversation with TED's Chris Anderson last week, Musk said that 'catgirls" are "probably inevitable."

Elon Musk Says He Could Make “Catgirl” Sex Robots If He Wanted To

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station are scheduled to go on a spacewalk to active a 37-foot robotic arm.

Russia Is About to Activate a Robot Arm on the Exterior of the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's SLS rocket for the Artemis I uncrewed Moon mission is having problems, including a liquid hydrogen leak during the last wet dress rehearsal.

Advanced Transport

NASA’s Tests of Its Mega Moon Rocket Aren’t Not Going Particularly Well

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Billionaire software magnate Dan O'Dowd is running for office to take down rival Elon Musk and Tesla. He claims Tesla's EVs aren't safe.

Billionaire Reportedly Running for Office Just to Destroy Elon Musk

By Lonnie Lee Hood

California is a step closer to a completely clean energy power grid. Is it in time to stop climate change and reverse environmental damage?

100% Clean Energy Grid Coming Close in California

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The crew on the SpaceX Crew Dragon are currently docked at the International Space Station and will have to wait a couple of days before returning to Earth.

The SpaceX Tourists Can’t Leave the Space Station Quite Yet, NASA Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Russia didn't say missile cruiser Moskva may have been carrying two nuclear warheads when it sunk in the Black Sea after Ukraine used missiles to attack.

Nukes Might’ve Been On Destroyed Russian Warship

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Things are getting more and more like "Star Trek" every day as NASA transports doctor holograms into space.

Hologram Doctors Visit Space Station For The First Time Ever

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk really needs to log off.

Tesla Racism Payout Lowered by Almost 90 Percent

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA accidentally tweeted and then deleted a photo of a model in a pink bikini and a link to a Bloomberg story about fashion giant Shein.

NASA Accidentally Posts Bikini Picture

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Facebook has announced plans to monetize its Metaverse — and creators are extremely irate at how large a cut the company intends to take.

Zuckerberg Dogpiled Over Plans to Monetize the Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

The first-ever all-civilian mission to the International Space Station is well underway — and the crew is already talking about wanting to go to the Moon.

Tourists on Space Station Say They’re Discussing Private Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla Model 3 owner went through a terrifying experience with his vehicle's main display freezing up while driving at 83 mph down a California freeway.

Man Says His Tesla Got Stuck at 83 MPH on the Highway

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made a spectacular new observation: the comet with the largest nucleus ever discovered, measuring 80 miles across.

Science & Energy

Absolute Unit! The Largest Comet Ever Spotted Is Headed Our Way

By Victor Tangermann

New App Pays Alcoholics $5 Per Day to Not Drink

Health & Medicine

New App Pays Alcoholics $5 Per Day to Not Drink

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at the agency's jet propulsion lab in California, chained himself to a JP Morgan Chase bank last week to protest government inaction on climate change.

NASA Scientist Fights Off Tears Over Impending Disaster

By Lonnie Lee Hood

ProVeg, dedicated to reducing meat consumption, paid for a recent study that says vegan dog food I s healthier than those on conventional meat diets.

Research Funded by Vegans Claims Being Vegan May Be Healthier for Your Dog

By Lonnie Lee Hood

You could be filing tax for free, but companies like Intuit and H & R Block spend millions lobbying the government, according to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

There’s a Terrible Reason That Doing Your Taxes Costs So Much

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA is hoping to launch a spacecraft to investigate a massive metal-rich asteroid called Psyche, which experts estimate to be worth $10 quintillion.

NASA Shows Off Spacecraft Visiting $10 Quintillion Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

Even while making the oh-so-serious offer to buy Twitter outright for a whopping $43 billion, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk may still be trolling

Ah Yes, Of Course Elon Musk Hid “420” in His Offer to Buy Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

New company will let you save your data in the metaverse and pay $50 per year to talk to avatars of dead loved ones after they die.

Startup Says You Can Talk to Your Dead Relatives, for a Fee

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Things didn't quite go according to plan when Israeli crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi tried to sell an NFT of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's inaugural tweet.

Guy Tries to Sell Twitter Founder’s First Tweet NFT for $48M, Gets Top Bid of Just $280

By Victor Tangermann

Astronaut Scott Kelly is raising money for Ukrainian relief by selling NFTs that actually aren't ugly.

Celebrity NASA Astronaut Sells NFTs to Raise Money for Ukraine

By Noor Al-Sibai

At least 16 were injuried in a subway shooting in Brooklyn, NYC. Public transit disruption meant Uber turned on surges, charing 10x as much for rides.

Uber Criticized for Charging Surge Pricing for Riders Escaping Mass Shooting

By Lonnie Lee Hood

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan

OpenAI’s New AI Generated Anthropomorphic Bowling Balls and We Simply Must Stan

By Noor Al-Sibai

During opening statements, Amber Heard's lawyer claimed that "Johnny Depp is obsessed with Elon Musk" — which drew a visible smirk out of the actor.

Lawyer Accuses Johnny Depp of Being “Obsessed” With Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Ever wanted to meet your robot doppelgänger? For an unspecified large sum of money, you can have one made — if you dare.

YouTuber Meets His Creepy Robot Double and Freaks Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk may be planning a hostile Twitter takeover and one stakeholder is suing for lost profits on the stock market because of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.

Elon Musk Gets Sued Over Twitter Shenanigans

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Facebook whistleblower is back — and this time, she's implicating the Metaverse.

Facebook Whistleblower Warns That Zuckerberg Wants to Fill Your House With Microphones

By Noor Al-Sibai

We Regret To Inform You That Elon Musk, Unfortunately, Knows About “Goblin Mode”

We Regret To Inform You That Elon Musk, Unfortunately, Knows About “Goblin Mode”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space Perspective just showed off its "Space Lounge" cabin, which is one day meant to ascend into the Earth's atmosphere, hanging from a massive balloon.

High Altitude Balloon Startup Reveals Design of Luxurious “Space Lounge”

By Victor Tangermann

In totally relatable news: Amare, a 415-pound teenage gorilla at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, is totally obsessed with smartphone screens.

Zookeepers Say Teen Gorilla Is Addicted to Cell Phones

By Victor Tangermann

No, this isn't the climax of "Succession" — Elon Musk really could maneuver his way into owning Twitter.

Elon Musk May Be Plotting a Hostile Takeover of Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Prototype Mocked for Looking Extremely Janky

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Watchers Spot Starship Cargo Bay Doors at Launch Facility

SpaceX Watchers Spot Starship Cargo Bay Doors at Launch Facility

By Victor Tangermann

Ukrainians are using state-of-the-art 3D modeling technologies on their smartphones to preserve cultural heritage sites — before being destroyed by Russia.

Ukraine Is 3D Scanning Its Precious Artifacts Before Russia Destroys Them

By Victor Tangermann

A super weird worm-like cloud photographed in Alaska has locals scratching their heads.

Science & Energy

Locals Spotted Something Bizarre in the Sky Over Alaska Mountain

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video of police officers pulling over a self-driving taxi is as dystopian as it is hilarious.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Video Shows Confused Police Pulling Over Self-Driving Taxi

By Noor Al-Sibai

Judging by the footage of Pythom engineers running away from a dangerous cloud of smoke, their safety protocols leave something to be desired.

Video Shows Workers Running for Cover as Experimental Rocket Ignites

By Victor Tangermann

Sunday evening, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted that Tesla CEO Elon Musk told him "that he will no longer be joining the board."

After Suggesting a Bunch of Bizarre Ideas, Elon Musk Suddenly Says He’s Not Joining the Board of Twitter

By Victor Tangermann

A guy got a tattoo created by OpenAI's DALL-E2 program, which creates realistic images and art from human language and AI machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Gets Tattoo of Art Created by Neural Network

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter people should get verified for buying Twitter Blue and supported the edit button feature.

Elon Musk Has a Lot of Plans for Twitter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Soldiersfrom Russia tracked radioactive material all over Chernobyl after taking control of the nuclear disaster site from Ukraine.

Science & Energy

Ukraine Says Idiot Russian Soldiers Tracked Radiative Material All Over Chernobyl, Then Abandoned It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Humans eat a lot of microplastics every week. Here's our favorite memes about microplastic to lighten the situation a little.

The Most Darkly Hilarious Memes About Our Bodies Being Filled With Horrifying Microplastics

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New York City's newest skyscraper is also the world's skinniest and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere, on Billionaire's Row.

They Just Finished the World’s Thinnest Skyscraper and It’s Slightly Terrifying

By Lonnie Lee Hood

SpaceX successfully landed the first all-private crew on the International Space Station as part of Axiom Space’s Ax-1 mission earlier today.

SpaceX’s First All-Private Space Crew Just Landed on the ISS

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Oxitech is planning to release millions more of its controversial gene-hacked mosquitoes in California to reduce disease and population.

California Prepares to Release Millions of Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new study published last week in arXiv reports that researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light-years away in the universe.

Scientists Detect Huge Object, Farther Away Than Anything Else Detected in Universe

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Lab-grown meat company Primeval Foods is planning to bring a whole host of exotic meats to the market, including zebra, lion, elephant, and tiger.

Science & Energy

Startup Says It’s About to Start Selling Lab-Grown Tiger Steaks to Restaurants

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Nye the Science Guy told viewers in a new Coca-Cola advertisement that Coke is creating a world without plastic waste and pollution.

Science & Energy

Bill Nye Accused of Shilling for Huge Polluter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A study published in Science said 400 scientists came to the conclusion that the standard model might be wrong. It could change how the universe works.

Physicists Shocked by New Finding About How the Universe Works

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of astronomers have discovered a powerful new space laser — technically a "megamaser" — a whopping five billion lightyears from Earth.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Detect Galactic Laser Coming From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann