Year: 2021
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The week that was
An underwater gas line ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico and set the ocean on fire. Locals in upstate New York are complaining that a power plant, taken over by a NYC private equity fund to mine crypto, is ruining the their nearby lake. “The lake is so warm you feel like you’re in a…
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The week that was
It was so hot in Portland, Oregon that the streetcar cables melted. Scientists say they have created a device to help fight the global obesity epidemic. It involves magnets which hold your jaw shut. Two men were sunbathing naked on a beach in Australia when a deer startled them, chasing them into the bush. They…
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The Flying Car
The AirCar is the flying car of our childhood dreams. Today a prototype completed an inaugural, 35-minute intercity flight from Nitra to Bratislava in western Slovakia. Although this is a maiden voyage, the company has a lot of experience. The company has been working on its hybrid aircraft for more than 30 years. With 142 successful…
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The week that was
The Hubble Space Telescope glitched out and “stopped collecting science data.” NASA engineers work feverishly to get things working again but are running out of options as backup systems also failed. The U.S. government released a report admitting that due to “lack of data” it can’t explain 143 of the 144 cases of UFOs that…
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The week that was
Akamai’s Denial-of-Service software inadvertently denied service to major banks and airlines in Australia. A Chinese construction company built a 10-story apartment building, complete with all electrical, lighting, water supply, and drainage in 28 hours and 45 minutes. At the G7 summit, US president Joe Biden gifted UK prime minister Boris Johnson a $6,000 custom bicycle…
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The week that was
The fact-checkers at Snopes spent 90-minutes trying to figure out if former President Trump was wearing his trousers backwards. Concerned about climate change, a Texas congressman asked the National Forest Service if they could do anything, “to change the course of the moon’s orbit or the Earth’s orbit around the sun.” Arizona’s Department of Corrections…
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The week that was
A UN report stated that a drone aircraft autonomously attacked humans for the first time ever in Libya last year. Closer to home, a candidate for mayor in Albuquerque, had his speech interrupted (griefed?) by a drone-carrying a dildo. In a reversal of last week’s policy that brought us the ConocoPhillips “chillers” used to firm…
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The week that was
Climate change is moving vampire bats north to Florida. In California, Pacific lampreys, also known as “vampire fish,” are returning to rivers where they have not been seen for 40 years. UK police nabbed a drug dealer because of his love of Stilton cheese. Lawmakers in Texas passed a bill to allow people to carry…