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This Man Wants To Commercialize Rocket Travel, From London To Sydney In 2 Hours
Get door to door from London to Sydney in under three hours, one hour 45 minutes of flight time to be exact, and you get to call yourself an astronaut when you land. That is the dream of Michiel Mol. The 42-year-old Dutchman who co-owns...
Electric Plane Awarded $1.35 Million NASA Prize
Inspired by the Ansari X Prize for private space travel, NASA decided to put $1.35 million on the table to push forward the progress of election aviation. Their challenge? Fly 200 miles at a speed of at least 100 mph with four passengers...
Russia, US Join Forces To Hunt Down Siberian Yeti
Sightings are up. The legends are building. In the foothills of Siberia, the time has finally come for scientists from around the globe to unite in a common cause. Finding the Yeti. Researchers from Russia, the U.S., Canada, Sweden,...
Underwater Teen Satanist School Girls Terrorizing Africa
If you think American schools have problems, take a look at Botswana: Schools in Botswana are infested with devil worshippers … Operating more like drug-dealers, they get instructions from up the rungs of the ladder of Satanism. And...
Kiefer Sutherland: If You Don’t Believe In Aliens, You’re Arrogant
When Jack Bauer says it, it must be true. Actor Kiefer Sutherland was asked if he believed in aliens and here’s what he said. “When I look up at the sky on a clear night and see the wash of stars and planets, and everything that is outside...
Superfast Muscles In Bats Provide Evolutionary Step Forward For Mammals
Songbirds and Snakes thought they were really awesome with their superfast muscles. But we mammals, we are not to be left out, no. Bats have now been proven to use the special class of muscle to help create their echolocation calls. The...
High School Football Coach Suspended For Grave Yard Motivational Speech
Who doesn’t love Remember The Titans. A story of redemption, hope, togetherness and the cheerleader from Heroes when she was like, 9. You know who really loves Remember The Titans? High School football coach Jim Marsh. On the way back from...
Podcast: SpaceX Is The New Singularity
Andrew has a mystery present for the boys which leads to Brian whispering to fish and Justin leering at strangers from a tree branch, waiting to strike. The gang finishes talking about faster than light neutrinos. The gang begins talking...
18-Year-Old Florida Murder Suspect Says She’s Part Vampire, Werewolf
Florida Panhandle resident Stephanie Pistey is currently on trial as an accessory to the murder of a 16-year-old friend. When explaining to a local television station her role in the death, she cited a supernatural bloodlust: Cracking a...
Study: Single Psychedelic Mushroom Creates Personality Change Lasting Up To 1 Year
If you’ve used hallucinogenic mushrooms (active ingredient psilocybin) in the past year, you could still be feeling the effect. Long past peaking, 60% of participants in a Johns Hopkins study found a marked rise in openness a far as a year...
SpaceX Announces Radically Cheaper Spaceflight
At a National Press Club luncheon today, Elon Musk, head of SpaceX announced plans for a reusable rocket that could dramatically lower the cost of going into space by a factor of 100. By amortizing the hardware costs over a lifespan of...
SpaceX Reveals Images of Next Generation Spacecraft
Along with announcement for an Elon Musk appearance at the National Press Club, SpaceX revealed new conceptual images laying out their vision for the future of spaceflight. One image gives us our first look at what is probably the...
SpaceX to Launch Vertical Take-off and Landing “Grasshopper” Rocket
Those ambitious folks at SpaceX aren’t going to let American enterprise sit out the new space race. They’ve requested permission to test out a vertical take-off and landing rocket system at their test site in McGregor, Texas. Although...
First Irish Case Of Spontaneous Combustion Confirmed
Welcome to the big leagues Ireland. You’ve just confirmed your first ever case of spontaneous human combustion! The pioneer went by the name Michael Faherty, he was 76. “This fire was thoroughly investigated and I’m left with the...
Is This The Biggest Snake In The World?
Wrangled by a man in overalls, friends with people in devil costumes, ladies and gentleman: Medusa, the world’s largest snake.
First Enlistment: War for Profit Part One [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail Imagine a world a millennia from our current...
Podcast: Badassic Park Featuring Hitler & The Chocolate Factory
A feral child in the woods of Germany lead the Gang into a rousing conversation that eventually ends with Hitler running a magical chocolate factory. Brian is tasked with stocking a new theme park with the most deadly animals on the...
Insane Slow-Motion Sky Diving
Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.
A Compilation Of Dan Aykroyd’s Fascination With UFO Research
Ghostbuster, Blues Brother, UFOlogy advocate: Dan Aykroyd. The comedic titan has remolded himself in recent years as not only a hawker of Crystal Head vodka but a celebrity endorser of UFO research. What follows is a brief tour trough...
Thermals [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail If you are looking for intriguing...