This year – on March 3, 2021 – the red planet Mars and the Pleiades star cluster – also known as the Seven Sisters – stage their closest conjunction on the sky’s dome until February 4, 2038. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/closest-mars-pleiades-conjunction-until-2038…
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FBI Confirms Report of ‘Long, Cylindrical’ UFO ‘Moving Really Fast’ Over New Mex
An anonymous reader shares a PopularMechanics report: An American Airlines flight crew encountered an unidentified flying object over New Mexico on February 21. American Airlines has confirmed the strange incident, during which a “long, cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile” zipped over the Airbus A320, according to a pilot’s transmission obtained by The War Zone. American Airlines Flight…
Farthest known object in the solar system identified
Astronomers have confirmed that an object with the nickname of Farfarout is, to date, the farthest object we’ve seen in the solar system. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/farthest-known-object-solar-system-farfarout…
PlayStation 5 Controllers Are Suffering From Drift
Similar to Nintendo’s “Joy-Con drift,” Sony’s PlayStation 5 DualSense controller is apparently suffering from drift: movement on-screen that doesn’t correspond to any button press or input. ExtremeTech reports: Users have reported DualSense drift as quickly as 10 days after purchasing a PlayStation 5, which tracks with some of the shorter reports we’ve heard about Nintendo as well. We can assume that…
Witness reports Bigfoot sighting in California
Rick Bates had been driving along Highway 101 near Garberville when he noticed something very unusual. The encounter, which took place on January 23rd… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/343795/witness-reports-bigfoot-sighting-in-california…
Watch giant pandas frolic in the snow
Watch giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian sliding and rolling around in snow in their habitat at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington in this video. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/watch-giant-pandas-frolic-in-snow-national-zoo-video…
Penn Engineering launches new Introduction to Programming with Python and Java Specialization
Penn Engineering Online Learning has just launched a new Specialization called Introduction to Programming with Python and Java. This Specialization moves quickly; it starts out by teaching basic concepts in Python and ramps up to more complex subjects such as object-oriented programming and data structures in Java. By the time learners complete this series of […]
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Male mantises fight females to mate – but they get eaten if they lose
Female praying mantises often attack their mates during a sexual encounter, but some males attack too – and if they fail to win the fight they end up as lunch Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2265210-male-mantises-fight-females-to-mate-but-they-get-eaten-if-they-lose/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Biggest asteroid to pass near Earth in 2021 is also one of the fastest
Asteroid 2001 FO32 will be sweeping past Earth at such a fast pace that, when it’s closest, observers using telescopes might be able to detect its motion – its drift in front of the stars – in real time. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/asteroid-2001-fo32-big-fast-pass-near-earth-2021…
Video Taken By Pilots of What Could Be the Elusive Los Angeles Jet Pack Guy Emerges
We now have credible video of what appears to be the elusive “Jet Pack Guy” flying around at thousands of feet near Los Angeles International Airport. The Drive reports: The footage doesn’t come to us from some random Reddit board or YouTube channel, either. It was taken during an instructional flight from Sling Pilot Academy in the training area off Palos…