The U.S. Navy has patents on weird and little understood technology. According to patents filed by the Navy, it is working on a compact fusion reactor that could power cities, an engine that works using “inertial mass reduction,” and a “hybrid aerospace-underwater craft.” From a report: Dubbed the “UFO patents,” The War Zone has reported that the Navy had to build…
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Superpowerful ‘oscillon’ particles could have dominated the infant universe, then vanished
A weird, super-powerful particle that’s not truly a particle could have dominated the universe when it was just a second old, releasing a flood of ripples that permeated all of space-time. Source: https://www.livescience.com/oscillon-particle-early-univrse.html
What’s the difference between asteroids and comets?
Asteroids and comets are generally composed of different materials and reside in different locations of the solar system, while some rare objects display characteristics of both. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/whats-the-difference-between-comets-and-asteroids…
‘Pile of rope’ on a Texas beach is a weird, real-life sea creature
Frequently mistaken for discarded piles of beach trash, ropelike sea whips are a type of colorful coastal coral. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rope-trash-beach-sea-whip.html
10 Years After Its Discontinuation, Some Fans Still Love Microsoft’s Zune Mp3 Player
“It was weird to own a Zune in 2005,” remembers a new article in the Verge. “It is even weirder to own a Zune in 2021 — let alone 16 of them. And yet, 27-year-old Conner Woods proudly shows off his lineup on a kitchen table.”
They come in all different colors, shapes, and sizes, and each can be identified by that…
A series of jokes that work best out of order
Reading magazines back to front, plus where do all the teaspoons go and whether pyjamas affect productivity, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933173-400-a-series-of-jokes-that-work-best-out-of-order/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Man gets drunk on cake due to weird condition
62-year-old Nick Carson suffers from a rare condition that turns carbohydrates directly into alcohol. Some people are known to have a so-called ‘sweet… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/342892/man-gets-drunk-on-cake-due-to-weird-condition…
Climate Change May Have Caused a ‘Wandering’ Polar Vortex and a Colder Winter
Space.com reports:
High above the North Pole, the polar vortex, a fast-spinning whirl of frigid air, is doing a weird shimmy that may soon bring cold and snowy weather to the Eastern U.S., Northern Europe and East Asia for weeks on end, meteorologists say. While it’s not unusual for the polar vortex to act up, this particular reconfiguration — wandering around and…
Why you should trust reindeer to pick stocks over politicians
Reindeers that invest in the stock market, plus belly buttons on the moon and the word game that hates you, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933162-600-why-you-should-trust-reindeer-to-pick-stocks-over-politicians/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Mathematicians finally discover when your elevator will arrive
The maths of waiting for an elevator, plus the strange plan to melt the Arctic in Feedback’s weekly weird round-up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833141-300-mathematicians-finally-discover-when-your-elevator-will-arrive/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…