Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
Asteroid mining may require changes to The Outer Space Treaty and the consequences of amending it badly could be very serious...
# space
Politicians want splashy headlines and photo ops with flag-planting moments and that's enough for them. This is exactly why they shouldn't set scientific missions.
# space
It's been half a century since the first human slipped into orbit around our planet. And while we've done a lot in space since then, we haven't done nearly enough.
# politics
Comparing what America and the USSR did to their own citizens during the Cold War is a fool's errand. The USSR was objectively worse to its people.
# politics
Inertia applies not only to objects with mass, but to bureaucracy and large institutions that have grown out of control.
# politics
Unfortunately for those of us who'd like to remain alive and not irradiated, the ghost of Mutually Assured Destruction lives on.
# space
Stalin wasn't the only world leader who was thinking about using the Moon as a springboard for a massive base able to strike anywhere on Earth with devastating consequences.
# oddities
Does Russia really house a former Soviet doomsday weapon designed to wipe out ever major city in the West should Moscow be obliterated?
# space
Every year, Russia celebrates the first human flight into space, but not how, or why, you might think...
# politics
Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the myth of communism leading to atheism persists.