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.
# oddities
Wealthy investors and tycoons are joining the ranks of doomsday preppers, planning elaborate post-apocalypse compounds and bunkers, or dystopian power grabs.
# space
It may be tempting to use our nuclear warheads to save the planet from rogue space rocks instead of pointing them at each other, it would be a waste of perfectly good nukes.
# space
Scientists and engineers are slowly but steadily preparing to protect us from an incoming comet or asteroid despite the media's coverage of their efforts as anything but organized.
# space
Internet conspiracy theorists discover to slowest alien invasion of all time.
# science
Can we destroy the world with nukes? It depends on who you ask and what kinds of warheads and damage they include in their calculations...
# science
People hate dying in a cataclysm. But they also like the idea of living at the end of history as they know it.
# oddities
Does Russia really house a former Soviet doomsday weapon designed to wipe out ever major city in the West should Moscow be obliterated?
# science
Warp drives might not just be the fastest way to explore the universe. They might also be weapons of mass destruction on a stellar scale.
# astrobiology
If they're not going to exterminate us, aliens might find themselves in charge of saving our species.
# science
Sometimes you only know the impact of something when it's gone. Does that apply to humans as well?