History, Politics And Current Affairs

I read reports the set for Strange New World have been torn down. SNW, or Star Trek Academy? Both I think Yeah that seems to be the case. Meanwhile it is also reported that Star Trek United, starring Scott Bakula as Federation president Archer, has quietly been picked up for production, although no...

Meanwhile: The question is whether that's ignorance or stupidity. Ignorance can be fixed, even if she should be able to do the research herself, having a doctorate and all. Stupid is forever. Based on her past performance I would be inclined to lean towards ”stupid”: https://www.bbc.com/news/entert...

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Rep. Tim Burchett elaborated slightly on his earlier comments when he went on TMZ Live today. I guess the takeaway is essentially that he was briefed by a current government official in a ”highly secure setting” which I interpret as a SCIF. The host tried to clarify and sum up some things Burchett s...

Regarding (disputed, likely exaggerated) toilet issues on the ship. Hehe. Well the latest issue seems to have been due to the waste tube freezing up, which was fixed by turning the capsule to heat it up in the sun. They might want to fix that in future flights by installing some heating system thou...

We try but there are always systems that are missed somehow, dropped off wifi, or turned off. Sometimes when it needs a multiple restart in the update it gets stuck. All the at home are a bundle of fun too since a lot aren't on constant VPN connections yet. And if they haven't been connected after ...

Following a claim made that Trump is planning for some sort of disclosure in May, and that a ”commemorative coin” had already been made, Ross Coulthart and Christopher Sharp seems to confirm the commemorative coin part; “I can confirm the commemorative coin story. Heard the same thing. It does appe...

Following a claim made that Trump is planning for some sort of disclosure in May, and that a ”commemorative coin” had already been made, Ross Coulthart and Christopher Sharp seems to confirm the commemorative coin part; “I can confirm the commemorative coin story. Heard the same thing. It does appea...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday discussed his knowledge surrounding aliens, telling a Newsmax host he would be “up at night” if “the things that I’ve seen” were released. “I’ve been briefed by just about every alphabet agency there is, and I’ll just tell you this, if they would release the...

Most amusing thing so far is the crew calling for help with IT issues on their tablets, including seeing two instances of Outlook and neither is working. I sympathize with their plight. Houston was able to take over the device remotely though and troubleshoot.

I don't know how many people were watching the stream but I wonder if there was some slowdown from high demand... There was a substantial lag(20-30 seconds) in the official NASA stream. Yeah, I watched the unofficial NASASpaceFlight channel and it appeared that their stream was ahead of the officia...

So Hawass has some interesting aspects to him. In about the early 90’s, before he got into the position he has now, he was very open to even pretty controversial stuff such as the pyramids being much older than conventionally believed and all of that. Then at some point during the 90’s he did a seem...

US Congressman Eric Burlison speaks on the increase of US scientists who have dissapeared or died "I have sent a letter to the FBI about a whistleblower who had a suspicious suicide who worked alongside David Grusch and Jake Barber." Video here of Burlison appearing on Fox News, stating t...

I read the book when it came out, and enjoyed it. I went tp the theaters today to watch the movie version starring Ryan Gosling and I enjoyed that as well. It’s entertaining, pretty funny, and kept me interested throughout. So I can recommend it.

I’m not a huge Bill Maher fan, but he did a somewhat amusing, fairly insightful, and topic relevant monologue on the theme ”If you don’t believe aliens are here and observing us, maybe you’re the conspiracy theorist.”

Video here:
https://x.com/billmaher/status/2037732741203255327?s=46

So earlier in the thread I mentioned the grouping of people in the DoD/intel community referred to as the ”Collins elite”, and which apparently believe that the UAP phenomenon is the result of demonic activity. Well, now JD Vance just said on a podcast as well that he believes that they’re demons, w...

Zahi Hawass (and thus Egypt govt) I assume is still deadset against poking around underground? More or less. As I understand it there is going to be some exploration of the void over the grand gallery soon though. I get the feeling that you have to have ample room in your excavation budget for payi...

So you may have seen certain reports/claims (very controversial) over the last year of massive structures detected by scans underneat the Giza pyramids. I’ve held off on discussing this for the simple reason that the technology used to execute these scans is new, using pretty unorthodox means, and I...

The famed musketeer d’Artagnan, immortalized by Dumas as ”the fourth musketeer” in the books, was killed during the siege of Maastricht in 1673. It has been unclear what happened to the body afterwards, however it has been believed that he was buried locally as the siege was still ongoing at the tim...

More from Burchett: Rep. Burchett Warns of Missing, Dead US Scientists By Solange Reyner | Monday, 23 March 2026 05:12 PM EDT Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., says some intelligence agencies have thwarted his attempts at finding out what happened to several prominent scientists and researchers in the U.S...