Silicon Investor - Wow!

[Savant] 15-year-old hacked $24M from his bedroom... then walked free At just 15 years o...

Savant — 6/9/2026 6:39:44 PM

15-year-old hacked $24M from his bedroom... then walked free

At just 15 years old, he pulled off a $24 million crypto heist from his bedroom. Using social engineering, SIM swapping, and hacking techniques, he gained access to one of the biggest crypto accounts in the world. Within hours, millions were gone. And despite being identified, he was never criminally charged.

msn.com

**the wow part...he walked free...otta b a law

[Savant] A collection Hidden in the California desert, the Cloud Museum holds one of the ...

Savant — 6/9/2026 1:55:28 PM

A collection
Hidden in the California desert, the Cloud Museum holds one of the largest collections of early automobiles ever assembled. Hundreds of vehicles, buildings filled with artifacts, and decades of history sit quietly in a place few people visit. It’s part museum, part time capsule and it raises a simple question: how does something this large remain almost completely unnoticed?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/1-000-cars-left-in-the-desert-and-almost-no-one-knows-this-place-exists/vi-AA20kIvZ?ocid=socialshare

[Savant] Medical wow... Face rebuilt, life saved! Doctors free child from skull's dea...

Savant — 6/9/2026 1:23:29 PM

Medical wow... Face rebuilt, life saved! Doctors free child from skull's deadly grip, restoring breath and vision.

Rare Genetic Condition: Crouzon syndrome affects 1 in 60,000 births, causing craniosynostosis where skull bones fuse too early, leading to midface underdevelopment, bulging eyes, and breathing difficulties.
Le Fort III Distraction Osteogenesis: A RED frame gradually repositions the midface over weeks, allowing new bone growth and correcting facial structure while improving airways and vision.
Transformative Outcomes: Post-surgery, children experience freedom from obstructive sleep apnea, stabilized vision, and a balanced facial structure, turning a life-threatening condition into a safer, functional future.

Face rebuilt, life saved! Doctors free child from skull's deadly grip, restoring breath and vision.

[Sun Tzu] Please don't engage in food fight. You should PM me with your concerns. I am no...

Sun Tzu — 6/8/2026 2:13:52 PM

Please don't engage in food fight.
You should PM me with your concerns.
I am not around everyday, but I do make a point of checking in at least once a week.

[Sun Tzu] This is a food fight free board. The rules of this board are clear. I don't enj...

Sun Tzu — 6/8/2026 2:12:22 PM

This is a food fight free board.
The rules of this board are clear.
I don't enjoy banning people. So let's keep it polite, politics and religion free as required by the rules.

[nicewatch] Wow! One of SI's biggest trolls and toxic posters (who has me on ignore) goes ou...

nicewatch — 6/7/2026 9:00:18 PM

Wow! One of SI's biggest trolls and toxic posters (who has me on ignore) goes out of his way to post to me again. When you joined this site did you set out to be so disliked or is it something that evolved naturally for you over time? With little effort I am confident you can make it to 100 ignores and 30 bans by year end. :-)

[Heywood40] [X] BREAKING: Trump watches are being sent to customers as “rump” watches. I...

Heywood40 — 6/7/2026 3:27:04 PM

[X]

BREAKING: Trump watches are being sent to customers as “rump” watches.

It sort of makes sense though… RUMP pic.twitter.com/BBHEgybpic
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) May 31, 2026

[/X]

[Savant] sm...yes, a lotta videos with click baity titles...wish they'd stop that...oh, w...

Savant — 6/6/2026 5:23:04 PM

sm...yes, a lotta videos with click baity titles...wish they'd stop that...oh, well

[S. maltophilia] Cool visuals. Weird title & blurb.

S. maltophilia — 6/6/2026 5:08:41 PM

[Savant] 100 unusual videos, some wowsers 100 Things Human Were Never Meant To See

Savant — 6/6/2026 4:36:42 PM

[Savant] An extraordinary landscape at the edge of the world An extraordinary landscape ...

Savant — 6/6/2026 12:23:53 PM

An extraordinary landscape at the edge of the world

An extraordinary landscape at the edge of the world

[nicewatch] Mount Everest: Missing Sherpa found alive after 6 days dw.com [graphic]

nicewatch — 6/4/2026 11:11:51 AM

Mount Everest: Missing Sherpa found alive after 6 days

dw.com

[S. maltophilia] They did it first, a little differently: ...."When they saw me in my space suit...

S. maltophilia — 5/31/2026 5:47:41 PM

They did it first, a little differently:

...."When they saw me in my space suit, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!...

planetary.org

cited by

spacedaily.com

[tntpal] 'In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers' - Episode #1 & #2 - Wow - Highly recomended...

tntpal — 5/31/2026 10:39:23 AM

'In the Eye of the Storm: Chasers' - Episode #1 & #2

- Wow -

Highly recomended new series on storm chasers - my wife & I watched the first 2 episdes this week!
This series is also available on You Tube TV. - tntpal -

Episodes

S1 | E1Twister Shapeshifter
Expert chasers self-shoot an encounter with a massive South Dakota tornado.

S1 | E2Mile-Wide EF5
Chasers race to save people and pets when a storm unleashes an EF5 tornado.

[J.B.C.] OK, That made me laugh!

J.B.C. — 5/31/2026 10:13:26 AM

[Sun Tzu] I never realized how old some of those songs were. I liked 3 of them and another...

Sun Tzu — 5/31/2026 10:09:59 AM

I never realized how old some of those songs were.
I liked 3 of them and another 3 are ok. But the rest ...

And now, this:

[J.B.C.] I know some here are familiar with the music of ‘76: [X] 20 Greatest Hits of 1...

J.B.C. — 5/31/2026 8:09:46 AM

I know some here are familiar with the music of ‘76:

[X]

20 Greatest Hits of 1976 🎵 What a year for music! Which track hits different for you? 👇 pic.twitter.com/1iRVbxXDXC
— NancyH (@NancyH_60) May 30, 2026

[/X]

[Savant] The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series will bring the world's top divers to Flor...

Savant — 5/29/2026 6:20:17 PM

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series will bring the world's top divers to Florida for the first time from June 5–6.
Crews are currently building a 103-foot-tall custom dive tower on the St. Pete Pier near the Museum of History.
Organizers anticipate more than 50,000 spectators will gather at the waterfront to watch the free competition.

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series stops in St. Petersburg from June 5–6.

Divers prepare for high speedsBy the numbers:

Women dive from 70 feet and men dive from 90 feet, reaching speeds of 53 mph. Organizers say the water at the pier is about 12 to 15 feet deep.

A total of 24 international athletes will compete in the event.

This includes American diver James Lichtenstein, who is celebrating his fifth year in the series.

Massive 103-foot dive tower installed on St. Pete Pier ahead of Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series | FOX 13 Tampa Bay

[S. maltophilia] MSM add details: nytimes.com

S. maltophilia — 5/27/2026 2:18:10 PM

[Savant] A bad wow....Lake Tahoe...not what it used to be...my memories of it from late ...

Savant — 5/26/2026 12:08:02 AM

A bad wow....Lake Tahoe...not what it used to be...my memories of it from late
50's have been ruined..

As Water Levels Dropped in Lake Tahoe, Divers Found Something Terrifying

As Water Levels Dropped in Lake Tahoe, Divers Found Something Terrifying

**volcanos are destructive, meteors are destructive...but humans...probably the worst...globally

[S. maltophilia] A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth...

S. maltophilia — 5/25/2026 8:28:20 PM

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds?

[bluesky]

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
— Michael LaFrance (@mlafrance.bsky.social) 2026-05-25T18:13:19.691Z

[/bluesky]

h/t Message 35528282

[Sun Tzu] I believe in mind over matter; what I don't mind, doesn't matter ;) PS As an en...

Sun Tzu — 5/25/2026 2:50:44 PM

I believe in mind over matter; what I don't mind, doesn't matter ;)

PS As an engineer, I'd say what I can't solve, is a constraint I have to live with and doesn't matter.

[S. maltophilia] OT Both valid points, IMO. But it always drove me nuts, reading then seeing som...

S. maltophilia — 5/25/2026 1:24:11 PM

OT

Both valid points, IMO. But it always drove me nuts, reading then seeing something (or vice versa). At some point they diverge in unforeseen ways. A personal failing, I guess. The rest of the world seems fine with it.

[Sun Tzu] I think they made a good adaptation on Netflix. It whitewashes a few things, but...

Sun Tzu — 5/25/2026 1:13:36 PM

I think they made a good adaptation on Netflix. It whitewashes a few things, but overall, not bad.

The 3-Body problem is based on the Dark Forest hypothesis - keep your mouth shut, lest monsters come and get you.

The point that show was making is different - technology evolves faster than biology and wisdom, and at some point, it will be like giving a toddler a live grenade. Sooner or later the kid is going to pull the pin.

[S. maltophilia] they all Good chance that H sapiens will. But it's a big universe -"all" is doi...

S. maltophilia — 5/25/2026 12:32:41 PM

they all

Good chance that H sapiens will. But it's a big universe -"all" is doing a lot of work there. It's been several years since I've read Three-Body Problem. Never have seen any adaptations. But here's a decent summary:

universetoday.com

3-BP in translation may or may not be what it's author intended. It's hard enough to do terrestrial languages

archive.org

Light speed interstellar communication is, to say the least, open to misunderstanding.

[Sun Tzu] A darker hypothesis was put in show (Black Mirror?) I once saw. The universe is...

Sun Tzu — 5/25/2026 10:23:54 AM

A darker hypothesis was put in show (Black Mirror?) I once saw.

The universe is silent because intelligent species progress to the point where their technology and means of self-destruction surpasses their natural evolution and ability for self-restraint. They are silent because they all kill themselves once they reach that stage.

In the show, a high school kid manages to create a small nuke or something just as destructive due to some scientific insight. He holds the school hostage unless some people he hated were executed. When the negotiators tried to reason with him, he told them that once the genie is out of the bottle, there is no putting it back and soon others will also have the same epiphany as he did. This, he said, is why there are no aliens we can detect; they all self annihilated. He just wants to be in front of the que before it happens to humanity.

[S. maltophilia] Maybe our remote descendants would be better off if that random piece of cosmic ...

S. maltophilia — 5/25/2026 3:37:35 AM

Maybe our remote descendants would be better off if that random piece of cosmic debris escapes attention.

en.wikipedia.org

[Sun Tzu] It depends on how motivated and advanced they are. Given enough time, and motiva...

Sun Tzu — 5/25/2026 1:38:52 AM

It depends on how motivated and advanced they are.
Given enough time, and motivation, any intelligent species can do it.

[Savant] How Vesna Vulovic survived the highest fall ever with no parachute 33,000 ft H...

Savant — 5/25/2026 12:20:48 AM

How Vesna Vulovic survived the highest fall ever with no parachute

33,000 ft

How Vesna Vulovic survived the highest fall ever with no parachute | Guinness World Records

[Savant] Felix Baumgartner (German: ['fe?l?ks 'ba??m?ga?tn?]; 20 April 1969 – 17 July 202...

Savant — 5/25/2026 12:17:24 AM

Felix Baumgartner (German: ['fe?l?ks 'ba??m?ga?tn?]; 20 April 1969 – 17 July 2025) was an Austrian skydiver, extreme sportsman, and BASE jumper. -1][1] He was widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project. By doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km (24 mi), reaching an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [a] He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent. [8] [9] He broke skydiving records for exit altitude (38,969.3 metres), vertical freefall distance without a drogue parachute, and vertical speed without a drogue. Although his name is still attached to the last two records, his exit altitude record was broken two years later, when on 24 October 2014, Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890 feet (41.42 km; 25.74 mi) with a drogue. [10] [11] [12]

**luck ran out at 56

Felix Baumgartner - Wikipedia

[Savant] Joseph William Kittinger II (July 27, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American m...

Savant — 5/25/2026 12:04:17 AM

Joseph William Kittinger II (July 27, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American military pilot who was an officer in the United States Air Force. He served from 1950 to 1978 and earned Command Pilot status before retiring with the rank of colonel.

He held the world record for the highest skydive—102,800 feet (31.3 km)—from 1960 until 2012. [1] [2]

Kittinger participated in the Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior high-altitude balloon flight projects from 1956 to 1960 and was the first man to fully witness the curvature of the Earth.

In 1954, Kittinger was transferred to the Air Force Missile Development Center (AFMDC) at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. It was during this assignment that he flew the observation/chase plane that monitored flight surgeon Colonel John Stapp's rocket sled run of 632 mph (1,017 km/h) in 1955. Kittinger was impressed by Stapp's dedication and leadership as a pioneer in aerospace medicine. Stapp, in turn, was impressed with Kittinger's skillful jet piloting, later recommending him for space-related aviation research work. Stapp was to foster the high-altitude balloon tests that would later lead to Kittinger's record-setting leap from over 102,800 feet (31,300 m). In 1957, as part of Project Manhigh, Kittinger set an interim balloon altitude record of 96,760 feet (29,490 m) in Manhigh I, for which he was awarded his first Distinguished Flying Cross. [5] [6]

Project Excelsior

Kittinger next to the Excelsior gondola

Kittinger's record-breaking skydive from Excelsior III

Replica of Excelsior III gondola and mannequin of Kittinger at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force [7]

Project Excelsior
Main article: Project Excelsior
Captain Kittinger was next assigned to the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. For Project Excelsior (meaning "ever upward"), a name given to the project by Colonel Stapp as part of research into high-altitude bailouts, [7] he made a series of three extreme altitude parachute jumps from an open gondola carried aloft by large helium balloons. These jumps were made in a "rocking-chair" position, descending on his back, rather than in the usual face-down position familiar to skydivers. This was because he was wearing a 60 lb (27 kg) "kit" on his behind, and his pressure suit naturally formed a sitting shape when it was inflated, a shape appropriate for sitting in an airplane cockpit. [7]

Excelsior I: Kittinger's first high-altitude jump, from about 76,400 feet (23,300 m) on November 16, 1959, was a near-disaster when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness. [8] The automatic parachute opener in his equipment saved his life. He went into a flat spin at a rotational velocity of about 120 rpm, the g-forces at his extremities having been calculated to be over 22 times the force of gravity, setting another record. [9]

Excelsior II: On December 11, 1959, Kittinger jumped again from about 74,700 feet (22,800 m). For this leap, he was awarded the A. Leo Stevens Parachute Medal. [10]

Excelsior III: On August 16, 1960, Kittinger made the final high-altitude jump at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). [8] Towing a small drogue parachute for initial stabilization, he fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 miles per hour (988 km/h) [7] [11] before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Incurring yet another equipment malfunction, the pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent and his right hand swelled to twice its normal size, [12] [13] but he rode the balloon up to 102,800 feet before stepping off. [14]

Lord, take care of me now.

—?Kittinger, jumping from the balloon gondola Excelsior III at 102,800 feet [15]

Of the jumps from Excelsior, Kittinger said: [16]

There's no way you can visualize the speed. There's nothing you can see to see how fast you're going. You have no depth perception. If you're in a car driving down the road and you close your eyes, you have no idea what your speed is. It's the same thing if you're free falling from space. There are no signposts. You know you are going very fast, but you don't feel it. You don't have a 614-mph wind blowing on you. I could only hear myself breathing in the helmet.

A fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, Kittinger shot down a North Vietnamese MiG-21 jet fighter. He was later shot down as well, subsequently spending 11 months as a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese prison before he was repatriated in 1973.

In 1984, Kittinger became the first person to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon.

***In 2012, Kittinger participated in the Red Bull Stratos project as capsule communicator at age 84, directing Felix Baumgartner on his 24-mile (39 km) freefall from Earth's stratosphere, which broke Kittinger's own 53-year-old record. Felix Baumgartner's record would be broken two years later by Alan Eustace. [3]***

Kittinger set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest-duration drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. [17] These were the USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). [18] Kittinger's record for the highest ascent was broken in 1961 by Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather. His records for highest parachute jump and fastest velocity stood for 52 years, until they were broken in 2012 by Felix Baumgartner.

His records for highest parachute jump and fastest velocity stood for 52 years, until they were broken in 2012 by Felix Baumgartner.

Joseph Kittinger - Wikipedia

[S. maltophilia] Many humans today would not recognize a phonograph record as containing informat...

S. maltophilia — 5/24/2026 2:35:55 PM

Many humans today would not recognize a phonograph record as containing information. How likely is it that a native of some other solar system would?

[Sun Tzu] If you are catching up with the news, you have a lot of years to cover ;)

Sun Tzu — 5/24/2026 2:26:39 PM

[S. maltophilia] The clock, yes. But the phonograph record? spacedaily.com

S. maltophilia — 5/24/2026 1:02:38 PM

[J.B.C.] If there was a chance of getting killed, And some of survived.

J.B.C. — 5/24/2026 12:13:22 PM

[Sun Tzu] Wow! That is crazy! Why do we do things like this to ourselves? I have always w...

Sun Tzu — 5/24/2026 12:11:10 PM

Wow! That is crazy!

Why do we do things like this to ourselves?
I have always wondered, especially since I was into extreme sports when I was younger. If there was a chance of getting killed, I tried it. And I still don't know why.

[J.B.C.] I will always remember[X] Luke Aikins jumped from 25,000 feet with nothing but ...

J.B.C. — 5/24/2026 11:39:33 AM

I will always remember[X]

Luke Aikins jumped from 25,000 feet with nothing but a net the size of a small room and a prayer.

Absolute menace to the concept of self-preservation. Still an absolute legend!pic.twitter.com/1Xba1F7rZ8
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 24, 2026

[/X] this:

[Sun Tzu] The Harvard/Google brain-map claims are real: a ~1 mm³ fragment of human tempora...

Sun Tzu — 5/22/2026 6:31:49 PM

The Harvard/Google brain-map claims are real: a ~1 mm³ fragment of human temporal cortex, “about half the size of a rice grain,” was reconstructed at nanoscale resolution. It contained ~57,000 cells, ~150 million synapses, ~230 mm of blood vessels, and ~1.4 petabytes / 1.4 million GB of data. Image acquisition alone took 326 days, and the work reflects roughly a 10-year Google connectomics effort / Harvard collaboration.

The human brain uses no more power than a dim incandescent light bulb, yet it can accomplish feats still not possible with the largest artificial computing systems. To understand how requires a level of understanding more profound than knowing what part of the brain is responsible for what function. The field of connectomics aims to achieve this by precisely mapping how each cell is connected to others. Building detailed maps of how brains from many types of organisms are wired is transforming our understanding of how brains work. This could help researchers understand neurological disorders and also answer fundamental questions, such as how memories form.

research.google

[Sun Tzu] This is nerdy but Wow-worthy: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjec...

Sun Tzu — 5/21/2026 1:25:07 PM

This is nerdy but Wow-worthy: An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

I have spent time on this problem and never got anywhere.
The full write up continues at the link.

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have studied a deceptively simple question: if you place n points in the plane, how many pairs of points can be exactly distance 1 apart?

This is the planar unit distance problem, first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. It is one of the best-known questions in combinatorial geometry, easy to state and remarkably difficult to resolve. The 2005 book Research Problems in Discrete Geometry, by Brass, Moser, and Pach, calls it “possibly the best known (and simplest to explain) problem in combinatorial geometry.” Noga Alon, a leading combinatorialist at Princeton, describes it as “one of Erdos’ favorite problems.” Erdos even offered a monetary prize for resolving this problem.

Today, we share a breakthrough on the unit distance problem. Since Erdos’s original work, the prevailing belief has been that the “square grid” constructions depicted further below were essentially optimal for maximizing the number of unit-distance pairs. An internal OpenAI model has disproved this longstanding conjecture, providing an infinite family of examples that yield a polynomial improvement. The proof has been checked by a group of external mathematicians. They have also written a companion paper explaining the argument and providing further background and context for the significance of the result.

The result is also notable for how it was found. The proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for mathematics, scaffolded to search through proof strategies, or targeted at the unit distance problem in particular. As part of a broader effort to test whether advanced models can contribute to frontier research, we evaluated it on a collection of Erdos problems. In this case, it produced a proof resolving the open problem.

openai.com

[Savant] Jackson Pollock painting sells for record $181m at auction Historic Artwork: Po...

Savant — 5/19/2026 11:32:38 AM

Jackson Pollock painting sells for record $181m at auction

Historic Artwork: Pollock's Number 7A, 1948, sold for $181m, marking it as one of the first truly abstract paintings and the fourth most expensive artwork ever at auction.
Auction Milestone: This sale shattered Pollock's previous record of $61.2m for *Number 17, 1951*, highlighting his enduring impact on the abstract expressionist movement.
Artistic Significance: The painting features black drips with touches of red on a massive canvas, representing Pollock's liberation from traditional easel painting and a key moment in art history.

Jackson Pollock painting sells for record $181m at auction

[Savant] Watch an electric eel unleash a high-voltage strike on its prey The electric ee...

Savant — 5/18/2026 7:22:19 PM

Watch an electric eel unleash a high-voltage strike on its prey

The electric eel is one of the most dangerous predators in the water — not because of its size, but because of what it can do. It can generate massive electrical shocks powerful enough to stun, control, and immobilize prey instantly. In dark, murky rivers where vision fails, it hunts using electricity itself. Some have even been observed working together, striking with terrifying precision. This is a predator that doesn’t need to chase — it simply turns the body into a weapon.

Watch an electric eel unleash a high-voltage strike on its prey | Watch

[Savant] more power... The mystery of the giant stone that appeared on top of a cliff ...

Savant — 5/18/2026 7:13:00 PM

more power...

The mystery of the giant stone that appeared on top of a cliff

Discover the astonishing story behind a massive stone that has mysteriously appeared on a cliff. This giant rock has sparked curiosity and wonder in the local community, leaving everyone to ponder its origins. Join us as we explore the theories and unveil the secrets of this natural phenomenon. What could have caused such an extraordinary event?

Geological Insights
The presence of the Maka Lahi boulder challenges previous assumptions about tsunami dynamics and the forces required to move such a massive rock. Researchers estimate that a wave with a height of at least 50 meters would have been necessary to displace the boulder, suggesting that it was likely caused by a localized underwater landslide or a similar event. This discovery provides vital information for understanding the geological history of the region and assessing future tsunami risks.

The Maka Lahi boulder, also known as "Big Rock," is a massive geological formation in Tonga that was displaced by a powerful tsunami approximately 7,000 years ago, providing insights into past tsunami events and coastal geology.

Discovery and Significance
The Maka Lahi boulder, weighing around 1,200 tons and measuring approximately 14 meters long, 12 meters wide, and nearly 7 meters high, is located on the island of Tongatapu. It was discovered during a geological survey by researchers from the University of Queensland, who were investigating evidence of past tsunamis along the southern coastal cliffs of Tonga. The boulder is situated over 200 meters inland and nearly 30 meters above sea level, indicating it was transported by a tsunami of significant magnitude.

[Savant] Power of nature...1946... a 138-foot tsunami hit this lighthouse - then it w...

Savant — 5/18/2026 6:44:29 PM

Power of nature...1946...

a 138-foot tsunami hit this lighthouse - then it was gone instantly

After a powerful earthquake, the ocean around this remote lighthouse suddenly went quiet. Then came an unnatural roar, followed by a 138-foot tsunami that struck with overwhelming force. The lighthouse was completely erased in seconds, leaving nothing but debris behind. The men inside never had a chance — and almost nothing of them was ever found.

**the wave traveled around the world, after

msn.com

[Sun Tzu] Kids should be happy to use it to go to school.

Sun Tzu — 5/18/2026 11:51:33 AM

[Savant] Student-built car hits 2,145 MPG and beats every production vehicle ***however...

Savant — 5/18/2026 11:34:55 AM

Student-built car hits 2,145 MPG and beats every production vehicle

***however>>

Student-built car hits 2,145 MPG and beats every production vehicle

[Savant] Wow, just Wow...days long/??>>>> Pam Grier Gets Real About Her Days-Long Org...

Savant — 5/15/2026 3:46:03 PM

Wow, just Wow...days long/??>>>> Pam Grier Gets Real About Her Days-Long Orgasms In Her 70s: 'Be Prepared'

Pam Grier, an iconic actress, is defying age stereotypes and feeling exceptionally well at 76. She shared insights into her current well-being and life philosophy on the "Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus" podcast.
Detailed Summary:
- Grier, known for her roles in films like "Foxy Brown," revealed that she feels "more alive" and "healthier than ever" despite being in her late seventies. This sentiment challenges common perceptions about aging, emphasizing vitality and a positive outlook.
- Her philosophy centers on embracing the present moment and living authentically, rather than dwelling on the past or fearing the future. She believes in cultivating inner peace and finding joy in everyday experiences.
- Grier also touched upon the importance of self-care and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, which she attributes to her current state of well-being. Her approach suggests a holistic view of aging, encompassing both physical and mental health.
- The actress conveyed a sense of continued engagement with life and a determination to make the most of her years. Her words offer an inspiring perspective on aging gracefully and vibrantly, promoting a proactive and positive attitude towards growing older.

avg.1news.io

[Sun Tzu] China developed a fire blanket that withstands 1000 degree Celsius. youtube.com

Sun Tzu — 5/13/2026 6:31:07 PM

[Sun Tzu] We can find ways around weight if it works. But he is actually on the opposite s...

Sun Tzu — 5/11/2026 9:49:28 PM

We can find ways around weight if it works. But he is actually on the opposite side of human biomechanics.

If you were to create a non-circular crank that has a longer forward path, allowing greater power generation, and a shorter return path, then for elite high power sprint, there's a little over 4% power advantage.

The rub is that kinetic power generation is not the same as biomechanica sustainability. Other than extreme sprints, the advantage disappears.

And I know this because this my evening time waster ;)

Back to work.

Later all,

[Savant] Giant 11,000 carat ruby that weighs as much as a small dog is discovered in Myan...

Savant — 5/11/2026 3:10:05 PM

Giant 11,000 carat ruby that weighs as much as a small dog is discovered in Myanmar

Record-Breaking Gem: A massive 11,000-carat ruby weighing 2.2 kg (4.8 lbs) was found in Myanmar's Mogok valley, known for producing high-quality rubies. Its rare 'pigeon blood' colour makes it potentially the most valuable ruby ever discovered.
Historical Context: Myanmar has a long history of producing giant rubies, including the 21,450-carat ruby in 1996 and the 2,789-carat NaSaKa Ruby in 2022. The Mogok region has been mined for over 800 years.
Conflict & Controversy: The ruby was discovered amid ongoing conflicts in Mogok, with control shifting between the military and ethnic forces. Human rights groups warn against buying rubies from Myanmar due to their role in funding the military government.

Giant 11,000 carat ruby that weighs as much as a small dog is discovered in Myanmar

[S. maltophilia] Rube Goldberg would be proud. I don't see the simplification or weight saving. M...

S. maltophilia — 5/11/2026 12:04:38 PM

Rube Goldberg would be proud. I don't see the simplification or weight saving. Maybe he should devote his energies to simplifying derailleurs. Maybe into a continuous torque converter - an analogue to an automatic transmission on a car, but without the complexity.