News Briefs 30-04-2026

Take me out to the ball room,

Take me out with the crooks;

Buy me some pardons and Ranger parks,

I don’t care if the water gets scarce.

Let me rob, rob, rob for the home team,

If Tehran gets nuked, it’s our doom.

For it’s one, two, three bombs, you’re out,

At the old ball room

• Voyager 1 has little time left in interstellar space. An ambitious ‘Big Bang’ fix may change that.
• Light-propelled ‘metajets’ could enable 20-year journey to Alpha Centauri, study suggests.
• Tough fungi could survive the trip to Mars— No kidding! says Terrence McKenna.
• 100 million years ago, the Kraken was real.
• The creepiest ocean discoveries: pyramids, monster squid, and a deafening ‘bloop’.
• 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster, the wildlife thriving in the abandoned zone is different than you might expect—no two-headed deer or glowing bears, sorry.
• Ancient astronomical structure discovered at Peru’s Áspero site. 
• This small sea area between Europe and Africa is the site of 124 shipwrecks, archaeologists find.
• Climate and competition alone cannot explain Neanderthal extinction, study finds.
• The one and only Daniele Bolelli returns to Tangentially Speaking.
• Trump keeps insisting that the release of UFO files will ‘come soon, and it will be YUGE.’
• This donut-shaped airship from a French company is great for the environment, but terrible for UFO reporting.
• New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time. This is how we get to The Matrix, you Coppertopping jackasses!
• Startup says it can read your brain signals using a pair of headphones.
• Red Pill of the Day: Palantir CEO says legalizing war crimes would be good for business.

Thanks to Greg.

Quote of the Day:

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane.

Charlie Chaplin

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