Collaborate Disseminate
Slashdot reader alaskana98 writes: In what has become a stubborn sibling to the ‘Face on Mars’ phenomenon, the legend of the Dark Knight alien satellite has persisted for years and is the fascinating story of a seemingly mundane NASA photo tied togethe… Continue reading The Exotic Legend of the Dark Knight Alien Satellite Meets Mundane Reality
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln pardoned a soldier in the Civil War, and in 1998 that document was re-discovered. But “It was the date that made the document significant,” writes Ars Technica: April 14, 1865, “meaning the pardon was likely one of the la… Continue reading X-ray Analysis Confirms Forged Date On Lincoln Pardon of Civil War Soldier
Slashdot reader ellithligraw brings the news that the oldest person on earth has died in the Philippines this week at age 124.
CNN Philippines reports:
Susano was born on Sept. 11, 1897, which was before the country became independent from Spanish … Continue reading World’s Oldest Person Dies at Age 124
xanthos (Slashdot reader #73,578) writes: Our friends over at The Register are reporting a zero day vulnerability for one of the earliest modern computer architectures.
Pontus Johnson, a professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm… Continue reading Zero Day Found for Universal Turing Machine (CVE-2021-32471)
A Utah newstation interviewed the men claiming responsibility for removing the original monolith in Utah, who reveal where, why, and how they took it:
Homer Manson described how they brought tools, but in the end they were able to simply push the mono… Continue reading The Further Adventures of that Monolith Stolen in Utah
A Reddit user found Google Earth photos showing the Utah monolith may have appeared in its canyon up to five years ago, according to The Daily Beast. But it’s gone now:
Last week, a team of four people removed the Utah obelisk. One of them, a Utah adv… Continue reading All Three Monoliths Gone — Two Removed By Activist Vandals
Thursday Tesla’s web site began selling $250 bottles of Tesla-branded tequila, describing it as a “small-batch premium 100% de agave tequila anejo made from sustainably sourced highland and lowland agaves.”
Electrek explores the frenzy that followed:… Continue reading Tesla Tequila Sells Out Within Hours, Triggers Bidding Wars on eBay
Sam Baron, associate professor at Australian Catholic University, focuses on the connection between key topics in the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of time concerning temporal ontology.
In a recent article in Gizmodo, he answers the ul… Continue reading Could Our Entire Reality Be Part of a Simulation Created by Some Other Beings?
“They’re trolling us… we think. But how the hell did this get published?” asks Popular Mechanics.
Slashdot reader worldofsimulacra shares their report:
Scientists have uncovered a bizarre, indefensible paper that squeaked through peer review at wh… Continue reading 13 Scientists Troll Scientific Journal With a Bogus Paper about Earth’s Black Hole
University of Queensland student Germain Tobar who worked with UQ physics professor Fabio Costa on a new peer-reviewed paper “says he has mathematically proven the physical feasibility of a specific kind of time travel” without paradoxes, reports Popu… Continue reading Researcher Discusses Whether Time Travel Could Prevent a Pandemic