PERSPECTIVE:
If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime.
The 250-mile ceiling is where the… https://t.co/h6fatOEsl9
— Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) April 1, 2026
My concerns about the Artemis mission are real, but this is still something.
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Individual Investors Could Get a Rare Shot at Buying Into SpaceX From Day One.
CHANGE:
Positive development. Headsup, Sir Keir, it'll be pitchforks by torchlight shortly.
(FYI Britain, in America, the traditional corrective on official abuse is tar and feathers. A little goes a long way. Do one, the others notice. Regrettably we've moved away from this practice.… https://t.co/xn5O1A6Tib
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 2, 2026
TOO MANY PEOPLE LOST IT OVER TRUMP:
I find it fascinating that the three guys responsible for the vast majority of "professional election analysis" in this country over the last 40+ years – Charlie Cook, Larry Sabato, and Stu Rothenberg – all had their brains utterly broken by Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/OYiTh3XEtk
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 30, 2026
MICROBIOME NEWS: Giant Study Reveals Why Some Viruses Hide Inside Your Body For Life.
HMM:
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation did a 50-state survey of Americans' civic knowledge in 2019.
Men out-performed women in every state by a large amount. pic.twitter.com/YnljZw4Tvk
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) March 31, 2026
WAR:
Since Clausewitz, the West recognized "war as an extension of politics."
The corollary of that is "politics is an extension of money."
Iran doesn't have any money, thanks to hyper-inflation and now an 84% reduction in oil revenue.
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) April 1, 2026
JAPAN IS INCREASINGLY BASED:
With this Japan-America lovefest prompted by Trump's Pearl Harbor joke and Musk's X translation thingy, worth noting, Nihonjin might not know. Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, admired America, and thought attacking the US was a really bad idea.… https://t.co/ObaNJc97Sd
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 1, 2026
WARM AND WET IS GOOD: New Research Reveals Ancient Mars May Have Been Warm, Wet – and Possibly Alive.
NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Terraforming Mars: Modeling engineered aerosols to warm the planet.
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: As electric truck demand craters, GM lays off workers and idles plant.
I COULD HIT THESE NUMBERS BEFORE I WAS 40 AND I CAN DO BETTER NOW: The Strength Standard Every Man Should Hit Before 40.
BEFORE THE ADVENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AMERICA WAS AMONG THE MOST LITERATE NATIONS ON EARTH:
One of the major blackpills is reading letters from soldiers during the Civil War who never received a formal education and realizing they could read and write much better than the vast majority of our society nowadays. https://t.co/J9J9Gd6RGS
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) April 1, 2026
YOU KNOW, I’VE ALWAYS WONDERED ABOUT THIS MYSELF: Why is a pizza named after a German flying ace? No one’s making Field Marshal Rommel Pastry Pockets.