OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin unveils huge ‘Power Tower’ to boost solar electricity on the moon.

WELL, GOOD: Scientists May Have Found a Way to Make Damaged Adult Retinas Repair Themselves.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE:

NY Post claimed to "exclusively" report that the University of Utah is the most rape-plagued campus in the USA, but failed to note that 81% of these purported rape reports were made by a single "survivor/victim" who reported being "raped by their intimate partner" 260 times pic.twitter.com/TRbtaZmnww

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 5, 2026

STRENGTH: Why Do Muscles Weaken With Age? Scientists May Have Found an Important Missing Piece.

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST TIMELINE:

Plot twist! https://t.co/lNH1kAE5wI

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 5, 2026

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Scaled-up seawater system produces both hydrogen and fresh water with higher efficiency.

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Aston Martin Says V8s and V12s Are Staying as EV Plans Slip.

NOTHING NEW HERE: Anti-Gun States Adopt the Jim Crow Playbook.

SHUT THEM DOWN: OpenAI Safety Lead Quits, Warns Company’s Culture Is ‘Broken’ — ‘The Time For Trial And Error Is Over.’

ALEX BERENSON: Europe is in Trouble.

Update on Europe, The World’s Progressive Dream (TM), the place all those Gen Z ladies say they’ll move when they stop being too sad to get out of bed.

The Spanish government — loved by annoying lefties everywhere — just collapsed.

The French are doing what they do best, rioting.

In Germany, anti-immigration conservatives keep gaining ground.

Of the four countries that dominate continental Europe, only Italy has a stable government — a conservative government run by Georgia Meloni, which has now lasted longer than any other in Italy’s post-World War 2 history and which just banned burqas for students.

This trend is not accident or coincidence.

Nope.

UPDATE (From Ed): When All Else Fails, Start a War: Europe’s Descent From Net Zero Folly to Military Mobilization.

I HATE FASTING FOR BLOOD TESTS: We May Have Been Wrong About Fasting Before Blood Tests, Study Reveals.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Sudden chest or back pain could signal an aortic dissection. Here’s what to know, according to a heart doctor.

BRIAN WANG: Why SpaceX Competitors Must Prove Annual Payload Delivery.

IT CERTAINLY SHOULD: Will Somali Gang Violence in Minnesota Shape Statewide Races?

IT’S BEEN ONE FOR A WHILE: Migration As A Weapon. “The Russian and Belarusian intelligence services are facilitating an elaborate scheme to illegally funnel migrants from the Middle East and Africa across the border into Latvia and other NATO and European Union countries, Latvian officials said.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG.

BREAKING:

The Russians have started mandatory temperature checks of all passengers from Irkutsk landing in Moscow to scan for people potentially spreading pneumonic plague.

Close the borders with Russia now! pic.twitter.com/FCfU9WabpT

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 5, 2026

UPDATE: Well, never mind.

TEN YEARS AGO: Boeing CEO vows to beat Musk to Mars.

JOE BIDEN WAS PRESIDENT IN 2024, AND CORNELL IS A FAR-LEFT INSTITUTION. SO, NATURALLY: Right on cue, left-wing media blame the Cornell rape case on Trump.

THE NEW YORK TIMES RUNS A STORY ABOUT NUCLEAR REACTORS ON THE MOON, and the first quote is, natch, from an anti-nuke group.

David Mastio has the rest of the story.

ST. PAUL ON MARRIAGE:

1 Corinthians 7:3-5. The apostle Paul specifically commands husbands and wives to come together. I see comments that marriage doesn’t entitle to sex. That is dead wrong, most certainly wrongheaded.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) October 4, 2026

Not sounding like quite as much of a prude as he is usually depicted.

“WHY DOES THE MAN ALWAYS HAVE TO SUFFER?” Does your man pass the first-class test? Traveler sparks controversial airplane dating debate.

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Michigan State, Rutgers faculty work to stall responses to McMahon’s higher ed reform letter.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

I didn’t think I would comment on the Cornell 7 matter, but there is an underlying culprit everyone is missing. It’s not “society,” it’s the government.
The heavy partying at ultra-expensive institutions like Cornell is being financed by untold billions of non-market…

— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) October 4, 2026

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation. One hopes they’re being dosed with Cipro, or better yet Levaquin. One fears that Putin has reopened Soviet biowar labs, and the strain in question was modified to be antibiotic-resistant.