https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bronze-age-greek-rings-iron-meteorites

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice

I was in a gloomy mood. I thought of how AI can generate graphic images on command. Then I remembered a science fiction story called "Blit" by David Langford. It was about a scifi image that would kill anyone who looked at it, by causing the human brain to crash.

Wouldn't it be nasty if an AI was poisoned to randomly emit the deadly image?

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacegunexotic.php#id--Ridiculous_Handwavium--Medusa_Weapons

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ThOtTPm7pQ

From an ancient comic in MAD Magazine, satirizing Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

This joke has aged like fine wine over the decades.

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran

https://gizmodo.com/nasas-curiosity-rover-finds-a-vast-sea-of-strange-honeycomb-patterns-on-mars-2000792909

https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-biggest-disasters-strike-in-a-hidden-pattern-every-27-million-years

A Canadian lab just ran a chemical process on real spent nuclear fuel and pulled out 90% of the long-lived danger in 24 hours, the part that forces a burial site to last 100,000 years, with the leftovers meant to fuel a reactor

https://www.autonocion.com/us/canadian-lab-nuclear-fuel/

Jebidiah Kerman dies with a smile on his face, doing what he loves
Artwork by Gunaars Miezis
Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson,
quoted by Robert Heinlein in his short story "Requiem"

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

Details

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company

https://apnews.com/article/openai-gpt56-sol-hugging-face-63ab84fed5612af04d8a160d60f6def3

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/07/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight

Reason one million why I am never going to use Large Language Models.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4198216/openai-acknowledges-gpt-5-6-may-accidentally-delete-files-calls-it-an-honest-mistake.html

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-alien-world-chemistry-meteorite-struck.html

Combat-critter logo.

Cat on the right is one of my cats
Hatch on the left is supposed to be a spaceship hatch, but I used a submarine hatch from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
A typical cat pose is observing you from a hidden spot. Such as peeking around the edge of a door.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/approcketcatu.php#origin

One of the reasons Project Hail Mary was such a fantastic movie is because it created by a dream team of script writer, directors, actors, musicians, and practical effects creators

https://youtu.be/Ie7VqnnG6hc?is=lgHiVKIeI9K7Cuzu

Wil Wheaton tells a story about former star trek actors

https://wilwheaton.net/2026/07/can-i-tell-you-a-story/

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/03/project-hail-mary-is-in-theaters-but-do-the-linguistics-work/