Category Archives: Newspace

Newspace: July 2018

I’ll have to get back to you with brief footage of my foray (as a spectator!) into second-tier “Pro Wrestling” later this summer. Meanwhile, we have a range of posts from around the net: new rocket engines, the Tsar’s space program, a Homestar Runner boardgame, a new Buffy, and video reports from San Diego:

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Deep in the Borneo jungles live exploding ants, who self-sacrifice for their colony while having a bit of a blast.

They’re no Atlanteans, but the Bajou people may have a genetic advantage when it comes to sea-diving.

If you’ve been following one of the creepier celebrity stories making the rounds this year, you may know that Allison Mack, best known as Chole from Smallville, has been arrested this week for complicity in crimes allegedly committed by a bizarre sex cult. Earlier, the investigation looked at Kristin “Lana Lang” Kreuk’s involvement, but she left the group years ago, and claims the activity at that time was less legally and ethically troubling.

If you want something less serious or scientific, we’ve got two recent cosplay videos by Youtubers, below.

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Sometime this Easter weekend, the Chinese space station Tiangong 1 will crash to earth, but the odds of anything hitting you are very remote. If you think you might hit those odds, buy a lottery ticket.

UPDATE: What didn’t burn up went down over the south Pacific.

The last blue moon until 2020 rises tonight.

And they’ve put Stephen Hawking to rest. His ashes will lay next to Sir Isaac Newton.

Far less seriously, we have posted some fan video from WonderCon 2018, held last weekend, below:

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We dropped the regular Newspace features awhile back, but I still like the idea of wide-ranging posts on news of interest to Bureau readers, so here goes another attempt:

SciShow Space takes a look at forthcoming space missions:

While, elsewhere, we learn what led the Ariane 5 rocket off-course. I’m not saying it was aliens, but…

Okay, actually, aliens had nothing to do with it.

We have a round-up of video from around the Net, looking at science, cosplay, and Play-Doh superheroes.

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