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Lexington, Kentucky’s VisitLEX tourism bureau has sent an “official invitation” to the neighboring TRAPPIST-1 star system for aliens to visit their city. Gizmodo writes about it. In fact, this is a marketing trick, but the message is quite real. VisitLEX worked with engineers, linguists, and the US Federal Aviation Administration to implement the project. The […]
On Friday night, an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after how a hole appeared in its fuselage. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered airlines to temporarily ground some Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft for safety checks after an Alaska Airlines plane lost a cockpit panel during a flight […]
In more than 20 US states, Americans are filing lawsuits en masse to prevent former President Donald Trump from running in this year’s elections. It is noted that lawsuits to prevent Trump from participating in the elections have been rejected in 14 states, but in another 20 states this issue is under consideration. Journalists of […]
The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight Eisenhower enters the Red Sea. The US command took this step to calm down the Yemeni Houthis, who began attacking civilian vessels. The U.S. Naval Institute reported on the overturning of the American ship. “The carrier strike group led by the USS Dwight Eisenhower is off the coast […]
On January 5, United Launch Alliance (ULA) delivered its Vulcan Centaur rocket to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, reports Space.com. The rocket is scheduled to launch on January 8 and will carry the first private lunar lander into space. Takeoff is scheduled for 2:18 a.m. Monday morning local […]
On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department added all five individuals to the Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) list. The United States is offering to pay a reward of up to $10 million for information that will “destroy the financial network” of the Palestinian movement Hamas. This was reported by the press service of […]
L3Harris has announced the completion of the CDR project and PRR production readiness verification for 16 real-time hypersonic missile tracking satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s (SDA) tracking program. The completion of the CDR indicates that the L3Harris project meets mission requirements, and the PRR means that the SDA has approved the start of […]
In South Dakota, a B-1B Lancer strategic bomber capable of carrying nuclear-capable missiles crashed while landing at Ellsworth Air Force Base. The base command reported that the crash occurred during a training flight. The weather was bad and it was freezing. The crew of four soldiers managed to eject, no one was injured. The air […]
The United States conducted the first active testing of the new M-SHORAD air defense system. The system was tested during an exercise in the mountains of Slovakia. The system is based on the Stryker infantry fighting vehicle. It boasts an FIM-92 Stinger launcher, as on the Avenger, and two AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles. They enable […]
13-year-old American Willis Gibson (blue scuti) has beaten the classic computer game Tetris with the help of a critical glitch, which was previously only possible for artificial intelligence. “Tetris was developed by a Soviet software engineer. It is a simple puzzle game in which players must rotate and stack falling blocks of different shapes to […]