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A multimillionaire thrill-seeker who was supposed to be on the missing Titanic sub said he pulled out over fears it was “cutting too many corners” — and was run with a $40 videogame controller. Digital marketing tycoon Chris Brown, 61, told the Sun that he paid a $10,000 deposit for the trip along with his friend Hamish Harding, the 58-year-old British billionaire who is among the five still missing.

The search for the missing OceanGate Titan submarine, which disappeared Sunday during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean, is now in its fourth day. The Coast Guard estimated Tuesday afternoon that there were about 40 to 41 hours of oxygen remaining on the vessel, which is carrying five people. BOSTON – Three new vessels arrived "on-scene" in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday morning to join search and rescue efforts for the missing OceanGate Titan sub as the estimated oxygen supply on board continues to dwindle. The U.S. Coast Guard said the new vessels bring additional...

Twelve bottles of Bordeaux wine spent 438 days aging at the International Space Station. (Image credit: Mission WISE) Red wine stored at the International Space Station for more than a year tasted a bit different than its terrestrial counterparts and, surprisingly, aged faster, too, a new study finds. Researchers shipped 12 bottles of Bordeaux wine to the space station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft in November 2019 — not to go with the astronauts' meals, but to study how microgravity, or weightlessness, affects wine as it ages. The wine remained in a sealed canister at the orbiting laboratory...

That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.“

Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union - Scientists were hoping for giant flash on the moon that would intimidate the Soviet Union - Aim of mission was to launch the nuke by 1959 - Plan was later scrapped due to possible danger to people on Earth It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s. At the height of the space...

Recently, on my day off, I was browsing FR (surprise) and started clicking on posters' profiles and became fascinated by the little animated state flags on homepages, and I got to wondering: What state has the most FReepers?Is there a demographic? Is there a pattern? Am I beating my head against the wall? Do I watch too much NHL hockey????Okay, maybe I should dust off some old DVD's, sip some Jamesons and enjoy a cigar, wait for Jennifer Anniston to return my phone calls ( before the restraining order), and let it go, but...I GOTTA KNOW!!!!Where the heck are all...

Summary: At an appearance at the University of Texas at Austin, Rutan, flush with triumph from winning the X prize with Space Ship One, shares his more intimate dreams of profitting from private space travel--orbital partying. snippets: ....Thanks to the high cost and government monopoly on space travel — he pronounces NASA "Nay Say" — private space flight is still in its infancy, and Rutan said its safety can be compared to that of travel by plane in 1911.... ...In the more distant future, Rutan envisions resort hotels, swimming pools and, yes, even sex while in orbit. "I think it's...