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Once in a lifetime! Scientists Track a Green Comet on a Permanent Escape Path | 9:43 NASA Space News | 597K subscribers | 2,030 views | February 16, 2026

Does anyone have a recollection of Tom Smith, the bear researcher, telling of a time when he and another were doing bear research and the companion shot a handgun but missed all the shots at the bear? I have a vague recollection, but cannot find a source. I thought it was in an interview by Tom Smith, maybe in a hunting or outdoor publication. If anyone remembers such a thing, please reply.

On the morning of February 14, 2026 (Local time), Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia experienced continued eruptive activity with multiple pyroclastic flows traveling down the volcano’s slopes. According to the Indonesian Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) and recent seismic monitoring reports, the volcano produced several eruption events and pyroclastic flow earthquakes throughout the afternoon. Massive Pyroclastic Flow Descends Entire Slope of Mount Semeru Volcano (Feb 13, 2026) | 9:30afarTV | 564K subscribers | 178,660 views | February 13, 2026

[live in about ten minutes] NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will spend the next several months in low Earth orbit on NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission. While there, they will conduct various science experiments and technology demonstrations to benefit life on Earth and in orbit, furthering our journey back to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond. NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Arrival & Welcome Remarks | less than 10 minutes NASA | 12.7M subscribers | 1,576 waiting | Scheduled for February 14, 2026

Rapper Cardi B joked Wednesday about fighting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a concert in California, saying federal officers “ain’t taking my fans” — prompting a response from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).“B‑‑‑‑, if ICE comes in here, we’re going to jump their a‑‑es,” Cardi B said onstage in the Coachella Valley after she sang part of the late Tejano musician Selena Quintanilla’s song “Como La Flor.” “I got some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans, b‑‑‑‑, let’s go!”

As Elon Musk tries to sweep his Mars ambitions under the rug like an embarrassing teenage phase, he’s now shifting focus to the Moon — with no less eye-brow raising ideas. According to new reporting from the New York Times, Musk told employees at xAI — his AI company recently acquired by SpaceX — that it needs to construct a factory on the Moon to churn out AI satellites. And to launch the satellites into space, he says, it needs to build an enormous electromagnetic catapult. Sci-fi readers already know where this is going: Musk is thinking about building a...

In the last week SpaceX has acquired XAI and presumably related to that they submitted plans to the FCC exploring the construction of a compute cluster in Earth orbit with one million spacecraft. So, I try to use Universe Sandbox to visualize this.... and it's not easy. For technical reasons this is a limited version visualizing the kind of orbits we expect, but you can play with it yourself if you own Universe Sandbox. What Would SpaceX's Space Datacenter Plans Look Like? | 11:31 Scott Manley | 1.83M subscribers | 50,409 views | February 10, 2026

As the International Space Station approaches retirement, commercial space stations are preparing to take its place. Max Space is developing expandable habitats that launch compactly and expand in orbit, offering a new way to build space infrastructure after the ISS. Happening! Private Space Station Being Assembled for Launch | 10:47 NASA Space News | 597K subscribers | 1,506 | February 9, 2026 YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai follows.

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city....

My Talk With Jared Isaacman: 50 Days as Head of NASA | 20:11 Ellie in Space | 217K subscribers | 12,435 views | February 6, 2026

Blue Origin pauses New Shepard flights for no less than 2 years!? | 2:01 Ellie in Space | 216K subscribers | 15,046 views | January 30, 2026YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai follows.

Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal Delayed, SpaceX to Merge with xAI!? | 4:42 Ellie in Space | 216K subscribers | 4,773 views | January 30, 2026

In an interview with News 5 Cleveland's Clay LePard, Isaacman talked about jobs at ‪@NASA‬ Glenn Research Facility in Cleveland, putting Americans back on the moon by 2028, plans for a base on the moon by 2030 and how humans will be on Mars within our lifetimes. Full interview with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacmanat the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland | 10:48News 5 Cleveland | 354K subscribers | 3,933 views | January 27, 2026

What happens if you keep slowing down time? What If You Keep Slowing Down? | 30:08 Veritasium | 20.1M subscribers | 168,625 views | January 19, 2026

Will this mysterious object ever calm down?? Weeks after its close approach with Earth, 3I Atlas is speeding up, pulsing, and displaying an unbelievable 18 Anomalies! Here's the latest!

Modern relationships between men and women are dysfunctional. But to understand why, we cannot examine them through the lens of emotion or morality. We need to look at something far more fundamental, our biology. If you look at the natural world, you'll see that there are three distinct categories that demonstrate how two organisms relate to each other. The first is competition, where you are fighting over a limited resource. This is the lion and the hyena fighting over the same carcass. One party's gain is the other party's loss. This dynamic is the classic power struggle where one needs...

Ames window illusion illustrates how we don't directly perceive external reality. The Illusion Only Some People Can See | 16:56 Veritasium | 19.9M subscribers | 10,638,589 views | December 31, 2020

U.S. Southern Command just announced the latest strike on a Venezuelan drug boat in the Eastern Pacific. In a significant milestone, this marks the 30th strike against a narco-terrorist drug boat. Two were killed in today’s strike. Watch the footage: VIDEO AT LINK.................. Backup here if needed: On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male...

Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in the Brown and MIT shootings, had flashes of temper; former classmates describe him as confrontational and socially awkward Twenty-five years ago, two promising physicists graduated from a prestigious science university in Lisbon. On Monday, one gunned the other down at his home outside Boston after firing on a classroom of Brown University undergrads, authorities say. Claudio Neves Valente, the suspected shooter, once had a bright future. He graduated at the top of his college class, ahead of classmate Nuno Loureiro. But by the time Neves Valente confronted Loureiro at his Brookline, Mass., apartment building...

Should we trust the research published by professors? The scholars who write books and papers have impressive degrees and teach at respected universities, and their work has to undergo rigorous scrutiny before it can be published, so the answer would seem to be that we should. The safeguards against deception and fraud appear strong. Decades ago, they were strong, but that’s not true today. In recent years, deception and fraud have been proven in quite a few instances. Some of the guilty professors have admitted their wrongdoing, one even confessing that he didn’t have the patience for rigor. Clearly, academic...