Daily Archives: Mar 18, 2026

Charles Mitchell

Elon Musk’s 20-Year Bet: AI Will End Work and Money

Can a society work if human labor is no longer needed from an economic standpoint? Elon Musk says not only can it, but it will-in two decades. Speaking at the US-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum, the chief executive of Tesla predicted "work will be optional" in 10 to 20 years...
Charles Mitchell

NTSB Finds Fatigue Cracks in UPS MD-11 Engine Mount, Linking to...

That sequence began in seconds: a routine takeoff roll, a smooth rotation, then catastrophic separation of the left engine and pylon from a 34-year-old McDonnell Douglas MD-11F. The preliminary report from NTSB now confirms what investigators suspected early: the critical mount hardware holding the engine to the wing showed...
James Thompson

NASA’s Multi-Mission View of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Revealed

An ancient traveler from beyond the solar system has swept past Mars, the Sun, and Earth's orbital neighborhood and NASA's spacecraft have captured it from nearly every angle. Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed, is now documented in an unprecedented gallery of images spanning ultraviolet,...