I was reading a local Montana news blurb—one of those quiet, under-the-radar stories sandwiched between weather alerts and city council drama—when NASA casually mentioned it had launched four disk-shaped satellites into low Earth orbit. Disk-shaped. Not cylindrical. Not boxy. Disks. Flying saucer adjacent. Naturally. They’re called DiskSats, which sounds like…
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An Interstellar Comet Passed Earth and Refused to Make a Scene
I was reading a ClickOrlando story about an interstellar comet making its “closest approach” to Earth. I immediately felt the cultural muscle memory kick in — the part of our brain trained by late-90s disaster movies to assume this ends with fire, sacrifice, and someone hugging their daughter under a…