WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.220 Hello. I burned my tongue while testing some 00:00:03.220 --> 00:00:08.259 pasta. But stuff still happened. So what's up? 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:11.480 We found the coolest rock ever. Humans have been 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:13.220 around doing a lot of stuff, doing a lot of rock 00:00:13.220 --> 00:00:15.779 collecting, but we found the coolest of them. 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.489 Ever. On Mars. Also possibly life on Mars, but 00:00:20.489 --> 00:00:22.750 the rock is more important. So a few billion 00:00:22.750 --> 00:00:25.629 years ago Mars had like an atmosphere and running 00:00:25.629 --> 00:00:28.449 water and stuff like that. It is not currently 00:00:28.449 --> 00:00:30.730 a few billion years ago, which makes it difficult 00:00:30.730 --> 00:00:33.429 for us to identify life on Mars. We can't quite 00:00:33.429 --> 00:00:36.530 go to a telescope and just see like Martian Jeremy 00:00:36.530 --> 00:00:39.289 just sort of like splorking it, whatever that 00:00:39.289 --> 00:00:42.130 means. But let's talk about this rock. The Perseverance 00:00:42.130 --> 00:00:44.469 Rover found a cool looking rock. It rolled over 00:00:44.469 --> 00:00:46.530 a rock that had some spots on it and the scientists 00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:48.909 were like, that's a cool rock. It was cool enough 00:00:48.909 --> 00:00:50.469 that they looked further into it, and what they 00:00:50.469 --> 00:00:52.990 found was that those specks were actually evidence 00:00:52.990 --> 00:00:55.950 of material that is the output of a potential 00:00:55.950 --> 00:00:58.469 organic reaction. Essentially, they found some 00:00:58.469 --> 00:01:00.469 minerals which, to our knowledge, can only be 00:01:00.469 --> 00:01:03.090 created one of two ways, one of which requires 00:01:03.090 --> 00:01:07.349 intense heat. The other is from organic interaction, 00:01:07.609 --> 00:01:10.969 and this rock was at the bottom of a cold riverbed, 00:01:11.030 --> 00:01:13.230 so it probably wasn't the heat. Now, it could 00:01:13.230 --> 00:01:14.489 have been something else that we just don't know 00:01:14.489 --> 00:01:16.790 about. We don't know what we don't know, but 00:01:16.790 --> 00:01:18.849 this is cool. They've been studying this for 00:01:18.849 --> 00:01:20.409 a year, and they are confident enough to say, 00:01:20.609 --> 00:01:23.409 like, hey, this might be the closest we have 00:01:23.409 --> 00:01:25.989 to confirmation of life having existed on Mars. 00:01:26.329 --> 00:01:27.930 The way that they could actually confirm it is 00:01:27.930 --> 00:01:30.349 by sending out a mission to bring back a sample 00:01:30.349 --> 00:01:33.069 and studying it, but we've been cutting a lot 00:01:33.069 --> 00:01:36.609 of funding to NASA, so that's probably not gonna 00:01:36.609 --> 00:01:39.629 happen. But it was a really cool rock. Stateside! 00:01:39.750 --> 00:01:41.430 I already made a video about Charlie Kirk, and 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:43.829 I'm not gonna rehash too much here. There's way 00:01:43.829 --> 00:01:45.510 too much stuff going on around the world right 00:01:45.510 --> 00:01:48.000 now to be focusing on this one thing. for too 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.379 long, so real quick. Last week, Charlie Kirk, 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:52.620 a popular conservative commentator most well 00:01:52.620 --> 00:01:54.420 known for his Prove Me Wrong series where he 00:01:54.420 --> 00:01:56.980 debated liberals on college campuses, was murdered. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:00.099 Since then, there has been a massive amount of 00:02:00.099 --> 00:02:03.120 escalation between commentators calling for war 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.700 despite most elected officials saying that this 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:08.400 was awful and then condemning political violence. 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:10.500 After about a two -day manhunt, the suspect was 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:12.699 taken into custody by his own father so that 00:02:12.699 --> 00:02:14.830 the FBI didn't even get the guy but that didn't 00:02:14.830 --> 00:02:16.469 stop them from turning around and having a press 00:02:16.469 --> 00:02:19.409 conference where they were like we got him i 00:02:19.409 --> 00:02:22.270 am not going to dive into the details about the 00:02:22.270 --> 00:02:25.310 suspect because frankly there's too much dust 00:02:25.310 --> 00:02:29.030 in the air right now and i trust me i have seen 00:02:29.030 --> 00:02:33.349 the takes from all sides this has been an embarrassing 00:02:33.349 --> 00:02:36.469 stretch for the news media there have been so 00:02:36.469 --> 00:02:38.889 many things that have been published and retracted 00:02:38.889 --> 00:02:43.580 from institutions that i respect and Have been 00:02:43.580 --> 00:02:47.080 shaken by I usually give grace to outlets because 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:49.319 like I know they are just going through their 00:02:49.319 --> 00:02:52.919 filter of their editor but generally have strict 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:54.939 reporting requirements for actually saying what 00:02:54.939 --> 00:02:58.120 is a fact and A lot of that has just been busted 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.780 over this past week. And so until we have more 00:03:00.780 --> 00:03:02.960 concrete information, I'm just gonna move on 00:03:03.050 --> 00:03:05.430 Let's talk about that Venezuelan boat that we 00:03:05.430 --> 00:03:07.490 bombed. There has been new reporting around the 00:03:07.490 --> 00:03:09.810 boat carrying 11 people that the U .S. military 00:03:09.810 --> 00:03:12.349 bombed, killing everyone on board off the coast 00:03:12.349 --> 00:03:14.729 of Venezuela. This was already kind of fucked. 00:03:15.050 --> 00:03:18.090 Like, this was already a thing where it should 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:20.229 not have happened. The military does not have 00:03:20.229 --> 00:03:22.430 the authority to go after foreign civilians, 00:03:22.789 --> 00:03:24.990 period. But now it turns out that national security 00:03:24.990 --> 00:03:26.909 advisors have briefed the press in a closed -door 00:03:26.909 --> 00:03:29.870 conference about how the boat was actually headed 00:03:29.870 --> 00:03:34.389 back to shore. The boat... was heading back to 00:03:34.389 --> 00:03:37.129 Venezuela when it was bombed. And it was bombed 00:03:37.129 --> 00:03:40.469 twice. Once to blow up the boat, and again to 00:03:40.469 --> 00:03:43.169 kill the survivors. This is awful. Like, it's 00:03:43.169 --> 00:03:45.629 awful. And international legal experts basically 00:03:45.629 --> 00:03:48.469 all agree this is fucked and illegal. Except 00:03:48.469 --> 00:03:50.909 there's not much that can happen. Like the ICC, 00:03:51.050 --> 00:03:53.389 the International Criminal Court, one, can't 00:03:53.389 --> 00:03:57.289 really do anything about the US, and two, can't 00:03:57.289 --> 00:04:00.009 really do anything unless it's systemic, which... 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.979 It is, but it needs to be more systemic. Legal 00:04:03.979 --> 00:04:06.479 experts have drawn connections between this and 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:09.620 someone like Rodrigo Duterte who did a lot of 00:04:09.620 --> 00:04:12.500 extrajudicial killing and is now being held by 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:14.680 the ICC and tried for crimes against humanity. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.279 So like that's kind of it. Like we are still 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:19.879 pressuring Venezuela a lot with military force 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.819 and that's weird. We claim that we are at war 00:04:22.819 --> 00:04:26.100 with gangs within Venezuela, which allows us 00:04:26.100 --> 00:04:28.040 to go to war with Venezuela because we say that 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:30.199 their government is involved with the gangs, 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:31.860 but we're not at war with the government, we're 00:04:31.860 --> 00:04:33.959 at war with the gangs. It's gross, and I don't 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.480 want to go to war with Venezuela. What? Well, 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.360 let's talk about Chicago, where it's gotten quite 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.420 icy recently. Ice has landed in Chicago and has 00:04:41.420 --> 00:04:44.160 already started causing havoc, chaos, and already 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:45.959 murdered someone. The Department of Homeland 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.680 Security has launched Operation Midway Blitz, 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:52.259 which, quick aside, The government naming a law 00:04:52.259 --> 00:04:54.680 enforcement operation like some kind of military 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:57.379 operation with regards to one of their own cities 00:04:57.379 --> 00:05:01.540 within our sovereign borders is fucking whack. 00:05:01.779 --> 00:05:03.600 Just wanted to put that out there, just as a 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:07.300 little kernel. But anyway, they've been causing 00:05:07.300 --> 00:05:10.100 havoc. And no one in Chicago wants this. Silverio 00:05:10.100 --> 00:05:13.639 Viegas Gonzalez was murdered by ICE. He was a 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:16.319 42 -year -old cook at a restaurant in a suburb 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:19.379 of Chicago, and he was driving when ICE accosted 00:05:19.379 --> 00:05:21.879 him in unmarked cars. They cornered him in his 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:23.759 car, got out, and started to approach the vehicle. 00:05:24.300 --> 00:05:26.540 Witnesses in the area described it as people 00:05:26.540 --> 00:05:28.560 thinking that it was a robbery at first. These 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.800 men approach his car, start saying things at 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.079 him, and he's not fully fluent in English, so 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:34.500 he's like, what the f— What the fuck is going 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:37.000 on? Who are these people in these unmarked cars? 00:05:37.259 --> 00:05:38.879 Presumably thinking it was a robbery, he hit 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:40.920 the gas and tried to speed away, and in doing 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:43.699 so, ICE claims that he dragged one of their agents, 00:05:44.220 --> 00:05:47.019 who then opened fire. ICE maintains that since 00:05:47.019 --> 00:05:49.779 he tried to escape and in doing so hurt an agent, 00:05:50.100 --> 00:05:51.899 that he is the cause of his own death because 00:05:51.899 --> 00:05:54.860 the agent used acceptable force. I would argue 00:05:54.860 --> 00:05:58.550 that... Chicago doesn't want ice there. And here's 00:05:58.550 --> 00:06:01.649 ice in Chicago, and a man's already dead because 00:06:01.649 --> 00:06:04.230 of it. I learned from my Charlie Kirk video that 00:06:04.230 --> 00:06:07.089 a person having children makes it so that them 00:06:07.089 --> 00:06:09.470 being killed is completely unacceptable. So for 00:06:09.470 --> 00:06:11.689 those who need to know that number, the guy had 00:06:11.689 --> 00:06:14.129 three kids. Since the killing, local organizers 00:06:14.129 --> 00:06:16.310 have banded together and come out in force. There 00:06:16.310 --> 00:06:18.649 have been incredible demonstrations, and community 00:06:18.649 --> 00:06:20.689 organizers and faith leaders alike have made 00:06:20.689 --> 00:06:23.329 statements of unity. It's really been amazing 00:06:23.329 --> 00:06:25.850 in general in all the places that ICE has been 00:06:25.850 --> 00:06:28.050 sent in force to see people rising up and pushing 00:06:28.050 --> 00:06:30.829 back. It's almost like when people don't want 00:06:30.829 --> 00:06:34.550 an oppressive force in their locality, you shouldn't 00:06:34.550 --> 00:06:36.850 try to do that. It's almost like they didn't 00:06:36.850 --> 00:06:40.069 fucking vote for you. So far in 2025, 15 people 00:06:40.069 --> 00:06:42.629 have died in the custody of ICE, and this is 00:06:42.629 --> 00:06:45.449 only really on pace with 2020, where we had an 00:06:45.449 --> 00:06:47.839 excess of deaths from COVID. Meanwhile, the ICE 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:49.339 raids are already creating a chilling effect 00:06:49.339 --> 00:06:51.839 for foreign investors. That raid on the factory 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.939 in Georgia? South Korea's pissed! They recently 00:06:54.939 --> 00:06:56.819 published an article explaining what those people 00:06:56.819 --> 00:06:59.279 went through in ice custody. They were chained 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.240 up. They had to lap up water because they couldn't 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:04.519 use their hands or feet. They had about a fist 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.779 sized hole to see the sky. They were held for 00:07:07.779 --> 00:07:10.819 days. They had one toilet and the only real privacy 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:13.240 was a sheet to go over the lower half of their 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:16.579 body. These are people whose crime was some paperwork 00:07:16.579 --> 00:07:19.100 didn't have a certain check mark on it. I'm sure 00:07:19.100 --> 00:07:22.139 that'll be good for business elsewhere. It turns 00:07:22.139 --> 00:07:24.459 out you can hold criminal leaders accountable. 00:07:24.899 --> 00:07:27.160 Brazil has sentenced their former president Bolsonaro 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.279 to 27 years and three months in prison. He was 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.300 found guilty of attempting a coup to maintain 00:07:32.300 --> 00:07:35.100 power after the elections in 2022. Now, Bolsonaro 00:07:35.100 --> 00:07:37.079 has already said this is a witch hunt, blah, 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.579 blah, blah, blah, et cetera, et cetera. The things 00:07:39.579 --> 00:07:42.180 that they say. Trump also was like, well, that's 00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:44.279 like what they did to me, which was also a witch 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.800 hunt. But the wildest part is that U .S. Secretary 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.259 of State Marco Rubio made a statement that the 00:07:49.259 --> 00:07:53.750 U .S. was going to respond in kind like. The 00:07:53.750 --> 00:07:57.170 US was going to retaliate for Brazil doing this? 00:07:57.389 --> 00:08:00.829 To which Brazil's response was essentially, the 00:08:00.829 --> 00:08:03.290 fuck you on about? This is, as far as I know, 00:08:03.389 --> 00:08:06.569 the second former president just this year to 00:08:06.569 --> 00:08:09.850 go to jail in a country that's not the US. Someone 00:08:09.850 --> 00:08:12.449 tell Merrick Garland about this. Meanwhile, Israel 00:08:12.449 --> 00:08:15.410 has struck Qatar, and they are not happy. Israel 00:08:15.410 --> 00:08:17.490 launched an airstrike against Hamas leaders who 00:08:17.490 --> 00:08:20.269 were in Qatar, which is a US ally, and where 00:08:20.269 --> 00:08:22.629 some peace negotiations are supposed to be happening. 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.079 peace negotiations that were interrupted by hellfire. 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.660 This got worldwide condemnation pretty much immediately, 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.500 including from the UN Security Council, including 00:08:30.500 --> 00:08:34.259 from the US. The US, for once, agreed to vote 00:08:34.259 --> 00:08:37.000 for a condemnation of actions taken by Israel. 00:08:37.539 --> 00:08:40.860 Except the condemnation letter specifically does 00:08:40.860 --> 00:08:44.860 not say Israel. It references the attacks, but 00:08:44.860 --> 00:08:47.200 it doesn't say who did it. It just says that 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.190 the attacks are awful. Can't be too specific. 00:08:50.470 --> 00:08:52.289 Anyway, after the attacks, Trump was like, oh, 00:08:52.289 --> 00:08:53.889 well, that was stupid, and that won't happen 00:08:53.889 --> 00:08:56.610 again. To which Netanyahu clarified, yes, that 00:08:56.610 --> 00:08:58.889 actually may happen again if Israel wants to 00:08:58.889 --> 00:09:00.710 do it. So I'm not sure who's going to be sitting 00:09:00.710 --> 00:09:03.590 at the table with Israel in the future. The EU 00:09:03.590 --> 00:09:05.710 is already talking about trying to end trade 00:09:05.710 --> 00:09:08.470 deals and more sanctions are incoming against 00:09:08.470 --> 00:09:10.750 certain members of parliament and settlers. So 00:09:10.750 --> 00:09:13.250 like, maybe don't bomb everyone. That's been 00:09:13.250 --> 00:09:15.370 my strategy. And I've got friends. Speaking of 00:09:15.370 --> 00:09:19.129 friends, NATO is... basically a country group 00:09:19.129 --> 00:09:22.129 chat. Several Russian drones were shot down and 00:09:22.129 --> 00:09:24.929 collected as debris in Polish airspace. This 00:09:24.929 --> 00:09:26.730 is the first time that a Russian drone has been 00:09:26.730 --> 00:09:29.389 detected crossing into NATO borders, and it's 00:09:29.389 --> 00:09:32.529 also the first time that a NATO member has fired 00:09:32.529 --> 00:09:34.929 ammunition in this war. Following the drone's 00:09:34.929 --> 00:09:38.070 presence, they invoked Article 4 of NATO, which 00:09:38.070 --> 00:09:39.970 you might not be familiar with Article 4, you 00:09:39.970 --> 00:09:42.730 might know Article 5. Article 5 is the, yo, you 00:09:42.730 --> 00:09:44.169 mess with my friends, you're gonna mess with 00:09:44.169 --> 00:09:46.600 the whole crew. That's it's that article right? 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:47.860 It's the one where it's like you fight any of 00:09:47.860 --> 00:09:50.480 us you fight all of us My boys got me article 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.919 four is yo, you mess with us. We're gonna have 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:54.659 a drum circle about it We're gonna we're gonna 00:09:54.659 --> 00:09:57.080 have a mixer. We're gonna have a get -together 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:59.419 at the local community center We're gonna bring 00:09:59.419 --> 00:10:01.659 snacks and chat article four is essentially like 00:10:01.659 --> 00:10:04.460 hey y 'all this happened what? Can we have a 00:10:04.460 --> 00:10:06.080 chat about it? Like, can we talk about what we're 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.039 going to do? But it's still notable. It's a notable 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.240 step. It's only been used eight times since the 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.580 formation of NATO. Not long after that whole 00:10:12.580 --> 00:10:14.860 incident, drones were then detected in Romanian 00:10:14.860 --> 00:10:17.340 airspace, and they actually gave permission to 00:10:17.340 --> 00:10:18.960 their fighter pilots to shoot the drones out 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:20.820 of the air, and the fighter pilots chose not 00:10:20.820 --> 00:10:23.139 to to minimize collateral damage. Russia maintains 00:10:23.139 --> 00:10:25.620 these drones were perfectly innocent. They had 00:10:25.620 --> 00:10:27.779 had a great explanation. They were simply on 00:10:27.779 --> 00:10:30.629 their way back from striking Ukraine. It's just 00:10:30.629 --> 00:10:32.710 a return trip. Can we just borrow your airspace 00:10:32.710 --> 00:10:34.350 real quick? We're just gonna do some war stuff. 00:10:34.669 --> 00:10:36.649 It won't be a problem. Don't worry about it. 00:10:36.769 --> 00:10:39.049 Alright, we're gonna talk Nepal and then we've 00:10:39.049 --> 00:10:41.950 got so much cool technology shit to talk about. 00:10:42.269 --> 00:10:45.610 So Nepal. That was fast. Nepal essentially just 00:10:45.610 --> 00:10:48.470 had a revolution. Like in real time. It's whack. 00:10:48.629 --> 00:10:51.090 Things got real real real fast. Here's a timeline. 00:10:51.309 --> 00:10:53.690 September 4th, the government of Nepal bans a 00:10:53.690 --> 00:10:55.470 bunch of social media apps. This pisses off a 00:10:55.470 --> 00:10:57.649 lot of people, especially the younger generation, 00:10:57.789 --> 00:10:59.809 who are already feeling like they have no real 00:10:59.809 --> 00:11:02.429 future. At the same time, a handful of apps are 00:11:02.429 --> 00:11:04.629 not banned, and so organization begins there, 00:11:04.850 --> 00:11:07.370 places like Discord. September 8th, thousands 00:11:07.370 --> 00:11:10.090 of people march towards Parliament. Cops open 00:11:10.090 --> 00:11:12.330 fire on some of the protesters and 19 people 00:11:12.330 --> 00:11:15.029 die on the first day. That makes everything way 00:11:15.029 --> 00:11:18.059 worse, and in an attempt to... calm things down 00:11:18.059 --> 00:11:20.220 a bit. They try to unban the social media apps, 00:11:20.299 --> 00:11:22.879 but it's too late. September 9th. Parliament 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.460 is burning. The then prime minister resigns and 00:11:26.460 --> 00:11:29.740 escapes off the roof in a helicopter. A bunch 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:31.460 of other high -level officials' houses are burned 00:11:31.460 --> 00:11:34.600 down. Casualties increase. September 10th, things 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.259 settle down a little bit. There's initial discussions 00:11:37.259 --> 00:11:39.820 between protesters, the army, and representatives 00:11:39.820 --> 00:11:42.399 of the government about what happens next. September 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:45.379 12th, former Chief Justice Karke is named as 00:11:45.379 --> 00:11:48.059 the interim prime minister and is the first prime 00:11:48.059 --> 00:11:51.200 minister of Nepal to be a woman. Notably, consensus 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.039 for her appointment happened on Discord. Which 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:57.519 is just like, like that's now in their history. 00:11:57.659 --> 00:11:59.600 Like, that's gonna go in a book. The protesters 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:01.580 turned around and immediately became a cleanup 00:12:01.580 --> 00:12:03.299 crew. They started to clean up their country 00:12:03.299 --> 00:12:05.840 and put things back in their place. As of now, 00:12:05.940 --> 00:12:08.960 the death toll is at 72, with a little over 2 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:11.399 ,000 people injured. The newly appointed interim 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.700 prime minister is looking to do right by the 00:12:13.700 --> 00:12:16.179 families who lost people in the uprising. There 00:12:16.179 --> 00:12:18.940 are elections scheduled for March 5th, 2026, 00:12:19.259 --> 00:12:22.120 and we're just gonna see what happens. I do want 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.419 to note that the people who were cast out of 00:12:24.419 --> 00:12:26.340 the government, the corrupt politicians that... 00:12:26.350 --> 00:12:29.009 they rose up against, they're complaining, and 00:12:29.009 --> 00:12:31.090 they feel that they should be reinstated. There 00:12:31.090 --> 00:12:33.509 there, you did your best. If you like what I 00:12:33.509 --> 00:12:34.990 do and you want to help me keep doing it, and 00:12:34.990 --> 00:12:36.730 you want to help me not be beholden to, like, 00:12:36.970 --> 00:12:40.049 advertisers and stuff, head to isupport .dev. 00:12:40.190 --> 00:12:42.029 There are a whole bunch of ways to support my 00:12:42.029 --> 00:12:44.710 work. I've got Patreon, Ko -Fi, YouTube memberships, 00:12:44.990 --> 00:12:47.389 a merch store, but if money is not really an 00:12:47.389 --> 00:12:49.789 option, just sharing my content goes a very long 00:12:49.789 --> 00:12:52.370 way. Thank you so incredibly much for being here, 00:12:52.389 --> 00:12:55.990 and there's a lot of new folks. So, hi. Uh... 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:00.200 Let's move on. Technology! Okay, I'm going to 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:02.480 try to get through this without going too deep 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:05.220 into each individual one, but I might because 00:13:05.220 --> 00:13:06.940 it's cool. There's just a lot of neat tech stuff 00:13:06.940 --> 00:13:09.639 recently. All this has happened in the past like 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:12.340 five -ish months. First up, how do you want to 00:13:12.340 --> 00:13:14.679 be powered by sand? A town in Finland is using 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:16.940 a giant sand battery to heat their town in the 00:13:16.940 --> 00:13:19.190 winter. It's just got deployed. Essentially, 00:13:19.690 --> 00:13:21.750 it's this device that's just a big silo full 00:13:21.750 --> 00:13:24.929 of sand and pipes, and it gets heated up by renewable 00:13:24.929 --> 00:13:27.389 energies. Sand is really good at maintaining 00:13:27.389 --> 00:13:29.549 heat without breaking down as a material, so 00:13:29.549 --> 00:13:32.110 they can heat this thing up to extreme temperatures, 00:13:32.429 --> 00:13:35.100 and it just kind of stays there. So during these 00:13:35.100 --> 00:13:36.980 sunny and warm months, they can use renewable 00:13:36.980 --> 00:13:39.320 energy to heat this thing up, and it can stay 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:41.740 hot throughout the winter and heat the entire 00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:45.100 town. Not like emanating heat from the one place, 00:13:45.139 --> 00:13:47.360 but there are pipes in it that can then take 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.840 air, heat it up, and deliver it to places. That's 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.360 rad. And like, there have been heat storage systems 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:58.159 before, but this is sand. Like, it's pretty available 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.220 and pretty cheap. There's still drawbacks. It's 00:14:00.220 --> 00:14:02.659 mostly good for heating. It's a lot worse to 00:14:02.659 --> 00:14:05.059 try to convert that. back into electricity, it's 00:14:05.059 --> 00:14:07.779 not very efficient that way. But still, a single 00:14:07.779 --> 00:14:11.519 big thing of sand to heat a whole town? I'm genuinely 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:14.039 floored by, like, I had to double, triple, and 00:14:14.039 --> 00:14:16.399 quadruple check because they're saying it can 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.340 hold the heat for months at a time. That's just, 00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:21.840 I can't reconcile that in my head. I guess the 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:23.740 point is, who needs classic batteries when you 00:14:23.740 --> 00:14:26.320 can just use sand? Except, let's go back to classic 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.200 batteries. You are most likely familiar with 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.960 lithium ion batteries, which power most consumer 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.659 electronics. They're those good good batteries 00:14:32.659 --> 00:14:35.200 that every once in a while explode. It just makes 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:36.919 for a little, it's just a little fun, you know? 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.259 It's a little side thing it does. So inside lithium 00:14:39.259 --> 00:14:42.840 ion batteries is sort of like power sludge. And 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:45.480 that's the thing that can blow up. I'm so tired! 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:47.200 It's like the end of the day and I'm recording 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.360 late because there was like a music festival 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:52.899 literally behind where I live and so there was 00:14:52.899 --> 00:14:56.049 no way I could record. So - Bear with me. Lithium 00:14:56.049 --> 00:14:58.389 -ion batteries. They are good, but mostly they 00:14:58.389 --> 00:15:00.110 suck and they blow up. So let's talk about how 00:15:00.110 --> 00:15:02.909 ion storage systems is working on a solid state 00:15:02.909 --> 00:15:05.330 battery that shows some serious promise. This 00:15:05.330 --> 00:15:07.049 is a Maryland -based company that is working 00:15:07.049 --> 00:15:09.210 on a solid state battery. The idea is that instead 00:15:09.210 --> 00:15:11.629 of having that power goo, you just have like 00:15:11.629 --> 00:15:15.289 a brick of battery material that just holds power. 00:15:15.570 --> 00:15:17.750 Like a power crystal. They should call them power 00:15:17.750 --> 00:15:20.620 crystals if you need a marketing person! Talk 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:23.379 to me! Yo, they're power crystals, not batteries. 00:15:23.539 --> 00:15:25.399 So they're working on these power crystals, and 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:27.799 they could be potentially up to 50 % more efficient 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:31.379 by size, and also have virtually no chance of 00:15:31.379 --> 00:15:33.279 just exploding. This could be transformative 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.019 for a lot of consumer electronics and things 00:15:35.019 --> 00:15:37.799 like electric vehicle adoption and safety. There 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.820 was a bunch of research into solid -state batteries 00:15:39.820 --> 00:15:41.700 years ago, but it kind of fizzled out because 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:44.379 nothing really worked. But this company has been 00:15:44.379 --> 00:15:47.059 giving prototypes to the military and to a couple 00:15:47.059 --> 00:15:49.100 of private tech firms that have not been identified. 00:15:49.470 --> 00:15:52.190 both of which are giving good feedback. So you 00:15:52.190 --> 00:15:56.289 might have your very own power crystal soon in 00:15:56.289 --> 00:16:00.090 several years. Power crystals! Power goo! Anyway, 00:16:00.250 --> 00:16:03.370 koalas be fucking. Did you know that koalas be 00:16:03.370 --> 00:16:06.110 fucking? And it's not good for them because chlamydia 00:16:06.110 --> 00:16:09.429 is rampant in koala populations. Is this common 00:16:09.429 --> 00:16:11.509 knowledge? Am I just learning this? Scientists 00:16:11.509 --> 00:16:13.929 at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia 00:16:13.929 --> 00:16:16.710 have been developing a vaccine for chlamydia 00:16:16.710 --> 00:16:20.200 for koalas. for like a decade. Apparently chlamydia 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.580 rates in some koala populations can be as high 00:16:22.580 --> 00:16:26.100 as 70%. They'd be fucking. But chlamydia is bad 00:16:26.100 --> 00:16:28.120 and is threatening their entire population. So 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.000 instead of trying to find each individual one 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.159 with chlamydia and treat it, they're trying to 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:34.460 make a vaccine and introduce that into the population. 00:16:34.659 --> 00:16:38.220 They did it. It got approved. Now they need money 00:16:38.220 --> 00:16:40.019 to actually distribute it, so if that's what 00:16:40.019 --> 00:16:41.919 they're working on now, hopefully that happens. 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.240 Big day for copper alloys! Actually, huge day 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:47.919 for copper alloys. Have you ever heard of a super 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:50.179 alloy? It's like an alloy, but make it super. 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.179 Super alloys are metal alloys that maintain their 00:16:53.179 --> 00:16:55.500 structure at incredibly high temperatures very 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:57.519 close to their melting point. Think like taking 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:00.500 a bar of iron and you heat it up to near -melting, 00:17:00.539 --> 00:17:03.820 but it still doesn't bend. Basically that. These 00:17:03.820 --> 00:17:05.920 have some very specific uses, but they are mostly 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.579 made of... I don't see, I don't know actually. 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.140 I'm going off my notes. They are mostly made 00:17:11.140 --> 00:17:13.599 of nickel, cobalt, and iron. Those are elements. 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.599 However, nickel, cobalt, and iron are not as 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:19.880 conductive as copper, but copper hasn't really 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.400 had an alloy that can actually act as a super 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.680 -alloy. Until now. Because Martin Harmer, leading 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:28.200 a team at Lehigh University, has discovered a 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:32.920 method for, like, atomically constructing stronger 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:47.980 copper. Quote, Essentially, they wanted a more 00:17:47.980 --> 00:17:50.420 conductive super alloy option, and they went 00:17:50.420 --> 00:17:54.039 down to the atomic level. and analyze the structure 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:57.440 of the materials, and effectively use the flaws 00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:01.039 in the structures to create reinforcement points. 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.819 If you think about, like, how can I even describe 00:18:03.819 --> 00:18:07.579 this? Think about a stick, and you take it and 00:18:07.579 --> 00:18:09.980 you go to bend it, and as you're starting to 00:18:09.980 --> 00:18:12.039 bend it, bits and pieces of it begin to crack 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.019 and spike up. That stick is pretty weak, right? 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.240 Like, you bend it and it cracks at its fractures. 00:18:17.539 --> 00:18:19.400 What if, instead of cracking at its fractures, 00:18:19.460 --> 00:18:22.509 you reinforce all those points, And now it's 00:18:22.509 --> 00:18:27.190 really strong. So you go to bend it, and it doesn't. 00:18:27.269 --> 00:18:30.549 That's the end of the analogy. I did a great 00:18:30.549 --> 00:18:33.269 job with it. So how does this help us? I don't 00:18:33.269 --> 00:18:36.089 know. But it's being hailed as one of the top 00:18:36.089 --> 00:18:38.670 10 scientific discoveries of the year. Last thing 00:18:38.670 --> 00:18:40.609 for science, let's talk about flamethrowers. 00:18:40.849 --> 00:18:43.250 Let's talk about plasma flamethrowers, specifically. 00:18:43.630 --> 00:18:46.329 Let's talk about plasma flamethrowers that recycle 00:18:46.329 --> 00:18:49.309 plastic, specifically. Engineering researchers 00:18:49.309 --> 00:18:52.650 in South Korea made a plasma torch that is capable 00:18:52.650 --> 00:18:55.430 of taking plastic and breaking it down into core 00:18:55.430 --> 00:18:58.640 components to be reused and recycled. They are 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:00.660 able to take some plastic scraps, put it in their 00:19:00.660 --> 00:19:04.559 machine, and in just 0 .01 seconds it's exposed 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.440 to so much energy that the plastic just breaks 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:09.779 down back to its base components. This is still 00:19:09.779 --> 00:19:11.819 nascent, it's not quite industrial grade and 00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:14.480 it won't be for several years still, but if it's 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:16.539 powered by renewable energies, it could be a 00:19:16.539 --> 00:19:18.720 completely zero -emission method of recycling 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:21.079 plastics. The only other zero -emission method 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:27.960 of the recycling plastics is... me. Gaming. Nintendo 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.920 did a Nintendo Direct, and holy shit, new Fire 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:32.759 Emblem. They're making a new Fire Emblem. Did 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.000 you see? Did you see they're making a new Fire 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:37.579 Emblem? Allow me to talk at you about Fire Emblem. 00:19:37.660 --> 00:19:41.359 No? Don't click away. My retention stats, wait! 00:19:41.740 --> 00:19:43.640 Nintendo did a Nintendo Direct, they announced 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:45.359 a whole bunch of stuff, and here are a few highlights. 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:50.039 A Fire Emblem game. Alright. Metroid Prime 4 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:52.779 is going to be released on December 4th, 2025. 00:19:53.339 --> 00:19:55.839 It's finally happening. They are releasing a 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:58.839 bundle of Mario Galaxy and Mario Galaxy 2 as 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:00.799 a re -release. They announced the sequel to the 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:03.059 Super Mario movie called the Super Mario Galaxy 00:20:03.059 --> 00:20:04.980 movie. There's gonna be a new Mario Tennis, which 00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:07.420 I want to highlight because I just have a weird 00:20:07.420 --> 00:20:10.299 affinity for Mario Tennis. I specifically loved 00:20:10.299 --> 00:20:12.980 Mario Tennis 64. I don't know why. There's a 00:20:12.980 --> 00:20:14.619 whole bunch of more announcements. I've linked 00:20:14.619 --> 00:20:16.660 to it in my newsletter. You can find the links 00:20:16.660 --> 00:20:19.859 at there. And our last story for today, we're 00:20:19.859 --> 00:20:23.059 going to talk about Sony pulling a Hasbro. Back 00:20:23.059 --> 00:20:26.759 in June, in the UK, a video game reseller had 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:29.140 his house raided by the cops and had some of 00:20:29.140 --> 00:20:31.420 his merchandise taken. The merchandise in question 00:20:31.420 --> 00:20:33.900 was a box of old Nintendo development kits for 00:20:33.900 --> 00:20:36.299 some old consoles. The guy was like a video game 00:20:36.299 --> 00:20:38.460 reseller. He just like collected stuff and resold 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:42.160 it. And he went to a clearance sale for a Sony 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:44.920 headquarters. He bought stuff ranging from furniture 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.569 to boxes of old crap, and among them was... this 00:20:48.569 --> 00:20:51.230 box of dev kits. So he eventually gets a prospective 00:20:51.230 --> 00:20:53.450 buyer that's kind of sus, and a month later, 00:20:53.769 --> 00:20:56.009 the cops show up at his house, arrest him, charge 00:20:56.009 --> 00:20:57.910 him with money laundering, and confiscate the 00:20:57.910 --> 00:21:00.289 box. There's an important detail here that clears 00:21:00.289 --> 00:21:03.589 a few things up, which is that those aren't Sony's 00:21:03.589 --> 00:21:07.769 dev kits. Dev kits are rented out. So Sony had 00:21:07.769 --> 00:21:11.450 those dev kits on rent from Nintendo, and probably 00:21:11.450 --> 00:21:13.559 accidentally threw them out. and then went to 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:16.319 the cops and had the cops go after the guy who 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:18.279 ended up with them because of Sony's mistake. 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:21.759 This is all allegedly, I should be clear, it's 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:24.539 just the current state of play. That's how it 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:26.359 looks. I say they pulled a Hasbro because this 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:28.579 very much reminds me of the time that Hasbro 00:21:28.579 --> 00:21:32.000 sent the literal Pinkertons to go collect Magic 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:33.960 the Gathering cards that had not yet been released 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:35.779 that accidentally found their way into someone's 00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:39.509 house. Imagine getting like shot. because of 00:21:39.509 --> 00:21:41.710 an unreleased Magic card. Thank you so much for 00:21:41.710 --> 00:21:43.890 listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 00:21:44.089 --> 00:21:47.190 Head to SKH .News for sources, bonus content, 00:21:47.690 --> 00:21:51.170 and more stolen paraphernalia from the Sony office. 00:21:51.869 --> 00:21:53.690 My name is Endeavourance, we'll talk again soon, 00:21:53.869 --> 00:21:55.509 take care, and be well.