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Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $7.3 Million
Last year, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went on YouTube host Joe Rogan’s show and smoked some weed. That was unfortunate, because SpaceX happens to be a U.S. military contractor, and the U.S. government does not like marijuana—and in this instance, it disliked it so much it spent $7.3 million to demonstrate its displeasure.
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Secretive Air Force Spaceplane Breaks Record With 719 Straight Days In Orbit
The U.S. Air Force’s Boeing X-37B spaceplane broke a record yesterday for the most amount of time in orbit around the Earth. But we still don’t know when the uncrewed plane is going to land or even what it’s doing up there. All of the details about the X-37B mission are classified.
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F-16 Fighter Jet Crashes Into California Warehouse, Worker Captures Aftermath On Video
On Thursday local time, an F-16 fighter jet crashed into a warehouse near the March Air Reserve Base in southern California. The pilot ejected and survived, but roughly a dozen people inside the warehouse were sent to the hospital for minor injuries related to the crash. The aftermath was all captured on video.
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Captain Marvel Presents Complicated Political Messages Worth Examining
Because an amnesiac Carol Danvers spends so much time during Captain Marvel trying to figure out who she is, there’s a way in which she’s never quite given a chance to deeply grapple with some of the moral issues the movie presents to her. That job largely falls on the audience, and the film’s relative…