Tag: United States
The Michigan Relics, and the Greatest Fraud in American History
The year is 1890, and James O. Scotford of Edmore, Michigan, is about to make an astonishing claim. Scotford reveals to the world his “discoveries”: a series of relics including a cup…
The Gyrojet: A Science Fiction Fantasy from the 1960s
The history of firearms is, to an extent, one of hard-won incremental improvements with the occasional quantum leap in technology. While there have been such moments of brilliance in design conception, they…
The Battle of Shiloh, when the Injured Soldiers Glowed
It is early 1862, and Ulysses S Grant has just won two major battles. Fighting tooth and nail in Tennessee as he forced his way south in an effort to splinter the…
Roko’s Basilisk: The Thought Experiment That Could Kill You
Generally speaking, thought experiments are not dangerous. As useful tools for “gaming” out a scenario, they could certainly point to a danger in the future, but they are not traditionally a problem…
Oumuamua, and Our Search to Reach Our Strangest Visitor.
There is much we don’t know. We may have made extraordinary strides on understanding the limits and levers of reality in the past few hundred years, but we have more questions now…