It’s interesting that nearly every serial killer Americans can name, Bundy, Dahmer, BTK, Zodiac, Son of Sam, the Golden State Killer, all emerged during roughly the same 30-year period.
That wasn’t a coincidence. From the late 1960s through the early 1990s, America accidentally built the perfect environment for serial murder. The Baby Boom created a massive generation moving through its most crime-prone years. People hitchhiked, children wandered freely, families lost touch for weeks, and strangers were generally trusted.
Meanwhile, police departments barely communicated across county or state lines. Records were stored on paper, crimes stayed trapped inside local jurisdictions, and forensic DNA did not exist. A killer could leave biological evidence everywhere, travel 100 miles, and effectively become someone else’s problem.
Then the ecosystem collapsed. DNA made intimate, contact-heavy crimes far easier to solve. Cameras, cell phones, GPS, national databases, tougher sentencing, and a culture transformed by stranger danger made repeated killing much harder to sustain.
The Bundy era wasn’t normal. It was a historical anomaly, created by a brief collision of demographics, technology, trust, and institutional failure.
SpaceX just announced that they will be deploying V3 Starlink satellites for the first time during their 13th Starship test flight next week! Six of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery.
Summary of every major upgrade and modification @SpaceX says it's made for the upcoming test flight:
• More robust stage separation flip sequence to prevent the booster from rotating off course.
• Hardware upgrades to improve Super Heavy Raptor re-light reliability during the boostback burn.
• Updated engine alarms and abort logic for multi-engine flight conditions.
• Starship propulsion system hardware and operational changes to address the Flight 12 engine-out issue.
• First deployment of 20 Starlink V3 satellites with laser links, deployable solar arrays, and antennas.
• Six Starlink V3 satellites equipped with cameras to inspect Starship's heat shield after reentry.
• White-painted heat shield tiles added as simulated missing tiles and imaging targets.
• New heat shield tile designs and attachment mechanisms, including tests on the aft flaps and aft skirt.
• Load-sensing heat shield tiles to measure stresses during flight.
• Higher dynamic pressure ascent profile to stress-test the heat shield and increase payload capability.
• Planned in-space Raptor engine relight test.
SpaceX: "For the first time, Starship will carry V3 Starlink satellites to space, which aim to greatly expand the network's capacity and user speeds. As part of this initial test, Starship is planned to deploy 20 satellites which will extend solar arrays and antennas and will attempt to connect with ground stations in South Africa and the larger Starlink constellation via high-capacity lasers. Six of the satellites have been modified with a suite of cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions. Several tiles on Starship have been painted white to simulate missing tiles and serve as imaging targets in the test."
Alpine glaciers were ice-free 6,000 years ago, long before industrial CO2. Known as the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the period was far warmer than today.
Then, during the Little Ice Age, 1300 to 1850, glaciers advanced dramatically. Villages, farmland, even churches were swallowed by ice.
The glaciers' retreat since 1850 simply marks a return to pre-Little Ice Age conditions, nothing more.
The biggest driver of glacier melt is sunlight. Direct solar radiation causes sublimation - ice turning straight to vapor. And sunshine has been increasing worldwide as cloud cover has declined.
Satellite data confirm more incoming solar energy reaching Earth's surface over the last few decades.
This extra sunlight has resulted in modest melt in the Alps and elsewhere, while also boosting crop growth and photosynthesis.
The real warning sign wouldn't be retreat. It would be sudden advance. Glaciers growing again would mean colder, harsher conditions returning. And history shows that's when life suffers most.
Nothing humbles you faster than realizing you can sound something out perfectly in your head and still spell it completely wrong on a sign.
This video is full of people who had good intentions (maybe) and zero spellcheck. Some of them are so bad they circle back around to being impressive.
It’s the kind of content that makes you laugh and then immediately check your own writing twice.
Which one was your favorite?
Translation: Local providers, protected by government, have been ripping off consumers with an inferior, expensive product, but there is a mad genius in America and we don't like him so we'll have a whine.