In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 in the men's division.
So, little known and 203rd ranked men's player Karsten Braasch took them up on the challenge.
Braasch after a night of drinking and smoking with zero practice, destroyed Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets.
The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat.
It wasn't because Braasch was very good. He wasn't.
But, as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can't compete against.
That's the very reason we established women's sports to begin with.
To even the playing field.
That shouldn't be controversial. And you shouldn't need a biology degree to understand it.
Jacques Vallée passou 70 anos investigando o fenômeno OVNI. Sua conclusão final é que o mistério é muito maior do que a simples hipótese extraterrestre:
Para ele, existe algo real por trás dos relatos, mas esse "algo" pode não ser uma civilização alienígena viajando pelo espaço. Essa é a conclusão apresentada em seu último livro/diário, Forbidden Science 7: Final Report, publicado em 26 de maio de 2026.
Vallée acredita que o fenômeno parece interagir com a consciência humana, manipular percepções, moldar crenças e adaptar sua aparência à cultura de cada época. O que antes era interpretado como anjos, demônios ou fadas pode, hoje, ser interpretado como extraterrestres.
Sua hipótese mais provocativa descreve os OVNIs como um possível "sistema de controle": um fenômeno capaz de influenciar a humanidade nos níveis físico, psicológico e social. Em vez de apenas aparecer nos céus, ele alteraria a forma como pensamos, acreditamos e interpretamos a realidade.
Vallée também alertou repetidamente que governos, militares, serviços de inteligência e até movimentos ufológicos podem fazer parte da confusão, seja por meio do sigilo, da desinformação ou de interpretações equivocadas. Segundo ele, a maior armadilha é acreditar que alguém já possui todas as respostas.
Após sete décadas de investigação, sua conclusão não foi "são alienígenas". Foi muito mais inquietante: talvez estejamos diante de um fenômeno que desafia as divisões entre mente e matéria, ciência e espiritualidade, passado e presente, e que ainda não possuímos o conhecimento necessário para compreendê-lo completamente.
When Carl Jung said:
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
¡Quedan 10 días para el eclipse!!
¿Sabías que en la franja de totalidad viven más de 14 millones de personas, y que 10 millones de ellas disfrutarán de más de un minuto de totalidad (sin contar los visitantes)? Prepárate para el eclipse. Piensa desde dónde lo vas a ver.
This is going to sound crazy.
But, one of the skills you must learn in the near future is how to cope with an increasingly illiterate society of emotionally dysregulated people.
If you continue to get frustrated on a daily basis over how everything seems dumb, stress is going to silently jeopardize your health.
Lo que está pasando en este momento en matemática es mágico. Un momento nunca antes visto. Lo más parecido a la revolución industrial. OpenAI está resolviendo problemas abiertos por décadas en cuestión de horas, y de a 10.
@T3chFalcon An algorithm reporting private, contextual human sarcasm directly to federal law enforcement without a single human reviewing it first is genuinely dystopian.
On Friday, 1000 Bitcoin, worth over $70 million has been stolen from 1100 wallets.
What makes this theft unique is that all of these bitcoins were stored in cold wallets— never connected to Internet.
The sophisticated theft can steal bitcoins from any cold wallet even if it’s kept buried 100 miles deep under ocean.
The worst part? The theft is not yet finished. They are coming for more .
⛵️ The voyages of Christopher Columbus between 1492 and 1504.
Sponsored by Spain's Catholic Monarchs, the navigator and explorer led four transatlantic expeditions that reached various Caribbean islands and the coasts of Central and South America.
$1.6 million dollars in Bitcoin was drained from my account on July 29th in the Cold Card wallet hack.
My Bitcoin was in cold storage. My keys were on a ColdCard device kept in a safety deposit box that had never been connected to the internet.
This part's nerdy, but here's what happened:
Hackers discovered a vulnerability in the part of the hardware wallet code used to create seed phrases.
This allowed them to use AI to brute force guessing seed phrases.
I was at our cottage and heard about the hack today.
"No way this affects me." I thought.
I logged into Wasabi––software that lets me view my bitcoin wallets online.
Right away I saw lines of red transaction–withdrawals–and I knew.
From 9:36pm - 9:43pm on July 29th, every wallet I had had been emptied.
18.25245043 btc gone. That's just over $1.6 million dollars CAD.
Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right.
I never shared my seed phrase with anybody. My devices never touched the internet. Everything was kept in multiple safes and safety deposit boxes.
None of it mattered. All because the hardware that created the seed phrase originally had one line in their code from 2021 that had a vulnerability.
I'm filing a police report and a report with the Ontario Securities Commission. But I don't expect to recoup anything.
A part of me is trying to make sense of what just happened. Or try to figure out a lesson in it. I'm struggling. $1.6 million is a staggering amount of money to have stolen.
I guess all that I can think about right now is that I'm so damn happy that I'm an entrepreneur and that my earning potential is under my control. Mark my damn words. I'll recover.
A rapidly rotating magnetic field creates a stable “bound state,” letting repelling magnets orbit without touching. It’s a striking example of how dynamic fields can produce unexpected stability.
@Sudanamaru1
Some think the national strategic oil reserves are stored inside a warehouse filled with millions of oil kept inside steel barrels.
The U.S. stores emergency oil in hollowed-out subterranean salt caves—some large enough to fit the Empire State Building—not warehouses.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the world’s largest, holds hundreds of millions of barrels of crude. A “barrel” is a 42-gallon unit, not a physical container. Above-ground steel drums would be costly, weather-vulnerable, and a fire hazard.
Engineers use Gulf Coast salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. Fresh water is pumped in to dissolve the salt (solution mining); brine is extracted, leaving cylindrical voids.
A single cavern can exceed 2,000 feet in height and hold over 10 million barrels.
Salt is impermeable to oil and seals cracks under geological pressure, making the caverns leak-proof. This storage costs about one-tenth as much as steel tanks and keeps oil at a stable temperature.
To retrieve oil, water is pumped into the bottom; less-dense oil floats up through pipes into the commercial pipeline network.
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