Japan has built a $2,500 cardboard drone. It actually flies fast while avoiding radar!
At first, the military thought it was a joke.
A plane made of… cardboard?
Yet, this drone can travel nearly 80 km at over 100 km/h.
And the craziest thing is that its material becomes an advantage.
Cardboard reflects radar waves less than some conventional materials.
As a result, it's harder to detect in the sky.
Japan can even transport hundreds of them in a single container and assemble them in minutes.
While some countries are building drones costing millions, they're focusing on machines that are practically disposable.
Perhaps this is the new technological warfare:
Simple, ultra-fast weapons… produced like Amazon packages.
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I used to be pro cannabis. Because to each their own. But FUCKING hell this is ridiculous... Smoking in a hotel, at a bar and at work?
Now I hate the stuff.
In 1837, the Shah of Persia gave Queen Victoria a small herd of Kashmir goats as a coronation gift.
She kept them at Windsor for a while, then, for reasons lost to history, sent some of them to live on the Great Orme, a limestone headland sticking out of the North Wales coast like a thumb pointing at Ireland.
That was 189 years ago.
The goats are still there.
Nobody fed them. Nobody bred them. Nobody asked them to stay. They simply did, because the Great Orme is windswept, salt-blasted, vertical in places, and entirely covered in the kind of scrub that goats consider an invitation rather than an obstacle.
There are now around two hundred of them. Pure white, slightly mad-looking, technically still the property of the Crown, which has shown no particular interest in collecting.
During the 2020 lockdown, when the streets of Llandudno emptied, the goats came down off the headland and took the town. They wandered the high street. They ate the hedges of the Premier Inn. They blocked traffic on Mostyn Street and looked at drivers with the calm assurance of animals whose ancestors used to graze with the legions of Cyrus the Great.
A photograph of one of them standing outside a closed pharmacy went around the world.
The goats did not pose for it.
The goats were checking whether the pharmacy had hedges.
It did not.
The goats moved on.
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers' regimental mascot is still drawn from this herd. The Crown Prince of Britain is, technically, the goats' landlord. The goats have not been informed.
The goats are on the Great Orme.
They will outlast the Premier Inn.
They will outlast most of us.
They are not asking for anything.
They never were.
Self-declared King of Switzerland Jonas Lauwiner, 31, is living his best medieval fantasy by claiming 148 scraps of "ownerless" land and building himself a 117,000 square metre empire,
the IT specialist has been quietly snapping up abandoned plots and even stretches of road that homeowners casually drive on every day using a cheeky Swiss legal loophole,
he then charges the poor sods maintenance fees or passage rights like some 21st-century toll baron who forgot it's not 1200 anymore,
local politicians are absolutely fuming and rushing to slam the loophole shut, with one councillor branding the whole thing "scandalous" and an "excessive thirst for power",
meanwhile King Jonas is posing in royal gear, running his "imperial bank" and calling it all "more than just a joke" while insisting he does it "digitally and without bloodshed",
you really couldn't make this up in one of the world's most boringly bureaucratic countries,
at this rate he'll soon own more random bits of Switzerland than the actual Swiss government,
Former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani puts Piers Morgan straight about Islam, and the affect it is having on the UK.
Morgan must be on somebody's pay role to say this rubbish. Surely he cant be that stupid?
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The Polish Orphans of Oudtshoorn📷
During World War II, 500 Polish orphans found refuge in Oudtshoorn, South Africa, after enduring forced deportations, starvation, and the loss of their families. Their journey from Soviet labor camps to safety in the Karoo remains a little-known but important part of South African history.
When Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939, thousands of Polish families were arrested and deported to Siberia. Most were sent to forced labor camps, where they faced hunger, freezing conditions, and disease.
Many of the children who later ended up in South Africa lost their parents in these camps due to malnutrition and sickness. Survivors often described eating tree bark and digging in the snow for roots to stay alive.
In 1942, an agreement between Poland and the Soviet Union allowed some survivors to leave the camps. They traveled thousands of kilometers through Central Asia, often on foot or by overcrowded trains. Many died along the way.
The orphans who reached Iran were given temporary shelter in refugee camps. From there, 500 of them were selected to be sent to South Africa after Prime Minister Jan Smuts agreed to take them in.
The children left Iran in 1943 on the British ship Dunera. For many, it was their first time seeing the ocean. Survivor Helena Wojtas remembered being terrified when the ship’s engines started, but her fear turned to relief when she realized they were finally leaving the horrors of the camps behind.
The ship’s arrival in Port Elizabeth was overshadowed by tragedy. A previous ship carrying Polish refugees had been torpedoed by a German submarine, and many children had drowned. Survivors of the Dunera later said they felt guilty about their own survival.
The children were taken to a camp set up in Oudtshoorn, where they lived in wooden barracks. The camp, named Dom Polskich Dzieci (Home of Polish Children), was run by Polish staff, including teachers, priests, and doctors.
Father Franciszek Kubienski, the camp’s priest, became a central figure. Survivors remembered how he helped them rebuild their faith and feel safe again.
The orphans attended school in Polish, learned South African history, and practiced Catholic traditions. They celebrated Polish holidays, including Christmas and Easter, to preserve their culture.
The camp had a small garden, and older children were taught to grow vegetables and tend to animals. They also joined Scouts and Girl Guides, which gave them a sense of routine.
The Oudtshoorn camp closed in 1947, and the children were sent to boarding schools, orphanages, and convents across South Africa. Many stayed in the country, but others emigrated to places like Canada, Australia, and the United States.
Their story serves as a reminder of the long-lasting effects of war on children and the role that countries like South Africa played in providing refuge during one of history’s darkest periods.