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sorry I could not find the high altitude balloon or 'Neptune' thread

Viral Kung-Fu Robots in Chinese New Year Clip Are Breaking the Internet
https://www.aol.com/articles/viral-kung … 12516.html

Drunken boxing and backflips: China put on a robot kung fu display that shows how fast its robotics industry is growing
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/drunken-boxin … 52905.html

Chinese Kung-Fu Robots Put Western Efforts to Shame
https://gizmodo.com/chinese-kung-fu-rob … 2000723354

NASA still has time but the mission is unlikely to happen unless someone else like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos step up

before China gets samples from Mars it will test its already launched Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling

the Sleeper Cell, inside 'Terrorist Attack' seems to have been limited but there was a 2026 Austin bar shooting, plus a number of attacks reported on consulates and embassy

Finance got a lot of news talking. The wider economic across the Middle East region.

There was also a major explosion involving fuel tanker trucks occurred near the Bridge of the Americas in Panama City, injuring four people and leaving one person missing...rumors of Police looking like a scene from the 'Naked Gun' movie...a Spanish translation of please disperse people, Alright! move on! nothing to see here, please disperse!

maybe it is just an 'accident' a random event

but during the era of Irangate there were lots of bullets and drugs and bombs and cash and guns moving between Latin America and the Middle East..dont be surprised if months later you hear Iran or some Shiite guy with a mix of islamic and Latin name was at some militia terror group meeting and doing something in South America
during the Iran–Contra affair
lot of strange names started to pop up Moohammad-José bla bla something, Sofia-Aisha some other name, names that certainly are not really Spanish after years of fighting to drive out islamics during Historical Reconquest 'Se denomina Reconquista' instead you got these strange mix of Arab Mexico Iranian Spanish gangster names that were never seen before Santiago-Abbas, Abdul-Silva, Arash-Farhad-Koorush Rodríguez, family names that should not exist historically but maybe thanks to CIA Soviet spooks during the cold war this multi-national gangsterism drug running and gun running names became something.

an explosion in Panama...maybe its nothing

U.S.-Iran talks end with no agreement, Vance says
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/12/iran-t … ce-no-deal

and in other crazy news

Danica Patrick’s Ridiculous Claim About The Moon Landing Is Nothing Short Of “Crazy” – And Even She Knows It
https://www.totalprosports.com/motor-sp … ing-crazy/

Artemis II lunar mission draws flood of conspiracy theories
https://japantoday.com/category/world/a … s#comments

Brazil seizes over 1,100 weapons and 1.5 tons of drugs from US, says official
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ … 026-04-10/

Prostitution of minors in France rises by 43 percent in four years
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260410-p … four-years

and the numbers, there was a lot of criticism of Bush junior, Obama and Joe Biden but Trump spending has been crazy

Trump just raised the $39 trillion national debt with the largest budget hike since World War II
https://www.aol.com/finance/trump-just- … 54713.html

remember the outrage, one time people were shocked when it went past 9 Trillion to 10
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … igits.html

In early 2000, the clock started to run backward because the national debt was actually decreasing

but then came the 911 attacks, the WTC burning the Towers fall on LiveTv

and the 'War on Terror'

that al-Qaeda turned ISIS then another al-Qaeda branch, he now runs a broken Syria
Assad flees going to Russia and there are a bunch of other players from Turkey, Iran and Iraq who don't want a Kurdistani buffer state

Syria doesnt seem to exist much as a country, heavily damaged by wars, the current Syrian President requested the extradition of Assad to Syria. the mohammedan theocrat monarch ruler in Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh seems to also back the current Syrian, the former rebel/terrorist also seem to be making friends with Russian president Vladimir Putin, he has also been around moves to make deals with the EU and with the Azerbaijani President

the old history of the new Head Chopper who met the President in the White House just as Reagan would meet crazy islamist jihadi people who became the Taliban? or just as Clinton would back Albania islamics who would later invade and take part in a 2001 insurgency in Macedonia, North Macedonia and the borders of Greece? Macedonia back then didnt want a wall, it allowed more islamic jihadi culture in and even opened its borders to thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees...no borders then you got problems!
Syrian future?
the guy Trump is buddy with?
Syria's path?
he is an FBI 'Most Wanted' and he created Al-Nusra Front in 2012 with the support of al-Qaeda, they picked up phone and emials of ISIS,  audio recording of a major rally of fighters in Syria was leaked, including al-Sharaa, al-Nusra Front spokesman and former Osama bin Laden aide Abu Firas al-Suri, and Jabhat al-Nusra deputy Emir and former Egyptian Islamic Jihad commander Ahmad Salama Mabruk. In it, al-Suri could be heard introducing al-Sharaa as "Abu Mohammad al-Julani", Jabhat al-Nusra's emir, who then spoke of establishing an Islamic emirate in Syria. He was a big supporter of a terrorist 'Caliphate' and was responsible for bombing US soliders and US citizens, he described the Geneva peace conference as a farce and claimed that the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition did not represent the Syrian people

video scenes from Syria continue to look somewhat Apocalyptic but maybe there is less war than during the ISIS years

The first National Debt Clock was installed in February 1989
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/08/styl … 02291.html

The clock's first incarnation was installed in 1989 on Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets, one block away from Times Square, by New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, who wanted to highlight the rising national debt

and 'Lindsey' why should anyone be shocked by chicken-hawk Graham's comments, the guy has a habit of being politically 'stupid' often wanted to censor US Freedom of Speech on Cartoons or offenses to Moohammad a man the muzzie culture believes a prophet, he wanted to censor the USA on 'Koran Burning' or offense to the Quran and pass 'Sharia Law' in the USA.

Fla. lawmaker slams Lindsey Graham for shocking remarks about US troops: ‘Expendable cattle’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fla … 25965.html

Middle East economies were already reportedly set to lose 200 billion dollars during the early days of the war...the era of laundered money and Facebook Babylon TikToks Instagram 'Influencer' culture and party people is long over.

Iran war wipes $120bn off Dubai, Abu Dhabi stock markets
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/iran- … 42622.html

it might begin to change with Vast’s Haven-1 station

Vast is developing Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs) in-house to provide attitude control for Haven-1 and future stations.
https://x.com/vast/status/2034398293284053065

Astronaut Luca Parmitano: ‘In zero gravity it feels like you’re covered in pixie dust’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ast … 01092.html

as for real 'Gravity' theory, LIGO and Virgo, the future ESA-NASA project 'LISA'

Gravitational waves may be hidden in the light atoms emit
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 … 101109.htm

Vladimir Putin declares Ukraine war ceasefire and expects Zelensky to do same
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new … source=nba

Ukrainians and Russians doubt 32-hour Easter truce will lead to lasting peace
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukrainians-sc … 50575.html

Duolingo reports Korean ranks sixth most studied language worldwide
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2025/12 … 4AB6RIMHM/

NASA Sets 2028 Launch For First Nuclear Mission To Mars Days Before Return To The Moon
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/nasa-sets-202 … 00740.html

I know there is a tv / Hollywood Movie / Books thread somewhere

Project Hail Mary China Box Office: Set To Beat Barbie’s $35M+ Lifetime In Its 4th Weekend
https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/proje … h-weekend/

Carney speaks with Artemis II crew as Canada’s first lunar astronaut makes history
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/carney-speaks … 30796.html

Aussie economist issues grim warning to nation as Middle East war wreaks havoc on global trade
https://www.news.com.au/finance/

Trump Education Secretary Bluntly Tells Fox News How ‘Terribly’ American Kids Are Doing in School
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tru … 37452.html