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Someone looked at the world’s largest cruise ships and decided they just weren’t ambitious enough. Plans are back on the table for the Freedom Ship, a proposed nuclear-powered floating city that would carry 80,000 people, circle the globe continuously, and be too large to dock anywhere on earth. Who’s in? The concept has been floating around since engineer Norman Nixon first pitched it in the 1990s. Nixon died in 2012, and the project stalled, but Freedom Cruise Line CEO Roger Gooch has revived it with fresh renderings , a $16.16 billion price tag, and total capitalist conviction. “We feel very confident that we can put this together, but capitalization is key,” Gooch told The Telegraph . Ahh, yes. The last part.  Someone Wants to Build a Nuclear-Powered Floating City for 80,000 People For scale: Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, currently the world’s largest cruise ship, maxes out at around 9,950 people. The Freedom Ship would car...

Camp Snap has just launched a follow-up to the distraction-free screenless digital camera that took over TikTok and Instagram last year. Introducing the Camp Snap 2 , which I should mention is available at an introductory launch price of $70. That’s even cheaper than the original Camp Snap, which seems to be discontinued now that the Camp Snap 2 has completely replaced it on the Camp Snap website. But there’s no real reason to buy the old model now that the Camp Snap 2 is suddenly available for sale right now. This first batch is probably going to sell out super quick (Arctic White is already gone), so I’d jump on this sooner than later. (opens in a new window) Camp Snap Camp Snap 2 (opens in a new window) Available at Camp Snap Buy Now (opens in a new window) ...

You hear a lot about mysterious bursts of radio signals coming from distant parts of the universe. In our more fanciful moments, it’s easy to imagine them as errant little scraps of alien communication that somehow slipped through the cracks of space and landed here on Earth. They are usually nothing of the sort. More often than not, the explanation turns out to be some exotic but entirely natural astrophysical thing. According to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy , astronomers may have finally found a crucial clue behind a particularly weird set of repeating radio signals known as long-period transients, a set of radio bursts that have been a real head-scratcher for scientists. Mysterious Space Signals Have Puzzled Astronomers for Years. Now They Have Finally Found a Clue. They’re called long-period transients because they repeat, but very slowly. Since 2022, astronomers have identified only about a dozen of them. Some emit bursts every few...

Odd Future has quietly been one of the most influential groups in hip-hop and R&B history. There have been an abundance of artists who have taken inspiration from Tyler, The Creator to Earl Sweatshirt to Frank Ocean. What’s even more impressive is that they built their empire independently, operating purely from their own eccentricities. But that’s not to say people didn’t feverishly attempt to sign Odd Future and capitalize on their success early on. One of those people was Jay-Z, trying to take their juice and implement it into his Roc Nation roster. But the IGOR multi-hyphenate firmly said no and felt like he didn’t need a major label. In an interview with DJ Drama on his Gangsta Grillz podcast, Tyler, The Creator recalled remixing N.E.R.D’s “Inside of Clouds” at the same time their album Nothing came out. The buzz from the song and Pharrell’s open cosign immediately put eyes on what Tyler was doing. In the backgroun...

There’s provocative lingerie, and then there’s whatever this is. An Australian boutique called Rat Gizzard Oddities has gone viral for a line of women’s lingerie featuring actual taxidermied rats sewn directly onto the fabric. The brand, which has spent years crafting curiosities and oddities from preserved animals, posted the first pair to Instagram last October. The internet, predictably, lost its mind. The creator named them LingeRATs, because of course she did. The pieces aren’t technically meant to be worn, which feels like a reasonable stance when a preserved rodent is involved, though that hasn’t stopped a vocal subset of fans from announcing their intentions to do exactly that, presumably to the horror of whoever they share a bed with. For the skeptics who assumed the whole thing was a stunt, it’s worth noting that LingeRATs are very much purchasable. A pair will run you A$190, or about $137 USD. View this post on I...

Today’s sky is pulling in a few different directions at once, and that’s kind of the point. The Moon in Capricorn is squaring both Neptune and Saturn while trining Mars—which means the drive to get something real done is absolutely there, stargazer, but so is the temptation to romanticize your way out of actually doing it. Mercury just moved into Cancer, softening the way we think and talk about things we’d usually rather not address. The Sun in Gemini, sextiling Saturn, is a quiet vote of confidence from the universe: structure and flexibility aren’t enemies today. Let them work together. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 You’ve been running on fumes and sheer willpower for longer than you’d like to admit. The Moon trining your ruling planet, Mars—currently grinding through steady, slow-burning Taurus—is asking you to work with your ene...