June 8th, 2019

The Navy is coming up with a monster electromagnetic railgun — the kind of mega-shooter that you saw blasting projectiles through space on The Expanse — which could soon be firing from the lunar surface... These weapons don’t play. Powered by just electricity with no chemicals required, railguns can fire projectiles incredible distances at even more incredible velocities...

Besides potentially making your brain explode if you think about it too hard, that kind of speed is just on the edge of fast enough to launch payloads of iron ore and other lunar resources into space, where they will be turned into satellites and (eventually) habitats outside Earth. Moon water will also be in demand for fuel...

Mr Sharp, from Glasgow, said the abuse had left him with "lifelong trauma". The independent Scottish Child Abuse inquiry is looking in detail at historical abuse of children in residential care.

Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online. He was employed by Ars Technica until recently. A federal complaint alleges that Bright sought to molest a 7- and 9-year-old and met with an undercover agent for this purpose, at which point he was arrested. It also states that Bright claimed to be in a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old. He is currently being held without bail.

A pedo calling himself Dr. Pizza, you can't even make this up. This sick individual wasn't even hiding it:
https://archive.fo/sPe0i
https://archive.fo/KRQSv
https://archive.fo/wrUmU
There are many more.

"We're in a race against time with climate change, and yet there is virtually no hope of bold federal action on this issue for at least another two years. Mother Nature is not waiting on our political calendar, and neither can we," Bloomberg said...

Bloomberg's foundation has spent several years working with the Sierra Club to seek the closure of the nation's coal plants. Since 2011, about half of the 530 plants across the U.S. have been closed.

Greece's government announces that the official mosque of Athens, over a decade in the making, will open by September to satisfy a longstanding demand by tens of thousands of Muslims in the capital... Athens is the only European capital without an official mosque.

Here's the money:

" The United States will immediately expand the implementation of the existing Migrant Protection Protocols across its entire Southern Border. This means that those crossing the U.S. Southern Border to seek asylum will be rapidly returned to Mexico where they may await the adjudication of their asylum claims. "