Monster stars, monster storms, monster mistakes...
Your daily dose of natural disasters and amazing phenomena for December 10, 2025...
🌊 How Did Anyone Cross These Oceans 500 Years Ago?
Short answer: they didn’t — not reliably.
Long answer: shipwrecks everywhere, weather roulette, and good old-fashioned human optimism.
Even today, sailors lose masts at sea and pray their engines don’t quit on the way back to Bermuda (that was me!). Imagine doing it in a wooden bathtub full of salted fish…
🌧️ Atmospheric River Unleashes Major Flooding in the Pacific Northwest
A massive moisture firehose slams Washington State:
Snoqualmie River peaks at its highest in a decade
45,000 cubic feet per second blasting over Snoqualmie Falls
Homes and farms underwater
More rain on the way
Flooding now “severe” across multiple river basins
The Pacific Northwest asked for rain. The sky delivered an ocean…
🌌 First Direct Evidence of MONSTER STARS: 1,000–10,000× the Sun’s Mass
James Webb just confirmed what astronomers whispered about for decades:
supermassive primordial stars existed — and collapsed directly into black holes.
These giants:
Formed early in the universe
Produced bizarre nitrogen signatures
Lived fast and died faster
May explain how supermassive black holes appeared so early
Simulations show them igniting quasars like cosmic flashbangs.
A breakthrough for understanding the Dark Ages of the universe…
🏳️🌈🏟️ Seattle Plans Pride Match at the World Cup — Iran & Egypt Furious
Was the Pride match intentional?
Yes — but only because it always falls during Seattle Pride Week.
A scheduling coincidence → geopolitical meltdown.
💚 Green Sky Over South Dakota
It looks like The Matrix is rebooting.
Green skies = hail monsters + tornado risk.
Never a good sign…
🤖 US “Department of War” Launches New A.I.
What could possibly go wrong?
✈️ US F-18 Jets Spend 40 Minutes Inside Venezuelan Airspace
“Defiant flyover” = the new diplomatic phrase for bullying with jets.
Probably EA-18G Growlers sniffing radar signatures.
Probably also not calming anyone down…
🏛️ Romans Made Self-Healing Concrete — And We Just Proved How
New evidence from Pompeii shows the exact technique:
Mix dry lime clasts + volcanic ash
THEN add water
Chemical reaction cooks the mix
Lime pieces stay as “healing capsules”
Cracks? Water seeps in → dissolves lime → recrystallizes → repairs itself
Our concrete: cracks and dies.
Roman concrete: cracks and gets stronger…
🚗🛩️ Plane Crashes Onto I-95 in Florida (Again)
3rd highway plane crash in 4 months.
1 injured, no fatalities.
Apparently Florida drivers can’t drive or fly…
🚘 Used Teslas Are the Most Unreliable Cars in America
Behind Jeep.
Behind Chrysler.
Behind everything.
The stock still rises.
God bless America…
🔥🇦🇺 Insane Photo of Australian Bushfire — Not AI
Just Australia doing Australia things.
Lightning included…
🍄 New Mushroom Causes Fairy-Tale Hallucinations
Scientists: “Fascinating!”
Everyone else: “When can I try?”
🤖❄️ Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Returns With Rare Data
Argo floats: the ocean’s Roombas, but for science.
It vanished into Antarctic doom terrain and somehow came back…
If you are interested, read about the legendary 1997 Lego spill that still provides ocean current data…
🧬 Sperm Donor With Cancer Gene Fathers Nearly 200 Children
Genetic screenings?
Apparently optional…
🚗🕳️ Tunnel Built Through a Cave — China’s Jianan Cave Road
Beautiful. Deadly.
A perfect location to crash even WITHOUT traffic.
🇮🇩 OnlyFans Creator Arrested in Bali for “Bangbus” Shoot
If you’re going to break Indonesian morality laws… maybe don’t do it on a bus…
🔪 Guy Tests Homemade Guillotine… While Standing Under It
Peak Darwin Award auditions…
⚡👽 Sprites + ELVEs: Rare Upper-Atmospheric Lightning Over Italy
A massive 387 kA lightning bolt triggered BOTH:
red jellyfish-like sprites
a 230 km plasma ring called an ELVE
Captured from 350 km away.
Nature doing cosmic special effects.
More about transient luminous events…
🧲 Curiosity Picks of the Day
🌊 Deep-Ocean Documentary Set - For learning why ancient sailors died trying…
🌧️ Atmospheric River Weather Station - Track the sky’s next attempt to drown Oregon…
🌌 James Webb Early-Universe Book - Monster stars, cosmic chaos, beautiful doom…
4️⃣ 🏛️ Roman Concrete Science Kit - Make crack-healing cement at home (safely)…
5️⃣ ⚡ Lightning Photography Guide - Capture sprites before they capture you…
🌀 Outro
Monster stars, monster storms, monster stupidity.
From Roman concrete that heals itself to humans who stand under guillotines — evolution is clearly experimenting again.
See you tomorrow.
Earth is still buffering.
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Thank you,
Manuel
I lived in the Daytona Beach area for over 12 years. There are multiple flight schools plus Embry Riddle Aeronautical University as well as a nearby residential subdivision, the Spruce Creek Fly-In, where old pilots go to retire and still have their planes nearby with an airstrip and hangar. So, you have student pilots and octogenarian aviators all in air around Daytona and sometimes they even collide with each other over the beach and sometimes they make emergency landings on the interstate. Never a dull moment in the Sunshine State.
The green sky in South Dakota was three years ago.