Dyatlov Pass incident

Icebox used in cafés of Paris in the late 1800s

01Hanson's 1998 paper listed nine developmental steps from dead matter to star-colonizing civilization; each step is a candidate filter.
02Finding microbial life on Mars, Hanson argues, would be the worst possible news — it suggests the filter lies ahead, not in abiogenesis.
03Hanson also developed 'futarchy,' a governance system where policy is decided by prediction markets rather than elected officials.

Nine hikers cut their tent from the inside and ran barefoot into −30°C Siberian night. Two corpses had crushed chests matching a car-crash impact. No attacker ever found.