SPACE
🛸🚨🛸🚨🛸🚨ALIEN LIFE IN THE LEO CONSTELLATION? NEW PLANET SHOWS STRONGEST HINTS YET 🛸Scientists may have just spotted signs of life outside our solar system — thanks to U.S. tech and the James Webb Space Telescope. On a planet called K2-18b (again, they need cooler names), researchers found gases in the atmosphere only produced by life on Earth (think: algae, seaweed, marine microbes). The discovery? Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) — both associated with oceans teeming with microbial life.
We hope they come in peace…
—> HOW WE FOUND IT: A WIN FOR AMERICAN SPACE TECH 🇺🇸 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory ever built, scanned K2-18b — a “hycean” planet 124 light-years away in the Leo constellation. Webb measured starlight passing through the planet’s atmosphere and caught the chemical fingerprints. This level of detail is only possible with U.S.-built tech. A proud moment for American astronomy.
—> WHAT IS K2-18b?
📍 124 light-years away
🌊 Possibly a warm ocean world under a hydrogen-rich sky
🌡️ Atmosphere up to 392°F
🪐 2.6x the size of Earth, 8.6x the mass
🏖️ In the “Goldilocks zone,” where liquid water — and possibly life — can exist
—> WHAT’S NEXT? 🚨 We’re not saying “aliens” just yet. Right now, the Webb Telescope data shows strong signals of gases like DMS that could point to life. But it’s not yet rock-solid proof. Scientists need more observations to rule out every other possibility (like weird geology or equipment error). And that’ll take another 1 - 2 years.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: If confirmed, this would change everything. For decades, we’ve wondered if we’re alone. Now? The answer might be just 124 light-years away.
Sources: Reuters, BBC, NBC, Science.org
Look up at Leo tonight… and just think… there could be aliens out there!
hello, future. it’s me, kev.
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The planet has complete 29.59 percent its annual orbit around the sun star. You are living during a time when scientists can search for life on planets 124 lightyears away and the American public is unimpressed by an all-female space tourism mission. Let that sink in…
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FUTURES
📈 WALL STREET MIXED: BIG GAINS + ONE MASSIVE LOSS: The S&P 500 ticked up 0.1%, and most stocks actually rose — but one company sank the whole vibe.
THE ANCHOR: 🩺 UnitedHealth Group had its worst day in 25 years, crashing 22.4% after a disappointing profit report. It dragged the Dow down 527 points (-1.3%) all by itself.
THE BOOSTERS: 💊 Eli Lilly surged 14.3% after promising results from a new once-a-day pill for obesity and diabetes — a big deal in the weight-loss drug race.
🚨 TRUMP SLAMS POWELL — HINTS AT FIRING FED CHAIR: President Trump called Fed Chair Jerome Powell “too late and wrong” on rate cuts and said his “termination cannot come fast enough.”
He praised Europe’s central bank for cutting rates, claimed the U.S. is “getting rich on tariffs,” and warned Powell: “If I want him out, he’ll be out of there real fast.” Powell’s term runs through 2026.
—> NOTABLE: Trump’s comments didn’t really move markets.
Source: CNBC.
WHAT WALL STREET IS READING, via Bain & Company: Humanoid Robots at Work: What Executives Need to Know.
CRYPTO
💥BITCOIN MINING ≠ BITCOIN INVESTING: You’ve heard of investing in Bitcoin — buying some on an app, watching the price go up (or down), and hoping to cash out big. That’s like buying gold.
But mining Bitcoin? That’s like digging the gold out of the ground yourself — with a fleet of high-powered computers racing to solve insanely complex math problems. Solve it first, and the Bitcoin network rewards you with new coins.
These machines — called miners — don’t come cheap. They’re the hardware backbone of crypto. And most are made in Southeast Asia.
🛑 But now? Trump’s new tariffs are jacking up the price of importing these rigs — with some facing tariffs as high as 36%. That’s a massive tax on America’s booming mining industry, which had taken off after China’s crypto crackdown in 2021.
With the U.S. trying to lead the world in crypto infrastructure, miners say these tariffs could slow us down — unless someone figures out how to build better machines here at home.
Source: Fortune
ONE MORE THING
🤖🍽️🇨🇺 CUBA’S FIRST FOOD ROBOT… NAMED AFTER THE OWNER’S GRANDMA. In blackout-prone Havana, one restaurant is defying gravity — and the power grid — with Alexa orders, touchless tech, and a robotic food server named Doña Alicia.
—> THE VIBE: Think: digital menus, Alexa-enabled service, motion-sensor bathrooms, and a rolling robot that delivers pork steak like it’s a scene from The Jetsons (but en español). One guest said it felt like stepping into a cartoon.
—> THE TWIST: This isn’t Tokyo or San Francisco. This is Havana — where mobile internet only showed up in 2018 and blackouts still hit on the regular. Pulling off a high-tech dining experience here? Wild.
—> THE BACKSTORY: The restaurant opened 7 years ago. First came the tablets. Then Alexa. Then came Doña Alicia — a robotic server named after the owner’s abuela. She’s not replacing anyone, just helping out, tray in tow.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: In a country stuck in analog, this private spot is glitching the matrix — showing what’s possible when ingenuity meets necessity. It’s not just a gimmick. It’s a glimpse at Cuba’s DIY future.
Source: AP.
Do robots smoke cigars?…
With gratitude,
Kev
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