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Sunday, October 25, 2026 · UAP · Space · AI · Ancient

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Did you know? Ancient gods went to war on a stone the size of your thumb

Ancient Akkadian cylinder seal and its rolled-out clay impression showing gods in battle
Cylinder seal and modern impression: battle of the gods. Akkadian, ca. 2350–2150 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1943. Public domain (CC0).

Long before signatures, people in ancient Mesopotamia signed with a cylinder seal: a small carved stone or shell they rolled across wet clay. As it rolled, it printed a whole scene, again and again, like a tiny movie strip.

This one is about one inch tall and was carved in the Akkadian era, roughly 4,200 years ago. Roll it out and you get gods in battle: figures with bows and weapons, locked in a fight that has no end, because the seal keeps printing it.

The same people told the stories of Enki and Enlil. Come back next Sunday for another seal.

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  1. UAP Pentagon UFO Files: Federal Agents Watched a Silent Black Triangle Rise Over a Ridge U.S. Department of War · Oct 23
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  2. Ancient Unusual Objects Unearthed at Troy Archaeology Magazine (AIA) · Jessica Esther Saraceni · Oct 23
  3. Ancient Who Crafted China’s Terracotta Army? Archaeology Magazine (AIA) · Jessica Esther Saraceni · Oct 23
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  4. Space NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions NASA News · Lee Mohon · Oct 23
    Credit: NASA · released Oct 23, 2026 · Thanks to NASA News
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  5. Space NASA’s Swift Mission Ends, Leaves Behind Scientific Bonanza NASA News · Oct 23
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  6. Space Lumina simulation brings the early universe to life on a record-breaking scale Phys.org Space · Oct 26
  7. Space Possible Roberts Road Expansion as SpaceX pushes for Flight 16 NASASpaceflight · Ryan Weber · Oct 25

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  8. AI r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more The Verge AI · Terrence O’Brien · Oct 25

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  9. AI Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI The Verge AI · Terrence O’Brien · Oct 24

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  10. Ancient Excavation reveals history of Portuguese village shelled after sheltering Spanish refugees Phys.org Archaeology · Oct 23
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The 4 · main stories

UAP

Pentagon UFO Files: Federal Agents Watched a Silent Black Triangle Rise Over a Ridge

The seventh Pentagon UFO file release includes an AARO witness memo on a 2026 sighting by federal agents: a matte-black triangle, about 13 to 15 feet wide, rose silently over a ridge, hovered about 20 seconds, then shot into a canyon in two to three seconds. They saw no engines, exhaust or sound, and the report does not say what it was.

U.S. Department of War · Oct 23

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Ancient

Unusual Objects Unearthed at Troy

ÇANAKKALE, TURKEY—Excavations in western Anatolia at the site of Hisarlık, which is also known as the ancient city of Troy, have yielded a fragment of a bone flute dating to about 2,800 years ago, according to a Türkiye Today report. Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said that the artifact is the first musical instrument discovered at the site.

Archaeology Magazine (AIA) · Jessica Esther Saraceni · Oct 23

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Space

NASA’s Swift Mission Ends, Leaves Behind Scientific Bonanza

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its science mission now that the spacecraft is orbiting less than 171 miles (275 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. The greater atmospheric drag at this height prevents the satellite’s telescopes from steadily gazing at their astronomical targets. Swift conducted its final observation on Oct.

NASA News · Oct 23

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AI

r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more

The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community.” r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more The opensource subreddit’s new rules against AI have sparked a revolt. The new rules have set off a firestorm in the comments, and even spurred the creation of a rival sub r/trueopensource.

The Verge AI · Terrence O’Brien · Oct 25

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Two sources, one subject: what does each one report?

A · NASA News

NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions

As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing system providers Blue Origin and SpaceX have streamlined the designs and changed both concepts of operations for its future crewed landers. Since NASA established initial contracts with Blue Origin and SpaceX for crewed missions to the Moon, the agency has redefined Artemis III to demonstrate rendezvous and docking capabilities between test versions of landers from each provider and the agency’s Orion spacecraft in low Earth orbit next year.

NASA News · Lee Mohon · Oct 23

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B · Phys.org Space

Lumina simulation brings the early universe to life on a record-breaking scale

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the universe's earliest chapters in detail. To help astronomers understand what they are seeing, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have developed "Lumina," one of the largest and most detailed simulations ever created of the early universe.

Phys.org Space · Oct 26

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The 1

Two reports: NASA News and Phys.org Space

NASA News reports: As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing system providers Blue Origin and SpaceX have streamlined the designs and changed both concepts of operations for its future crewed landers. Phys.org Space reports: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the universe's earliest chapters in detail. The two reports share a subject but not a single event, so read them as two angles rather than one story. This review only restates what each source published. It does not add facts or opinions. Read both and decide for yourself.

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