Stupidity Watch 1

     SpaceX just docked the Axiom-2 at the International Space Station (ISS). While there is the ability for crew on both the Freedom Capsule and the ISS to be involved manually with the docking, there was a reminder that it was, "crew hands off," and the entire 16 hour launch, flight, and docking was done by autopilot.      We can't have cars with full autopilot, not even Teslas, but SpaceX is capable of launching and docking Spaceships at the International Space Station using nothing but autopilot. Since Tesla and SpaceX are both Elon Musk companies, one could assume that the Full Auto technology would be shared between the companies.      The only reason Elon Musk started pushing Full Self Driving or self-driving vehicles at all is because someone killed a bicyclist while they were driving a Tesla. Elon Musk took that personally, and decided that he would try to prevent that from ever happening again. Thus we have Full Self Driving cars...

     I've never seen a flying saucer but I've seen many, many UFOs in my life. When I was a kid I used to spend the summers in northern Michigan where you could see the stars very well, and I was used to watching satellites and airplanes pass over, but would occasionally see things that broke the laws of physics. Around 50 years ago I used to see dots of light in the sky that would move along a single trajectory like a satellite, then turn on a dime and go another direction without curving, like they were drawing an acute angle of a triangle. Worth noting is that northern Michigan does have a large military base near where I spent my summers.      Around 35 years ago my friends and I witnessed what appeared to be a meteor that flew over our heads and went down into the swamp nearby, followed by the oddest thing. Starting about five miles away in the direction that the "meteor" had come from we could hear that dogs on several farms started barking, then ...