Guam’s Solving Its Snake Problem With a Horrifying Rain of Poisoned Mouse Paratroopers

Guam has a problem with brown tree snakes. Specifically, it has two million brown tree snakes, and they’re slowly decimating other native species. So scientists have come up with a solution, the only logical one really: fill a bunch of dead mice with painkillers, give each corpse a tiny parachute, and throw them all out of helicopters into the jungle. No but really. More »

Apparently, the US Air Force Owns the Battlestar Galactica [Airplanes]

I’m watching Battlestar Galactica again, for the third time (it always starts with “let’s just watch the first episode”). Their deck doesn’t look very different from this hangar at the Andersen Air Base, Guam. More »