What Was That?      

   Astronomers have no idea what punched a huge hole in the Milky Way - our neighborhood, not long ago. The European Space Agency suggests "a dense bullet of something" invisible shot holes in the galaxy.

   The ESA observatory is charting a 3D map of billions of stars, and lately noticed a jagged hole in the star stream.

   Scientists believe rivers of stars form when smaller groups collide and a galaxy's gravity stretches them into an almost single-file line. But they have no explanation for a jagged-edge gap, as if something of immense gravity dragged stars in its wake. 

   The hole is about a million times bigger than our sun, so it wasn't a star. 
   Be afraid. Be very afraid. 😨   

What We Know   

   Seventy percent of modern Russians say dictator Josef Stalin was good for the country. We note than none of them were among millions who died under his policies.

   Robert Mueller's team issued 2,800 subpoenas in search of Russian collusion. 

   Just 19 percent of South Bend residents are satisfied with maintenance of city streets and sidewalks while their mayor runs for U.S. president.

   A UNC business professor says parents send kids to college with little idea of the culture of group think and bullying of conservative students. 

   Yellowstone has enough geothermal energy to power the whole country. We don't have the technology to harness and distribute that energy. And as New Zealand found out in the 1950s, geothermal plants can be damaging. Iceland, with hot fluids near the surface, succeeded by rebuilding its entire infrastructure.

     Jimmy