Bring plenty of potatoes: Entrepreneur Elon Musk, of SpaceX and Tesla fame, hopes to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars in 2018, with the ultimate goal of establishing a human colony on the red planet.
Fun fact: Because voyages to Mars take so long, they are measured not in months or even years, but in Tesla 3 delivery times.
The next Chapter 11: Gawker is filing for bankruptcy protection and will sell itself after former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan successfully sued the digital media company for posting a sex tape featuring the Hulkster and a pal’s wife.
In other words, as Gawker itself might put it:
A sleazy media company with way more debt than assets is ordered to pay $140 million to a D-list celebrity! You will believe what happened next!
Squeeze play: Repair work on I-5 that has created the dreaded “Snohomish County Squeeze” is nearly complete, the Washington state Department of Transportation says. Crews are scheduled to install a final set of bridge expansion joints this weekend.
This means we can once again measure car trips between Everett and Marysville in normal time units instead of Tesla 3 delivery times.
.— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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