Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: the radiation barrier around Earth was not as impenetrable as we were told.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news. Earth's radiation barrier, the one called impenetrable, has been breached. Greta, what do we know? ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We first told you on Friday about the Nagoya paper. What's new is a Japanese satellite recorded the electrons during the May 2024 solar storm. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Impenetrable, they said. I was told the same about the hotel minibar lock. Nova, are we safe? ▶
NOVA: Grant, our planet sits snuggled in the Van Allen belts. Two donut-shaped regions of energetic protons and electrons, held by the magnetic field. Gorgeous! ▶
NOVA: For more than a decade the inner belt was thought to block ultra-relativistic killer electrons. Then an insanely powerful storm hit in May 2024. ▶
NOVA: On screen, photographs of Earth hanging in the dark. You'd be forgiven for thinking our planet is alone. It is not. It has donuts. ▶
NOVA: The satellite saw electrons accelerated to megaelectronvolt energies where that wasn't supposed to happen. The team writes the barrier can be breached. Whoa, that rocket! ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The paper says it happens under extreme space weather conditions. The report adds that killer electrons are a big problem in low-Earth space. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: So the sky has a draft. Marvellous. We will keep watching the weather, and I mean the space kind. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A cosplayer sings the opening and joins the cast of a romantic-comedy anime.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Now the full story. Kadokawa showed the full promo video for the anime Isshiki-san Wants to Know About Love. Vera has the board. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: What happened: the promo video came out on Saturday. It announces that Enako sings the opening theme. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Enako also joins the cast as the nurse Nene Haneshita. The opening theme is called Gō Yoku Koi o Seisu!? ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Sings and acts in one show? Vera, is that even permitted? And what is the show about? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: A romantic comedy. Isshiki Rinna Milford is an elite, straight-laced officer who has never experienced romantic love. Meishi Rokutanda is a kind but scatterbrained detective. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Riko Akechi and Shūichirō Umeda star. Kazuya Komai directs at Sakura Create, Deko Akao oversees scripts, Shōhei Hamaguchi designs characters. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Grant, a police officer and a detective who are newbies at love. Yes, it's a couple of sorts. Vera, where does it come from? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: A manga by Ayune Araragi, launched in Monthly Shōnen Ace in June 2020. Volume 10 came out May 25. Volume 11 arrives December 24. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Yen Press has licensed the manga for English release. Anything beyond that, the report doesn't say. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: A detective who is scatterbrained. Finally, a story I can relate to. Moving on. ▶
REPO CHECK (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: Repo Check looks at expo/skills and what its stars do and don't show.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time for Repo Check, where we hold stars up against the numbers. Today it's expo slash skills. Vera, the board. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The repo is expo/skills, written in Shell. 38 stars today, 3,954 in all. The card says it is 11 months old. ▶
KAI: Huge! A collection of AI agent skills for Expo. This is the future, Greta. I typed that on a clicky keyboard and a USB-C cable that fit first try. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Kai, that's the description. Vera, what else is on the card? ▶
KAI: Thirty-one contributors! Huge. Two hundred forty-one forks! That's not a repo, that's a movement. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The card also shows no releases. The numbers don't say who uses it, or what no releases means here. That's a question, not a finding. ▶
KAI: No releases means it's always the latest version. Huge. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: That is one reading, Kai. Another is that nobody has pressed the button. We simply don't know. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Marvellous. I shall star it as soon as someone shows me the star button. Back to you at the desk, wherever that is. ▶
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Weather
STORMY BYTES: Hype climate over the Van Allen belts: sunny with a high chance of donuts.
STORMY BYTES: A front of killer electrons is moving through, and the barrier forecast has been revised.
STORMY BYTES: Expect scattered headlines tonight, and a low-pressure system around anyone who said impenetrable.
Real or PXL?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! You picked the real one. The router board is genuine, and the other one was made up by our own writers.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Ah, you picked the fake. PXL made that one up, and frankly it was very convincing. Chin up.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time's up! The answer was sitting right there, like a fine hotel minibar.