TRANSCRIPT · Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Just Got Even Weirder, And May Contain 10-Billion-Year-Old Material

## Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Just Got Even Weirder, And May Contain 10-Billion-Year-Old Material (ScienceAlert)
https://www.sciencealert.com/interstellar-visitor-3i-atlas-just-got-even-weirder-and-may-contain-10-billion-year-old-material
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: a comet from another star may carry material up to ten billion years old.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news at PXL. A visitor from another star system just got stranger, and the report is less than an hour old.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Comet 3I/ATLAS may contain material up to ten billion years old, according to a new study in Nature Astronomy.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Ten billion years. That is older than our 1987 weather map, and that map has been laminated.
NOVA: Grant, it's a time capsule! The team used the James Webb Space Telescope in late December 2025, as the comet shot through the asteroid belt.
NOVA: It was about two and a half times as far from the Sun as we are. That is where its atmosphere, the coma, starts puffing up as ice sublimates.
NOVA: This is the comet's chemical cocktail as Webb saw it in infrared. The article says it's like the comet sneezing when it sees the Sun.
NOVA: And the system that built it may have formed more than seven billion years before our Sun ignited. In cosmic terms, we're the newcomers.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The report says it may have assembled even before its own star erupted. The key word is may.
GRANT BRICKMAN: So the comet sneezes, and we say bless you. Well done, everyone.

## Horror-steeped card game Forbidden Solitaire shows how a strong theme can elevate even decade-old mechanics (Rock Paper Shotgun)
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/horror-steeped-card-game-forbidden-solitaire-shows-how-a-strong-theme-can-elevate-even-decade-old-mechanics
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Solitaire, but in a dungeon full of horrors. Now the full story.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Now the full story. It's solitaire, but with horrors. It's called Forbidden Solitaire, and a reviewer has opinions about theme.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Vera, solitaire is the one on the computer, correct? And what exactly is forbidden about it?
DR. VERA VECTOR: Rock Paper Shotgun reports on Forbidden Solitaire, a game where you delve deeper into a dungeon filled with horrors by clearing screens of cards.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Each level is a screen of card stacks. You pick cards that are one higher or lower than the card you currently hold.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And who made it, Vera?
DR. VERA VECTOR: Grey Alien Games. The writer has played their work since Regency Solitaire in 2015, and says the games often share the same core mechanics.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The article's argument: a strong theme can make familiar mechanics feel fresh again.
GRANT BRICKMAN: So it's the same game in a scarier hat. I respect a hat.
DR. VERA VECTOR: What's still open: the article's full verdict isn't in front of us, and neither are release details or price.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So we know the theme works for the writer. Whether it works for you, we'll find out when you play.

## The Gallery [FICTION]
GRANT BRICKMAN: A quick look behind the glass in the control room.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Quiet in the gallery. We just came off Foldable: Samsung lästert in Werbung über iPhone Duos Displayfehler, and I want clean cuts.
PASSERBY: Got it! Which button is clean? The green one or the other green one?
DIRECTOR MARGE: Don't touch anything green. The pigeon is sitting on Camera 2 again.
PASSERBY: I thought that was part of the shot. He has real presence.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Tally light, intern! Which camera is live?
PASSERBY: All of them? Sorry! Sorry. Back to Grant!

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