In an unprecedented outage, Meta’s entire network, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, was completely shut down for most users for nearly 2 hours on Super Tuesday. Meta never gave much of an explanation, aside from “Technical Issues.” Theories range from a cyberattack to hacking, internal issues, sabotage, or even Mark Zuckerberg pulling the plug because it was on election day.

However, it was confirmed that 3 Red Sea data cables were cut. Was this the cause of it? Everyone, including Elon Musk, responded by posting hilarious memes on X (formerly Twitter).

In other news, the US military has deployed its cutting-edge laser weapon: the Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense, or DE M-SHORAD, to the Middle East for real-world testing. This is a real-life Directed Energy Weapon, or DEW, built by Raytheon as part of the company’s portfolio of high-energy laser systems. Using “photons, or particles of light,” it is designed to defeat a range of airborne threats, including drones, rockets, artillery, and mortars.

However, this brings up a lot of speculation and questions in how these Directed Energy Weapons are being used since we are told they do not exist by the mainstream media. Also, we found evidence that Archimedes, an Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor, designed similar weapons used in battles going as far back as 2,200 years ago. Did he really build them? Are they being used today? There is also evidence that in 1984, the Soviet Union was using secret laser tracking systems on the Challenger space flight, frightening the crew and shutting down some systems in the craft. Did this have anything to do with the Challenger Disaster 2 years later in 1986?

Here’s more from Rob Counts and Ben Chasteen on the Edge of Wonder.