This week, Elon Musk’s flamethrower may help during an alien invasion, why do people buy internet traffic, podcasts are great places to advertise, and Billy Mitchell is a cheater. Then in the paranormal segment, it’s DB Cooper, conspiracies on YouTube, the full moon does nothing, mass hysteria, and the Zone of Silence.

Links:

• The Boring Company is really pushing the definition of “Flamethrower” | Ars Technica
• The Publisher of Newsweek And The International Business Times Has Been Buying Traffic And Engaging In Ad Fraud
• Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They'd Be | WIRED
• Donkey Kong scoreboard strips Billy Mitchell’s high score claims [Updated] | Ars Technica
• Why Can't This World Record Be Beaten? "The Impossible Speedrun" - YouTube
• Daring Fireball: Actual Headline From NBC News: ‘Can Self-Taught Rocket Scientist Mike Hughes Prove Earth Is Flat?’
• Technical difficulties delay Mad Mike Hughes' rocket launch near Amboy - Route 66 News
• on-D-B-Cooper-Investigators-say-he-was-12543305.php" title="New on D.B. Cooper: Private investigators say he was CIA">New on D.B. Cooper: Private investigators say he was CIA
• 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth | Technology | The Guardian
• moon-cycles.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur" title="Debunking the Myth That Earthquakes and Full Moons Are Linked - The New York Times">Debunking the Myth That Earthquakes and Full Moons Are Linked - The New York Times
• sonic-attacks-show-us-just-how-susceptible-our-brains-are-to-mass-hysteria.html" title="Cuba’s sonic attacks show us just how susceptible our brains are to mass hysteria.">Cuba’s sonic attacks show us just how susceptible our brains are to mass hysteria.
• Exploring Mexico’s Zone of Silence, Where Radio Signals Fail and Meteorites Crash - Atlas Obscura
• Mapimí Silent Zone – Ceballos, Mexico - Atlas Obscura
• How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times | History | Smithsonian
• Audioboom / Our Strange Skies