Readers, it’s time to enjoy the eighth edition of the White Pill, Pirate Wires’ weekly roundup of evocative, fascinating developments in space, energy, engineering, computing, artificial intelligence, and medicine.

This Wednesday, NASA held a big press conference on UAP in D.C. Our recap of everything that went down there is the lead story. And as usual, we’ve got quite a bit more space news: a newly-discovered quasi-moon orbiting Earth, the possibility of beaming solar power from space, an advance toward human hibernation, new plans for SpaceX’s Starship, and a chart you’ll like.

In this White Pill we also discuss some really cool AI products that recently hit the market, to the bizarre chagrin of haters. And in addition to the White Pill Investment Index, where you’ll read about the most interesting projects that got funded this week, we go over how self-replicating machines could be the key to long-term civilizational survival, and several promising new medical advances.