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Joplin Arts District We are 56 blks. of downtown Historic Joplin, MO., B St. to 12th St., Wall Ave. to Penn. Ave.
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10/20/2026

Plan to stop by Brew Halloween night!!

10/20/2026

🐒 Everyday is better with a little island flavor! 🌴🔥

Fresh, flavorful bowls loaded with goodness, mouthwatering hoagies, and all your Hungry Monkey favorites are calling your name! 😍

Skip the boring lunch and give your taste buds a little vacation! 🏝️

📍 Joplin & Webb City, MO

🌐 Order online at www.eathungrymonkey.com

10/20/2026

This blue sunset isn't from Earth—it's from Mars, and we're the first humans to ever see it.
When NASA's rovers captured this image, something shifted in how we understand our place in the universe. That pale blue glow around the sun? It's caused by fine dust particles in Mars' thin atmosphere scattering light differently than our own sky does. On Earth, sunsets burn red and orange. On Mars, they glow blue.
For billions of years, that sunset happened in complete silence, witnessed by no one. Now, because of human curiosity and engineering, we can watch it unfold from 140 million miles away.
What does it feel like to know we're the first species to ever see light from another world's evening?

10/20/2026

The Moon is about to get its first industrial workforce — and none of them will be human.
SpaceX has announced plans to build manufacturing facilities on the lunar surface that would operate completely autonomously, run entirely by humanoid robots. Think about that for a second. We're talking about machines welding, assembling, and operating factories 240,000 miles from Earth with no one there to supervise.
The concept shows domed production facilities, robotic arms handling heavy construction, lunar rovers moving materials across the surface, and a maglev transport system glowing with energy as it connects different parts of the complex. Earth hangs in the black sky above it all.
It sounds like something straight out of a movie, but the pieces are already coming together. The robots exist. The rockets exist. The question is no longer if we can build on the Moon, but when.
This is the kind of project that makes you realize we're living in the future we used to only dream about.
What would you want these lunar factories to produce first?

10/20/2026

Monday night at Joplin City Council, a corporate development pitch for the northeast side of the city. Place Foundry, a development consulting company, presented the MSSU-Northpark Corridor Master …

10/20/2026

These pumpkin pie truffles are perfect for when you’re craving a taste of pumpkin spice. You can use any kind of chocolate chips to coat them—semi-sweet, dark, or even white chocolate. Click the link in the comments to read more ⬇️

10/20/2026

Join us November 7th for our Native American Heritage Month Social and Stomp Dance. We will start serving dinner at 5:30 PM in the Gymnasium at Bearskin Fitness Center with dances to follow.

All leaders and shell shakers are welcome to come and help us out!

Please use the south entrance to the new gym.

10/20/2026

Over fifty years after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface, India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter flew over the exact same coordinates and photographed something remarkable — the Apollo 11 and 12 landers, still sitting there exactly where the astronauts left them.
These aren't artist renderings or recycled NASA press photos. They're high-resolution images captured independently by the Indian Space Research Organisation's lunar mission, showing the descent stages of both landers with their distinctive shadows stretching across the cratered terrain.
For decades, conspiracy theorists have claimed the Moon landings were staged on a soundstage. But here's the thing: you can't fake the way sunlight hits a metallic structure from 238,900 miles away, and you certainly can't explain how an Indian spacecraft independently confirmed the exact landing coordinates NASA published in 1969 and 1970.
The landers are still there. The boot prints are probably still there too, preserved in the vacuum with no wind or weather to erase them. It's one of those quiet moments where science just speaks for itself — across borders, beyond politics, and long after the cameras stopped rolling.
What do you think is the most compelling piece of evidence that the Moon landings actually happened?

10/20/2026

The sky turns blue as the sun sets on Mars.
When NASA's Curiosity rover captured this image in 2015, it became the first sunset ever photographed on another planet. On Earth, our atmosphere scatters blue light, giving us those warm red and orange sunsets we know so well. But Mars has the opposite effect—its fine dust particles scatter red light away, leaving the sun and surrounding sky bathed in an eerie blue glow that looks almost otherworldly.
This single image represents something profound: for the first time in the entire span of human existence, we're not just imagining what it looks like to watch the day end on another world. We're actually seeing it with our own eyes.
Every sunset you've ever watched on Earth has a counterpart happening right now on Mars, 140 million miles away, in colors we never expected to see.
What does it feel like to know you're alive at the exact moment in history when we can witness sunsets on other planets?

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