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Visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for "Storm Area 51" are from Earth, not outer space.
The visitors descending on the remote Nevada desert for 鈥淪torm Area 51鈥 are from Earth, not outer space. The events begin Friday morning.
No one knows the exact number of people who will go to the towns near the federal restricted area.
What is it about Americans that makes us so afraid of admitting that people ought to have free time 鈥 both for their own sake as individuals, and for the betterment of society?
Chances are, if you've been on Facebook you've probably seen the event to Storm Area 51. 黑料网 junior Dylan Orlando had his eyes on it.
He's somewhere out there: That is, Michael Ian Borer, a 黑料网 sociologist and pop culture expert who's available to offer context to media stories about the swelling interest in aliens and the Area 51 military base in Nevada.
It鈥檚 about 2 p.m. on a Friday, an hour before closing time, and soon a stream of clients will try to squeeze into the lobby of Trac-B Exchange, the first storefront syringe exchange in Southern Nevada.
DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE: 黑料网 professor Michael Ian Borer talks about the trend and people's interest in aliens in relation to the #StormArea51 phenomenon.
Liliana Campos was on a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco when she got a text from her brother alerting her of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in San Bruno, California. 鈥淏e careful,鈥 he warned.
In 2007, the pornography website Pornhub averaged 1 million visits per day. By 2018 this had increased to 92 million visits per day 鈥 or 33.5 billion views over the course of a year.
Liliana Campos was on a train from Los Angeles to San Francisco when she got a text from her brother alerting her of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in San Bruno, California.
Earlier this month, the FBI arrested a 23-year-old Las Vegas man on suspicion of possessing parts to make a bomb and who allegedly wanted to attack a synagogue, the regional Anti Defamation league office, and an LGBTQ bar.
