> Desert icons collapse as southwestern US gets pummeled with rain and flooding, and another big change:

There are stretches of high desert in northwestern New Mexico where Mother Nature has sculpted otherworldly forms using wind, rain and the passage of time.

Hefty planks of rock defy gravity as they balance atop spindly pedestals of clay, while some columns of sandstone take on the appearance of lace, elaborately eroded by the seasons.

Tour guide Kialo Winters shares this piece of his homeland on the edge of the Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness with visitors regularly. On a recent Friday afternoon, the founder of Navajo Tours USA rounded a bend and found one of the area’s most famous features had collapsed.

The Alien Throne — or Tsé Bináká Níyol as it’s known in his language — was no more. His heart dropped.

“It was surreal,” he told The Associated Press. “I had to sort of just pause. A lot of things ran through my head.”

The Alien Throne and the nearby King of Wings formation collapsed within weeks of each other, toppled by the very forces of nature that created them.

https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-d … e0092ef16c

...at the same time:

It’s been nearly seven years since Tesla CEO Elon Musk first unveiled the Cybertruck in 2019, and just three years since the electric pickup finally went on sale after numerous delays. But it looks like the Cybertruck’s days are already numbered.

Musk announced Friday that Tesla plans to wind down Cybertruck production at its Gigafactory Texas “around the middle of next year.” He said, in a post on X, that the move is needed to make room for more Cybercab production.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-has-found … 2000836194




...coincidence? Do your own research.