The Daily Populous

Friday July 14th, 2017 day edition

image for Gegard Mousasi Explains Why He Left the UFC to Sign with Bellator MMA

“Many, many factors,” Mousasi said about his reason for leaving the UFC when speaking to MMAWeekly.com. “The pay was better.

I have to be realistic about that because Reebok has killed a lot of sponsors.

There were a lot of sponsorships that you could have before, they don’t exist anymore.

“I get to bring fighters in and Scott [Coker] will give them the opportunity to fight.

I will have the opportunity to go to light heavyweight, maybe fight for a title with the middleweight belt.

Of course, Mousasi’s past with Coker when he was fighting for Strikeforce didn’t hurt negotiations at all either.

“I can say Reebok sucks or I want this sponsorship or I want this guy to be drug tested or I want to fight at light heavyweight. »

NASA Just Announced They Can’t Afford to Get Humans to Mars

Authored by futurism.com

In Brief NASA admitted today that under the current budget they cannot afford to get humans to Mars.

NASA has been talking about getting humans to Mars for years, and continues to provide updated plans for getting there.

Unfortunately, though, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William H. Gerstenmaier, just announced that the agency can’t achieve the Mars goal on its current budget. »

TIL Johnny Cash took only three voice lessons in his childhood before his teacher, enthralled with Cash's unique singing style, advised him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.

Authored by biography.com

Synopsis Born in 1932 in Arkansas, Johnny Cash grew up in a poor farming community and joined the Air Force in 1950.

Sensing her boy's gift for song, Carrie Rivers Cash scraped together enough money so that he could take singing lessons.

However, after just three lessons his teacher, enthralled with Cash's already unique singing style, told him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice. »

Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria”

Authored by arstechnica.com

Comcast, meanwhile, accused net neutrality supporters of "creat[ing] hysteria.".

Republicans in Congress have advanced several net neutrality proposals; some would impose a version of net neutrality rules while gutting the FCC's authority to regulate ISPs, while others would wipe out net neutrality rules altogether.

Comcast, which helped kick off the decade-long net neutrality saga by throttling BitTorrent traffic, also pushed for Congress to replace the current net neutrality rules with something weaker. »

UPS Driver Adopts Dog After Owner Dies

Authored by people.com

In May, Newhouser posted a photo of her pit bull pal in a Facebook group called UPS DOGS.

Leo had been adopted by his original owner, a woman named Tina, after her son Cannon brought him home as a puppy.

The friendly pup also bonded with his local UPS driver, Newhouser. »