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Content Warning Blows Up on Steam With Free-to-Keep Promotion for First 24 Hours – IGN
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Al Qassam Blows Up Israeli Platoon In Gaza City; Fierce Clash On In Juhr Al-Dik | Watch – Hindustan Times
- Al Qassam Blows Up Israeli Platoon In Gaza City; Fierce Clash On In Juhr Al-Dik | Watch Hindustan Times
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Christopher Nolan blows up his daughter in ‘Oppenheimer’ – Entertainment Weekly News
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ESPN’s Karl Ravech blows clutch home run call during College World Series: ‘My bad’ – New York Post
- ESPN’s Karl Ravech blows clutch home run call during College World Series: ‘My bad’ New York Post
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Evander Kane lands several body blows to defenseless Keegan Kolesar: ‘When you wanna f*** around, sometimes you have to find out’ – Russian Machine Never Breaks
- Evander Kane lands several body blows to defenseless Keegan Kolesar: ‘When you wanna f*** around, sometimes you have to find out’ Russian Machine Never Breaks
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Kapow! Inflatable space station module blows up in video explosion
Sierra Space aimed to blow a space module apart on video, and delivered on that promise in spades.
The company completed its third module test on the journey to certify its module design for eventual spaceflight and to help develop a private space complex to replace the International Space Station (ISS). The accelerated systematic creep test, as the company termed the December trial, exceeded NASA’s certification requirements.
“These results will propel us in 2023 as we mature the technology via full-scale development and continue toward full NASA certification,” Sierra Space officials wrote in a statement (opens in new tab) Tuesday (Jan. 31).
Sierra Space’s Large Integrated Flexible Environment, or LIFE, will form part of the Orbital Reef space station led by Blue Origin. Orbital Reef represents part of a small set of industry-led space stations that NASA gave early-stage funding to back in December 2021 as part of a plan to replace the aging ISS in the 2030s or so.
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Sierra Space has done a trio of explosive tests so far for safety reasons, as NASA certification requires extensive ground testing to assure the design is safe for spaceflight. The December 2022 effort loaded the subscale test module up with air pressure and required the module to maintain pressure for at least 100 hours. The explosion took place after 150 hours, exceeding the requirement by 150%.
Previously in July and November, Sierra Space conducted two ultimate burst pressure tests that subjected test modules to ever-growing air pressure until they blew apart. Once the results from the December test are completed, Sierra plans a second subscale Systematic Accelerated Creep Test “early in 2023” and then full-scale testing later in the year, officials said in the release.
In photos: Inside Sierra Nevada’s inflatable space habitat for astronauts in lunar orbit
All tests were performed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama adjacent to the flame trench of the Saturn 1/1B test stand, in the same zone where NASA tested rockets for the Apollo moon program of the 1960s and 1970s. The tests included Sierra Space, past spacesuit maker ILC Dover and NASA officials.
Sierra Space isn’t the only space station module maker deliberately blowing things up for NASA. In December, for example, engineers at Lockheed Martin Space’s Waterton Canyon facility in Colorado also exploded a test module for their own ultimate burst pressure test, although this module design is destined for a deeper-space destination as NASA seeks to expand its influence to the moon and beyond.
In 2021, NASA provided $415 million in funding split across three teams tasked with creating successor space stations to ISS: the Orbital Reef team led by Blue Origin that includes Sierra Space received $130 million, Nanoracks LLC’s team received $160 million and Northrop Grumman’s team garnered $125.6 million.
An inflatable module is also in action right now on the ISS, in testing by Bigelow Space. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, arrived at its docking port in 2019 and receives periodic check-ups by ISS astronauts to ensure it is holding up well against the vacuum of space and solar radiation.
Elizabeth Howell is the co-author of “Why Am I Taller (opens in new tab)?” (ECW Press, 2022; with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a book about space medicine. Follow her on Twitter @howellspace (opens in new tab). Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab) or Facebook (opens in new tab).
Weird supernova remnant blows scientists’ minds
When dying stars explode as supernovae, they usually eject a chaotic web of dust and gas. But a new image of a supernova’s remains looks completely different — as though its central star sparked a cosmic fireworks display. It is the most unusual remnant that researchers have ever found, and could point to a rare type of supernova that astronomers have long struggled to explain.
“I have worked on supernova remnants for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” says Robert Fesen, an astronomer at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, who imaged the remnant late last year. He reported his findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on 12 January and posted them in a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper on the same day1.
An 850-year-old firework
In 2013, amateur astronomer Dana Patchick discovered the object in archived images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. Over the next decade, several teams studied the remnant, known as Pa 30, but the results became only more and more baffling.
Star graveyard revealed in super-clear image of the Milky Way
Vasilii Gvaramadze, an astronomer at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia, and his colleagues found an extremely unusual star in 2019 at the dead center of Pa 302. That star had a surface temperature of roughly 200,000 kelvin, with a stellar wind travelling outward at 16,000 kilometres per second — roughly 5% of the speed of light. “Stars simply don’t have 16,000-kilometre-per-second winds,” Fesen says. Speeds of 4,000 kilometres per second aren’t unheard of, he says — but 16,000 is wild.
Pa 30 was again the subject of intrigue in 2021, when Andreas Ritter, an astronomer at the University of Hong Kong, and his colleagues proposed that the remnant is the aftermath of a supernova that lit up the sky nearly 850 years ago, in 11813. Chinese and Japanese astronomers observed the object for roughly six months before it faded.
During their examination of Pa 30, Ritter and his colleagues noted that the remnant’s emission spectrum contained a particular line associated with the element sulfur. Intrigued, Fesen’s group later imaged the remnant with an optical filter that is sensitive to that line using the 2.4-metre Hiltner Telescope at the Michigan–Dartmouth–MIT Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona.
The data they collected not only helped to confirm that Pa 30 is indeed what’s left of the supernova observed in 1181, but also yielded an image of the remnant unlike any other. It contains hundreds of fine filaments radiating outwards. Normally, researchers expect supernova remnants to look like the Crab Nebula — which looks less like a crab and more like a sea anemone, with a smooth region at the centre of an oval-shaped mass of tentacle-like filaments. They also commonly look like the Tycho Supernova, which looks like a sphere of jumbled knots.
But Pa 30 comparatively makes for “just an amazing image”, says Saurabh Jha, an astronomer at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. “I’ve never seen anything like it before. It’s really mind-blowing.”
Cheating death
What could have caused such a remnant? In 2021, Ritter and his colleagues speculated that it was a rare supernova explosion classified as type Iax3.
A normal type-Ia supernova occurs when a white dwarf siphons material from a companion star, eventually growing so massive that it can no longer support the extra weight and blows itself to smithereens — dispersing its innards across the galaxy. But in a type-Iax supernova, the star somehow survives. “We often call these zombie stars,” Jha says.
A supernova could light up the Milky Way at any time. Astronomers will be watching
Although theorists have developed many possible mechanisms to explain type-Iax supernovae, Ritter and his colleagues think that two white dwarfs slammed together to produce Pa 30’s fireworks. That’s clear from the amount of sulfur in the remnant, which is a byproduct of a white-dwarf explosion, and the lack of lighter elements that you would see from more massive stars.
Anthony Piro, an astronomer at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, thinks these findings crystallize at least one path through which a type Iax can form. But it is different from the previously favoured scenario, in which a white dwarf siphons material from a companion. That idea was developed in 2014, when astronomers successfully identified the stars involved in a Iax explosion by looking through archived images from before the event took place4.
So the Pa 30 finding “definitely broadens, in my mind, what could have led to a type-Iax supernova”, Jha says.
These rare explosions tend to occur in distant galaxies, making them difficult to study. But Pa 30 (if it is truly type Iax) is only 2.3 kiloparsecs away — meaning that future observations will shed more light on this unusual type of supernova.
Already, Fesen has applied for observing time on both the Hubble Space Telescope and the newer James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). “The optical image that was taken, I think, gives only a hint of what it really looks like,” Fesen says. “But the JWST image will be simply amazing.”
This egg-laying mammal blows bubbles to cool off
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Australia’s echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out of its beaklike snout.
The short-beaked echidna is common across Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and along with the platypus, it’s one of Earth’s few monotremes — mammals who lay eggs — and has been around for millions of years. With a long, sticky tongue, a penchant for snacking on ants and termites, and a body covered in barbless quills called spines, the echidna is also known as a spiny anteater.
Despite being one of the world’s oldest surviving species, the echidna is also thought to be sensitive to heat. Previous research has suggested that a body temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and air temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) is lethal to the animal.
Yet the unusual creature lives in extremely hot, arid regions in Australia, where its very existence seems impossible.
Now, new research has shown how the short-beaked echidna has adapted to beat the heat — something that will become even more crucial as the world warms due to the climate crisis.
Scientists at Curtin University in Australia used thermal vision cameras to conduct their no-contact research on echidnas in Dryandra Woodland and Boyagin Nature Reserve, located about 105 miles (170 kilometers) southeast of Perth.
The researchers captured infrared footage of 124 echidnas for 34 days across 12 months to see how the animals shed heat. The journal Biology Letters published a study detailing the findings on Tuesday.
The researchers didn’t expect to find echidnas blowing mucus bubbles as a way to regulate their internal temperature.
“We observed a number of fascinating methods used by echidnas to manage heat and which allow the animal to be active at much higher temperatures than previously thought,” said lead study author Dr. Christine Cooper, senior lecturer in Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences, in a statement.
“Echidnas blow bubbles from their nose, which burst over the nose tip and wet it. As the moisture evaporates it cools their blood, meaning their nose tip works as an evaporative window.”
The thermal data also showed that the echidnas can lose heat on their underside and legs — but they can use their spines to retain body heat if need be.
The researchers were surprised to see that the echidnas were active despite the fact that the air temperature was several degrees above what is considered the “lethal” level for the animals.
In the summer, echidnas switch to nocturnal behavior to escape the heat. But they have also been seen sheltering inside hollow logs where the air temperature is well above their limit.
The latest findings suggest that the previous estimates of the high temperatures echidnas can handle were “underestimates,” according to the new study.
“Echidnas can’t pant, sweat or lick to lose heat, so they could be impacted by increasing temperature and our work shows alternative ways that echidnas can lose heat, explaining how they can be active under hotter conditions than previously thought,” Cooper said.
“Understanding the thermal biology of echidnas is also important to predict how they might respond to a warming climate.”
Next, she and her colleagues want to model just how much heat echidnas can shed to predict how they can withstand different environmental conditions and warming.
These hardy animals have proven to be more resilient against high temperatures than previously believed, but it doesn’t mean that increasing temperatures won’t be a challenge for them, Cooper said.
‘Immaculate Reception:’ In interview hours before his death, Franco Harris said catch ‘blows my mind’
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Fifty years after the “Immaculate Reception” and just hours before his death, Franco Harris said it “blows my mind” how he pulled off arguably the most memorable play in NFL history.
In a live interview Tuesday on “Mad Dog Unleashed” on SiriusXM radio, Harris recalled December 23, 1972, when he caught a deflected pass just before it hit the ground and ran for a playoff game-winning touchdown to lead his Pittsburgh Steelers over the Oakland Raiders.
Harris said his assignment was to block but he wound up going out for a pass when the fourth-down play broke down with 22 seconds left in the game.
“You know what, when I watch the film I can’t remember anything of the play past just leaving the backfield,” Harris told host Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo. “But when I see the film, and I see it in real time, it just blows my mind how quick that is … And I have no idea how I reacted so quickly, and got it and kept in stride. And even looked up a little bit to try and get the lay of the land … I’m saying, ‘How did all that happen in just those few seconds?’ It didn’t make any sense. Like, I just don’t understand it.”
Harris died just days before the 50th anniversary of the catch, and the Steelers had planned to retire his No. 32 jersey during halftime of their game against the Raiders on Saturday.
The NFL Network in 2019 named the Immaculate Reception the top play in the 100 years of the league.
The play was not without controversy: There were no convincing replays to determine who deflected the ball when two opposing players collided and whether the ball actually hit the ground when Harris caught it.
In the interview, Russo said some believe that the nose of the football hit the turf, “But you’re saying that’s not the case, correct?”
“I have no idea, I have no idea,” Harris said. “I remember nothing. That’s what baffles me…”
Russo noted Harris was “a long way away from where the ball ricocheted.” If another Steeler had touched the ball, Harris’ catch would not have been legal.
“I have no recollection of seeing the ball at all,” Harris said. “I have no visual of the ball. I have no recollection. But look at … how fast it came back.”
Looking at the film, Harris says, “I’m thinking that it could only have been” Raiders defender Jack Tatum “that the ball bounced off of” before Harris made the shoestring catch. Tatum had collided with Steelers fullback Frenchy Fuqua.
In explaining how he made the play, Harris noted that he “always had great reflexes but you don’t practice stuff like this. … So it kind of blows my mind.”
The Steelers won the game 13-7 for the team’s first-ever playoff victory but lost their next game. Still, the team went on to dominate the 1970s, winning four Super Bowls.
Russo, the host, opened the interview by asking, “How are you today, OK pal?” It was likely the last interview Harris did before his death was announced on Wednesday. His cause of death was not provided.
“Doing great. Fantastic,” Harris said, though he was coughing here and there. “And, like as you said, 50 years ago, and, and it still feels brand new.”
Harris then went on to talk about the game-winning drive, how it started off poorly and left the Steelers in a desperate spot.
“So, things didn’t go too well on those first three plays, as you know. And then it gets down to fourth down. A long way to go. 22 seconds.
And I go into the huddle and I tell myself, ‘Franco, this will probably be the last play of the season. It was a good season. Just play it till the end.’
And (the coach) called that 66 halfback option.”
Harris’ assignment was to stay in and block.
He recalled that “there wasn’t much … adrenaline” in the huddle.
We were winning the whole game and right at the end (the Raiders) scored. It seemed more of a letdown than anything.”
Russo noted that Harris “did block well” on the play and noticed that quarterback Terry Bradshaw was scrambling under pressure from the defense.
“My thought was to release to be an outlet pass,” Harris said. “And Bradshaw, being as, you know, big and as strong as he is, you know, guys trying to bring him down, he’s able to fight them off and get the ball into the air.”
Harris said when the ball was in the air, “I tell myself, right, I tell myself ‘Go to the ball, go to the ball.’”
Harris said that was his instinct because that was what he was taught as a running back in college, under Joe Paterno at Penn State University.
“That’s what Joe preached to us all four years at Penn State. You know, always go to the ball … And so I start taking some steps to the ball and I remember nothing after that… which blows my mind, that I have no visual, no recollection of anything until I am stiff arming (Raiders defender) Jimmy Warren, going into the end zone.”
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Harris noted how important it was that he didn’t dive for the ball. In those days when a player hits the ground while possessing the ball, he was officially down and could not advance it.
“How lucky am I that I was conscious that, you know, catch it that low without diving for it,” Harris said.
Harris said that after the players collided and the ball deflected into the air, some of the Raiders started to clap and celebrate.
“And the Raiders stop, just for a few seconds, and that few seconds that they stopped gave me the head start to get into the end zone.”
All these years later, when some old-time Raiders still assert that the catch wasn’t a legal catch, Harris says he pays it no mind.
“As a matter of fact,” Harris said, “I feel good that they’re still sulking about that.”