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On Earth, coastlines are dynamic interfaces where land and sea meet, often marked by river deltas at the confluence of rivers and oceans. Intriguingly, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, also possesses rivers and seas, but observations reveal enigmatic features that challenge our understanding. The study was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. Titan, the largest of Saturn’s numerous moons, boasts a substantial atmosphere that fosters Earth-like weather patterns, including clouds, wind, and precipitation. However, its rivers, lakes, and seas are composed of liquid methane and ethane, not water. Data from the Cassini spacecraft, obtained in 2006 using specialized radar, confirmed the presence of these liquid bodies, establishing Titan as the only planetary satellite in our solar system with stable surface liquids. While virtually all large terrestrial rivers form deltas upon entering a sea or ocean, Cassini’s initial data surprisingly showed a near absence of such features at the mouths of Titan’s rivers. This raised the question of whether deltas were truly absent or simply undetected. To address this, the study authors simulated Cassini’s radar observations of terrestrial river-sea interfaces, substituting water with liquid methane to account for its distinct radar absorption properties. The simulation demonstrated that Cassini’s radar should indeed be capable of resolving coastlines and identifying river deltas, along with other significant coastal landforms. However, subsequent analysis of Titan’s images, informed by the simulation results, revealed a stark contrast. Only about 1.3 percent of Titan’s major rivers terminating at coastlines exhibited deltas. This is a striking difference from Earth, where almost every comparable river has a delta. Scientists are currently puzzled by this lack of deltas on Titan, given the fundamental role of rivers in transporting and depositing sediment at their termini. One hypothesis suggests that rapid fluctuations in Titan’s sea levels might lead to the erosion of deltas faster than they can accumulate. Additionally, coastal winds and tidal currents on Titan could play a significant role in inhibiting delta formation. The mysteries don’t end there. Further analysis of Cassini data has unveiled deep, unexplained pits within Titan’s lakes and seas. Moreover, deep channels, likely carved by river flows, have been discovered on the sea floor, adding another layer to the enigma of Titan’s liquid landscapes. The post Rivers and Seas on Saturn’s Largest Moon Have Unexplained Features appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Is there any political schtick more tedious now than comparing President Trump to Hitler? Politico posted an article noting Al Gore did this at a Climate Week event in San Francisco, and Real Clear Politics co-founder Tom Bevan tweeted with a smirk, “Gore says the same thing Democrats have been saying for a decade.” The Democrats campaigned heavily in 2024 claiming Trump represented an end to democracy, and they lost the election. But it hasn’t slowed them down in the slightest. The “independent fact checkers” who act as a publicity arm of the Democrats never “fact check” anyone calling Trump a “fascist” or comparing him to Hitler or Mussolini or Pol Pot or “insert mass-murdering dictator here.” PolitiFact screeches “Pants On Fire” when a Republican calls a Democrat a “socialist,” but “fascist” is always fair for categorizing conservatives. Bill Maher’s recent dinner with Trump spurred angst-riddled articles on the Left. In The Washington Post, Mexican journalist Leon Krauze compared Maher’s dinner with Trump to journalists and politicians who were charmed in private meetings by Castro, Stalin, and Mao. He wrote of New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews being in thrall to Castro. So it was extra-special when The New York Times published an op-ed by Larry David, who loves making a friendly impression of socialist Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live. The title was “My Dinner with Adolf,” making an incredibly unfunny mockery of Maher meeting with Trump. In his satire, this poseur imagined he saw Hitler laugh: “Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.” Oh, Larry is dizzy, all right. Face-plant dizzy.   What was actually funny was Times deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy explaining why they accepted this drivel: “Times Opinion has a high bar for satire — our mission is geared toward idea-driven, fact-based arguments — and we have a really, really high bar for commenting on today’s world by invoking Hitler.” So a president who’s been a great friend of Israel and who’s currently withholding federal money for universities with a nasty antisemitism problem is somehow today’s Hitler? Healy acknowledged “callbacks to history can be offensive, imprecise or in terrible taste when you are leveraging genocidal dictators to make a point.” But he claimed “Larry’s piece is not equating Trump with Hitler. It is about seeing people for who they really are and not losing sight of that.” Fact check: False. Larry is clearly and imprecisely equating Trump with Hitler, just like almost everyone else on the Left. In a 2020 interview with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Larry sang the same bitter notes about Trump: “The man has not one redeeming quality. You could take some of the worst dictators in history and I’m sure that all of them, you could find one decent quality. Stalin could have had one decent quality, we don’t know!” Many leftists scold each other for “humanizing” Trump, when apparently the proper thing to do is perennially dehumanize him. They can’t “normalize” Trump by admitting he might have one redeeming quality. They have more hope that mass-murdering Stalin was more redeemable. Then they assert they are the sanest ones, the ones not divorced from reality.

Starfield might have launched to big numbers, but Bethesda’s journey into space left many (myself included) feeling a little dry. Despite the scope, or perhaps because of it, the interstellar adventure lost some of that slight goofiness that has been the beating heart of the Elder Scrolls for many years. Now, with the release of Oblivion Remastered, it’s back in spades, and the response has been impressive, racking up a big Steam player count alongside its arrival on PC Game Pass. Continue reading Oblivion Remastered soars on Steam as Bethesda preserves its timeless charm MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Oblivion Remastered release date, Best RPGs, Best open-world games

Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Alien Isolation, and Dead Space get all the credit, but if we’re talking about the history of horror games, it pays to remember Onimusha Warlords. It’s creepy, gory, and exploits the same fixed camera as its spiritual predecessors, but it’s also faster, more energetic, and more combat driven - its Sengoku-era castle is an imaginative far cry from the horror genre’s standard haunted towns and spaceships. Remastered and re-released back in 2018, while Capcom is focusing on Monster Hunter Wilds and, we hope, Resident Evil 9, it hasn’t forgotten Onimusha. 24 years since the game originally arrived, it’s just been updated with a punishing new difficulty mode. Continue reading After 24 years, Capcom horror game Onimusha Warlords is suddenly much harder MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best horror games, Best old games, Best survival games

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