A collaboration between Vampire Survivors and the legendary Contra is a match made in heaven. If you want to play with the shiny new characters, here’s how to unlock Bill in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns How to get Bill Rizer in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns Screenshot: PC Invasion Bill is hidden in a Coffin located deep into the stage. As the new area is pretty intricate, I recommend checking your map and heading east until you reach the map icon (pictured above). The map reveals the layout of the entire stage, including bridges and other pickups. Screenshot: PC Invasion You can find Bill’s coffin to the northeast by the question mark icon. More specifically, The coffin is on a small section of the map that’s only accessible via a small entry from the south (pictured above). Once you interact with the coffin, you’ll unlock Bill, and he will appear on the character list when you start a game. If you want to play as Bill rig...

Vampire Survivors is absolutely jam-packed with weapons and more keep getting added with every DLC. With the all-new Contra-themed expansion out, we’re going to take a look at all 22 weapons and evolutions in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns. How to unlock all weapons in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns Screenshot: PC Invasion Unlocking weapons in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns is similar to the previous DLCs, such as the Among Us one. But for those who might not have played any other DLC, we’re going to go through the process. There are a total of 11 base weapons, with another 11 evolutions of said weapons. Here are all the weapons in Vampire Survivors Operation Guns and how to unlock them: WeaponHow to UnlockLong GunSurvive 15 minutes with Bill RizerShort GunSurvive 15 minutes with Lance BeanSpread ShotSurvive 15 minutes with ArianaC-U-LaserSurvive 15 minutes with LuciaFirearmSurvive 15 minutes with Brad FangSonic BloomSurvive 15 minutes with BrownyBlade...

Nov. 11, 1918, was the day the world had desperately needed. That was the day an armistice came about between the Allies and Germany. The "war to end all wars" had officially ended and it seemed like things could only get better. Around the world, people cheered for joy, and America turned the corner with the Roaring Twenties. Yes, renewed times were on the horizon, but the cost to get to that... Source

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In the modern-day Turkish city of Denizli, archaeologists have been hard at work excavating various sites. The team has been focusing their attention on the areas that had once been a central location of the ancient Roman Empire. One particular site that they are working on has delivered some incredible finds in the past. Yet, in 2019, the team was astonished when they uncovered an ancient... Source

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Evidence has been found that a subduction event, the driver of plate tectonics, occurred exceptionally early in Earth’s formation, contradicting existing models. To explain how this occurred, planetary scientists are pointing the finger at mantle plumes set off by Earth’s collision with Theia, the Mars-sized object whose impact created the Moon. Earth is the only planet with plate tectonics – and without the dance of the continents we wouldn’t be here, nor any other species capable of understanding the planet. Consequently, the possibility that plate tectonics might be very rare is considered one possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox. The idea that Earth having plate tectonics is somehow linked to the Moon has been suggested many times, with different explanations proposed for the connection. Most such claims are light on evidence, but 4.3 billion-year-old crystals from Western Australia might be the missing clue.The crystals are zircons, a type of rock prized by geologists for its resilience and internal clock. Zircons do not allow lead inside during their formation, but do incorporate uranium and thorium. These decay to lead on well-understood schedules, so the ratio of elements inside reveals a zircon’s age.For more than 20 years, some scientists have argued the chemistry of certain very old zircons indicates they were produced during subduction events, where a tectonic plate pushes or pulls another down into the mantle. However, plate tectonics today is driven in part by dense oceanic crust sinking into the mantle, something that should have been possible so early in Earth’s existence. A team of researchers has now offered an explanation. Their modeling suggests that when Theia smashed into Earth 4.51 billion years ago, the heat produced would have lasted a very long time, raising the temperature of the core-mantle boundary long after the magma ocean caused by the impact solidified. The extra heat at the core-mantle boundary came not just from the gravitational potential energy supplied by the impact, but from the decay of long half-life radioactive elements Theia carried. This in turn would have provided the conditions for strong mantle plumes, where enormous hot globules rose from the boundary, weakening the crust and upper mantle. In a variety of scenarios, the models the study authors used consistently show that around 120 million years after the impact, over-heated mantle blobs make their way to near the surface, initiating subduction.Changing certain assumptions alters the timeline somewhat, but as long as temperatures exceed 3,773 K (6,332 °F) at the core-mantle boundary for an extensive period, and pressures near the surface are not too great, subduction occurs.“The giant impact is not only the reason for our moon, if that’s the case, it also set the initial conditions of our Earth,” study co-author Dr Qian Yuan told The Washington Post.Even if the idea is correct, it’s not clear whether modern plate tectonics can trace its origins to the Theia impact, or if an initial burst fizzled out, before restarting from other causes.However, if it is the case that Theia’s massive crash was the initiator for the movements we see today, then it may set another requirement for a planet to support advanced life. The recycling of crustal material through the mantle has acted as Earth’s thermal control before life developed the same capacity, moderating temperatures extremes of hot and cold.If only a massive collision at just the right time can create such conditions, then planets that are Earthlike in the most important ways could be hundreds of times rarer than we think. In this case, civilizations may be correspondingly more unlikely and precious.The study is published open access in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. 

New NASA research suggests that their upcoming space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, will be able to look for primordial black holes, which can be smaller than regular black holes, with masses even smaller than a planet like ours. Well, as long as these objects exist, that is. But you might be wondering: what are primordial black holes?Black holes need extreme compression to form. At least, that’s how the stellar black holes come to be. A massive star goes supernova and its core is compacted so tightly under the gravitational collapse that an object with incredible density is born. An object from which nothing, not even light, can escape.Black holes go from masses of a few times that of the Sun, to billions of times our little star. The formation of the supermassive black holes is more complex. Maybe they were seeded by black holes from very massive stars, or maybe gas clouds just collapsed on themselves under gravitational forces.But since all the way back in 1966, researchers have suggested the possibility of a completely different class of black holes. These are the primordial black holes. They formed within the first microseconds after the Big Bang, at a time when the universe was a hot dense plasma of particles.Now making a black hole back then was not extremely difficult. The universe experienced a period of extraordinary expansion called cosmic inflation. And even right after, the universe was still hot enough for a black hole to form. You just need a difference in the density of a region of the universe of 10 percent for the collapse to form and the black hole to pop into existence.Given that you don’t need stellar conditions, it is possible to create much smaller black holes than what you get with supernovae. In fact, you could get primordial black holes with the mass of an asteroid compressed into the size of a molecule. Such an object could be in the Solar System right now. These objects could either be like a parasite, falling into stars and beginning to eat them from the inside, or they might also be the seed of all supermassive black holes, including the one at the center of the Milky Way.Primordial black holes remain completely theoretical and this is why Roman’s observations could be revolutionary. This work won’t require any unplanned observations. The telescope will look for rogue planets, planets that float freely in space unbound from the stars from which they formed, and that quest might reveal the existence of primordial black holes over time. The telescope could find a large number of them.“There’s no way to tell between Earth-mass black holes and rogue planets on a case-by-case basis,” lead author William DeRocco, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz, said in a statement. “Roman will be extremely powerful in differentiating between the two statistically.”“This is an exciting example of something extra scientists could do with data Roman is already going to get as it searches for planets,” added Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, who was not involved in the study. “And the results are interesting whether or not scientists find evidence that Earth-mass black holes exist. It would strengthen our understanding of the universe in either case.”The study is published in the journal Physical Review D.

In a perplexing incident that has rattled the local community of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a ranch has become the scene of an unusual and tragic event. A total of 17 sheep and goats were found deceased, with no apparent cause for the mass demise. The rancher, expecting a routine day, was met with a sight of chaos as the animals lay scattered across the terrain, lifeless. The details surrounding the deaths are as scarce as they are mystifying. Each animal was found intact, with no missing limbs, suggesting that predation was not the motive behind this act. The only clue to the potential cause is a clean, precise wound located on the neck of each animal. This peculiar detail has led to rampant speculation, with theories ranging from wild predators to something more sinister. Local authorities and experts have been called to investigate the scene, hoping to uncover evidence that could lead to an explanation. The ranch perimeter has been scrutinized for any signs of an intruder or unusual activity, but so far, the mystery remains unsolved. The peculiar circumstances surrounding the deaths of goats and sheep have sparked speculation that the notorious Chupacabra could be responsible for the unusual killings. However, skeptics are likely to attribute the incidents to a more ordinary predator like the coyote. This event marks the first of its kind in recent memory, leaving more questions than answers in its wake. This incident has not only caused a loss of livestock but has also instilled a sense of unease among the residents of Nuevo Laredo, who rely heavily on their ranches and farms. The post Mysterious predator strikes in Mexico: 17 livestock died in a strange way appeared first on Anomalien.com.