A feature of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s endgame is to constantly increase your Invasion Level difficulty to keep the game challenging and reap more rewards. Here is how to increase your difficulty in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League‚ what all the Invasion Levels offer‚ and when you should do it. Suicide Squad KTJL: How to increase Invasion Level difficulty There’s only one way to increase the difficulty in Suicide Squad and that’s by gaining enough XP to unlock the next Invasion Level. Related: Best early game weapons in Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League You start the game with these three difficulties: Walk in the Park which is easy‚ Best Pay Attention which is medium‚ and Sweating Bullets which is hard. Each subsequent difficulty increases your XP gained by 10% and resources gained by 15% to 50% which incentivizes you to play on harder difficulties. Higher difficulties also mean enemies hit harder and take less damage. From the...

In Monopoly GO‚ the Cloud Cruisin’ milestone event has started‚ bringing an end to the Prize Pade event. With even more goodies‚ you’ve got no time to lose. Full list of Milestones and Rewards for Cloud Cruisin’ in Monopoly GO Below is a complete list of all the rewards for the Cloud Cruisin’ Milestone Event in Monopoly GO. Note that cash rewards vary from player to player‚ so I can’t give any values. MilestonePoints RequiredRewards15Cash21015 Free Rolls310Green Sticker Pack480125 Free Rolls515Cash620Green Sticker Pack725Cash8150225 Free Rolls925Cash103015 minutes of Rent Frenzy1135Green Sticker Pack1240Cash13425570 Free Rolls1445Orange Sticker Pack1550Cash1655Cash17800850 Free Rolls1860Cash1970Pink Sticker Pack2080Cash211‚0001‚000 Free Rolls2210015 minutes of High Roller23120Cash24130120 Free Rolls25700Cash26150130 Free Rolls27250Cash28200Blue Sticker Pack292255 minutes of Cash Boost302‚2001‚800 Free Rolls31300Cash32400Blue Sticker Pack33500Cash3...

Elizabeth’s 26th request asks you to show her an Onimaru Kunitsuna in Persona 3 Reload‚ but where can you get one? This special item is one of many that you can find and get a reward from Elizabeth. If you’re not sure where to look‚ and you want a nice reward for your time spent searching for it‚ here’s how to get the Onimaru Kunitsuna. Persona 3 Reload: How to find Onimaru Kunitsuna This item is a weapon that your main protagonist can wield while in Tartarus‚ but how can you find it? Where you can get Onimaru Kunitsuna in Persona 3 Reload is on floor 54 in the Arqa Block of Tartarus. You’ll first unlock this quest on 6/13‚ and there’s no deadline to complete it. Screenshot: PC Invasion After fighting the boss fight that appears on floor 54‚ you have the chance to open some chests. One of them requires three Twilight Fragments to open. If you have enough‚ you can unlock the chest and receive the Onimaru Kunitsuna. These Twilight Fragment che...

Twilight Fragments are useful for opening chests and healing you and your party in Persona 3 Reload‚ but how can you farm them? While there are specific Twilight Fragment locations around the map‚ once those run out you need to look elsewhere for them. Persona 3 Reload: How to farm Twilight Fragments There are a few different ways you can come across Twilight Fragments‚ but how you can farm them in Persona 3 Reload is by upgrading your Social Links and exploring Tartarus. Once I ran out of the random Twilight Fragments I could find throughout the map‚ I was starting to realize just how little I had left. Screenshot: PC Invasion Luckily‚ you can get yourself more Twilight Fragments by increasing your Social Link rank with someone. Anytime you reach a new rank with a Social Link‚ the next time you chat with Elizabeth she’ll gift you a few Twilight Fragments. Since each Social Link has 10 ranks‚ you can imagine how many Twilight Fragments you can receive just by spend...

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress has found itself back in the spotlight after the January 26 debut of the AppleTV+ miniseries Masters of the Air. Produced by Steven Spielberg‚ Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman—who were also behind the series Band of Brothers and The Pacific—and based on the book by Donald L. Miller‚ the nine-part series tells the story of the 100th Bombardment Group—the “Bloody 100th”—during World War II. The group flew the B-17 ‚ and the big four-engine Boeings should share top billing with human stars Austin Butler‚ Callum Turner and Barry Keoghan‚ even if most of the airplanes are the product of computer-generated imagery (CGI)‚ along with three modern replicas. (The series should include a disclaimer that state‚ “No real B-17s were harmed during the making of this series.”) The United States produced nearly 13‚000 B-17s during the war. Today only 45 remain and only a handful of those are in flying condition. Two have crashed in recent years‚ the Commemorative Air Force’s Texas Raiders destroyed after an inflight collision with a P-63 Kingcobra at an airshow in 2022 and “Nine-o-Nine‚” owned and operated by the Collings Foundation‚ in 2019. A B-17 of the 365th Bombardment Squadron of the 305th Bombardment Group flies in formation over England in February 1944. The B-17 flights in MOTA‚ as it’s known‚ are brutal‚ violent and intense. That’s not at all the experience I had when I got to fly in a B-17 some years ago. I flew in Yankee Lady‚ the B-17G operated by the Yankee Air Museum of Belleville‚ Michigan. This B-17 was one of the last built‚ too late to see combat. It flew for the Coast Guard for a while after the war and then was converted for fire-fighting. The museum received it in 1986‚ when it needed a complete nine-year restoration before it could return to the air. It was briefly grounded in the spring of 2023 when the Federal Aviation Administration issued an airworthiness directive regarding an issue with wing spars but has resumed flying. Yankee Lady prepares for flight. My flight went off without incident. There was no flak‚ no fighters‚ no blood‚ no worries about hypoxia or frostbite‚ no spent shell casings littering the fuselage interior. But I did experience the ear-pounding noise generated by the four Wright R-1820-97 engines. On the runway they idled with a loud throaty purr‚ but when the pilot pushed the throttles forward and Yankee Lady began its takeoff run‚ the entire airplane vibrated to the roar of the engines. I was sitting in the bombardier’s station in the nose of the bomber‚ watching as the trees as the end of the runway got closer and closer…and then we lifted up and soared over them. The view from the front. It was a thrill to fly in the venerable Boeing. Maybe I didn’t get a sense of air combat‚ but I did get a sense of the airplane‚ which was not nearly as big—at least from the inside—as I expected. I’m sure it felt even more cramped for aircrew wearing bulky heated suits to protect them from the subzero temperatures at altitude. I’m glad I got my chance to fly in a B-17 but I’m even happier that I didn’t have to experience what their crews did during the war. There’s not a lot of elbow room in the cockpit. Just in case. Two of the four Wright R-1820-97 engines. Safe on the ground.

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The world has warmed more since the start of the Industrial Revolution than previously acknowledged‚ new evidence indicates‚ with the world already exceeding 1.5°C (2.7°F) above pre-industrial conditions. If so‚ it means the limits the world agreed on in the 2015 Paris Accord have already been exceeded. However‚ some climate scientists have expressed skepticism about the claim.The rise in global temperatures is expressed compared to pre-industrial conditions‚ but determining quite what those conditions were is a challenge. Even after the invention of the thermometer‚ for centuries direct measurements of air temperature were confined to cities in small parts of the planet. We didn’t start systematically recording water temperatures until the mid-19th century‚ and even then only on well-trafficked shipping routes.A wide variety of proxy data has been used to construct an estimate of global temperatures before industrialization took off‚ but a new sample taken from Eastern Caribbean sea sponges suggests conditions were colder than previously acknowledged. If the new data is right‚ the baseline we are comparing ourselves has been set too high‚ making the rise half a degree greater than existing estimates.Naturally‚ there is considerable skepticism around the idea that results from just one location are more accurate than those collected‚ albeit patchily‚ around the globe. “A single new paleo record off the coast of Puerto Rico is a valuable addition to the large evidence of warming‚" Professor Malte Meinshausen of the University of Melbourne‚ who was not involved in the study‚ commented. "But it is just that‚ one study among hundreds. The [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] IPCC's findings still stand strong.”However‚ in a media conference‚ two of the authors of the new paper made the case for why their sample should be considered the new standard. Most proxy temperature data is collected on land in the form of tree rings or stalactites‚ and therefore subject to extreme local variation so that many data points are required to smooth things out. Even corals‚ the primary marine temperature proxy‚ experience considerable fluctuations.The team used sclerosponges collected 33-91 meters (110-300 feet) below the surface‚ part of what is called the Ocean Mixed Layer. These sponges grow very slowly so some specimens date back 300 years. Like corals‚ the temperatures of the water in which the sponges live leaves a record in the amount of strontium incorporated into their calcium carbonate skeletons. “The dominant source of variability in Caribbean [sea temperatures] is atmospheric forcing‚” lead author Professor Malcolm McCulloch of the University of Western Australia said at the media conference. “There’s very little influence from other variable sources such as [ocean currents]. We’re also looking at the mixed layer‚ which has much less variability.”Comparing the temperature changes the sponges experienced since 1960 with global conditions‚ which the authors noted have been precisely recorded over that period‚ shows a very close match. This leads McCulloch and colleagues to conclude their sample should also be a good indicator of global climatic conditions in earlier times when other sources are less reliable. “There is good physical oceanographic reasons why it should be able to get a global average and empirically we've demonstrated it."Establishing pre-Industrial temperatures is complicated by the fact that between 1790 and 1840 a series of large volcanic eruptions produced substantial temporary cooling. Proxy data for this period is considered a poor guide to general pre-industrial conditions. This study’s sponges reveal this cooling‚ but they also provide a guide to temperatures between 1700 and 1790‚ and from 1840 to 1860‚ which the authors argue should be considered the true pre-industrial baseline. From the mid-19th century‚ the effects of human activity become clear‚ with warming rates accelerating since 1960.“Thus‚ the opportunity to limit global warming to no more than 1.5°C by emission reductions alone has now passed and at current emission rates‚ the 2°C threshold for [global marine surface temperatures] will be reached by the late 2020s‚” the authors write. If they’re right‚ temperatures in the 18th century were half a degree cooler than the IPCC has estimated. Modern temperatures therefore are already more than 1.5°C warmer‚ even if you smooth out extreme years like 2023.McCulloch acknowledged that the 1.5°C target is somewhat arbitrary for the point where unsafe warming will kick in. It is based on observations of the effects of the warming we have seen‚ and if that warming has been miscalculated we may expect to see the impacts predicted for 1.5°C‚ 2°C‚ or 3°C at somewhat higher points. Nevertheless‚ McCulloch says “We’re going to experience more serious impacts than we may have anticipated‚” adding‚ “From the policy perspective it should be a very simple thing of getting emissions down as soon as possible.”Despite the authors’ confidence in their findings‚ few climate scientists are likely to consider proxies from one location definitive. The obvious first step for verification would be to explore sea sponges from similar depths elsewhere in the world. However‚ the authors note the species they used (Ceratoporella nicholsoni) is not found in the Pacific‚ so a suitable counterpart will have to be identified.The study is published in Nature Climate Change. 

Welcome to the wonderful world of underwater creatures. From seals to sharks‚ and whales to whale sharks‚ we break down just what is swimming beneath the ocean waves and where they fit in with those animals that are much happier gallivanting about on land.Why are sharks not mammals?To start with‚ let's address a common mistake. Sharks are not mammals‚ they are fish. In taxonomic terms there are two broad classes of fish. There's Osteichthyes or the bony fish‚ which includes fish species like goldfish‚ trout‚ and piranhas. The second big class is Chondrichthyes. These are known as the cartilaginous fish; they have jaws and skeletons made of cartilage not bone. This is the class that all sharks belong to‚ and Australian Museum has a helpful diagram that lays it all out. There are roughly 500 species of shark swimming in the oceans and occasionally the lakes of the world‚ according to the International Fund For Animal Welfare. Ocean mammalsAll whales‚ dolphins‚ porpoises‚ and seals are marine mammals. The first three belong to the infraorder of Cetacea‚ meaning that they are all somewhat closely related. By contrast‚ seals belong to the infraorder Pinnipedia‚ which also includes sea lions and walruses.Whale sharksZoologists can be quite confusing when it comes to naming animals. The whale shark is a prime example of this. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are not whales and therefore not mammals‚ but are sharks and by extension fish. They can reach lengths of around 12 meters (40 feet) and weigh as much as 20.6 tons according to National Geographic. In fact they are the world's largest fish species‚ beating great white sharks and basking sharks to the title. The world’s largest animal‚ however‚ is a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)‚ which can be as long as 24 meters (78 feet) and weigh 150 tons. Since we now know that whales are mammals‚ they're also the world’s largest mammal.The key differencesThe main differences that can help you tell if an animal is a fish or a mammal are quite obvious once you know what to look for. The first has to do with breathing. Whales breathe oxygen through the blow holes on their heads‚ which means that they must break the surface of the water to breathe in the oxygen before closing the blowhole and diving beneath the surface. They have lungs that the air is passed into in the same way as a human. When whales get stranded‚ because they can still breathe‚ they can often be rescued and refloated back out to sea. Sharks do not have blow holes and do not breathe air like a whale. Instead they have gills that filter oxygen from the seawater and take waste carbon dioxide from the blood back into the ocean. They do not have lungs. Typically‚ if a large shark were to be stranded out of the water it would not survive‚ because they cannot breathe directly from the air; however‚ some species can survive for longer without water‚ like the "walking" shark.The other key difference is in reproduction. Whales‚ seals‚ and dolphins all reproduce by internal fertilization and give birth to live young that they then care for‚ feeding them milk that is produced in the mother’s body. Sharks‚ however‚ depending on species have a whole range of reproductive options‚ including live young and laying eggs‚ but never feed their young milk. Another fun difference between sharks and mammals is that while sharks never have hair‚ whales occasionally do.