Trump’s rebound is emergent, assuming the campaign strategists can strike the right chord in communicating their message.

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News Eternal Champions Sega’s Eternal Champions May Be Punching Its Way to a Theater Near You One of the writers of Jurassic World is on the case. By Molly Templeton | Published on August 19, 2024 Screenshot: Sega Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Sega Best to just accept that we live in a world of videogame movie adaptations, I think. The latest punchy-kicky tale to take its first steps on the way to the silver screen is Eternal Champions, a 1993 Sega game that arrived in the wake of the now much better-known Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Its characters range from Slash, who hails from 50,000 B.C., to futuristic Syrian bounty hunter Jonathan Blade, to the amusingly named Jetta Maxx, a Russian noble who was, if the game’s Wikipedia page is to be believed, “working undercover as a circus acrobat at the time of her death.” Her death is relevant because of the game’s plot, which involves the characters being plucked away from the moment of each one’s death by one omniscient Eternal Champion, who has determined (for reasons) that mankind is in trouble on account of these wonderful folks and their untimely deaths. But alas and alack, the Eternal Champion can only bring one of them fully back to life. So, naturally, they have to fight for it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Skydance is producing the cinematic masterpiece that is sure to result from this delightfully overwrought plot, and they’ve brought on Derek Connolly to write the film. Connolly, once upon a time, was known for being the writer of Safety Not Guaranteed, which shot both him and director Colin Trevorrow into the highest echelons of franchise filmmaking (which is to say, the Jurassic World series). While one might wish that Connolly would return to writing weird original science fiction films, he seems to be quite busy writing about dinosaurs, and who can blame him, really. (Connolly also, unfortunately, has a story credit on The Rise of Skywalker; he is also working on Wes Ball’s Legend of Zelda film.) No production timeline or casting has been announced for Eternal Champions, but one does wonder who will play these nine snatched-from-the-jaws-of-death heroes.[end-mark] The post Sega’s <i>Eternal Champions</i> May Be Punching Its Way to a Theater Near You appeared first on Reactor.

It’s been a slog for the Trump campaign the past few weeks. Let’s face it: President Joe Biden was former President Donald Trump’s clearest path to victory. And the gift that kept on giving has laid its last golden egg. Biden is gone. It’s incredible how poor a candidate he was. And it took his exit to fully realize just how bad off the Democrats were with him at the top of the ticket. Enter Vice President Kamala Harris, and the euphoria that was pent up has been released like water over Niagara Falls. I get that. Political flaks know what a honeymoon looks like. They know what to do: Weather that slight bump but continually rage against the machine—in this case, the Democrat machine that is now Harris/Walz. It’s at this stage of the presidential campaign that Trump’s limited political experience has failed him. Sure, he is surrounded by a team of experts with years of being on the campaign trail. But I’ve seen enough presidential races to know that it takes a veteran at the top—the candidate himself—to recognize when the ship of state is listing and in need of a course correction. Even candidates who didn’t go on to win the White House adjusted and pivoted to match the shifting winds of the electorate, to respond to the zeitgeist of the day. I have yet to see the pivot. And frankly it must come from the candidate himself, not even his VP pick. Trump needs a course correction … and quickly. As I type this, the first ballots in Pennsylvania get mailed out in less than 38 days. If there is one state every election watcher has their eye on, it’s Pennsylvania. So technically, both sides have weeks, not months, to begin to make their marks on a small map impacted by the Electoral College. Three things are a political imperative to get the Trump Train back on its tracks: 1. Stay on Mission. The Biden-Harris administration is the mission. Harris is Biden’s standard-bearer. Everything he touched during his term, he put into the ditch. Inflation, the economy, jobs (see the stock market last week?), fentanyl, immigration, housing, the list is endless. No one — and I mean no one — believes they are better off under Biden and Harris. So attack her. Toss in Biden for good measure. He reminds even wobbly Democrat voters what they almost were stuck with. Michigan has 800,000 Arab American voters. Remind them of how bad Biden/Harris was for their agenda. Don’t get distracted with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. He’s a proxy for her terrible policies. When both start doing press conferences, be ready to attack everything they say, because their responses will not match what is keeping American families up at night. Please, no more talk of stolen elections. Look presidential and keep the main thing the main thing: Harris is scary. 2. Focus on Pocketbook Politics. It may surprise you to realize that inflation is named as a top concern among even young voters in focus groups. They know what’s in their pockets. They calculate and think about their retirement accounts. Biden threatened that. Harris has no answer. We’ll never get back the double-digit price hikes that Bidenomics gave America. We are only now beginning to see inflation growth decline. That’s not relief. Further, voters in these swing states worry about immigration even if they don’t say it with a microphone in their face. This is the silent majority that doesn’t sit up at night wondering if the boys bathrooms at their local school has tampons in them (thanks, Tim). They’re not hoping the government funds puberty blockers for nine-year-olds (thanks Tim). They’re struggling to pay off credit card debt, which is the highest per household we’ve ever seen. Democrats have no vision to turn this economy around or even get it jumpstarted again. Call them on it. 3. Help Down-Ticket Races Finally a different twist—take this message to West Virginia, Montana, Ohio, Nevada, and New Mexico, and help your party down-ticket. Ohioans, for example, love Trump. Help out the Senate race there. Trump will help himself, I promise. The same is true in at least four or five other states and in some key congressional districts across the country. Don’t miss the opportunity to grow an incoming majority in the Senate. This race is far from over. And both sides will take their fair share of lumps while doling out a hefty amount of political ordnance. The winning side will be the one that makes the fewest mistakes and stays on mission. It won’t be easy, but it will be simple. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Donald Trump Needs a Course Correction appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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While there’s no chance of you encountering a megalodon on your marine adventures, there are still plenty of other heebie-jeebie-inducing deep-sea creatures out there to run into, as one group of kayakers and snorkelers found out last week when they came across a rarely seen giant – an oarfish.The 3.7-meter (12-foot) long, silver ribbon-like fish was discovered floating dead at the water’s surface in La Jolla Cove in San Diego. According to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, it’s only the 20th time that an oarfish has been recorded washing up in California since 1901. IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.It’s no surprise that such encounters are rare considering oarfish typically live deep within the ocean in what’s known as the “twilight zone” (mesopelagic, if we’re being proper), at depths between 200 to 1,000 meters (656 to 3,280 feet). There, they’re thought to live relatively solitary lives – besides mating – snacking on plankton, crustaceans, and even squid.While scientists don’t know for sure why they occasionally end up washing up, it’s thought that it’s most likely due to injury, illness, or disorientation.Studying the creatures that live in this zone is notoriously difficult for a multitude of reasons, including its inaccessibility and lack of light, making the discovery of the oarfish a golden opportunity to find out more. Luckily, some of the group who came across the fish happened to work for California Sea Grant and Scripps Oceanography.“With help from [NOAA Fisheries] & [California Sea Grant], the group was able to coordinate with lifeguards to transport the fish to the NOAA facility,” said the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in a post to X. “Scientists from NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center & Scripps Oceanography will perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death.”After that necropsy is complete, the oarfish is due to end up in the Scripps Marine Vertebrate Collection so that scientists can continue to study it.The appearance of the oarfish has also reignited a long-held myth stemming from Japanese folklore that they are harbingers of earthquakes and tsunamis, earning them the nickname “doomsday fish”. Adding further fuel to the fire, just two days after the oarfish was found, California was struck by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake just south of Los Angeles.Did the so-called doomsday fish predict this? No – such is the persistence of the myth that scientists have even produced a study investigating it, which thoroughly debunked the idea that oarfish can tell you if an earthquake is coming.“Even comparing 336 deep-sea fish appearances with 221 earthquakes, only one event showed a plausible correlation,” the study authors wrote. “As a result, one can hardly confirm the association between the two phenomena.”

The push to set up a "Lunar Coordinate Time" is gaining traction. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the latest organization to call for the Moon to have its own standard clock time in a bid to coordinate future lunar missions.A motion to establish a standard Lunar Celestial Reference System and Lunar Coordinate Time was passed by the IAU on August 15 at their XXXII General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. A follow-up resolution said the new time zone should be reached by “international agreement".“As we leave Cape Town and reflect on the legacy of this event, let us remember that together we are pushing the frontiers of astronomical knowledge in a collective effort to better understand the Universe we live in, our origins and our future, and to make the world a better place for all,” Willy Benz, incoming President of the IAU, said in a statement.There’s currently no agreed time zone on the Moon – and that's a growing problem. Uncrewed missions typically use the time zone of the craft's country of origin, while the crewed Apollo missions from 1968 to 1972 used Ground Elapsed Time, counting from the moment of launch.With humans (hopefully) set to return to the Moon in the near future, plus an increasing number of nations and private companies launching space missions, the need to coordinate the Moon with a unified clock is mounting. Time dilation throws another spanner into the works. Due to general and special relativity, the duration of a second on the Moon will appear distorted to an observer on Earth because there’s less gravity on the lunar surface and, therefore, time flows faster. Time on the Moon's surface ticks an average of 57.5 microseconds per Earth-day faster than it does on our planet's surface. This may seem miniscule, but it could make a difference when highly precise experiments are being conducted. Furthermore, these tiny differences can add up; if an astronaut spends 50 years on the Moon, they would be around 1 second older than if they had stayed on Earth.Discussions about a "Coordinated Lunar Time" have been building in recent times. Back in April 2024, the White House directed NASA and other agencies to put together a plan to establish a new Moon time system by the end of 2026.While it’s still uncertain how the world might go about doing this, it's apparent that this is the time to do so.“I think that the community has realized that this needs to be done. And this is the beginning,” Bijunath Patla, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, told the Associated Press.

Citizen scientists working on the hunt for the hypothetical Planet 9 that should lurk at the edge of the Solar System have instead found a cosmic object moving so fast that it will one day leave the Milky Way. It's the first object with the mass of a small star found moving at this speed.First spotted by Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 contributors Martin Kabatnik, Thomas P. Bickle, and Dan Caselden a few years ago using data from NASA's WISE mission that mapped the sky in infrared, it's thought the object may be a brown dwarf, star-like objects that never get massive enough to begin fusing hydrogen at their core. Over 4,000 brown dwarfs have been discovered by amateur astronomers during this program but none of them have been as fast as this. It’s moving at about 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) per hour.“I can’t describe the level of excitement,” Kabatnik, from Nuremberg, Germany, who is a co-author on a new paper describing the discovery, said in a statement. “When I first saw how fast it was moving, I was convinced it must have been reported already.”The project allows citizen scientists to pore through WISE data, picking interesting objects to follow up on. WISE was retired in 2011, and its subsequent asteroid-hunting iteration NEOWISE retired recently too (you can see its last image here). The WISE data combined with the ground follow-up has helped astronomers to characterize this unusual object. Known as CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, it is either a brown dwarf or a very low-mass star and it is moving so fast our galaxy won’t be able to hold on to it.But what would give a brown dwarf such a kick? The team has two possible explanations. One is that the object was in a binary system with a white dwarf. The companion stole enough material to go supernova, giving it a powerful hit and sending CWISE J1249 flying away.The other explanation is that the object was in a globular cluster of stars and it might have interacted with a pair of binary black holes. It survived the encounter unscathed but it was thrown out of the cluster at high speed and at some point, it will leave the galaxy.“When a star encounters a black hole binary, the complex dynamics of this three-body interaction can toss that star right out of the globular cluster,” says Kyle Kremer, incoming assistant professor in UC San Diego’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.The object also appears to have a very interesting chemical composition with very few heavy elements like compared to other stars and brown dwarfs. This means that this stellar object is extremely old, among the oldest in the Milky Way.The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.