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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft becomes the first probe to make a close encounter with Frozen Pluto
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015.
The sophisticated piano-sized spacecraft, which launched in January 2006, reached Neptune’s orbit -- nearly 2.75 billion miles from Earth -- in a record eight years and eight months. New Horizons’ milestone matches precisely the 25th anniversary of the historic encounter of NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft with Neptune on Aug. 25, 1989.
New Horizons now is about 2.48 billion miles from Neptune -- nearly 27 times the distance between the Earth and our sun -- as it crosses the giant planet’s orbit at 10:04 p.m. EDT Monday. Although the spacecraft will be much farther from the planet than Voyager 2’s closest approach, New Horizons' telescopic camera was able to obtain several long-distance “approach” shots of Neptune on July 10.
Source info: http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/august/nasa-s-new-horizons-spacecraft-crosses-neptune-orbit-en-route-to-historic-pluto/
The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians UFC TUF PREDICTIONS
Stephen Thompson will defeat Jake Ellenberger via TKO (head-kick and punches)
Luiz Firmino will represent Blackzilians in the final bout. Dan Lambert will choose American Top Team to be represented by Marcelo Alfaya. Then Marcelo Alfaya will defeat Luiz Firmino via Decision (unanimous).
Jorge Masvidal def. Cezar Ferreira via Decision (unanimous)
The most intense and intersting fight will be in the Women's Strawweight. After 2 rounds war Michelle Waterson will defeat Angela Magana via Submission (armbar). That will be fight of the night and submission of the night. Stephen Thompson will win KO of the night.
Featherweight: Chad Mendes def. Conor McGregor via Submission (guillotine choke)
Welterweight: Robbie Lawler (c) def. Rory MacDonald via. Decision (unanimous)
Featherweight: Dennis Bermudez def. Jeremy Stephens via TKO (punches and knee)
Welterweight: Gunnar Nelson def. Brandon Thatch via Submission (neck crank)
Bantamweight: Thomas Almeida def. Brad Pickett via KO (knee and punches)
Welterweight: Matt Brown def. Tim Means via TKO (elbows)
Welterweight: Mike Swick def. Alex Garcia via Decision (unanimous)
Fight of the night: Chad Mendes vs Conor McGregor Performance of the night: Chad Mendes
Submission of the night: Chad Mendes
New Era in the UFC octagon: Reebok's outfitting policy is in control
On Wednesday, the UFC officially released the figures that will be attached to the sponsored payouts athletes will receive under the new outfitting policy with Reebok that starts with UFC 189 on July 11.
The deal signed in late 2014 will see Reebok as the titled sponsor for the uniforms worn by fighters during fight week, as well as in the Octagon.
The new outfitting policy effectively eliminates fighters from wearing any other sponsored clothing or patches on their shorts or shirts with Reebok now taking center stage for all future UFC events for at least the next five and a half years.
While the original announcement was made that the fighters would be paid based on rankings, the UFC has changed that structure and will now pay the athletes based on tenure with the company.
The new pay structure is as follows (numbers are based on the athlete's status going into the fight with payouts made approximately 10 days after the bout)
Champions will be paid $40,000 per bout
Title contenders will be paid $30,000 per bout
Fighters with 21 bouts or more will be paid $20,000 per bout
Fighters with 16-20 bouts will be paid $15,000 per bout
Fighters with 11-15 bouts will be paid $10,000 per bout
Fighters with 6-10 bouts will be paid $5,000 per bout
Fighters with 1-5 bouts will be paid $2,500 per bout.
The payouts will be determined by a fighters total amount of fights in the UFC (Zuffa owned and pre-Zuffa era as well) and fights held in Strikeforce and the WEC that took place during the Zuffa era (Zuffa purchased Strikeforce in 2011, purchased the WEC in 2006).
So for instance Conor McGregor currently has five fights in the UFC. For his upcoming bout against Jose Aldo he will be paid $30,000 as a title challenger. If he loses, McGregor would go back to his standard pay after six fights in the UFC, which would put him at $5,000.
Fighters like McGregor,Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Ronda Rousey, Chris Weidman are able to have additional sponsorship deals with Reebok, which could obviously yield them additional money per fight or per year depending on the terms of their individual endorsement with the company.
UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta confirmed on Wednesday in a conference call with FOX Sports that fighters are allowed to have apparel and non-apparel sponsors outside of fight week.
Source: http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/ufc-announces-reebok-payouts-for-athletes-starting-in-july-2015-050615
MINIONS will become the highest-grossing animation of all time and its hit song will be watched in YouTube more times than Gangnam style
Minions are small, yellow creatures who have existed since the beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings who have only one purpose: to serve history's most despicable masters.[6] After accidentally destroying all their masters, including a T. Rex, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Dracula[8] they decide to isolate themselves from the world and start a new life in Antarctica.[8] Sometime in the 1960s, the lack of a master drives them into depression, so Kevin comes up with a plan to find a new one. Joined by the rebellious teenager Stuart and kid Bob, they arrive at a villain convention, where they compete for the right to be henchmen for Scarlet Overkill, a stylish and ambitious villain determined to dominate the world and become the first female super-villain. Travelling through New York City, they end up in London, where they must confront a threat to the existence of all Minions.
Official website: http://www.minionsmovie.com/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions_%28film%29
P.S. The movie may be forbidden in Russia, due to the minions represent the ukrainian flag.
The first road-legal solar-powered race car in the Southern Hemisphere is ready for burnout
With the goal of having their solar-powered race car on the streets of Sydney by July this year, a student team from Australia's University of New South Wales is hard at work.
Sunswift eVe, as the car is called, will have to be completely redesigned to comply with the Australian Design Rules' official car reliability and safety standards.
To make it the first road-legal solar car in the Southern Hemisphere, the team of volunteers are taking a second look at everything from the suspension to the windscreen and headlights.
When Mashable last wrote about eVe, the vehicle had just smashed international speed records. In 2014, overseen by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile — the governing body for motor sports — the team broke the world record for the fastest electric car over 500km on a single charge.
"The aim of the record was to prove that electric cars can travel very long distances at high speeds," Rob Ireland, the team's business manager, told Mashable Australia at the CeBIT technology conference in Sydney on Wednesday, but now the team needs to build a solar car the average person could drive.
"We've proven the car can do all these cool things, but can it be commercial? Can anybody drive this car everyday to work? That's the question," he said.
Cost is one of the team's main challenges. As it stands, the prototype vehicle is quite expensive at about A$500,000 in value. If you were to mass produce the car, the cost would definitely drop, Ireland said.
The team estimates it will take almost A$100,000 to make the car road legal. While they have financial support from the university and sponsors, they have also completed a successful crowd funding campaign on Pozible, raising over A$36,000.
Source: http://mashable.com/2015/05/06/solar-car-street-legal/
I expect that by July, Battlefield hardline will be on origin on the house games
Hopefully dogecoin value will be at least twice the price from what it is today.
Exploratory horror game Kholat reveals the truth about Dyatlov Pass Incident's mystery
Thanks to the KHOLAT GAME, the mistery is finally revealed: The real cause for the death of the nine Russian skiers is the testing of secret soviet body transform technology. They tried to transform the skiers into bodies of chinese generals, who should solve the Sino-Soviet border conflict. This transformation caused the orange color of the skin. Also and the lack of clothes. The internal injuries were caused by the acceleration of the transformation process. Then the test failed, but the skiers were in half with the chinese generals personality. Their brains gone crazy and they started to running and screaming uncontrollable, untill they died from the injuries. What is to be transformed in other person and body ... maybe we'll never know ... or maybe there are other succesful tests of this secret technology.
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Kholat, the exploration-based horror game about missing mountaineers, will be released worldwide on 9th June for PC and Mac via Steam.
Kholat does have some baggage, however, as it's based on a real event. Known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident, a group of student mountaineers were found dead under mysterious circumstances in the late 1950s. The bodies were found half-dressed hundreds of meters from one another around the campsite, and it appeared that their tents had been cut open from the inside. Some say they were running from an avalanche, others claim they saw glowing orange orbs in the area that night, and it's said that one of the hiker's pants contained radioactive traces. This has led to beliefs that there were some spooky science experiments happening in those woods.
"Kholat is a game that doesn't follow mainstream game design rules but creates its own, which are based on players intelligence and imagination," developer IMGN.PRO said of its experimental horror game.
Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-05-27-exploratory-horror-game-kholat-gets-a-release-date
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UFC Fight Night 70: Machida vs. Romero MMA Octagon Prediction
Middleweight: Yoel Romero def. Lyoto Machida via KO (flying knee and punches)
Welterweight: Santiago Ponzinibbio def. Lorenz Larkin via Submission (armbar)
Middleweight: Antônio Carlos Júnior def. Eddie Gordon via Submission (arm-triangle choke)
Middleweight: Thiago Santos def. Steve Bossé via TKO (head kick and punches)
Featherweight: Hacran Dias def. Levan Makashvili via Decision (Unanimous)
KO of the night: Yoel Romero
Submission of the night: Antônio Carlos Júnior
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