Zhyc How I Brought Game of Thrones Ned Stark to Life
Since it was first published in 1984, Battletech has had a complicated history both as a tabletop game and as a video game. Its been more than 10 years since the last video game was released鈥攜ou can try 1998s MechCommander for free 鈥攕o the franchise seems overdue for an update. It looks like the folks at Harebrained Scheme
stanley canada s including original Battletech co-author Jordan Weisman have the rights issues sorted out, so theyve launched a Kickstarter. Its alre
stanley cupe ady cleared $1 million. There are a lot of reasons to get excited about this game. Lets start with the calm, level-head
stanley termos ed reasons: Harebrained Schemes has a track record of setting attainable Kickstarter goals and delivering on them. The string of Shadowrun games they put out the last few years are solid, fun games that absolutely do what they promised theyd do. The weak point in those games was the investigation aspect, which sometimes felt like linear busywork. But theres none of that in the Battletech world鈥攜oull be managing your stable of mercs and mechs instead, and that sounds way more fun. Ok, now lets get to the giddy Mech-fan freakout and dance reasons: first, holy crap yes giant robots in a turn-based tactical game like XCOM. About damn time. Its set in the classic 3025 Battletech era, which means youre in the midst of a weird sort of War of the Roses between the great houses of the Inner Sphere. You control a mercenary company that has to choose which houses to be loyal to. The stretch goals Harebrained has alre Rmkr A City Getting Google Fiber Explains How Awesome Google Fiber Is
When plants photosyntehsize, they actually re-emit some of the light they absorb as a faint but measurable glow called fluorescence. The more healthy the plant, the greater the amount of light re-emitted. Now, a team from the Goddard Space Flight Center has created maps of fluorescence that are 16 times more accurate than any that have gone before.
stanley cup NASA explains: The maps were possible due to the development of a new way to identify the very faint fluorescence signal collected by the Global Ozone Monitoring Instrument 2 GOME-2 instru
termo stanley ment on Metop-A, a European meteorological satellite. Acquiring the measurement is complicated by the fluorescence signal mixing with that of sunlight reflected from Earth surface and clouds, and the absorption of sunlight by gases in the atmosphere. To identify fluorescence, Joiner and colleagues took advantage of that fact that each of these signals has its own unique spectral signature akin to a fingerprint 鈥?whether from fluorescence, Earth surface or the atmosphere. Match the fingerprint associated with fluorescence and scientists can teas
taza stanley e out that data from the rest of the light. The result: higher quality images that take less time to create. Win, win. The results, of course, as well as being beautiful, are a massive help to the agricultural industry鈥攁nd could even help us work out where plants could be best placed to take up our excess CO2. [NASA] NASAPhotosynthesisS
