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  1. For the first time ever, scientists have observed two supermassive black holes orbiting one another These gargantuan galactic phenomena, which range in size from hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of our sun, are thought to be found at the center of most large galaxies. Now in a world first, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of two of these massive objects in orbit around one another in a galaxy approximately 750 million light years away from the Earth. "For a long time, we've been looking into space to try and find a pair of these supermassive black holes orbiting as a result of two galaxies merging," said astronomy professor Greg Taylor. "Even though we've theorized that this should be happening, nobody had ever seen it, until now." Full Article here - http://www.techtimes.com/articles/210756/20170628/scientists-confirm-existence-of-orbiting-supermassive-black-holes.htm
  2. Scientists have determined that merely having your phone nearby can reduce your capacity to concentrate In a recent study conducted at the University of Texas, Assistant Professor Adrian Ward and colleagues conducted a series of experiments involving 800 volunteers. For one of these, the participants were each asked to complete a number of tests on a computer, some with their smartphone placed face down on the desk next to them, some with their phone inside their pocket and some with their phone placed in a different room entirely. The results of the experiment showed that those who had left their mobile in another room performed consistently better at the tests than those whose phone was still nearby. "We see a linear trend that suggests that as the smartphone becomes more noticeable, participants' available cognitive capacity decreases," said Professor Ward. "Your conscious mind isn't thinking about your smartphone, but that process -- the process of requiring yourself to not think about something -- uses up some of your limited cognitive resources. It's a brain drain." A second experiment, which focused on how smartphone dependence impacted someone's ability to concentrate, also showed the same results. "It's not that participants were distracted because they were getting notifications on their phones," said Ward. "The mere presence of their smartphone was enough to reduce their cognitive capacity." Full Article here : https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170623133039.htm
  3. Scientists have revealed some of the weird and wonderful animals that live in Australia's eastern abyss. The expedition, which set out to explore Commonwealth marine reserves (CMRs) off the coast of eastern Tasmania and central Queensland, used a special type of camera to find out what type of creatures might be lurking up to 4km below the ocean's surface. Among the unique specimens found during the study were a red coffin fish, a cookie-cutter shark, a blobfish, a spiky crab and a giant anemone-eating sea-spider. Not so impressive however was the amount of trash found strewn across the sea floor. "We've done about 50 different small net tows on the bottom and every one of them has brought up a piece of rubbish," said Dr Tim O'Hara from Museums Victoria. "Everything we do on land affects things we do at sea and that filters down to the deep sea and into the abyss." On the plus side though, the findings should help conservation efforts well in to the future. "We need to protect our marine parks and we need to know what's there so we know how to protect them," said marine invertebrates expert Melanie McKenzie. "The only way we can do that is to find out what's there first, to get that baseline." Full Article here - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-17/deep-sea-creatures-found-in-depths-of-australia-eastern-abyss/8626330
  4. Best: Being able to play several rounds of FH2 finally.. That was awesome. I have been busy every Friday. Best2: The map was fantastic. Even and balance rounds. Good job to the mapping team. Worst: Rust on FH2. Back in the the day i would not miss a shot. Now i miss alot. Funniest: @WOLFXL spotting me in the middle of the forest. I take cover. Shots all over the place. I lay down a mine. Stand up run. ( bait ). He kills me runs over my body and he and his tank gets destroyed by my mine. ^^ Most hated player: No one. Most loved/liked player: Everyone Other: Cya next week. It was a great battle.
  5. More info here - http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-qh90-super-ultra-wide-329-monitor-photos-2017-6
  6. Lets create a good topic of your favorite spots in your city / town that you live in. Maybe people will visit them. 1 picture per day with a subtitle below it. Portugal , Lisbon , Adamastor I like to come here after work to drink some beers watch the river, listen to some music and relax.
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    Football!

    Ronaldo is a machine! Great game overall, Madrid deserved the win.
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    Football!

    This Saturday. Cannot miss it. Who do you think its going to win ? I predict a 3x2 for Juventus.
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    E3 2017

    Eager to see more gameplay of the new Super Mario game. Super Mario Odyssey. Always been a fan of Nintendo. And maybe, just maybe, a glimpse of a new Metroid game. That would be sweet. ^^
  10. https://www.facebook.com/cmpgaming/ Like and share our Facebook page. The more people we have engaged on it the more players will register in the community and play in the battles https://www.facebook.com/cmpgaming/
  11. Dont forget to join Discord everyone. We are active there every day. https://discord.gg/BHzaf7p
  12. The iron-rich asteroid 16 Psyche is so valuable that, if mined, it would collapse the global economy Named after a figure in Greek mythology who achieved immortality, 16 Psyche, which is almost entirely composed of nickel-iron metal, is worth so much money that its value would completely dwarf the meager $78 trillion of all the world's economies combined. Measuring around 240km across, it is situated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and is believed to be the exposed iron core of a protoplanet left over from the early solar system. Now in a renewed effort to explore the secrets of this highly-prized target, NASA has taken the decision to fast-track a new mission that will see a probe visit, for the first time, a world, not of rock or ice, but of solid metal and reveal what is perhaps the most alien landscape ever seen. "It's such a strange object," said lead scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton. "Even if we could grab a big metal piece and drag it back here, what would you do ?" "Could you kind of sit on it and hide it and control the global resource - kind of like diamonds are controlled corporately - and protect your market ?" "What if you decided you were going to bring it back and you were just going to solve the metal resource problems of humankind for all time ? This is wild speculation, obviously." As things stand, the 16 Psyche Discovery Mission is set to launch in the summer of 2022. Full Article here - https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-fast-tracked-their-mission-to-explore-a-10-000-quadrillion-metal-asteroid
  13. 80 years on from the disaster, the exact cause of the inferno that destroyed the airship remains unclear. One of the 20th century's most infamous disasters, the destruction of the Hindenburg - a large German passenger airship - occurred following its arrival at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey in May 1937. The huge hydrogen-filled airship was carrying 97 passengers at the time of which 37 lost their lives when the vessel inexplicably burst in to flames and crashed to the ground, bringing with it any remaining confidence in airship travel in general. Although it is obvious that the gas inside the ship provided the fuel for the blaze, the exact reason why the airship went up in flames in the first place has remained a topic of debate for decades. One of the most popular theories suggests that the fire started when the buildup of static electricity on the airship's exterior came in to contact with a special type of 'dope' ( a mix of iron oxide and aluminum-impregnated cellulose ) that had been painted all over the canvas. It wouldn't have taken much of a fire to set the hydrogen inside burning and for the blaze to consume the whole ship. A second theory, which also takes in to account the flammable exterior of the Hindenburg, suggests that a steering cable at the back may have come loose and started to flail around, creating sparks which could have easily set off the fire. Whatever the case though, the disaster proved so catastrophic for the airship industry that it was abandoned entirely soon afterwards, paving the way for the airplane. The Hindenburg's sister ship, the Graf Zepplin 2, was the last great rigid airship of its day. It flew 30 flights between 1938 and 1939 before eventually being scrapped in 1940. Full Article here - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/80th-anniversary-hindenburg-disaster-mysteries-remain-180963107/
  14. Very nice. Now we need some in-battle videos with those top notch graphics to promote the campaign and bring more people in. ^^
  15. If we could fast-forward 1,000 years in to the future, what would life be like on planet Earth ?
  16. The US space agency has decided against placing astronauts aboard its new rocket on its first launch. It has been almost 50 years since the last human set foot on the surface of another world and with the discontinuation of the Space Shuttle program back in 2011, manned space exploration has become limited to routine journeys to and from the International Space Station. This could soon be set to change however thanks to NASA's Orion Crew Vehicle and Space Launch System - two projects which when combined have the potential to take humans all the way to Mars. The first integrated test flight of these systems, Exploration Mission 1, had been set to achieve a retrograde lunar orbit in 2018 with a crew of astronauts along for the ride, but now, following a renewed feasibility and risk-assessment study, the decision has been made to scrap the manned portion of the mission with the hope of launching EM-1 in early 2019. The move is probably wise, especially given the number of delays that have occurred so far and the amount of time and funds that would have been needed to implement support for a manned crew. The first manned test flight is instead likely to be the follow-up mission - EM-2. Full article here - http://www.techtimes.com/articles/207201/20170513/no-astronaut-on-first-orion-sls-flight-around-moon-nasa.htm
  17. Another tv show im watching: American Gods is an American television series based on the novel of the same name, written by Neil Gaiman and originally published in 2001. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1898069/
  18. In the homepage there is a big box on the right side that says "TeamSpeak" . Just click on one of the channels and you are in.
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