Panspermia: Could life be delivered to a planet?
April 30, 2021 at 10:30 am
Panspermia is the theory that life could be delivered to Earth or any other planet by being carried through space by meteorites, comets or asteroids.
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Panspermia addresses the way that life could be distributed across the Galaxy, not how life actually began.
Exobiologists have traditionally focussed on the possibility of life on Mars and within the subsurface oceans of the icy moons Europa and Enceladus, but could simple life forms such as bacteria and extremeophiles be – as panspermia proposes – much more widespread? Could there be life hidden beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa? Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institut
28 April 2021, 10:04 pm
Despite shortages in supply that frame its launch badly, the Sony PlayStation 5 is still one of the most successful gaming console releases in recent memory. And according to multiple reports, the sales numbers don t lie.
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Living room with a Sony PlayStation 5 home video game console alongside a television, taken on Novemebr 3, 2020. (Photo by Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Entrepreneur reports that since its release last November 12
th, the PS5 has already sold 7.8 million units. Aside from that, Sony is also still shipping a lot of PS4 consoles (5.7 million units), and they re proud of their 109 million monthly active users on the PS Network in the past three months.
28 April 2021, 03:04 am
The world right now is in PC building limbo, if you ve been living under a rock. Reasonably priced graphics cards are basically unicorns, CPUs are more or less the same, and it s just terrible. But that doesn t mean we can t get excited over this RAM news, at least.
TweakTown reports that a certain Chinese brand of gaming RAM is teasing brand-new DDR5 memory kits for 2022. Yes, you read that right. And the best thing about them is that they re so blazing fast, they make The Flash blush. The Asgard 128 GB DDR5-5600 kit will be among those supported by Intel s Alder Lake 12
22 April 2021, 09:04 pm
Xbox Series X/S owners are getting a nice gift from the guys at Microsoft, who are adding more old-gen games to their recently released FPS Boost feature.
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Living room with a Microsoft Xbox Series X home video game console alongside a television and soundbar, taken on October 9, 2020. (Photo by Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
GameRant reports that Microsoft s FPS Boost will now support 13 new games. Among these are Battlefield 1, 4, and 5, Mirror s Edge: Catalyst, Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2, and Titanfall 1 and 2, among others. With the addition of the games, the total number of supported titles is now 23.