Pirates: The Paul Skenes Summer Tour stops in Erie
No. 1 overall pick and top Pirates prospect Paul Skenes is drawing massive crowds in Double-A. The latest stop was in Erie as the Altoona Curve came to town.
2023-09-03 02:16
5 best USMNT signings of the summer transfer window
The transfer window in Europe has now closed and here are the top five transfers involving USMNT players.
2023-09-03 01:53
WWE Payback 2023 start time, match card, live stream, and how to watch
WWE presents its latest premium live event, Payback 2023, on Saturday, Sept. 2. Here is how you can watch the show.
2023-09-03 01:28
How Ansu Fati's Brighton loan improves Barcelona finances
With Ansu Fati joining Brighton & Hove Albion on a season-long loan, 90min looks at how the deal could help Barcelona's difficult financial situation in Spain.
2023-09-03 01:28
USMNT transfers: Gooch joins Stoke, no move for Cannon, Booth joins Volendam
It was a quiet deadline day from a USMNT transfers perspecitve but there was still some movement including Lynden Gooch joining Stoke City.
2023-09-03 00:48
Why was Man City's goal against Fulham allowed to stand?
90min looks at why Nathan Ake's goal against Fulham was allowed to stand despite many thinking it should have been ruled out for offside.
2023-09-03 00:29
There’s an exact number of people required to colonise Mars – and it may surprise you
When he’s not making radical, controversial changes to Twitter/X, Elon Musk is eyeing up plans to colonise Mars in the coming years with his company SpaceX – and now a team of researchers at the Virginia-based George Mason University claims it has found out the minimum number of people needed to successfully takeover the red planet. In the study – the results of which were published to the research platform Arxiv in August - the academics established a model to find out the ‘initial population size’ required on Mars to produce a “stable colony size”. They ran the model five times for 28 Earth years, and increased the population by 10 people each time - from 10 to 170 individuals. “Given that there are four critical tasks that are needed continuously (air, water, food production and waste removal) in addition to handling disasters, and two skills needed for each task, we chose a population size of 10 as the minimum needed for a ‘stable’ colony size. “The population is allowed to dip below 10 as long as it bounces back within 1.5 years, or the amount of time between Earth resupply shuttles.” The test found all initial population sizes over 50 were able to sustain a population of at least 10 people across the time period, and that the bare minimum number to meet that criteria is at least 22 people. There you go, Elon. You’re welcome. It’s certainly a decrease in the minimum number previously suspected by French researcher Jean-Marc Salotti in June 2020 – that was the rather astronomical figure (sorry) of at least 110 people. And the Virginia researchers didn’t stop there, either, as they also took a look at the personality types best placed to handle the highly stressful environment that is living on a completely different planet. There’s four: “agreeables”: low competitiveness and aggressiveness, and not fixated on “stringent routine “socials”: medium competitiveness, extroverted, require social interaction but not fixated on stringent routines “reactives”: medium competitiveness and fixed on stringent routines “neurotics”: high competitiveness, highly aggressive and a “challenged ability to adapt to boredom or a change in routine” Perhaps unsurprisingly, the “agreeables” came out on top. The researchers added: “In all runs, the Agreeable personality type was the only one to survive the full duration of model runs. This is likely because it has the highest coping capability.” Their results found that while the “neurotic” was “most likely to fail”, and both “reactives” and “socials” fluctuated, the “agreeables” was the “most resilient”. “While this model assigns equal numbers of each personality type, future work could try adjusting the proportion of each to possibly lead to a lower required minimum initial population. For example, a crew of all Agreeable personalities may be more successful,” they suggest. Musk, meanwhile, said earlier this year that he was optimistic humans landing on Mars was "possible" in the next five years, and "highly likely" in a decade. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-09-03 00:21
IShowSpeed confirmed again for Sidemen charity match following health concerns
Popular streamer IShowSpeed – real name Darren Watkins – is playing next week’s Sidemen charity match, the YouTube group has confirmed, amid fears he would have to pull out to recover from a recent hospitalisation. Watkins, who has more than 20 million subscribers on YouTube, claimed he “almost died” when he suffered a sinus infection in July which caused “deadly” cluster headaches, sharing updates in which he could be seen with one eye closed and the other severely swollen. In a stream last month, Speed told viewers: “I literally had the worst-ever sinus infection. It got super, super bad, and the sinus infection was causing cluster headaches. “I went through so much. I’m still healing.” He added that doctors were telling him “a whole different story right now” about whether he would be well enough to take part in the football match, which takes place on Saturday at the London Stadium. Fears he would have to withdraw from the kickabout only intensified when the 18-year-old accidentally showed his penis on camera, and the Sidemen’s official Twitter/X account mysteriously deleted the tweet announcing him as a player. He was previously confirmed to play in the match after being challenged to do 20 keepie uppies by Sidemen member and rapper KSI, and succeeding. However, after the tweet was deleted, fellow Sidemen member Simon “Miniminter” Minter told fans on a stream that Speed was “still playing” the charity match, subject to medical checks. He said: “As long as he’s OK with the medical stuff he had before. He is still playing, yes. “The reason [the tweet] got deleted is because there was some question on whether he would be able to fly.” Now it seems Speed is all good with the “medical stuff”, as the Sidemen tweeted a video on Thursday adding: “It’s official, he’s back. Welcome back to the charity match [Speed].” Responding to the news, KSI – real name Olajide “JJ” Olatunji - begged the streamer not to “slide tackle me” because of his upcoming match against Tommy Fury in Manchester in October. KSI is joined in the Sidemen by Minter, Tobi “TBJZL” Brown, Harry “WroetoShaw” Lewis, Josh “Zerkaa” Bradley, Ethan “Behzinga” Payne and Vikram “Vikkstar123” Barn. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-09-02 23:15
How Brighton could line up with Ansu Fati
How Ansu Fati could fit into Brighton's system under Roberto De Zerbi after joining the Premier League side on loan from Barcelona.
2023-09-02 22:48
NYC Airbnb Registration Backlog Piles Up Ahead of New Rules
By Tuesday, thousands of Airbnb Inc. rentals in New York City may suddenly be taken off the market.
2023-09-02 22:27
How Chelsea could line up with Cole Palmer
With Chelsea completing the signing of talented England U21 international Cole Palmer from Manchester City on deadline day, 90min looks at where the attacker could fit in Mauricio Pochettino's side.
2023-09-02 22:19
Jimmy Buffett, Singer Who Spun Margaritas Into Gold, Dies at 76
Jimmy Buffett, the all-American musician turned mogul who spun his beach bum folk-rock hits into a prolific business
2023-09-02 21:26
