New evidence for the existence of an ocean inside the Earth ● Viggo Mortensen will direct a western ● Russian researchers made a strange proposal ● Count Dracula will be played by Bill Skarsgård ● What a nuclear explosion would look like up close ● No Man’s Sky’s Major Update ● New trailers as much as possible

New evidence for the existence of an ocean inside the Earth

After analyzing an extremely rare diamond believed to have formed at a depth of 660 kilometers beneath the territory of the state of Botswana, an international team of researchers concluded in a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience that the transition region between the inner mantle and the outer crust contains much more water and of carbon dioxide than previously thought.

“In this study, we have demonstrated that the transition zone is not a dry sponge, but contains a significant amount of water,” study co-author Frank Brenker, a researcher at the Institute of Geosciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt, said in a statement. press. “It also brings us one step closer to Jules Verne’s idea of ​​an ocean inside the Earth,” he added.

Although this huge reservoir is probably a black mud, composed of sediments and water rocks under enormous pressure, its total volume may be extraordinary. In fact, according to researchers, this transition zone inside the Earth may contain up to 6 times more water than all the surface oceans combined.

Researchers had already suspected that this region of the Earth’s interior contained significant amounts of water after analyzing another diamond that formed here in 2014. “If you only have one sample, it might just be a local water zone,” says Suzette Timmerman, a geochemist. in the Earth’s mantle from the University of Alberta.

She, who was not involved in the research, notes that “but now that we have a second sample, we can already say that this is not a coincidence,” reports futurism.com.

The interior of the Earth is less known to scientists than the visible universe (PHOTO: Mark Garlick / Sciencephoto / Profimedia Images)

Viggo Mortensen will direct a western

Moving on to more prosaic matters, American actor Viggo Mortensen announced this week that he will direct, write and star The dead don’t hurta film described as a “romantic western” set in the 1860s and starring a Luxembourgish actress, Vicky Cripps, whose name, I must admit, doesn’t mean much to me.

In addition to Cripps, who will play the main role, we will also be able to see Tom Bateman in the film (Death on the Nile), Lance Henriksen (Fall – the first and so far the only film directed by Mortensen) and W. Earl Brown (unforgivable – a film that I previously wrote that fans should see Other people’s things), so it would seem that the cast is already ready.

Viggo Mortensen said that he wanted to tell the story of a Western that didn’t just have a woman in the lead role, but a woman who would “pave the way for our story with her uncompromising nature.” He describes Vivienne, the character Cripps will play, as “a woman at all times: brave, always honest and direct, but also capable of great compassion.

From Anduril to Colt: Dead Don’t Hurt begins filming on October 12, HeyUGuys reports (PHOTO: Rights Managed / Mary Evans Picture Library / Profimedia Images)

Russian researchers made a strange proposal

From futurism.com we received another interesting news this week, the journalists of this site drew attention to a study published in the journal Aerospace by researchers from the Skoltech Technical Institute in Moscow and the Institute of Physics in the Russian capital, which propose to use a constellation of satellites. reflectors for displaying advertising in the sky.

No, this is not an advertisement glorifying the Putin regime, but a commercial one, and Russian scientists say that their idea is not only very feasible, but also worth the money, since each mission costs only 65 million dollars. Of course, given that most of the big international brands have left Russia, I’m not sure how many Russian companies can afford these costs. Box?

In any case, Shamil Biktimirov, one of the authors of the study, claims that he and his colleagues have been studying the “technical aspects” of the problem for some time, but “now we also looked at the financial side of things and” As unrealistic as it may seem, we show that advertising in space based on 50 or more small satellites flying in formation can be cost-effective.”

What’s more, Biktimirov and his colleagues even calculated that advertising revenue would depend “on a number of factors,” including how cloudy the sky is, how cold it is (apparently they thought people would stay at home and not see ads) and “the demographic makeup city”.

Russian scientists even say that the satellites will not display any brand advertisements, but will alternate between different advertisements over the most profitable city nearby, assuming that the satellites will be launched at a low altitude. However, their plan also has a serious “flaw”: the ads will not be visible at night, but only in the hours close to sunrise and sunset.

What is missing from the landscape? Big box in the sky (PHOTO: Emelie Eklund / Alamy / Profimedia Images)

Count Dracula will be played by Bill Skarsgård

Though Northernhis last film not to be a huge box office hit, director Robert Eggers is moving forward with his soulful project, a remake of one of the most iconic feature films in film history: Nosferatu.

Egger has wanted to bring his own take on the classic story to the big screen for years, signing a contract to do so before his film’s release Witch in cinemas. In 2017, he came close to putting all the pieces together, bringing in actress Anya Taylor-Joy, one of his favorite co-writers, and soon after Bill Skarsgård.

Things went awry in the end, but now Skarsgård is starring in a new gothic film that will tell the story of a haunted woman in 19th-century Germany and our very own Transylvanian count. This time, Eggers enlisted French-American actress Lily-Rose Depp, best known for her roles in Dancer (2016) and A faithful person (2018).

Although personally I would definitely prefer Taylor-Joy (Queen’s GambitI don’t need to remind you, do I?) as the female lead, given Eggers’ experience in horror films and Skarsgård’s experience as Pennywise in films ItI can’t say I’m terribly disappointed.

Barbarian, Skarsgård’s latest starring role, had an impressive debut at the box office (PHOTO: Landmark / Alamy / Profimedia Images)

What a nuclear explosion would look like up close

In addition to the many memes and jokes about the Crimean Bridge going “boom!”, an interesting video went viral on Twitter and Reddit this week showing what a strategic nuclear weapon detonation would look like to a person standing next to it. .

Besides the fact that the clip, a virtual reality (VR) simulation, is interesting in itself, it also caught my attention after I saw some people mention in the comments a theory that I also knew, such as if an explosion on the horizon is no bigger than your thumb, you are far enough away from it to be safe.

But others contradict them, and as IFL Science points out, the theory is popularized by the video game franchise Fallout it’s fake. Inverse journalists even had the curiosity to ask for the opinion of the US government’s Department of Energy, which directly states that it found “no evidence” to support this hypothesis.

However, a study published in 2018 by physicists at the University of Leicester concluded that this rule would apply in the case of a 15-kiloton blast, according to which you would survive “most of the negative effects of the radiation by running 1.65 kilometers downwind for half an hour.” Encourages.

No Man’s Sky’s Major Update

I’ve never been much of a believer in the saying “the last to be the first,” but in this case I think it applies, as Hello Games announced on Friday that it has launched Waypontupdate that brings No Man’s Sky to version 4.0, the video game studio reports.

As gamers probably remember, years before the disastrous release Cyberpunk 2077 in December 2020 No Man’s Sky was the benchmark for releasing a game before it was ready and broke promises to players, as evidenced by the fact that Waypont represents no less than the 21st major update for the title from Hello Games.

However, the studio describes Waypont as “the greatest generational leap”. No Man’s Sky, making major changes to the game’s design and balance, as well as hundreds of small tweaks to improve the player experience. And one more thing Waypont it is also the first adaptation of a Switch game. Here’s what the trailer looks like:

If I did get to the chapter by ferrylet’s take a look at some more because we’ve had a lot of fun this week:

• Amazon has released a trailer for the latest episode Rings of Power, his controversial Lord of the Rings series, which will be released next week on October 14th. The trailer is pretty cool, but if you’re new to the episodes, I don’t recommend it because it might contain spoilers;

• Marvel has released a new trailer Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Not being a fan of the original 2018 film, I can’t really say what the new trailer brings Wakanda is forever that I haven’t been following news related to it very much, so I’ll limit myself to mentioning that the full-length film will appear in our cinemas at the same time as the international premiere, on November 11;

• from Netflix we have the first full trailer The land of sleephis family-friendly adventure film, which, as I seem to have mentioned in a previous Nerd Alert, we’ll get to see Jason Momoa in a more atypical role for him, but one I really like. The land of sleep premieres on Netflix on November 18;

• we have a new trailer Banshees of Inisherin, a film that caught my attention because of its original premise and because it starred Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. The premiere of the film in Romania will take place on January 27, 2023, a little later than the international debut (October 21 this year)

• In a bit of a return to Netflix, the American streaming company released this week the first trailer for Miracle, a film about a young woman in Ireland who decides to stop eating, but is strangely fine months later, attracting tourists and pilgrims to the region. Florence Pugh’s feature-length witch-hunt-themed feature premieres on Netflix on November 16;

• Timothée Chalamet, one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, can be seen in the trailer for Bones and All, a thriller/horror with creepy elements (including cannibalism) about the odyssey of a couple living on the fringes of society. The international premiere of the film will take place on November 23, but at the moment we do not have a release date in our cinemas.

If you’re also interested in reading last weekend’s Nerd Alert column, you can find it here:

• Astronomers panicked a little / Nature canceled one of the most sensational studies in recent years / Mayan cities were contaminated with mercury