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EVE Online developer CCP Games has announced a new online course, created alongside the University of Iceland, that is built around the long-running space MMOG and the relationships people form through it. CCP has been banging this particular drum for a long time but the pandemic saw the company lean even further into this concept and talk about the game as a friendship machine. Sure enough the course is called Friendship Machine: Forming a New Type of Human Connection.
The course is about looking at the science behind how people forge meaningful relationships, and applying this to the new type of connection that videogames make possible. The first three weeks are free, while those who want to go all-in can register for the full course for $50/€40.91/£35.19. Brilliantly, if you do this you get a shareable certificate. I ll certainly be sticking that up on my office wall.
Lava Could Fill Nátthagi Valley in Three Months From Nátthagi valley. Photo/Elvar Ólafsson Vala Hafstað Protective walls raised to slow down the lava flow did not prevent the lava from reaching Nátthagi valley, from where it could eventually threaten both a fiber optic cable for the Reykjanes peninsula and Suðurstrandarvegur – the road along the south coast of the peninsula. “According to our first assessment, based on the size of Nátthagi and the slope of the lava elsewhere, it will take about three months [for the valley to fill up],” Magnús Tumi explains. Geophysicist Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson.
Lava Flows Over Both Protective Walls Photo/Einar Falur Lava is now flowing over both protective walls that had been built near the eruption site by Fagradalsfjall mountain, Southwest Iceland, mbl.is reports. The walls had been built to slow down the lava flow, which is headed into Nátthagi valley. (See our earlier report here ). Should the lava continue flowing that way, it will eventually threaten a fiber optic cable for the Reykjanes peninsula and, finally, Suðurstrandarvegur road, which lies along the south coast of the peninsula. Ármann Höskuldsson, volcanologist at the University of Iceland, believes it will take a few weeks before Nátthagi valley fills up with lava, opening the way for the lava stream toward Suðurstrandarvegur road.
The birth of the world's newest volcano isn't only providing clues to the secrets of the world but also hosts the perfect inhospitable environment to replicate the Martian environment.
This week on 60 Minutes, Bill Whitaker traveled to the Geldingadalir valley in southwest Iceland. In March, more than 30,000 earthquakes shook this southwest corner of Iceland. Some tremors lasted only a few seconds. Others clocked in at 5.4 on the Richter scale.
On March 19, volcanologists reported the world s newest volcano had burst open, marking the first time in 800 years a volcanic eruption occurred on this strip of land. Quickly, scientists scrambled to reach the area. Only 20 miles from Iceland s capital Reykjavik, the ease of access provided an opportunity for scientists to collect data that is often lost at more hazardous or remote volcanic eruptions.