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Top 10 Scary Short Movies

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Our list of top 10 scary short movies  represents the best of the best when it comes to creepy sensations over just a few minutes of online video streaming.

10. Blinky

The short movie Blinky, created by Irish movie writer and director Ruairi Robinson, is taking place in our not-so-distant future, when automatic family assistants are everywhere.

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The film is probably a comment on the versatility of the brilliant and emotional human thoughts, from the viewpoint of a robot’s mindset. So, a truly synthetic intellect, capable of emotional or social connections, can be suffering from emotional and physical stress as a person would be.

9. Thresher

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“Thresher” is quite a scary thriller made for the Guillermo Del Toro & Legendary Pictures’ “House of Horrors” contest. The movie follows the challenges of a man in a chained up space. He discovers the combination of a lock not knowing what is on the other side, and time is running out.

8. Unwind

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Using only a small budget, this movie was shot in just one room with filming techniques that are at the claustrophobia edge. Actually, the girl’s eyes are the most interesting part of the film, but the motion of the camera insists of them, while the bone saws and ripping skin can haunt you long time after you have finished it.

7. The Gift

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Design and filming are The Gift’s most powerful traits; from its Half-Life-esque security officers to the snootiest robots, it is obvious that this short movie has plenty of style to spare. Nevertheless, what is most impressive there is the quantity of atmosphere building that occurs in such a short period, creating energy and effort.

6. Vacuity

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Even if it has its issues (the character recites an impressive countdown to connect both of his own hands), the scenario has conversation so hokey, it will make you wonder if they created a Sci-fi movie or a never ending monologue. It is good to notice that the voice-acting casting from Resident Evil has now another piece of art under its belt.

5. Ruin

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This one stunning and specific movie you can see, and it is a five-minute continuous sci-fi story on the Internet. The scenario of the film will seem a bit general at first – it is just gray colors and damaged roadways – but that is not always bad. Sure, the whole apocalypse environment has been explored before, and now it is truly creepy.

4. Rosa

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If you like only one scary sci-fi battle in high-definition, then Rosa is where the action is. You can really see the cracking skin on the skeletons, and it completely offers an entertainment value. Maybe the show biz industry is just behind the independent movies, but this short movie is an example of how the audience can be totally captivated, and in a good way.

3. Abe

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The movie looks a bit simple and inexpensive for the first moments, but at least have patience and you will immerge slowly into it. Do not let the most gratuitous critics either frighten you away or have unrealistic expectations from a short film created on a tight budget. Keep with it, since it begins as a pretty general story, it easily gets better into a bunch of sci-fi assault bullets.

2. Perfect Drug

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“Perfect Drug” is an unusual mix of twisted humor, sci-fi and unique visuals all turned into an amazingly consistent story of a man who unintentionally drinks from a radiant vial that he has stolen from a drugstore for his manager. It was written by Belgian movie maker Toon Aerts, produced by Czar Films, a firm which makes ads, especially for cars.

1. Paralyzed

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Showcases and darkness, playful lighting and funny music – if the components of scary movies came together and thrown without any logic into your face, the outcome would be “Paralyzed.” The brief story gives a strange feeling that many individuals have actually experienced – sleep paralysis – and develops a slinking and featureless appearance under the intangible fear.

Lack of Dark Energy will not Kill the Universe

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A latest research on dark energy has demonstrated that our Universe is growing as predicted by the already well-known theories of cosmic inflation, but this phenomenon is not as quick as specialists have considered and will not delay “The Big Rip” or the death of the Universe.

Since a few decades ago, when the cosmic inflation model was designed by physicists Andrei Linde and Alan Guth, in order to describe the source of the large-scale framework of the universe, it was identified that dark energy was the power pushing this persistent cosmic rising phenomenon.

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Dark energy is currently the most approved speculation to describe the findings since the 90’s, studies that are indicating that the cosmos is growing with an incredible speed. The amount of that development has been put under serious analysis by the latest results, since the Type 1 supernovae have been widely used to evaluate distances throughout the galaxies and this increase is not continuous, but is actually divided into different groups.

As a consequence of this discovery, a group of astronomers from the United States are starting now to believe that the older theories about the continuous speeding of the universe, and cosmic inflation by default, could be defective when explaining their space observations.

A Type 1 supernova generates reliable optimum luminosity sue to the constant huge amount of white-colored dwarves that burst via the accumulation procedure. The balance of this value allows such massive spatial explosions to be taken as “standard candles” in order to evaluate the distances to their host galaxies.

A Type I supernovae happens in a binary system, or a couple of stars revolving one around the other. One of these stars in the system has to be a white-colored small star, or the heavy, carbon leftover sore to be of dead star having approximately the dimensions of our Sun.

The astronomers are suggesting that their information indicates that there might be a lot less dark energy than it was previously believed, but they still cannot present a real number concerning this quantity or space force.

Until this recent discovery, the two communities of supernovae were considered as being the same inhabitants of the galaxy. In order to get that last response, they have to perform again all these studies, independently for the blue and for the red categories.

The specialists said that their results are comparable to testing a set of 100 watts light bulbs and finding out that some of them are different in their lighting.

Despite this questionable summary, the death of the universe as an effect of the Big Bang could be later by a few billion years and it could convert the predicted “Big Bang” into the “Big Crunch”.

In the Big Bang theory, there will be a speeding of the Universe’s increase, to the point where it overcomes the gravity which keeps all our cosmos together. The galaxies will be ripped apart first, and then followed by more compact black holes, planets and stars.

Space will begin to grow a lot quicker than the speed of light. The whole Cosmos will become a gap of individual particles linked to nothing around them.

Maybe the gravity could engulf the dark energy, but then gravity will be the most powerful force dominating the Universe. This theory will mean that, after growing for hundreds of billions of years, the amount of cosmic inflation will slowly go down and the Cosmos will start to contract back to its smaller size.

Galaxies will be crushed and combine as the Universe begins crumbling on itself. The whole Cosmos will turn into one incredibly massive black hole, this will be named The Big Crisis.

Image source: www.universe.com

Use of E-Cigarettes has Tripled Among Youngsters

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While the e-cigarettes generate controversies among 50 percent of the US citizens about their safety, the other 50 percent in the country might be discussing the availability to adolescents all over America.

This is important since e-cigarettes use is growing in the United States and authorities are becoming concerned by being yet another risky subject dealing with our youngsters. And it is, of course, related to the availability and false information regarding e-cigarettes.

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A new research performed by the Clinic for Illness Management and Protection says the e-cigarettes will give birth to the new wave of smokers who can end up later smoking traditional cigarettes. Actually, the research indicates that while an e-cigarette may redirect teenagers away from a normal cigarette at first, it is very likely that they will gradually move to traditional cigarettes.

It is an extremely bad issue, and it is submitting another generation of children to addictive substances, according to the specialists. They also say that any kind of contact with smoking can damage the young mind and, furthermore, that some e-cigarettes users will certainly make a way over to the traditional cigarettes. To go even deeper, nicotine exposure at very early ages may cause long-term harm to body development, enhance bad habits and lead to continual cigarettes use.

The review said that the use of these devices has more than tripled among young smokers between 2010 and 2014. The study indicates around 50 % of the two million interviewed youngsters confessed to have smoked e-cigarettes. It has also exceeded the use of traditional cigarettes and other products based on tobacco derivatives, as well.

The smoking of e-cigarettes has been also on the rise because of their added tastes like those of cherry fruits and bubblegum. so, not everything that is tasty is necessarily healthy, as we all know from our food.

Currently, the e-cigarettes are not regulated and unstudied products. As of today, FDA manages the commercialization of cigarettes, smoke free cigarettes and roll-your-own cigarettes only. Even shisha items do not come under their control.

Notwithstanding, the doctors say that there is no firm summary that one can attract from correlation data. But it is similarly responsive to the theory that e-cigarettes are redirecting adolescents away from cigarettes.

They also refer to the other types of smoking cigarettes that are popular and probably wrong as “healthier” products besides the traditional cigarettes. For example, a hookah is very nocive and is not a more secure alternative to smoking cigarettes because it has plenty of monoxides of carbon and all sorts of cancer-causing elements. It should not be mistaken for smoke free types of nicotine use.

While you certainly can take yourself off such electronic products, and therefore off smoking cigarettes, often e-cigarettes are an exchange and not the means to fully give up smoking cigarettes (or vaping) completely. One could develop a strategy to reduce use that can be done, but there is really no one offering that strategy, or suggesting a plan to get it done.

And over time, medical care suppliers are worrying about what ingredients in the fumes might do to one’s whole body. We do not know if the products are secure on long-term, if the nicotine derivates are harmful or whether the other preservatives are safe. And the problem is that more persons who use these products are under the impression of being totally protected.

For example, a research released revealed e-cig fumes are rich in nanoparticles that can induce swelling resulting in health issues throughout the whole body, from bronchial asthma to cardiac arrest and diabetic complications.

Even in the temporary problems, there is not much study on e-cigarettes use, but they do still present side effects. The new researches reveal the fumes in e-cigs may also make smokers susceptible to common breathing problems.

France Forces the Disclosure of Google Searching Algorithm

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It has been a troubled period for Google search algorithm in European countries, with the Competitors Commission implementing a Declaration of Arguments regarding the shopping comparison services — tagging an escalation of its five-year antitrust research. The Competitors Commissioner also released a similar detailed study into Google’s mobile OS Android, by following antitrust gripes. Those advanced level procedures could last years, and carry the potential to end up in multi-billion-dollar charges if Google cannot fulfill the EC requirements.

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Meanwhile in France parliament, the upper house has elected to back up a change to a set up economic system invoice that would require Google to show at least three competitors on its home page. Moreover, to show the technicalities of their searching methods to ensure they provide reasonable and non-discriminatory outcomes. Given that Google has circa 85% share of searching market in France, these changes, although not particularly labeling any organizations, are targeted directly at Mountain View.

The changes are led by French senate members who are also Chair of the Panel of Communication. Another point stipulating that some of the alternatives showed by Google should be a national product was also reinforced. The press reports that France’s economic minister has spoken against the changes — disagreeing with such treatments that should be left to the European Union. But they made the case for emergency, in order to back up native companies, saying Western initiatives are too slow. It it the reason why many EU countries choose to make their own laws, in contradiction with the others.

Talking about these issues with the press this week, the French officials said the goal aim of the amendments is to fight recognized prejudices in how Google works with its closed-box methods, which the allegation being that it uses this code to advertise its own offers ahead of the competitors. In their opinion, it is a question of guaranteeing equity. Too many companies view Google as bottlenecks as the net is shrinking around it.

The lack of visibility when it comes to Google’s searching positions has taken them into an additional problematic situation in the European countries during this period, having the so-called ‘oblige to be forgotten’ act passed down by the French Ministry of Justice just last year. The background in such legal issues is that Google’s technicalities have been leaking out-dated information about European residents. They took the US giant to the European justice courts and ultimately the law enforces decided that Google’s details involve foreign legislation too and therefore are subject to European Union data protection laws.

Google has now the obligation to operate any individual demands regarding personal details which are connected to the query of particular name, as opposed to the public interest that like to find out about the respective person or company. Despite the EU trying to force Google to create new settings to its operating system where individual details or private persons from Europe are submitted to searches, the technicalities of such searching methods – disclosing vital pieces of private information and pushing them to the top of online queries results – still are the subject of rather grey areas. It is exactly those intricate technicalities that the French parliament (and not only) wants to bring out to the legal surface in order to be analyzed, at the same time placing the main focus on fair business and competition, and not just on offering individual details about anyone.

If the modifications in the legislation will find their place in the French law books, the country’s specialized institutions will have the legal right to charge fines of up to 15% of the total international income of any online search engine company that does not want to conform itself to these rules. However, it is still uncertain how these restrictions will affect the business operating on the Internet. .

Researchers Launch a New Theory on Moon Formation

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Experts studying the Moon formation at the University of Maryland have presented a new and intriguing theory about an Earth-Theia collision that was a lot more aggressive than it was formerly believed and that it could describe how the Earth’s celestial satellite came into its long and fascinating existence. For the researchers all around the globe, this period represents one of the most interesting eras in the study of our Solar System, given the numerous enigmas surrounding it and the contradictions in its creation.

According to the massive impact theory (sometimes known as the Big Splash or Theia Impact), the Moon was formed more than 4.5 billion years ago as a result of a disastrous impact between Earth and another extremely massive space object that had the dimensions and weight of Mars, also known as Theia.

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In the previous decades, planetary studies have simulated such complex procedures and duplicated many of the characteristics of the Earth-Moon binomial system. Nevertheless, these models have also given speculations regarding to the famous Lunar Paradox issue – the Earth’s satellite seems to be created of materials that could not be present if the impact theory is the appropriate one.

Analyses of the several models based on the Earth-Theia incident estimate that the Moon is, in its internal structure, mostly formed from elements that came up from Theia. But, chemical components discovered on the Moon’s surface present identical isotopic qualities to those studied here on Earth.

Now, a new research released in the famous publication Nature, has produced the isotopic ‘fingerprint’ that has the exact properties of that found on the celestial satellite, that can help researchers fix this issue.

The analysis indicates that the collision of Theia into our early Earth was so aggressive, that it caused waste cloud which got into space and were combined thoroughly before coming down and creating the original core of the Moon

According to the experts, both the Earth and the Moon attracted extra materials after the primary collision, and that Terra gathered a lot more of this waste and dirt, due to its more powerful force of gravity. These new materials included a lot of tungsten, but just a little of all this element was actually of a less heavy isotope of tungsten, called the 182W. Getting these two findings together, they would anticipate that Earth should contain less 182W than its celestial satellite.

Sure enough, when analyzing stones both from the Moon and from the Earth, the scientists discovered that the Moon has, in general, a little bit of greater percentage of 182W in its rocks. The secret, however, is how large is this difference in composition.

The little, but important, distinction in the tungsten isotopic structure between the Earth and its satellite completely matches the different quantities of content collected by the two space objects during the post-impact period and turbulences. This implies that, just after the Moon was briefly formed, it contained exactly the identical isotopic structure as that of Earth’s layer.

This discovering facilitates the wide spread theory that the huge content resulted from the Theia impact must have been combined together intensely before the Earth’s satellite coalesced and chilled. This would describe both the overall resemblances in isotopic fingerprints and the minor variations in 182W.

It also mostly rules out the concept that this Mars-sized body system was of identical structure, or that the Moon was created from various elements provided by the pre-impact Terra.

In both of these supposed situations, it would be extremely unlikely to observe such an ideal connection between the 182W and the quantities of content gathered by the celestial satellite and our Earth post-impact.

Image source: www.nasa.gov.com

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