Gamers have quickly realized that a fun open-world game isnt just about size and scope but rather how you interact with it. Theres a reason the Ubisoft-ification of games has caused many to roll their eyes with an emphatic next! when seeing a checklist of towers to clear. Many of us want surprise and depth, not a checklist of repetitive tasks to complete. One of the best ways to engage players with a world is letting them control various aspects of its mechanisms. Thankfully, theres plenty of great games that achieve a fun and dynamic open-world. Here are 10 open world games that let you control almost everything.10. SatisfactoryYou may not find the prospect of factory-building initially appealing, but Satisfactory makes the process addictive and wildly open-ended. Part of that open-endedness is the resource-rich open world you, as a settler, are tasked with exploring and mining for resources. Unlike a lot of management building games, everything in Satisfactory is accomplished from a first-person perspective, adding an extra ounce of immersion to your production chain empire. While the main route through the game starts off with limited technology tiers, progress grants you access to a vast toolbox to create anything imaginable.

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One of the images that triggered rumors about astronaut Suni Williams' health. Here, she displays radiation measurement hardware. NASA JohnsonThis fall, NASA released photos of astronaut Suni Williamswho is currently living on the International Space Station (ISS)that triggered an onslaught of tabloid and social media rumors speculating about her health.Articles in the New York Post and the Daily Mail suggested that Williams looked gaunt, and sources quoted by the outlets alleged the astronaut had lost an unhealthy amount of weight.In early November, NASA refuted the claims in a statement emailed to the press. This week, Williams herself negated the rumors in an in-flight interview. Now, James D. Polk, NASAs chief health and medical officer, has once again spoken up to dispel the idea.Ill tell you the astronauts are in absolutely outstanding health and in good condition right now, Polk tells Space.coms Monisha Ravisetti. So, let me just address that rumor right out the front.Williams and fellow NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore are in the middle of an unexpectedly long stay on the ISS. They traveled to the station aboard Boeings Starliner spacecraft in June for what was supposed to be a brief mission. After Starliner experienced technical issues, however, NASA decided send the spacecraft back to Earth without its crew. In late August, the agency announced the two astronauts will come home aboard a SpaceX Dragon in February 2025, turning their intended eight-day stay into eight months.trained for extended stays at the ISS.With the pair now 163 daysand countinginto their odyssey, some of the recent rumors about their health were centered around the negative effects of long-term residencies in space.The image that seems to have attracted the most attention is a picture of Williams and Wilmore making pizza aboard the space stations galley. Vinay Gupta, a pulmonologist and health policy analyst, told the Daily Mail that Williams face looked sunken and she appeared underweight. NASA astronauts make pizza aboard the International Space Station in a picture that triggered rumors about Williams' weight. NASA JohnsonThe following week, Williams attempted to reassure the public that she was in good health: I think theres some rumors around outside there that Im losing weight and stuff, she said in an interview from the station with the New England Sports Network. No, Im actually right at the same amount... as I was when I got up here, she continued, adding that she works out regularly, as all astronauts in space do, to prevent the decrease in muscle mass and bone destiny that results from long periods of time in microgravity.I could definitely tell that weightlifting, which is not something that I do all the time, has definitely changed me. My thighs are a little bit bigger, my butt is a little bit bigger, she also noted, per Space.coms Mike Wall.The next day, though, the New York Post cited an anonymous NASA insider, who maintained that both Williams and Wilmore are losing body mass, adding that Williams has been affected more than Wilmore.On Thursday, Polk once again refuted these allegations in several media interviews.NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Talks with New England Sports Network - Tuesday, November 12, 2024Watch on Ive known Suni 20 years, and Ill tell you, Suni looks the same to me, he tells the New York Times Kenneth Chang. Shes in incredible health right now.I hope that the chief medical officer of NASA is an informed and credible sourceIll put it that way, Polk says to Space.com, referring to himself.He adds that fluid shiftwhen weightlessness leads bodily fluids to flow toward the upper parts of the bodyalong with the daily aerobic and resistive exercises that astronauts do on the ISS can cause morphologic changes that occur that can perhaps change their appearance. Still, he reiterates that their weight has not changed, and their fitness is actually getting better.The speculation on Williams weight comes amid other questions regarding the health of three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut who were taken to a hospital after they returned to Earth from the ISS last month. One member of the crew was kept overnight, but for privacy reasons, NASA has not revealed the identity of the individual or released information on the nature of their medical issue.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: Astronauts, Health, Media, NASA, Outer Space, Social Media, Space Travel, SpaceX

The researchers made experimental spindles and whorls based on 3D scans of the pebbles. Yashuv and Grosman, PLOS ONE, 2024 under CC-BY 4.0When faced with an assortment of 12,000-year-old perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in northern Israel, researchers wondered if the artifacts could be beads, or perhaps fishing weights. Now, however, theyve come to a much more significant conclusion: The pebbles could be spindle whorls, weighted pieces used in spinning textiles.If that interpretation is true, it would make the pebble collection one of the oldest examples of rotational technology, a crucial prerequisite to the invention of the wheel. The teams findings were published in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday.While the perforated pebbles were kept mostly at their natural unmodified shape, they represent wheels in form and function: a round object with a hole in the center connected to a rotating axle, co-author Talia Yashuv, an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, tells Live Sciences Owen Jarus.Using highly detailed 3D models of the 113 pebbles, the archaeologists noted that the mostly limestone artifacts were roughly donut shaped. The holes measured three to four centimeters in diameter and had been drilled halfway from each side of the pebbles, though some of the pieces had off-center, partially perforated holes.The artifacts had previously been unearthed atNahal Ein Gev II, a roughly 12,000-year-old Late Natufian village close to the Sea of Galilee. Natufian refers to a hunter-gatherer culture that existed in the region of Palestine and southern Syria around 9000 B.C.E. and preceded the transition toward the agricultural practices that mark the Neolithic period.Because of the pebbles irregular shape and weight, Yashuv and her co-author Leore Grosman ruled out the possibilities that they were prehistoric beads or fishing weights. The artifacts were too heavy and odd-looking to be beads, the team concluded, and they were too light and made of the wrong material for use in fishing. Next, they thought of spindle whorls: small, disc-shaped weights with holes that are attached to spindles to make them rotate faster when spinning textiles.The researchers decided to test their hypothesis in real time. They used the 3D models to create precise replicas of the artifacts and asked a traditional textile expert named Yonit Crystal to test them out. After some practice, Crystal was able to successfully spin flaxand, with a bit more difficulty, spin woolinto yarn using the pebbles as spindle whorls. Illustrations representing various spinning methods. (a) Manual thigh-spinning; (b) Spindle-and-whorl "supported spinning"; (c) "drop spinning"; (d) the experimental spindles and whorls and 3D scans of the pebbles and their negative perforations. The photographs show Yonit Crystal spinning fibers with replicas of the perforated pebbles. Yashuv and Grosman, PLOS ONE, 2024 under CC-BY 4.0She was really surprised that they worked, because they werent perfectly round, Yashuv tells New Scientists Christa Lest-Lasserre. But really you just need the perforation to be located at the center of mass, and then its balanced and it works.Yashuv adds that the spindle whorl interpretation is consistent with their observations: The method of drilling halfway from each side of the pebble allows for better balance and thus more controlled spinning, and the pieces with incomplete and off-center holes could have been discarded as mistakes.Because the artifacts are simple limestone pebbles that dont stick out at first glance, the researchers were surprised to learn how they were likely used, Yashuv tells the Times of Israels Gavriel Fiske.If the pebbles are confirmed to be among the oldest examples of spindle whorls, it would mean several things. The most striking is that the artifacts would also represent one of the oldest uses of rotational technologies, which might have paved the way for crucial other advancements, such as potters wheels and traditional cart wheels in the fourth millennium B.C.E.Additionally, it is probable that flax was being spun in small quantities for use in other emerging technologies such as bags and fishing lines, that is to say new methods of storage and subsistence, Alex Joffe, an archaeologist and historian specialized in the Middle East who was not involved in the study, tells Live Science. In other words, the spindle whorl could have been crucial to advancements beyond the wheel.However, archaeological records suggest that the technology died out before re-emerging and taking root in the same region thousands of years later.They went back to something else, and we dont see the same tool for another 4,000 years. When it comes back, whats interesting is that its at a site that is very close by, Yashuv explains to IFLSciences Benjamin Taub.Not everyone is convinced by the researchers interpretation. Carole Cheval, an archaeologist at Cte dAzur University in Nice, France, tells New Scientist that the study should have looked for microscopic traces of the friction caused by yarn on the pebbles. And even if the pebbles are spindle whorls, these tools are more similar to a spinning top than to a wheel, she adds.Ultimately, the most important aspect of the study is how modern technology allows us to delve deep into touching the fingerprints of the prehistoric craftsman, the authors say in a statement, then learn something new about them and their innovativeness, and at the same time, about our modern technology and how were linked.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.

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