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Blob (computing)
Blob may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Blob'' (film series), a franchise of American science fiction monster-horror films ** '' The Blob'', 1958 American science-fiction film ** ''The Blob'' (1988 film), a remake of the 1958 film * '' The Blobs'', a 1980 animated TV series * ''Blob'' (video game), 1993 * Blob, a character in ''ClayFighter'' video games * Blob (Marvel Comics), a comic book character * Blobs, a former animated mascot of BBC Three * Blob (card game), a variant of Oh Hell Science and technology Computing * Object storage, or blob storage, that manages data as "blobs" or "objects" * Binary blob, or blob, a non-free object in open source software * Blob URI scheme, a URI scheme for binary data * Image blob, a region of an image subject to detection Other uses in science * Blob (visual system), sections of the primary visual cortex * The blob (Chukchi Sea algae), a large algae bloom in 2009 * The Blob (Pacific Ocean), a mass of warm water in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blob (film Series)
''The Blob'' franchise consists of United States of America, American Science fiction film, science fiction Monster film, monster-horror films, including the Steve McQueen-led original, its Camp (style), campy Comedy film, comedic sequel, and its Remake#Film, remake. Based on an original story by Irving H. Millgate, the plot centers around the invasion of Earth by an Amoeba, amoeboidal Extraterrestrial life, alien from outer space that emerges from a meteorite and Carnivore, feasts on anything that it comes into contact with. The story of each installment includes the resistance of the planet's Human, inhabitants, and their attempts to thwart the monster's advances. The 1958 #The Blob, original film was met initially with mixed critical reception, but was a financial successes at the box office, making a large return for the studio despite its B movie, B-movie micro-sized production budget. Becoming more popular than the top-billed film in its debut double feature release, ''The B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blob (Pacific Ocean)
The Blob is a large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was first detected in late 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015. It is an example of a marine heatwave. Sea surface temperatures indicated that the Blob persisted into 2016, but it was initially thought to have dissipated later that year. By September 2016, the Blob resurfaced and made itself known to meteorologists. The warm water mass was unusual for open ocean conditions and was considered to have played a role in the formation of the unusual weather conditions experienced along the Pacific coast of North America during the same time period. The warm waters of the Blob were nutrient-poor and adversely affected marine life. In 2019 another scare was caused by a weaker form of the effect referred to as "The Blob 2.0", and in 2021, the appearance of "The Southern Blob" south of the equator near New Zealand caused a major effect in South America, particularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Blob
''De Blob'' (Stylized as ''de BLOB'') is a puzzle-platform game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by THQ for the Wii. Players explore and liberate an alien city from the evil and monochromatic INKT Corporation that has taken over the city and outlawed all colour and fun from daily life. Playing as Blob, players embark on a quest to re-animate the fictional Chroma City and free it from the INKT Corporation by splattering buildings, landmarks, and citizens with colour. Aside from the original version, a cancelled version for the Nintendo DS was being developed by Helixe. The game was originally scheduled for a February 2008 release, but was delayed and then released on 22 September for the Wii. An iOS version of the game developed by Universomo ended up releasing earlier on 8 July the same year. ''De Blob'' was released for Windows on 27 April 2017, ported by BlitWorks. Ports of the game for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One came later on November 14 of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Blob
The cold blob in the North Atlantic (also called the North Atlantic warming hole) describes a cold temperature anomaly of ocean surface waters, affecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which is part of the thermohaline circulation, possibly related to global warming-induced melting of the Greenland ice sheet. General AMOC is driven by ocean temperature and salinity differences. The major possible mechanism causing the cold ocean surface temperature anomaly is based on the fact that freshwater decreases ocean water salinity, and the colder surface waters cannot sink because they are less dense than the saltier waters underneath them. The observed freshwater increase probably originates from Greenland ice melt. Research 2015 and earlier Climate scientists Michael E. Mann, Michael Mann of Penn State and Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research suggested that the observed cold pattern during years of temperature records is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blobfish (other) '', a genus of fish
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Blobfish may refer to: *Psychrolutidae, a fish family commonly known as blobfishes **'' Psychrolutes microporos'', commonly known as a blobfish or fathead *** Mr Blobby (fish), a individual specimen of ''Psychrolutes microporos'' and the subject of a well-known photograph **'' Psychrolutes marcidus'', commonly known as a smooth-head blobfish or simply a blobfish **'' Psychrolutes occidentalis'', Western blobfish or Western Australian sculpin ** '' Psychrolutes phrictus'', blob sculpin, also commonly known as a blobfish * ''Ebinania ''Ebinania'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads. These fishes are found in the Southern, Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Description Ebinania is distinguished from o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blobbing
Blobbing is an outdoor water activity in which a participant sits on the end of a partly inflated air bag (known as a water trampoline or blob) and is launched into the water when another participant jumps onto the air bag from a platform on the opposite side. The activity is popular at summer camps in North America. Various tricks may also be performed while the participant is in the air. The air bag is approximately long by wide. The recommended height for the tower is 15 feet above the water surface, or 10 feet above the air bag. History The original blobs used were military surplus items. The "blob" was nothing other than a floating fuel tank that ships could tow. Since oil and gas floats on top of water, the fuel-filled bladders floated next to the ships. The first blobbers were the sailors who would jump from the ship, onto the "blob," although the first recorded use of the blob was in Camp Longhorn, a summer camp near Austin, Texas Austin ( ) is the List of ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Boy And His Blob
''A Boy and His Blob'' is a puzzle-platform game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Majesco Entertainment. It is a re-imagining of the 1989 video game, '' A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia'', which was originally developed by Imagineering for the NES. The game was released for the Wii in North America on October 13 and in Europe on November 6, 2009. A high-definition port of the game developed by Abstraction Games was released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on January 20, 2016. A PlayStation 3 version was made available on June 28 of the same year as a cross-purchase with the PS4 and Vita versions. Mobile ports for iOS and Android were later released worldwide on November 17 and September 26 of 2017 respectively. A Nintendo Switch version was released on November 4, 2021 by WayForward and Ziggurat Interactive. WayForward's director Sean Velasco, a fan of the original NES title, expressed a desire to re- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Stars (2022)
The Philadelphia Stars were a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Stars competed in the United States Football League (USFL) as a member club of the league's North division. The team played its home games at Protective Stadium and Legion Field, both in Alabama, in 2022, and Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, in 2023. Ultimately, the team would never play a game in Philadelphia. The Stars appeared in the playoffs once, won the division championship game once, and appeared in one USFL Championship Game. On December 19, 2023, the USFL informed its players union that the Stars would not be among four USFL teams to be contracted as part of the league's upcoming merger with the XFL. History The Philadelphia Stars were one of eight teams that were officially announced as a USFL franchise on ''The Herd with Colin Cowherd'' on November 22, 2021. On January 6, 2022, It was announced on ''The Herd with Colin Cowherd'' that former CFL Head coach Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slug (unit)
The slug is a derived unit of mass in a weight-based system of measures, most notably within the British Imperial measurement system and the United States customary measures system. Systems of measure either define mass and derive a force unit ''or'' define a base force and derive a mass unit (cf. '' poundal'', a derived unit of force in a mass-based system). A slug is defined as a mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s2 when a net force of one pound (lbf) is exerted on it. : 1~\text= 1~\text\frac \quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad 1~\text= 1~\text\frac One slug is a mass equal to based on standard gravity, the international foot, and the avoirdupois pound.Shigley, Joseph E. and Mischke, Charles R. ''Mechanical Engineering Design'', Sixth ed, pp. 31–33. McGraw Hill, 2001. . In other words, at the Earth's surface (in standard gravity), an object with a mass of 1 slug weighs approximately .Shevell, R.S. ''Fundamentals of Flight'', Second ed, p. xix. Prentice-Hall, 1989. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Policy Of The United States
The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the ''Foreign Policy Agenda'' of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community". Liberalism has been a key component of US foreign policy since its independence from Britain. Since the end of World War II, the United States has had a grand strategy which has been characterized as being oriented around primacy, "deep engagement", and/or liberal hegemony. This strategy entails that the United States maintains military predominance; builds and maintains an extensive network of allies (exemplified by NATO, bilateral alliances and foreign US military bases); integrates other states into US-designed international institutions (such as the IMF, WTO/GATT, and World Bank); and limits the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interventionism (politics)
Interventionism, in international politics, is the interference of a state or group of states into the domestic affairs of another state for the purposes of coercing that state to do something or refrain from doing something. The intervention can be conducted through military force or economic coercion. A different term, economic interventionism, refers to government interventions into markets at home. Military intervention, which is a common element of interventionism, has been defined by Martha Finnemore in the context of international relations as "the deployment of military personnel across recognized boundaries for the purpose of determining the political authority structure in the target state". Interventions may be solely focused on altering political authority structures, or may be conducted for humanitarian purposes, or for debt collection. Interventionism has played a major role in the foreign policies of Western powers, particularly during and after the Victorian e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blob (Antarctica)
The Blob () is a fairly conspicuous, mound-shaped knoll that is almost completely snow-covered, standing midway between Thurston Glacier and Armour Inlet on the north coast of Siple Island. This feature was first plotted by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947. The descriptive name was suggested by a member of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ... (US-ACAN) staff on the basis of the appearance of the feature in the aerial photographs. References Blob, The {{antarctica-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
