mars doesn't need a robot that folds laundry 1X shipped hands for the kitchen this week and everyone clapped. meanwhile the actual frontier has zero robots designed for it by anyone outside three government labs so we're going to fix that. MARS ROBOT MARATHON. details below [ the setup ] crewed Mars flights are closer than most people think. but humans land last. first go the scouts, the drillers, the cave divers, and that fleet does not exist yet > Perseverance cost $2.7B and took thousands of engineers a decade > Ingenuity was supposed to fly 5 times. it flew 72. the assumptions are always wrong in the builder's favor > AI already designed a working rocket engine that got printed and test-fired > designing a Mars scout is now a problem one person with an agent team attacks from a bedroom the tools got democratized. the ideas didn't catch up yet. that's the opening [ the spec, non-negotiable ] > walks on terrain that eats wheels for breakfast > climbs crater walls and 40 degree slopes > drills, because everything interesting on Mars is underground > dodges obstacles alone. instructions from Earth take up to 20 minutes one way, a rock doesn't wait > descends into lava tube caves and maps them [ why caves are the whole game ] > Mars gravity is a third of Earth's, so its lava tubes grow monstrous. wide enough to hide a city block > they block most of the surface radiation > temperature inside stays stable while the surface swings 100 degrees a day > if life still exists on Mars, it's not sunbathing on the surface. it's down there in the dark whoever maps the caves first owns the map everyone else lands by [ the marathon ] design the scout that goes first. experiment with shapes: spider on a tether, snake that swallows tunnels, a swarm with one nuclear mother and ten expendable kids. mars doesn't care about earth aesthetics > drop your design in the replies: sketch, render, napkin drawing, AI blueprint, anything > best 3 get a full breakdown in a dedicated post > the winner gets turned into a complete engineering blueprint, my agent team does the drafting i'm dropping my own MK-I first your move, engineers

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One of the Most Sinister MAN IN HOLLYWOOD is the reason Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998) lost Best Picture at the Oscars. The 23-minute D-Day landing scene in Saving Private Ryan (1998) cost $12 million, about a fifth of the film’s budget. Filmed over a month with 1,500 actors and 400 crew, it remains one of the most visceral and powerful scenes in film history. ‘Saving Private Ryan’ losing Best Picture was a massive shock because the film was considered one of the greatest war movies ever made. Made on a budget of around $70 million, it grossed over $482 million worldwide, became the highest grossing movie in America in 1998, earned 11 Oscar nominations, and won 5 Academy Awards. The portrayal was so realistic that many World War II veterans reportedly had to leave theaters within the first 20 minutes just because of the D-Day landing scene. One Vietnam veteran reportedly dropped to the floor and crawled out of the theater when the battle began. The reaction became so intense that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had to set up a nationwide hotline for veterans suffering PTSD episodes after screenings. Veterans later said it was not just the visuals, but the sounds the whizzing bullets, screaming soldiers, and metallic clack of tank treads that felt horrifyingly real. One veteran famously said the only thing missing was the smell of the battlefield. But what won that year was actually ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ a film that was produced by Harvey Weinstein’s company, Miramax. Weinstein launched an extremely aggressive Oscar campaign for ‘Shakespeare in Love’ while attacking Saving Private Ryan behind the scenes, saying it's way too bloody, it's way too gruesome for the first 15 minutes, historically inaccurate, and emotionally manipulative. When somebody told Spielberg about Harvey Weinstein's tactics, and what he's doing, and Spielberg stated, "No matter what, I do not want you to get down in the mud with Harvey Weinstein." When press asked if Spielberg was sure about not fighting back, he said "I don't want any negative campaigning." Decades later, Spielberg called the industry-wide focus on Harvey Weinstein's later downfall a "watershed moment" and an "imperative", though he famously clapped politely when he lost the big prize that night in 1999.

Weekly Capped Accelerated ETF Tracker – as of May 15, 2026 Our capped accelerated exchange-traded funds aim for 2X a stock’s monthly gain – up to a monthly “cap”. They also aim for 1X the downside if the stock drops for the month. The ETFs trade options to create the below payoff by the end of the month: • If the stock rises, the ETF doubles that move until it reaches the monthly cap. • If the stock falls, the ETF drops the same amount as the stock. Caps reset at the start of each month, based on option prices and implied volatility. If you hold the ETF from the start of the month, you know the full cap that’s available. But if you buy during the month, it depends on where the ETF is trading at that point. • If the fund is down so far, there’s more upside potential left until it reaches the cap. • If the fund is up so far, there’s less upside potential to the cap. The table shows the remaining upside % to the cap for each of our capped accelerated ETFs. Follow Leverage Shares ETFs for more updates.

Weekly Capped Accelerated ETF Tracker – as of May 4, 2026 Our capped accelerated exchange-traded funds aim for 2X a stock’s monthly gain – up to a monthly “cap”. They also aim for 1X the downside if the stock drops for the month. The ETFs trade options to create the below payoff by the end of the month: • If the stock rises, the ETF doubles that move until it reaches the monthly cap. • If the stock falls, the ETF drops the same amount as the stock. Caps reset at the start of each month, based on option prices and implied volatility. If you hold the ETF from the start of the month, you know the full cap that’s available. But if you buy during the month, it depends on where the ETF is trading at that point. • If the fund is down so far, there’s more upside potential left until it reaches the cap. • If the fund is up so far, there’s less upside potential to the cap. The table shows the remaining upside % to the cap for each of our capped accelerated ETFs. Follow Leverage Shares ETFs for more updates.