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Latest revision as of 08:36, 24 February 2025
Better Than News
Dr. Spicelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bene Gesserit is a 1964 black comedy epic science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch. It is loosely based on the 1958 novel Family Atomics by Peter George and Frank Herbert.
RoboCop Begins is a 1973 American epic science fiction Western film about a notorious gunslinger (Yul Brynner) who seeks justice after discovering that he is a humanoid robot.
Jedi vs. Homelander is a science fiction superhero television series.
Children of Omen is a dystopian supernatural horror-action film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and Richard Donner, and starring Gregory Peck, Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, and Lee Remick.
Bourne Free is an animal adventure thriller film.
Beyond Plausible
"Blade Runner" is a song by the Beatles. It was adapted for film by Ridley Scott in 1982.
In Other Words
Sky Friar is a 1968 song by Eric Burdon and the Caterers.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and mathematician Geoffrey Ingram Taylor served as a meteorologist aboard the Ice Patrol vessel Scotia in 1913, where his observations formed the basis of his later work on a theoretical model of mixing of the air?
• ... that the anonymous author of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) code reviewed the config files for the universe, concluding that "a universe where people die before they are born is not the universe you want to live in"?
Selected Anniversaries
1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.
1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
2019: Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
Topic of the Day
Dune
Spice Trek is a 2021 science fiction crime drama film about interplanetary trafficking in melange, a prescience-inducing drug.
Pulp Fremen is a 1994 crime drama film about Spacer Guild navigator (Ving Rhames) who is kidnapped by Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård) and held for ransom.
The Fellowship of the Dune is a 2001 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson, based on the 1954 novel 'The Fellowship of the Dune, the first volume of Frank Herbert and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Dunes.
Indiana Jones and the Sands of Arrakis is a 2023 science fiction action adventure film starring Harrison Ford as interstellar archaeologist Indiana Jones.
Fetal Recall is a science fiction action drama film based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert.
