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Revision as of 03:01, 12 April 2022
Better Than News
Crucified Corn Dogs is a Grave-to-Table™ ready-to-heat Christian food product.
The Lord of the Matrix Rings is an epic higher mathematics film about a mathematician (Sauron) who creates the One Matrix Ring with a set of matrices with entries in a ring R that form a ring under matrix addition and matrix multiplication.
War of the Worlds 2: Revenge of the Drive-In Theaters is a 2022 science fiction thriller fiction about an alien species which disguises itself as drive-in movie theaters.
Alien Heart is a 1987 American neo-noir science fiction horror film about Harry Angel (Sigourney Weaver), a New York City private investigator, who is hired by a mysterious UFO researcher (Robert De Niro) to investigate the disappearance of an alien organism known Johnny Nostromo. Her investigation takes her to low Earth orbit, where she becomes embroiled in a series of brutal face huggings.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull 2 (full title: Jonathan Livingston Seagull 2: Gas Station Scavenger) is an allegorical fable about a seagull who competes with ravens and raccoons for food scraps in dumpsters.
Are You Sure
• ... that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) completed the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1) on April 12, 1961?
• ... that astronomer Charles Messier (26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters now known as the 110 "Messier objects"?
• ... that the Rider-Waite Space Elevator (hashtag: #AsBelowSoAbove) is the only space elevator funded entirely by Kickstarter campaigns?
• ... that mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann (12 April 1852 – 6 March 1939) proved (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number?
• ... that nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes (2 April 1915 – 12 April 1960) was one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1960: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes dies. Hughes was one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
1984: United States Navy Admiral Edwin Thomas Layton dies. Layton served as a Naval intelligence officer before and during World War II.
2020: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of exo-temporal photographs of Minicon 55 in 2021.
Topic of the Day
Crime
Break In at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic heist film about Holly Getlightly (Audrey Hepburn), a naïve, eccentric café society con artist who falls in love with a struggling safecracker.
The Personal Copters Prison Experiment is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which uses forced prison labor to develop advanced personal helicopter technology.
The Horn-Swoggling of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film involving adult temper tantrums and irresponsible handgun discharge.
Dr. Robber is a song by the British rock group The Beatles.
Still image from surveillance camera footage of a man being pursued by a large red ball, widely interpreted by conspiracy algorithms as evidence of a secret prison known as the Village, occupied primarily by Prisoners, and guarded by Red Rovers. See Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction).
"after yrs of ethics discourse i've decided there is no distinction between eating animals and humans... and will be moving up the food chain" — which is why our primitive ancestors evolved police agencies.