Main Page
Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction).
Are You Sure ...
... that the Soviet N1 rocket was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit; that the project was underfunded and rushed, and badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966; that each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed; that during the second launch attempt the N1 rocket crashed back onto its launch pad shortly after liftoff and exploded, resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in human history; and that the N1 was kept secret almost until the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, with information about the N1 first being published in 1989?
... that I Am Curious (Texas) is a 1967 Swedish erotic geography film?
On This Day in History and Fiction: July 3
1518: Physician and scientist Li Shizhen born. He will develop many innovative methods for the proper classification of herb components and medications to be used for treating diseases, earning a reputation as the greatest scientific naturalist of China.
1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
2007: NASA approves a mission extension for Stardust, sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1.
Permalink: July 3
Daily Favorites
Non-Fungible Tokens
2001: An NFT Odyssey is a 1968 American science fiction NFT film about an advanced computer (HAL 9000) which attempts to market itself as non-fungible tokens.
The Dark NFT is a 2008 superhero NFT film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged database engineer who threatens to delete all the non-fungible tokens in Gotham City.
NFTspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film about a group of NFT addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.
The Dragons of NFT is a 1977 book by Carl Sagan, which combines anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and computer science to give a perspective on how intelligent non-fungible tokens may have evolved.