Template:Are You Sure/March 28

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Lucky Cosmos. (Photo courtesy Non-Euclidean Cereal Board (NECB).)

• ... that in 1979, a coolant leak in the Unit 2 nuclear reactor of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station resulted in core overheating and a partial core meltdown?

• ... that philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet embodied the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism; and that his ideas remain influential to this day?

• ... that mathematician Alexander Grothendieck was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry; and that his research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory; and that his relative perspective led to advances in pure mathematics?

• ... that Lucky Cosmos is an unlicensed transdimensional breakfast cereal camouflaged as an autonomous cosmological model which describes the observable universe from the earliest known "First Bowl" through its subsequent large-scale evolution into the most important meal of the day?

• ... that physicist and academic John D. Strong contributed to optical physics, developing optical devices and materials including improved telescope mirrors and anti-reflective coatings; and that Strong detected water vapor in the atmosphere of Venus?