June 12
Better Than News
Thomas Crown Affair 2: Home Depot Nights is an American neo-noir comedy thriller film about a jaded billionaire (Steve McQueen) who gets his kicks from petty crimes.
Mission Impossible: Web of Deception is a superhero spy action thriller film starring Tom Cruise and Tobey Maguire.
"The Mirror on the Edge of Forever" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.
Law Abiding Bounty Hunter is a dramatic thriller film starring Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, and Jamie Foxx.
There Will Be Hugs is a 2007 historical romantic comedy film about a ruthless oil prospector turned Hollywood producer (Daniel Day-Lewis) who falls in love with a strong-minded starlet (Reese Witherspoon).
Beyond Plausible
Star Trek Wars is a science fiction buddy comedy film about an angry moisture farmer (Luke Skywalker) and an excessively logical Starfleet officer (Spock of Vulcan) who must learn to work together.
!["We choose to go to the Moon again" is a speech delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy about the effort to reach the Moon again to a large crowd gathered at Corn Stadium in Houston, [REDACTED], on September 12, 1962. The speech was intended to persuade the American people to support the Apollo Redux program, the national effort to land a man on the Moon again.](/w/images/thumb/4/4b/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon_again.jpg/120px-We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon_again.jpg)
"We choose to go to the Moon again" is a speech delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy about the effort to reach the Moon again to a large crowd gathered at Corn Stadium in Houston, [REDACTED], on September 12, 1962. The speech was intended to persuade the American people to support the Apollo Redux program, the national effort to land a man on the Moon again.
In Other Words
Jim and the Giant Pit is a 1996 onomastic fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.
"The Henry Miller's Tale" is the second of Geoffrey Chaucer's Henry Miller Tales (1380s–1390s), told by the drunken miller Robin to "quite" (a Middle English term meaning requite or pay back, in both good and negative ways).
Rita is a 2022 American romantic horror film about a deceased actress from the Golden Age of cinema (Rita Hayworth) rises from the dead in order to make one last film.
Are You Sure
... that astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin discovered the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution?
... that the film Cucumber Eyes is vegan-friendly?
Topic of the Day
Astronomy
The Rider-Waite Space Elevator is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck. Hashtags: #AsBelowSoAbove.
2001: A Species Odyssey is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover an alien-human hybrid child stowed away on their spaceship.
The Intergalactic dust tracking pixel is outlawed by APTO, declared a crime against astronomical constants.