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• ... that polymath '''[[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]]''', in his 1745 book ''[[De viribus vivis (nonfiction)|De viribus vivis]]'' ("On living forces"), tried to find a middle way between [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]]'s gravitational theory and [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]]'s metaphysical theory of monad-points, and that Boscovich proposed "impenetrability" as a property of hard bodies, explaining their behavior in terms of force rather than matter?


• ... that '''''[[Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|Pale Blue Dot]]''''' is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System, and that Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author [[Carl Sagan (nonfiction)|Carl Sagan]]?
• ... that '''[[Canopic Snickers]]''' is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties?


• ... that mathematician '''[[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]]''' was among the first to distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics?
• ... that actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller '''[[Niles Cartouchian]]''' supposedly exists as multiple individuals in simultaneous entangled quantum states, and that these individual "brothers" can apparently communicate with each other despite living in different centuries?
 
• ... that mathematician '''[[John Hadley (nonfiction)|John Hadley]]''' laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same, and that Hadley also developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes?

Latest revision as of 12:47, 13 February 2022

• ... that polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich, in his 1745 book De viribus vivis ("On living forces"), tried to find a middle way between Isaac Newton's gravitational theory and Gottfried Leibniz's metaphysical theory of monad-points, and that Boscovich proposed "impenetrability" as a property of hard bodies, explaining their behavior in terms of force rather than matter?

• ... that Canopic Snickers is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties?

• ... that actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian supposedly exists as multiple individuals in simultaneous entangled quantum states, and that these individual "brothers" can apparently communicate with each other despite living in different centuries?

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