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• ... that '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_muonium true muonium]''' is a theoretically predicted exotic atom made up of an antimuon and a muon which has yet to be observed, but may have been generated in the collision of electron and positron beams?
• ... that on April 13, 1953, CIA director Allen Dulles authorized the secret drug research program '''[[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]]''', intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control?


• ... that '''''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentia_mirabilis consequentia mirabilis]''''' was a pattern of argument popular in 17th century Europe that first appeared in a fragment of [[Aristotle (nonfiction)|Aristotle]]'s ''Protrepticus'': "If we ought to philosophise, then we ought to philosophise; and if we ought not to philosophise, then we ought to philosophise (i.e. in order to justify this view); in any case, therefore, we ought to philosophise."?
• ... that '''[[Clandestiphrine (drug)|Clandestiphrine]]''' is a [[transdimensional drug]] which amplifies the user's will to conceal events, misdirect attention, conduct remote non-invasive warrantless interrogation, surveil Euclidean space, and exert covert violence?
 
• ... that cryptologist and author '''[[Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|Herbert Yardley]]''' (13 April 1889 – 7 August 1958) founded and led the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which broke Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922?
 
• ... that engineer and explorer '''[[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]]''' (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) pioneered steam-powered transport by road and rail, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive?
 
• ... that art critic and alleged math criminal '''[[The Eel]]''' (? - ?) used a portable wormhole generator to escape [[The Nacreum]], a transdimensional prison constructed from artificially intelligent [[Nacre (nonfiction)|nacre]]?
 
• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]]''' (9 July 1911 – 13 April 2008) linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit"?

Latest revision as of 08:26, 13 April 2022

• ... that on April 13, 1953, CIA director Allen Dulles authorized the secret drug research program Project MKUltra, intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control?

• ... that Clandestiphrine is a transdimensional drug which amplifies the user's will to conceal events, misdirect attention, conduct remote non-invasive warrantless interrogation, surveil Euclidean space, and exert covert violence?

• ... that cryptologist and author Herbert Yardley (13 April 1889 – 7 August 1958) founded and led the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which broke Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922?

• ... that engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) pioneered steam-powered transport by road and rail, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive?

• ... that art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel (? - ?) used a portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum, a transdimensional prison constructed from artificially intelligent nacre?

• ... that theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler (9 July 1911 – 13 April 2008) linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit"?