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Revision as of 12:03, 1 February 2022
Better Than News
Planet of the Equus is an American psychological drama film about a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who believes that he has been sent to the future to blind the last horse.
Tension at Hanging Picnic is a mystery Western drama film directed by Peter Weir and Charles Marquis Warren.
Alka-Seltzer for Venus is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.
Edge of Renewal is a 2015 historical war drama film about the Millenia-long conflict between Man and his works.
Are You Sure
• ... that Stardust was a 300 kilogram robotic space probe, launched by NASA on 7 February 1999, and that Stardust collected dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust, and returned these to Earth for analysis?
• ... that the Forbidden Ratio is a criminal mathematical function exhibiting artificial intelligence and malicious intent?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics."
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.
1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.
Topic of the Day
James Bond
From Rosa with Love is a romantic spy thriller film directed by Terence Young, starring Lotte Lenya and Sean Connery.
Sandfall is a science fiction spy film starring Daniel Craig as a British MI6 agent who must discover the source of Melange, a drug which facilitates interstellar travel.
Blunderball is a 1965 British spy film about a secret marine biologist (Sean Connery) who must find two top-secret NATO atomic dolphins stolen by SPRAT.
Goldschläger is a 1964 spy film about liquor smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger, who plans to make Barry Goldwater President of the United States.
Dial E for Eco is a 2021 ecology disaster film starring Boris Johnson as the fictional Prime Minister of the United Kingdom James Bond.
Dune Another Day: James Bond must locate a mole in Atreides intelligence who betrayed him, and a Harkonnen billionaire who is later revealed to be connected to a Sardauker operative that Bond seemingly killed.