September 8
Better Than News
The Six Million Dollar Cop is an American science fiction television series about a murdered police officer who is rebuilt with superhuman strength, speed and vision due to bionic implants.
Bene Gesserit in the Dunes is a Japanese New Wave avant-garde science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and Denis Villeneuve.
You Should Have Six Degrees Left is a psychological parlor game thriller film starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried.
The One-Time Pad and How to Use It is a 1966 comedy-cryptography film about a shy bachelor (Brian Bedford) asks his best friend (James Tarentino) to keep him company during his first date in his apartment with the girl he met at a cryptography conference and fell in love with.
Manwich is a police procedural nutritional guidelines television series starring Burt Reynolds as health inspector Dan Manwich.
Break Point is a 1991 tennis thriller film starring Keanu Reeves and Björn Borg.
Diagramaceous soil is a type of artificial soil which generates mathematical objects. It is a naturally-occurring form of transdimensional corporation. Shown here: harvesting NFT bingo tokens from a plot of diagramaecous soil.
Are You Sure
... that physicist Arthur Williams Wright produced the first X-ray image, experimented with Röntgen rays, and made other contributions to electricity and astronomy?
... that the Big Nugget Expansion Pack for Grand Theft Anathem allows players to access live webcam feeds from Ceres and several other large asteroids?
... that Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency on this day in 1974?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1588: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne born. He will be remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1637: Astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd dies.
1836: Physicist Arthur Williams Wright born. Wright will produce the first X-ray image, experiment with Röntgen rays, and make other contributions to electricity and astronomy.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
2004: NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
Topic of the Day
Astronomy
The Andromeda Galaxy robbery (also known as the Great Andromeda Galaxy robbery) was a coordinated attack upon the Andromeda Galaxy. The robbery was committed by parties as yet unidentified (December 2020) using hijacked laser guide stars.
The first Cat Cosmology Conclave (11 March 2021) resolved several paradoxes, including the notorious Fermi paradox. The cats also decided who gets to play with the favorite catnip mouse toy.
The Pomegranate cosmos model of the observable how the universe expanded from an initial state of extremely high density and high temperature, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale Pomegranate-Like Structures (PLS).