June 30
Better Than News
Apocalypse Rider is an American epic road drama war film directed by Peter Fonda and Francis Ford Coppola, starring Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, and Peter Fonda.
Die Hard: Gabriel's Revenge is an American superhero action horror film starring Keanu Reeves, Alan Rickman, Tilda Swinton, and Bruce Willis.
Titanic 2: The Way of Water is a romantic science fiction drama film by James Cameron about a human couple who crash-land on an alien planet (Pandora).
Maleficent Robot is an American drama thriller television series a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression (Rami Malek) who must stop an evil fairy and the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" (Angelina Jolie) from releasing a deadly computer virus.
D-Ring: Agent of Suspense is a British television series featuring Patrick McGoohan as secret home repair engineer Dee Ring.
Computational Muttonchops (full title: Computational Muttonchops: Isaac Asimov and Your Pocket Calculator) is a cautionary documentary LP record album about writer, scientist, and alleged time-traveler Isaac Asimov.
Are You Sure
... that the Tunguska event was a massive explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of June 30, 1908; that the explosion flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest; that eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have died in the event; and that the explosion is generally attributed to the air burst of a stony meteoroid about 100 metres (330 feet) in size?
... that Albert Einstein's article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (published in Annalen der Physik) introduced special relativity?
... that mathematician William Oughtred invented the slide rule in 1622?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1660: Mathematician William Oughtred dies. He invented the slide rule in 1622.
1770: Astronomer Charles Messier is elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
1905: Albert Einstein sends the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1908: The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
1956: The Tunguska Event Preservation Society launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition.
Topic of the Day
Philip K. Dick
Sogum is a cosmic hygiene adventure film based on the novel Counter-Clock World by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.
Safety Coffin World is a transdimensional corporation which provides live burial escape services.
Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.
The "Urine in rain" (also known as the "Sea Breezes Speech") is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed film Blade Runner.