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December 28

Better Than News

Logan's Cannonball Run is a 1981 science fiction action-thriller comedy film starring Michael York and Burt Reynolds.
Jeffgoldblum Park is a 1993 American science fiction revisionist autobiographical film by Jeff Goldblum about his efforts to escape the film industry.
The Andromeda Galaxy robbery (also known as the Great Andromeda Galaxy robbery) was a coordinated attack upon the Andromeda Galaxy using a previously unknown exploit involving coriolis effect. The robbery was activated by parties as yet unidentified (11 May 2021) using hijacked laser guide stars.
Miami Wolf is an epic biographical crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Leonard Cohen.
Guadalcanal Diary 2: A Three Hour Tour is a World War II comedy war film about seven castaways who put aside their differences and fight with the United States Marines in the Battle of Guadalcanal.
G.I. Joe Undersea Meals for One is a line of lunchbox foods designed for consumption during human-shark combat.

Beyond Plausible

Children of the Gorn is a science fiction horror film about a starship captain (William Shatner) who is transported to an abandoned Nebraska town that is inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a reptilian alien that lives in the local quarry.
2001: A Species Odyssey is a short documentary film about the ethical dilemma faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when they discover an alien-human hybrid child stowed away on their spaceship.
"Lipid" is a song by American rock band and industrial chemistry group Devo.

In Other Words

There is no answer. There is only the Song.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that Francesco Maria Grimaldi was the first to make accurate observations on the diffraction of light (although by some accounts Leonardo da Vinci had earlier noted it), and coined the word 'diffraction'?

• ... that John von Neumann's last work, an unfinished manuscript written while in the hospital, was later published in book form as The Computer and the Brain?

• ... that the carnivorous dirigible (Dirigible horribilis) is a grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible?

Selected Anniversaries

1612: Galileo became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
1663: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi dies. Working with Riccioli, he investigated the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1902: APTO industrial chemists classify the Hazmatterhorn as a Crime Against Chemical Constants. Although derived from the word Matterhorn, the term Hazmatterhorn is applicable to any mountain of hazardous materials.
1903: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann born. He will be a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and develop mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
2016: Mathematician Anne Penfold Street dies. She specialized in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets became a standard reference for its subject matter.

Topic of the Day

Batman

The Dark NFT is a 2008 superhero NFT film about the Joker (Heath Ledger), a deranged database engineer who threatens to delete all the non-fungible tokens in Gotham City.