Template:Are You Sure/February 8

• ... that polymath John von Neumann was concerned that the Soviet Union would achieve nuclear superiority over the United States, and that von Neumann designed and promoted the policy of Mutually Assured Destruction with the intention of limiting the arms race?

• ... that electrical engineer and physicist Dennis Gabor's 1963 book Inventing the Future discusses the three major threats Gabor saw to modern society: war, overpopulation, and the Age of Leisure, and that the book contains the now well-known expression that "the future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented"?

• ... that printer and publisher Christian Egenolff was sued in 1533 by publisher Johann Schott for infringement of copyright on Herbarium Vivae Icones, and that Egenolff argued in his defense that nature could not be copyrighted and that plants stood as communal models for any artist?

• ... that the so-called "carnivorous dirigible" (Dirigible horribilis) is a species of grazing ruminant airship, neither carnivorous nor horrible, and that it evolved from early experiments in artificial intelligence?