April 5
Better Than News
Days of Ghost Dog is an American sports crime drama film directed by Tony Scott and Jim Jarmusch, and starring Tom Cruise, Forest Whitaker, Nicole Kidman, John Tormey, and Robert Duvall.
Barbie: Way of the Samurai is a fantasy adventure crime drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch and Greta Gerwig, and starring Margot Robbie and Forest Whitaker.
Interception is an epic science fiction crime thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan.
The Rider-Waite Space Elevator is a space elevator based on the Rider-Waite tarot deck. Hashtag: #AsBelowSoAbove.
Armageddon Hard is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.
Memoirs of an Impacting Asteroid is an album by singer, songwriter, and astrophysicist Mariah Carey.
"When Will I See Eschaton" is a song released in 1974 by pre-Apocalyptic soul group The Earth Debris, from their third album Triple Threat
Beyond Plausible
Inception 2: Fading Traces is a science fiction action comedy buddy film starring Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy.
In Other Words
Wide Wide World of Microwave Weapons is an American microwave weapons anthology television program.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Vigenère cipher is misattributed to cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596), and that Vigenère devised a different, stronger cipher?
• ... that surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865?
• ... that Chaplygin gas is a hypothetical substance which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, satisfying an exotic equation of state involving pressure and density with a positive constant?
• ... that On Halting Problems is a study of pathological medical algorithms, and that the work is anonymous but popularly attributed to combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler Asclepius Myrmidon?
Selected Anniversaries
1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.
1622: Mathematician and scientist Vincenzo Viviani born. In 1660, Viviani and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli will conduct an experiment to determine the speed of sound. Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they will calculate a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi.
1827: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister born. He will pioneer antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
Town Without Jetty wins the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) Award for Best Marine Civil Engineering Film of the Year.
Topic of the Day
2001: A Tweet Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction social media film about a mysterious black monolith which tweets messages from beyond time and spaces.
If I have Tweeted further than others
It is because I have Quote Posted
from the shoulders of Giants.
"We Built This Twitter" is a 1985 song by American rock band Startweet. It was released as their debut single on their album Retweet in the Hoopla.
