May 17

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Beyond Plausible

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Are You Sure

"Celestial Airfield Seer" is an anagram of "Eric Alfred Leslie Satie".

• ... that throughout his career, mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions insisted on the use of mathematics in industry, with a particular involvement in the French space program, as well as in domains such as energy and the environment; and that Lions was appointed director of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) from 1984 to 1992?

• ... that Strainer in a Strained Land is a 1961 science fiction guide to kitchenware by Robert Heinlein?

• ... that "Celestial Airfield Seer" is an anagram of "Eric Alfred Leslie Satie"?

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