THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

― George Orwell

BIRTHDAYS:

1582 Johannes Schultz, German composer, born in Lüneburg, Hanseatic League. Resonet in Laudibus

1730 Charles Messier,  French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110.

1824 William Thomson, British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast.

1913 Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist and inventor (stored program concept for computers)

MISCELLANY:

MAYBE IT’S TIME TO REPLACE NASA? NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag

“NASA’s Apollo-era suits have long been retired. The current suits used for spacewalks in low-Earth orbit are four decades old.“

“REINTRODUCED”? Verizon screwup caused 911 outage in 6 states—carrier agrees to $1M fine

“Due to insufficient naming convention protocols and a failure to follow then-current implementation protocols, the flawed security policy update file was reintroduced into the Verizon Wireless network.”

A FEW THINGS TO BEAR IN MIND BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN BEGINS:

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS. A Special Message To Patients: STOP Your Ideological BS (5:59)

IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code.