THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The world is my country, science is my religion.”

— Christiaan Huygens

BIRTHDAYS:

1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

1638 Diogo Dias Melgás, Portuguese composer of sacred polyphonic music. Adoratio Crucis

1718 Emanuele Barbella, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, House of Habsburg. mandolin duet

1803 Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter. Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef.

1870 Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter.

1889 Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King’s College London.

MISCELLANEOUS:

COULD WARP DRIVES BE FAR BEHIND? Does Lunar Electrostatic Dust Success Mean Electrostatics Will Work for Propellantless Drive?

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. I RECOMMEND ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)