THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

”There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

BIRTHDAYS:

1641 Dudley North, English financier and economist (wrote work advocating for free-trade.

1718 Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university.

1761 John Opie, English painter.

1831 David Edward Hughes, British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone.

1938 Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics.

MISCELLANEOUS:

OKAY, I TAKE BACK WHAT I SAID ABOUT SOLAR POWER. SpaceX Starship Will Enable Megawatts of Space Based Solar by 2030 and Gigawatts by 2040

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)