THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Miners operating among the asteroids will be unable to produce most of their necessary supplies locally. There will thus be a need to import food and other necessary goods either from Earth or Mars.”

— Robert Zubrin

BIRTHDAYS:

1652 Romanus Weichlein, Austrian composer. Sonata 1 in C-major

1889 Edwin Hubble, American astronomer whose groundbreaking observations established the modern understanding of the scale and expansion of the universe, proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies and laying the foundation for observational cosmology.

1924 Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-French-American mathematician (proved Zipf’s law, discovered the Mandelbrot set)

MISCELLANEOUS:

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IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO REACQUAINT THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration