Science & Nature & History

[GaryCooper]

Many physicists think we live in a multiverse. But they're getting a simple math rule wrong.
News
By Philip Goff published about 16 hours ago
Our universe seems to be perfectly suited for life. But anyone who claims that's evidence of a multiverse is falling prey to a logical fallacy.

>>> https://www.livescience.com/physics-mat ... SmartBrief

[Masha]

[GaryCooper]

President Harry Truman became the second U.S. president to ride underwater in a submarine. (Theodore Roosevelt was the first.)– On 21 November 1946

[GaryCooper]

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th U.S. president– 1963. November 22, 1963 60 years ago.

The magic-bullet theory

[GaryCooper]

Charles Darwin’s controversial Origin of Species published --24 November 1859.

[GaryCooper]

1915 Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'. 12/04/1915.

The Oscar II set sail from Hoboken, New Jersey, on 4 December 1915, amid an atmosphere that the press later derided as circus-like.[10] A crowd of about 15,000 watched the Oscar II depart from the harbor while a band played "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier."[11]
WIKI

[GaryCooper]

Enormous planet discovered around tiny star could break our understanding of solar system formation
News
By Joanna Thompson published 3 days ago

>> https://www.livescience.com/space/exopl ... SmartBrief

[GaryCooper]

Mary Celeste, American brigantine that was found abandoned on December 5, 1872, some 400 nautical miles (740 km) from the Azores, Portugal.

[GaryCooper]

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in an attempt to cripple the fleet and hinder U.S. intervention in other Japanese targets in the South Pacific. The Japanese military expected that Germany would defeat Great Britain and the Soviet Union and that Japan would control the Pacific. The attack was opposed by Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who cautioned against a war with the United States, but he was overruled. After the attack, he said, “We have awakened a sleeping giant and have instilled in him a terrible resolve.” He was right. Although airfields, port facilities, and warships were severely damaged and two battleships, the Utah and the Arizona, were destroyed, the attack mobilized the United States and signaled its entry into World War II. Today the Arizona is a memorial and a national park.

[GaryCooper]

Some female meerkats have a brutal, bloodthirsty streak, and now we may know why

>>> https://www.livescience.com/animals/lan ... SmartBrief

[GaryCooper]

Battle of Fredericksburg ends in defeat of union troops by Confederate General Robert E. Lee (Civil War)– 1862
December 11–15, 1862

[GaryCooper]

Mark Twain received a patent for suspenders–12/19/1871.

[GaryCooper]

South Carolina seceded from the Union 12 20 1860.

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Trivia questions-

Science And Nature

What science deals with the motion of projectiles?

Ballistics

History

Who tramped through Florida looking for the Fountain Of Youth?

Juan Ponce de Leon

[GaryCooper]

Rubber rationing began in the U.S. with restrictions placed on rubber tires– 12/27/1941.