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Happy National Anything-but-Metric Day!

It's National Metric Day. In 1794, British privateers captured French scientist Joseph Dombey who was sailing to the U.S. at the behest of Thomas Jefferson to deliver kilogram and meter standards for the newly developed metric system. Dombey died in captivity and the standards never made it to Jefferson. Some historians believe the incident may have contributed to the metric system's failure to be fully adopted by the U.S. Praise the Lord and pass the .223 ammunition.


A masterpiece of bizarre history that changed the US system forever!? The truly ironic detail: Joseph Dombey's ship was actually released by the British. However, Dombey, having disguised himself, was later tragically captured on a Spanish ship by British privateers on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The loss of those standards, and Dombey, was a heartbreaking detail that derailed Jefferson’s vision for a rational American standard.

Dombey was a trained botanist and his collections are among the treasures of the British Museum.

Read the full story and mystery of the well-traveled grave at Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition)






Oct 10, 1957: Sputnik Is Seen For First Time In U.S.
Connecticut Moonwatch Team Sights Object at 40° Above Horizon



Missile Corps proposed as new US Force in response to Sputnik
"Gen Scott said he is infuriated by a Navy spokesman's comment the Russian satellite is just a hunk of iron. It's a helluvalot more than a hunk of iron."





Hynek, Whipple, and Project Moonwatch (International UFO Reporter, Volume 32, number 4, October 2009)

For much more info on Operation Moonwatch & UFOs, see this presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmOVkUWHFGs


Sputnik and Russian Schools
New Math was a change in the way mathematics was taught in schools. In the United States, it happened shortly after the Sputnik crisis. Some mathematicians believe that we are still in a foundational crisis of mathematics. While others, believe we are in a New New Math, sometimes called Math wars.



In 1965, physicist Richard Feynman wrote in the essay, New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics:

"If we would like to, we can and do say, 'The answer is a whole number less than 9 and bigger than 6,' but we do not have to say, 'The answer is a member of the set which is the intersection of the set of those numbers which are larger than 6 and the set of numbers which are smaller than 9' ... In the 'new' mathematics, then, first there must be freedom of thought; second, we do not want to teach just words; and third, subjects should not be introduced without explaining the purpose or reason, or without giving any way in which the material could be really used to discover something interesting. I don't think it is worthwhile teaching such material."

As a result of this controversy, and despite the ongoing influence of the New Math, the phrase "new math" is often used now to describe any short-lived fad that quickly becomes discredited. In 1999, Time placed it on a list of the 100 worst ideas of the 20th century.


Oct 10, 1957: Songsters Dig a Tune Tied to New Red 'Moon'



Stanley Jerry Hoffman [1928-2018] aka Skip Stanley in 1957, recorded the atomic music song, "Satellite Baby." Five decades later he became a rapper known as Kwayzar.

Satellite baby
We're interplanetary
Nuclear baby
Don't fission out on me...




Skip Stanley, according to Billboard magazine (11/25/1957), was a nightclub and television comedian. There was an earlier, brassier version of this song released on Spotlight 399 in 1956. This guitar-driven version was released on the Sputnik-inspired Satellite label (SX-92) in November 1957.

Kwayzar: The 84-year-old rapper who auditioned for 'Little Rascals'


Oct 10, 1963: No mo' boom-bOOm for Las Vegas. The Atomic age ends as the "Limited Test Ban Treaty" goes into effect, stopping above ground nuke testing at the Nevada Test Site. Vegas made a mint on "atomic visitors". The last above ground test was July, 1962.




Oct 10, 1963: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. The MI6 scenes and final revisions of the original book were written and edited in Kent at Ian Fleming’s home, White Cliffs, overlooking the Channel at St Margaret’s Bay.


Lotte Lenya aka Bond Villain Rosa Klebb made broadcasts for Voice of America during WWII, a division of wartime Ministry of Information (predecessor organization to the Central Office of Information) aka coordinated government propaganda.

A look behind the scenes at the making of the 2nd in the 007 series.



It's 2030. RFK Jr. has been declared Autistfinder General, and he travels the vast wastelands of a decayed America hunting the elusive tism. Have they considered that autism is linked to water? This is getting really nutty.


https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1976336921816187140


Macron recognized Palestine and here’s what he gets in return.


https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1975652614214984030