Mark Twain - ThisIsCommonSense.org

Sharing

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

Popular Posts (refresh for more)

Force Over Persuasion
SharingToday’s campus radicals assert that free speech is bad because …
Who’ll Stop the Wars?
Sharing“Why were you the lone voice out there going after …
Terms for Taxes
SharingYears ago, I dubbed Tim Eyman “America’s #1 freedom fighter,” and …
My Privilege Isn’t White
Sharing“White privilege” is all the rage … on college campuses. …
How Socialism Kills
Sharing3 Ways That Socialism Kills: state enforced redistribution requires violence (even if some …

Today in Freedom

On this day in 1833, Denison Olmsted was alerted by his neighbors to something truly amazing, a night sky filled with shooting stars.

Not just a one or two or a dozen or a hundred: 72,000 or more per hour. Though recognizing where among the constellations meteors came from was ancient knowledge, it had not been recorded by modern-era scientists, at least in this case. What Olmsted noticed was that the meteors were coming from one point in the sky, the constellation Leo. This regular meteor event is now called the Leonid meteor stream.

In the morning, Olmsted wrote a brief report on the meteor storm for the New Haven Daily Herald newspaper, which elicited correspondence from around the country, thus beginning a social storm, in a sense: crowd-sourced science.

A. E. van Vogt

Shooting Stars

Abolish. Or Set in Stone

Destroying Dane Farming

Disaster Relief Pass-Over

Exemplary Rejections

Not Now

Leave a Reply Cancel reply