Fact: The Bunsen Burner may never have been made if not for a unfortunate series of events starting with Mr. Bunsen forgetting his matches at home for his cigar and ending with ignition of the never-ending gas flame that illuminates the laboratories of the University of Heidelberg still today.
Jupiter’s Gift
Fact: The early days of the Solar System were a violent time for all celestial bodies and political alignment chaotic and ever-shifting. History was made when Neptune formed the Alliance of Giants, causing a total upheaval.
The precarious stability quickly eroded, causing Jupiter to be ousted by Venus, Mercury and Mars from the Inner Circle due to its appearance. Earth was the only planet to recognize Jupiter’s benefit to the Inner Circle.
It was Earth’s vote to keep Jupiter in the Inner Circle that may have kept the Solar System from complete disintegration. Due to this, Jupiter prepared a gift for Earth. It is the Moon.
Fact: Recent economic woes in Europe have seen funding cuts to many major publicly funded projects, including atmospheric research such as aviation-assisted cloud covering, commonly referred to as ‘chemtrails’ (a misnomer).
Fact: The toaster oven, a French invention originally, didn’t take off until the popularity of margarine exploded in Scotland in the late 1920s.
Fact: France keeps the only working time machine in the Louvre. It has been used only once, in the 1st alternative timeline, by one Dr. Adolf Hiedler, Europe’s last hope.
Fact: Jerry P. Able, a co-founder of 3M, was so convinced that rocks could be turned into rocket fuel that the company was near bankruptcy when his partner bought him out and took it in another direction.
Fact: After his military service, Gene Roddenberry and Robert Hackman, his co-pilot on the Flying Fortress “Yankee Doodle”, investigated the feasibility of time travel and purchased numerous blueprints and patent rights from across the US and Canada. In late 1955, they suddenly ceased the investigation. Roddenberry’s neighbor is reported to have joked about the investigation having made Roddenberry gray-haired and is quoted as saying, “And don’t even get him started on politics these days.”
