Template:Insufferable/December 2015

 

As we all know (or should), December 25th is the birth day of one of the most important men to ever walk the earth. I assume you all know to whom I am referring, but I shall let the prominent astrophysicist do it best.

"On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec. 25, 1642."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Yes indeed, December 25th is the birth day of Sir Isaac Newton, one of the most influential scientists of all time. He's most famous for being hit on the head by a falling apple and discovering gravity, but one should know that that is not all that he did in life. Along with Gottfried Leibniz, he shares credit for the development of calculus, so there you go, Reli, you now know who to blame for you failing your classes in High School.

But what a lot of people don't know, and I myself didn't until I started looking into him, was that he was actually a pretty ballsy dude.

Did you know that when he was the warden of the Royal Mint, the place in Britain where they print the money. Back then, counterfeiting was out of control and even if people were doing it in the open, it was still difficult to convict them due to the ways the laws were set up. Isaac Newton wouldn't have any of that, however, and he went undercover to gather the evidence needed for effective prosecution. In just eighteen months, he got 28 people convicted for counterfeiting.

But hey, you guys aren't here for a history lesson. I did find a few interesting things about Sir Isaac Newton that you guys might like.

For example, did you guys know that he was the main villain in the anime Vision of Escaflowne? Admittedly, I haven't actually watched the anime (well, I did as a kid, but I don't remember jack about it) but according to TV tropes and the Escaflowne wiki (which someone really needs to spruce up), Sir Isaac Newton takes on the name "Issac Dornkirk". Apparently, he believed that everything in the universe, including fate and destiny, is caused by a force and everything is governed by a universal law. His theories and discoveries led him into the invention of machines that can predict and change the future.

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Dude really let himself go, eh? Well, according to Wikipedia, the series never directly confirms that Dornkirk is Isaac Newton but it's left to be pretty obvious. If anyone has watched "Vision of Escaflowne", feel free to shed some light on this.

But I suppose some of you are wondering why this article is titled "Insufferable". Well, as many people who evidently knew Sir Isaac Newton in real life would attest, the dude was an insufferable genius. He never married and apparently died a virgin.

{{Quote|(He} was never sensible to any passion, was not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor had any commerce with women—a circumstance which was assured me by the physician and surgeon who attended him in his last moments...|Voltaire on Sir Isaac Newton}}

Hmm...a Brit who is an insufferable genius and has no interest in the opposite sex...where have I heard that before?

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Holy crap!

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Haha XD

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the stories about Sir Isaac Newton inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while he was writing Sherlock Holmes stories. It's certainly understandable.

Anyways folks, I just wanted to share with you these little tidbits I had found. I hope you enjoyed reading this article.

Again, I wanna wish you all a very happy new year and hope that your 2016 is great.

Cya!