Episode 746: Keep Calm and Geek On

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• QOTW: If you could create a game show for any fictional universe, what would it be like?

On This Day In History for June 26, 2024

This is the 178th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 1886, that Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
• The first Grand Prix motor race was held at Le Mans on this date in 1906.
• 115 years ago today, The Science Museum in London came into existence as an independent entity.
• Also today in 1927, The Cyclone roller coaster opened on Coney Island.
• That same date in 1936, saw the initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• 82 years ago today was the first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• It was 79 years ago today that The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
• William Shockley filed the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor on this date in 1948.
• That same date in 1974, The Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
• It was also this date in 1977 that Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
• 27 years ago today, J. K. Rowling published the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in the United Kingdom.
• It was also this date in 2000 that The Human Genome Project announced the completion of a “rough draft” sequence.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• Swedish chemist and mineralogist, Georg Brandt, born on this date in 1694.
• Born June 26, 1730, French astronomer and academic Charles Messier.
• 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer, William Thomson, born on this date in 1824.
• Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician was born on that same date in 1878.
• Willy Messerschmitt, the German engineer and businessman was born 126 years ago today.
• English computer scientist and physicist, Maurice Wilkes, born on this date in 1913.
• American computer scientist Robert Everett was born 103 years ago today.
• Pavel Belyayev, Soviet soldier, pilot and cosmonaut was born on that same date in 1925.
• American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Robert Coleman Richardson was born 87 years ago today.

Listener Birthdays

• 15 – Miss Eliza Sea from Wingin’ It 3D
• 16 – Joe Edmisson
• 16 – Jason from The Angry Geek
• 17 – Digital Dan from the Hook Show
• 18 – Luke (platypuss72) from UK
• 18 – Xianfox from Appleton
• 19 – Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas
• 21 – Ascii Adam from the Hook Show
• 22 – Lance Heath
• 22 – Jack Stevens
• 22 – Chris Martinez (Scotland)
• 25 – Mark Sheppard (Wichita, Kansas) Born 1957
• 25 – Jim Guckin from Philadelphia, Pa
• 26 – Patrick Norton
• 26 – Daughter of Will The Computer Guy
• 27 – Jordan Burkhead, daughter of Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast
• 29 – Martin McKeay (Accch, this is the Big 40!)
• 29 – Gilles Laurent
• 30 – Alexis Duran (ADdude)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 26, 2024

• If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.

News

• A 13-Year-Old Built Archimedes’ Mythical Death Ray—and It May Actually Work
• China’s ‘artificial sun’ achieves breakthrough in nuclear fusion
• The sun’s magnetic field is about to flip. Here’s what to expect. | Space

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Remote Amazon tribe connects to Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service, become hooked on porn, social media
• Mystery monolith appears in Nevada desert

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Remember When

• What the web looked like in 1994, the year it became the internet – Fast Company

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Media Corner

• Star Citizen player remakes the entire first Star Wars movie in-game

Pass me the remote

• Kreg
  • Remembering Gene Wilder – Netflix
  • Ultraman: Rising – Netflix
  • iRobot – Tubi
• Chuck
  • Cult Massacre: One Day In Jonestown (Disney+/Nat Geo)
  • Mysteries Of The Terracotta Warriors (Netflix)
  • Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial (Netflix)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Disney+)

Geek Library

• The Computer That Didn’t Save Computerland | Computerland BC286 – YouTube
• You’ll always look for this when you drive now
• Arizona Memories from the ’50s – YouTube
• Why Chicago Secretly Razed A Major Airport – YouTube
• Growing Up With Deaf Parents. Chris Ruppe – YouTube
• If You Grew Up in the 1970s – You Remember… – YouTube
• A Sticky History of Superglue – YouTube
• Insane Things that Used to Be Illegal – YouTube
• Apple PenLite: The iPad Before the iPad! – YouTube

Question of the week

• If we discovered an alien civilization, besides language, how would you try and communicate with them?

Patreon Topic this week

• Chuck: The tale of making a remarkable songbook
• Chuck: What’s up with Nextdoor.com?!

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