Summary: Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/01/Technorama_Ep_422_-_Jan_7_2015_-_Google_Docs-300x221.jpg) * What your Robot Does * Star Wars Complaints * Jokes that can make you smarter Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes (http://wp.me/pe53l-196). On This Day In History for January 7, 2015 This is January 7 - it is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of 2015. * It was on this date in 1610 that Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. * January 7, 1785, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. * That same date in 1835, HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. * Also today in 1894, William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. * 111 years ago today, the distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". * The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom 88 years ago. * January 7, 1954, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. * Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral on this date in 1968. * That same date in 1985, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. Happy Birthday goes out on this date to * Scottish-Canadian engineer and creator of Universal Standard Time, Sandford Fleming, born on this date in 1827. * also born on this date in 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures. * Russian engineer and astronaut Valeri Kubasov would have been 80 this year. * American astronaut Frederick D. Gregory turns 74 today. * Also turning 74 today, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, John E. Walker (no, not THAT Johnny Walker) * Actress Erin Gray turns 65. * And finally, actor, producer, and director Nicolas Cage is 51. Special mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki) And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 7, 2015 News * If your robot buys drugs, have you committed a crime? (http://io9.com/if-your-robot-buys-illegal-drugs-have-you-committed-a-1677183776) * Smithsonian is restoring the original model of the USS Enterprise (http://gizmodo.com/how-the-smithsonian-is-restoring-the-original-uss-enter-1676892739) Listener Birthday Calendar * Jan 08 - Elvis! * Jan 09 - Lingo (http://www.thebritandyankee.com/) from the Brit & Yankee pubcast (http://www.thebritandyankee.com/) If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Remember When * Isaac Asimov selling the TRS-80 pocket computer (end of show notes) * 6 technologies that have been two years away - forever (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/6-technologies-that-have-been-just-two-years-away-for-1674497943) Media Corner * Star Wars complaints are nothing new (http://www.themarysue.com/marvel-star-wars-complaint/) Geek Library * 10 Futurama Jokes That Will Make You Smarter (http://io9.com/10-futurama-jokes-that-will-make-you-smarter-1676659998/+kcampbelldollaghan) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428) * Email at technorama@chuckchat.com * We are also on... * Twitter at @Ctomasi (http://twitter.com/ctomasi), @Steppek (http://twitter.com/steppek),
