Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Lasers!<br> * A look at the inside of the Enterprise<br> * Jupiter<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1g8">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Krazy Joe<br> <br> Question of the Week: What space alien race would you want to be?<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zerobeamsabre?fref=ufi">John Miller Jr</a> Kryptonian. Do you REALLY have to ask?<br> <br> On This Day In History for July 6, 2016<br> This is the 188th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 178 days remaining in 2016.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1189 that Richard I “the Lionheart” accedes to the English throne.<br> * July 6, 1865, The first issue of The Nation magazine is published<br> * Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog 131 years ago today<br> * That same date in 1919, The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship<br> * The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2 on this date in 1933<br> * Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse 74 years ago today<br> * Jackie Robinson refuses to move to the back of a bus, leading to a court-martial on this date in 1944.<br> * It was 69 years ago today that The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union<br> * 59 years ago today, John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.<br> * The Late Late Show, the world’s longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTE One for the first time on this date in 1962.<br> * It was 26 years ago today that Electronic Frontier Foundation is founded<br> * July 6, 2003, The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * Swiss anatomist and physiologist Albert von Kölliker born on this date in 1817.<br> * Also born that same date one year later, German chess player Adolf Anderssen.<br> * July 16, 1903 is the birthday of Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Hugo Theorell.<br> * The man who created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, actor, singer, and producer, Merv Griffin was born today in 1925.<br> * Bill Haley, yes – the one from Bill Haley & His Comets – shares the same exact birthday as Merv Griffin<br> * Actor Ned Beatty is 79 this year<br> * …and finally, guess how old Sylvester Stallone is… if you said 70, you’d be right<br> <br> <br> * This is also National Fried Chicken Day in the United States<br> * and finally today is “Take your webmaster to lunch day”<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 6, 2016<br> News<br> <br> * Where in the multiverse have Chuck and Kreg been?<br> <br> Follow up<br> <br> * <a href="http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-original-starship-enterprise-has-been-restored-to-i-1783043923">The Original Starship Enterprise Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory</a><br> <br> Listener Birthday Calendar<br> <br> * 06 – <a href="http://www.newideasdaily.tk/">Peter</a> (1982, Sweden)<br> * 08 – Trampas Whiteman (aka Dragonhelm)<br> * 08 – Mark Lee (aka geekdad72) Stardate -351519.09<br> * 08 – Alan Ralph (a.k.a. MonTemplar)<br>
