Technorama Ep510 : Tahiti Syndrome




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Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> Jupiter<br> Aliens<br> Tardigrades<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for July 19, 2017<br> This is the 200th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1817, that Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai..<br> Also on July 19, 1843, Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.<br> July 19, 1900, The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation..<br> Also today in 1963, Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.<br> It was 34 years ago today, that The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published..<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Italian monk, missionary and painter, Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter), born on this date in 1688.<br> Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist was born on that same date in 1814.<br> Born July 19, 1865, American physician Charles Horace Mayo.<br> Max Fleischer, the Animator, inventor. film director was born 134 years ago today.<br> Russian mathematician, Aleksandr Khinchin was born 123 years ago today.<br> Richard Oriani, the American chemical engineer was born 97 years ago today.<br> Harold Camping, American doomsday prophet was born on that same date in 1921.<br> American director, producer and writer, Arthur Rankin Jr., born on this date in 1924.<br> Also turning 70 today is English musician and astrophysicist Brian May.<br> father of IMAP protocol, Mark Crispin was born 61 years ago today.<br> actor, Anthony Edwards, born on this date in 1962.<br> Also turning 47 today is American mathematician Bill Chen.<br> English actor and film producer, Benedict Cumberbatch, born on this date in 1976.<br> Also turning 35 today is American actor Jared Padalecki.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> 23 – Dave Perillo, (former) <a href="http://www.megapodzilla.com/">MegaPodzilla</a> and <a href="http://montygog.blogspot.com/">Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!</a><br> 25 – Matt Wallace<br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 19, 2017<br> News<br> <br> <a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/07/12/first-images-of-jupiters-great-red-spot-reach-earth/">First images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reach Earth – Spaceflight Now</a><br> <a href="https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/17/07/16/1822209/doctor-whos-13th-time-lord-announced-actress-jodie-whittaker?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Doctor Who’s 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker – Slashdot</a><br> <br> Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<br> <br> <a href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/07/15/1915257/scrap-dealer-finds-apollo-era-nasa-computers-in-dead-engineers-basement?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">Scrap Dealer Finds Apollo-Era NASA Computers In Dead Engineer’s Basement – Slashdot</a><br> <a href="http://gizmodo.com/22-000-people-agree-to-clean-toilets-for-wifi-because-t-1796959482">22,000 People Agree to Clean Toilets for WiFi Because They Didn’t Read the Terms</a><br> <br> Shout out to the chat room<br> What us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET on Facebook.