Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1tj">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> You’re tired from the human race, so you decide to help an advanced alien civilization destroy the Earth – What tips would you give them?<br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10156894463281671">Technorama answers</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10158906844358455">Chuck’s answers</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10156913572776319">Kreg’s answers</a><br> <br> On This Day In History for April 29, 2020<br> This is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1770, that James Cook arrived in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.<br> On April 29, 1834, Charles Darwin during the second survey voyage of HMS Beagle, ascended the Bell mountain, Cerro La Campana on 17 August 1834, his visit being commemorated by a memorial plaque..<br> It was 156 years ago today, that Theta Xi fraternity was founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War..<br> It was on this date in 1953, that The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.<br> 55 years ago today, Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launched its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.<br> Also on April 29, 1986, American and European spy satellites captured the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> French mathematician, physicist, and engineer, Henri Poincaré, born on this date in 1854.<br> Forest Ray Moulton, the American astronomer and academic was born 148 years ago today.<br> Born April 29, 1893, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate Harold Urey.<br> Marietta Blau, the Austrian physicist and academic was born 126 years ago today.<br> American pianist, composer, and bandleader, Duke Ellington, born on this date in 1899.<br> Henry H. Barschall, German-American physicist and academic was born on that same date in 1915.<br> Also turning 74 today is Polish astronomer Aleksander Wolszczan.<br> Also born on that same date in 1954, American comedian, actor, and producer, Jerry Seinfeld.<br> American actress, Kate Mulgrew is 65 today.<br> Also turning 64 today is American physicist and philosopher Karen Barad.<br> American actress, Eve Plumb is 62 today.<br> <br> Listener birthdays this week (April 29-May 5)<br> <br> April 29 – Shepherd Thom from outside of the known universe<br> April 29 – Timothy Karre<br> April 30 – Julio Diaz (JulioTijuana)<br> May 3 – Keao Wright<br> May 3 – Leon<br> May 5 – Joe Mieczkowski host of Onthepodcast<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 29, 2020<br> <br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenNyl8MEsC_eVDvCerLe8wNvhgtjg2d7F0Yj0IFYl4dOU2uA/viewform">Birthday Calendar</a> link.<br> <br> Remember When<br> <br> <a href="https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/wxe3k9/this-abandoned-computer-store-is-a-time-capsule-of-early-2000s-tech?fbclid=IwAR2pNTpdT7PjlH5CJLrhnejfRC-5dG5cS4p_MKADiAfJ4JC1h6BC4dTRMEU">This Abandoned Computer Store Is a Time Capsule of Early 2000s Tech – VICE</a><br> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/heres-an-unprecedented-look-at-apollo-13s-damaged-service-module/">Here’s an unprecedented look at Apollo 13’s damaged service module | Ars Technica</a><br> <a href="https://gizmodo.com/the-space-shuttle-was-a-beautiful-but-terrible-idea..."></a>
