Technorama Ep 374: Between a Black Hole and a Rock




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Summary: Coming up in this episode... * New Star Trek * A WalkMac * ...and what have we been up to during our break? Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-133) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/1qEB-gJ2g3k Feedback * Technorama has been nominated for a Parsec Award. Thank you! Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 06 - Adam Larson (UncleAdam) * 06 - Grandma Grace (1921) * 08 - Bobby Irvin * 10 - Tim (from Australia) * 10 - Weber (BTW June 10 - AA was founded 1935) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for June 5, 2013 This is June 5, 2013 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 209 days remaining in 2013. * It was on this date in 1817 that the first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. * Also today in 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper. * The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris started on June 5, 1883. * That same date in 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. * DSV Alvin is commissioned 49 years ago today. * It was June 5, 1976 that saw the collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, in the United States. * The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale today in 1977 * And in 1995 – The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician born on this date in 1553 * Italian mathematician, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, was born today in 1646 * also born on that same date in 1819 – English mathematician and astronomer John Couch Adams * American sheriff Pat Garrett, famed for killing Billy the Kid was born today in 1850 * and finally Hungarian-English engineer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Dennis Gabor,  was born 113 years ago today And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 5, 2013 What have you been up to? * Chuck * Orlando, Singapore, Vegas, and London * Watching “Arrow” * Bought Bose QC-15 headphones for traveling * Kreg * Went to Alaska News * Matt Smith is leaving Dr. Who (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/Matt-Smith-to-leave-Doctor-Who) Hacks & Strange Stories * The 1960s Office Desk of the Future Was More NASA Than Mad Men (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-1960s-office-desk-of-the-future-was-more-nasa-than-510658591) * 3D Printed hands help Kids without fingers (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57587027-1/3d-printed-robohands-help-kids-without-fingers/?ttag=gpwl) Remember When * Wait, What? The WalkMac? (http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-18438_7-57586890-82/walkmac-revisited-the-inside-story-of-the-first-portable-mac/) Media Corner * Mini Review of Star Trek into Darkness * and Iron Man 3 Geek Library * A Full Scale Lego T-800 Terminator Sent Back In Time To Blow Our Minds (http://gizmodo.com/a-full-scale-lego-t-800-terminator-sent-back-in-time-to-510497642) * Star Trek: The Wine is now a thing that exists (http://io9.com/star-trek-the-wine-is-now-a-thing-that-exists-510744425) * Oh and the last of the show.... * Best Black Widow Cosplay Ever (http://imgur.com/MZCmYXC) * CntrySigns sent in Dog Thor (http://anilol.com/thor)   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)