Summary: In this episode... * A crack in the center of the earth * The most expensive way to fly in to the sun * A way to turn your dead relatives into a cheap source of fuel Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/yhKFhtS_M98 Feedback * Voicemail from Mark in Memphis in Dropbox * From listener Jack - this email: Grandma Grace is still with us. We're taking her out for her birthday tonight. She'll be listening to this episode later today. 5 kids 15 grand kids 8 great-grand kids 2 great-great grand kids Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 15 - Miss Eliza Sea from Wingin' It 3D (http://www.winginit3d.com/) * 16 - Joe Edmisson * 16 - Jason from The Angry Geek (http://www.geekstreak.com/the_angry_geek.html) * 17 - Digital Dan from the Hook Show (http://hookshow.blogspot.com/) * 18 - Luke (platypuss72) from UK * 18 - Xianfox (http://technorama.wetpaint.com/account/xianfox) from Appleton * 19 - Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas * 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 13, 2012 * It was on this date in 1805 that Meriwether Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis), of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was scouting ahead with four companions and sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Falls_of_the_Missouri_River). * Also today in 1927 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927) – Aviator Charles Lindbergh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh) receives a ticker-tape parade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker-tape_parade) down 5th Avenue in New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City). * An historic meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini takes place on June 13, 1934 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934) in Venice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice), Italy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy); Mussolini later describes the German (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany) dictator as "a silly little monkey". * The first diamond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond) mine in the USSR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union), the Mir Mine, is discovered today in 1955 * and today in 1969 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969) – Governor of Texas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Texas) Preston Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Smith_(governor)) signs a bill into law converting the former Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, originally founded as a research arm of Texas Instruments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments), into the University of Texas at Dallas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Dallas). * It was on this date in 1970 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970) – "The Long and Winding Road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_and_Winding_Road)" becomes the Beatles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles)' last Number 1 song. * Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.) assassin James Earl Ray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray) is recaptured on June 13, 1977 after escaping from prison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison) three days before. * 29 years ago Pioneer 10 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10) becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System) when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune) (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time) * 18 years ago a jury in Anchorage, Alaska (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska),
