Summary: In this episode... * Is George Lucas doing another edit on Star Wars? * When the next Transit of Venus is * The best way to send your money to Nigeria Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-VX) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/vhVjnkX-q6I 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. Feedback * Email from Michelle * Listening to the guys from @Technorama explain how Chris Hemsworth must have done P90X for demigods to get his build. Hilarious! * Vmail from Mark On This Day In History for June 6, 2012 * It was on this date in 1683 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1683) that the Ashmolean Museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum) in Oxford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford), England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England), opens as the world's first university (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University) museum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum). * Also today in 1822 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1822) – Alexis St. Martin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_St._Martin) was accidentally shot in the stomach, which leads way to William Beaumont's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Beaumont) studies on digestion. * U.S. President (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States) Andrew Jackson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson) becomes the first President (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President) to ride on a train (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad) today in 1833 * June 6, 1892 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1892) – Chicago 'L' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%27L%27#History) begins operation * Teenagers rejoice today in 1933 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933) as the first drive-in theater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater) opens, in Camden, New Jersey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden,_New_Jersey). * Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_experiments_in_the_area_of_Cuxhaven), Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany), are terminated, though they never resume on this date in 1964. * also today in 1971 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971) – Soyuz 11 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11) launches. * Tetris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris), one of the best-selling video games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games) of all-time, is released June 6, 1984 * and just 10 years ago today, a near-Earth asteroid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_asteroid) estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea) between Greece (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece) and Libya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya). The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiloton), slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki,_Nagasaki) atomic bomb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb). Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * 1436 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1436) – Regiomontanus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiomontanus), German mathematician * 1580 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1580) – Godefroy Wendelin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godefroy_Wendelin), Flemish astronomer * 1850 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1850) – Karl Ferdinand Braun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ferdinand_Braun), German physicist, Nobel laureate
