Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> Low priced space ships<br> High priced math book<br> Meat pie in space<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1ii">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> Nick St. Gabriel:<br> <br> Hi Chuck,<br> I recently got the books for patreon members and sat them aside since I was going “into the office” soon. For most people this means driving across town or something, but for me I live in Florida on the space coast and my office is in Juneau Alaska (I’m a software developer). About 3-4 times a year I go into the office, say “Hello” and do all of that stuff.<br> I decided this time to take my oldest daughter with me since it had been about 4 years since she has seen the town. She is an avid reader and after I read each one on the way up I let her read them.<br> Why do you care? Well, as she was reading them I realized this 11 year old girl had just been born as I started listening to your show. <br> It made me feel a little old, and well, I thought I’d pass the feeling along.<br> Hopefully, mission accomplished.<br> <br> On This Day In History for December 21, 2016<br> This is the 355th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 10 days remaining in 2016.<br> <br> It was on this date in 1620, that Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.<br> Arthur Wynne’s “word-cross”, the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World on this date in 1913.<br> Also today in 1936, first flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.<br> It was on this date in 1937, that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.<br> It was 48 years ago today, that Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> Scottish chemist and academic, Thomas Graham, born on this date in 1805.<br> Born December 21, 1868, American chemist and engineer George W. Fuller.<br> Estonian mathematician and scholar, Jaan Sarv, born on this date in 1877.<br> Adele Goldstine, the American computer programmer was born 96 years ago today.<br> Also turning 81 today is American talk show host and producer Phil Donahue.<br> American actress, producer, and activist, Jane Fonda, born on this date in 1937.<br> Frank Zappa, the American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer was born 76 years ago today.<br> American actor and producer, Samuel L. Jackson is 68 today.<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 December 21, 2016<br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> 21 – James Ballard <a href="http://www.karaksindru.com/">KarakSindru</a><br> 22 – Bo Pace<br> 22 – Luke “Chuck’s Stalker” Smith (2000)<br> 22 – Jason Pelloni, Tampa, FL<br> 23 – Richard Green<br> 24 – MaDBooM<br> 25 – Joel Parks (Agrojag-Ama)<br> 29 – CMenn<br> 31 – Shadowbird’s Mom<br> 31 – Mr. Sim (aka Jeremy from Winnipeg)<br> <br> News<br> <br> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4026374/Forget-earphones-Bose-launches-HEARPHONES-built-smart-microphones-wearers-superhearing.html">Bose launches HEARPHONES with built in smart microphones for ‘superhearing’</a><br> <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/12/nasa-helping-stephen-hawking-get-a-tiny-ship-to-alpha-centauri/">NASA is helping Stephen Hawking...</a>
