Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Cassini<br> * Apple stores renamed<br> * Michael Jackson game<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1ld">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Question of the (last) week: How much of your body would you cybernetically enhance if you could?<br> <br> * Scott Tyler: That’s a dangerous question!<br> * Eric Alexander: None… But if I lost my limbs I would like super powered robot arms and legs! Lol<br> * John Miller Jr: I’ll take a full body enhancement. Super strength, bulletproof, don’t need to sleep or breathe, and powered by LINUX!! I’d be UNSTOPPABLE!!!<br> * Weber Baker: I’d be happy just to get my knees back like they were 20 years ago, let alone ‘enhanced’.<br> * JT Shea: Eyes, teeth, hearing to start.<br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for September 20, 2017<br> This is the 263rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 102 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1519, that Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.<br> <br> <br> * The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created on this date in 1848.<br> * It was also this date in 1893 that Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.<br> * Also on September 20, 1906, Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.<br> * 71 years ago today, The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.<br> * RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland on this date in 1967.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, born on this date in 1778.<br> * Scottish-English chemist and physicist, James Dewar was born 175 years ago today.<br> * Carleton Ellis, the American inventor and chemist was born 141 years ago today.<br> * Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician was born on that same date in 1906.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1934, Italian actress, Sophia Loren.<br> * Also turning 69 today is American novelist and short story writer George R. R. Martin.<br> * American actor and director, Peter Scolari, born on this date in 1955.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 20 – Marilyn Taylor<br> * 20 – Joel Harper (Rincewind) / Milwaukee WI<br> * 20 – Joel Rickenbach [deceased] (host of the You’ve Got Geek Podcast)<br> * 20 – LeeAnn McBride<br> * 21 – Dean Jensen (Beaker1)<br> * 21 – Charles McFall<br> * 21 – Charlie Cavanaugh Toft<br> * 22 – Matthew Tjarks (Jharks)<br> * 24 – Mike Stockman<br> * 26 – Brett (from Wales)<br> * 26 – Cian Mac Mahon<br> <br> <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 September 20, 2017<br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/">Cassini plunges into its own Science</a><br> * <a href="http://bricksfanz.com/ucs-millennium-falcon-has-sold-out/">UCS Millennium Falcon Has Sold Out!</a><br> * <a href="https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2017/09/13/apple-stores-become-town-squares/">Apple Stores To Become ‘Town Squares’</a><br> <br> (break) – PIY Promo<br> Shout out to the chat room<br> What us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET on Facebook. Go to Join our page and get notified automatically. Join us on the live chat!<br> Remember When<br> <br>
