Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Nasa<br> * Space<br> * Nasa<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1me">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Question of the Week: If you had no super powers, which superhero (or villain) would you pick a fight with?<br> <br> * Scott Stephanie Long: The Tick<br> * Mike Robison: The Amazing Squirrel Girl<br> * Lone Guise Knight: Wonder Dog<br> * Myron Dupler: Zhadum. Nightwing<br> * John Miller Jr: Gleek<br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for January 31, 2018<br> This is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1606, that Guy Fawkes, as part of the Gunpowder Plot, is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.<br> * Also today in 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.<br> * 155 years ago today, Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.<br> * Also on January 31, 1930, 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.<br> * January 31, 1949, These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.<br> * It was also this date in 1950 that United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.<br> * Also today in 1958, the first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.<br> * Ham the Chimp travels into outer space aboard Mercury-Redstone on this date in 1961.<br> * It was 51 years ago today, that The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.<br> * That same date in 1971, Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, liftoff for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon aboard Apollo 14.<br> * It was on this date in 2010, that Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Theodore William Richards, born on this date in 1868.<br> * American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Irving Langmuir was born 136 years ago today.<br> * Sofya Yanovskaya, the Russian mathematician and historian was born 121 years ago today.<br> * American actress, singer, and dancer, Carol Channing, born on this date in 1921.<br> * Born January 31, 1921, American tenor and actor Mario Lanza.<br> * Norman Mailer, the American journalist and author was born 94 years ago today.<br> * Also turning 89 today is American computer scientist and engineer Irma Wyman.<br> * Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1929.<br> * American actor and producer, James Franciscus was born 83 years ago today.<br> * American actress, Suzanne Pleshette, born on this date in 1937.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 24 – Cynthia Fry<br> * 25 – Kreg Steppe<br> * 26 – Will The Computer Guy<br> * 27 – Mark in Memphis<br> * 27 – Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast<br> * 29 – Sarah P. from NJ… who was born in OK, moved to VA, married Brad P, moved to NJ, and is now back in VA<br> * 01 – Matt Baum aka Racer X, Pittsburgh PA<br> * 01 – Brandon Kirkwold – MN<br> * 02 – Gary Lindros – aka Gary from Jacksonville – Groundhog’s Day Rules!!!<br> * 02 – Chuck Provenzano aka podlurker aka Chuck’s evil twin<br> * 02 – Oreo Cookie Monster<br> * 03 – Euan Campbell McGregor – Scotland, UK<br> * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry."></a>
