Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Gary Kurtz<br> * AI and Guns<br> * Word Mangler 2000<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1oB">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Feedback from Jorge<br> <br> * So the 50 times close was bugging me while stuck in traffic… would it not be the sun -> mercury distance devices by 50?<br> * Say Mercury is 50 units removed from the sun. 50 times close would be 1 unit removed? So 50/50 = 1?<br> * Another player in the rocket space: Blue Origin<br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10157142322618455">What’s your favorite time travel movie?</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for October 5, 2018<br> This is the 276th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining in 2018.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1283, that Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.<br> * It was 229 years ago today, that George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the US.<br> * Also today in 1849, American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.<br> * 155 years ago today, The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.<br> * Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War on this date in 1873.<br> * Also today in 1919, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.<br> * Also on October 3, 1929, The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, “Land of the South Slavs”.<br> * On October 3, 1942, the first successful launch of a V-2 /A4 -rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.<br> * That same date in 1949, WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.<br> * 66 years ago today, The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.<br> * Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral as part of Project Mercury, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight on this date in 1962.<br> * It was also this date in 1985 that The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51 -J).<br> * Also today in 1986, TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.<br> * That same date in 1995, O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * Italian physicist and academic, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, born on this date in 1716.<br> * Russian archaeologist and explorer, Pyotr Kozlov was born 155 years ago today.<br> * American film producer, Ray Stark, born on this date in 1915.<br> * Born October 3, 1925, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic Gore Vidal.<br> * Also turning 83 today is American general, pilot, and astronaut Charles Duke.<br> * Belgian mathematician and academic, Pierre Deligne, born on this date in 1944.<br> * Also turning 71 today is American poet, songwriter, blogger, and activist John Perry Barlow.<br> * American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Lindsey Buckingham, born on this date in 1949.<br> * Also turning 69 today is American photographer and director Laurie Simmons.<br> * American geologist and astronaut, Kathryn D. Sullivan, born on this date in 1951.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1964, English actor, Clive Owen.<br> * American singer-songwriter,
