Episode 601: It’s all downhill from here




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Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1tI">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10156959400136671">Technorama</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10158999584563455">Chuck</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10156981044816319?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDJygqrwX-j8RfiRhDBvHNfgCUIi9alJm2DfjKWeQU1eJkih8LwocPn5NX9dv4aH0fCsm0Pz1oP-0htSsWAFJtTZw8LBf1ZvhUq3j_Z_jimWBJ9UntYRPQ-DK4j7sa_jNoGj85ZApxXLXssf3wXbu0KH4HQnfItQAHlJxcEGfhq5xvYkVZLt0KWU4nMDC7xcngiyttqaPWIXykuxpK8XhXOZf0yhwar7hkQtroMyGetvRdAwYbbVsFqtggw5N78jinz76alhnL-WsYLOVq-7rM9kEMc2Ayd0d7OML4N7LFBgLFRnoMw5YdnNt2yvsxsQYwKpHbOJjBb&amp;__tn__=-R">Kreg</a><br> * Jorge sent us this which we talked about a long time ago<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html?fbclid=IwAR3dp-usdnbngdsQqwb_EG5OuYNSCZLJfzhbSdLEvc7vsfzDIyKtaw9k4Zw">James May and his full-size Lego house nobody wants | Daily Mail Online</a><br> * Follow up<br> * <a href="https://www.techeblog.com/james-mays-lego-house-officially-demolished/">James May’s LEGO House Officially Demolished – TechEBlog</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for May 20, 2020<br> This is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1570, that Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issued Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.<br> * Also on May 20, 1609, Shakespeare’s sonnets were first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe..<br> * 158 years ago today, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers..<br> * Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. on this date in 1873.<br> * That same date in 1875, Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.<br> * On May 20, 1883, Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.<br> * Also today in 1891, The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.<br> * May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.<br> * 56 years ago today, Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.<br> * Also today in 1983, First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.<br> * That same date in 2019, The International System of Units redefined the base units, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express, William Fargo, born on this date in 1818.<br> * Born May 20, 1851, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record Emile Berliner.<br> * German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Eduard Buchner, born on this date in 1860.<br> * Born May 20, 1879, German chemist Hans Meerwein.<br> * English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire and Supermarine S.6B, R. J. Mitchell, born on this date in 1895.<br> * James Stewart, the American actor was born 112 years ago today.<br> * Born May 20, 1925, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 Alexei Tupolev.<br> * Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter was born on that same date in 1944.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1946,  American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress, Cher.<br> * Also turning 71 today is Canadian actor,