Episode 610: No static, no static at all




Technorama show

Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1uy">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br>  <br> Feedback<br> <br> * What should humanity’s goal be?<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157180412321671">Technorama</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159318325233455">Chuck</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10157202895431319">Kreg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for August 12, 2020<br> This is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1492, that Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.<br> * Also today in 1851, Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine..<br> * 155 years ago today, Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist,  performed 1st antiseptic surgery.<br> * Also on August 12, 1953, the Soviet atomic bomb project continued with the detonation of “RDS-6s” (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb – the first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices).<br> * 60 years ago today, Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, was launched..<br> * On August 12, 1977, The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.<br> * Also today in 1981, The IBM Personal Computer was released.<br> * It was also this date in 1990 that Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * Jewish astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian, Abraham Zacuto, born on this date in 1452.<br> * Born August 12, 1856, American businessman and philanthropist Diamond Jim Brady.<br> * Cecil B. DeMille, American director and producer was born on that same date in 1881.<br> * Jean Cabannes, the French physicist and academic was born 135 years ago today.<br> * Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Erwin Schrödinger, born on this date in 1887.<br> * Joe Besser, American actor was born on that same date in 1907.<br> * English-American astrophysicist and academic, Margaret Burbidge, born on this date in 1919.<br> * Scottish publisher and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records, Norris McWhirter was born 95 years ago today.<br> * American computer scientist and academic, Dorothy E. Denning, born on this date in 1945.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1949,  Scottish-English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Mark Knopfler.<br> * American actor, director, and screenwriter, Jim Beaver, born on this date in 1950.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays (Aug 12-18)<br> <br> * 13 – Christine Fiore MegaPodTastic and Honey, You’ve *GOT* to See This!<br> * 17 – Clive Jevons, Baeumenheim German, Kevin (SusietheGeek’s son and Geek in Training)<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 12, 2020<br> <br> * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenNyl8MEsC_eVDvCerLe8wNvhgtjg2d7F0Yj0IFYl4dOU2uA/viewform">Birthday Calendar</a> link.<br> <br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://geekologie.com/2020/08/three-men-rescued-from-tiny-island-after.php">Three men rescued from tiny island after writing ‘SOS’ in the sand – Geekologie</a><br> * <a href="https://scitechdaily.com/stunning-image-gallery-documents-thrilling-spacex-splashdown-first-splashdown-of-american-astronauts-in-45-years/">Stunning Image Gallery Documents Thrilling SpaceX Splashdown – First Splashdown of American Astronauts in 45 Years</a><br> <br> Shout out to the chat room<br>