Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1vB">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Question of the week:<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/technoramapodcast/posts/10157439232421671">Technorama</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10159698890498455">Chuck</a> “What’s wrong with you people?” — Office Space<br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kreg.steppe/posts/10157472164271319">Kreg</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for December 16, 2020<br> This is the 351st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining in 2020.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1843, that The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date.<br> * That same date in 1907, The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.<br> * 83 years ago today, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempted to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.<br> * Also on December 16, 1947, William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain built the first practical point-contact transistor.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * English novelist, Jane Austen, born on this date in 1775.<br> * Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher was born on that same date in 1776.<br> * Viktor Bunyakovsky, the Russian mathematician and academic was born 216 years ago today.<br> * George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet was born on that same date in 1863.<br> * Bertha Lamme Feicht, the American electrical engineer was born 151 years ago today.<br> * Born December 16, 1882, German physicist and engineer Walther Meissner.<br> * Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer was born on that same date in 1917.<br> * Born December 16, 1928, American philosopher and author Philip K. Dick.<br> * American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Billy Gibbons, born on this date in 1949.<br> * Also turning 51 today is American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate Adam Riess.<br> * American computer scientist and academic, Jen Golbeck is 44 today.<br> * American actress, musician, and model, Krysten Ritter, born on this date in 1981.<br> <br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 17 – Jorge Schrauwen<br> * 20 – Phil Burchill the 9 year old I started listening to Technorama with turned 21 this year (2017)!<br> * 21 – James Ballard KarakSindru<br> * 22 – Bo Pace<br> * 22 – Luke “Chuck’s Stalker” Smith (2000)<br> * 22 – Jason Pelloni, Tampa, FL<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 16, 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://www.cnet.com/news/japans-asteroid-sample-returns-home-poised-to-reveal-solar-systems-secrets/">Japan’s asteroid sample returns home, poised to reveal solar system’s secrets – CNET</a><br> * <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/world/mars-water-fuel-how-to-get-scn/index.html">Scientists say they have come up with potential way to make oxygen on Mars – CNN</a><br> * <a href="https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-ada-gan-ai-190518240.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE7sujouNUFqLwEaZ_i9_9ctrm9nr6eMOSZ0HF1bHJ-o7zKvXHa9lx2R_aTn9EICyqhWX9FWyA0fC_tshFdt1hYsTnH0FF2jzVH4wlSCWLgMdXWdQod9hb-Tdos4R4lZbjIo..."></a>
