Summary: Coming up in this episode... * NASA readies something else for space * Guess what’s new in the kitchen * Japan comes out with another first Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-YX) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/vFbisywWFkk Introducing the team... * Shout out to the chat room * Happy Birthday to: * 06 - John Deurholt (Jo Dho) * 09 - Itsuko Rumpke (sounds like IT - SUE - KOE) * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. * Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. On This Day In History for October 3, 2012 * It was on this date in 1778 that British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska. * Also on that same date in 1789, George Washington made the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America. * Today in 1849, American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. * The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866 - that was today in 1863. * Today in spaceflight - it was 1942 that 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. * 60 years ago today the United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. * The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC October 3, 1955 * As part of Project Mercury, the Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight - that was exactly 50 years ago. * Today in 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J) * and it was today in 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened. Happy Birthday goes out on this day to: * Italian physicist Giovanni Battista Beccaria born on this date in 1716 * American astronaut Charles Duke celebrates his 77th birthday today * Singer/songwriter Chubby Checker turns 71 today * Pierre Deligne, the Belgian mathematician is 68 today * and finally singer and guitars from Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, turns 63 And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 3, 2012 News * NASA's next goal: bring back samples from Mars | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/26/mars-sample-return-goal-drives-nasa-exploration-red-planet/) * Weather toaster (http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2012/09/26/weather-predicting-toaster/) Hacks & Strange Stories * Liquid Nitrogen + 1500 Ping Pong Balls [Video] - How-To Geek (http://www.howtogeek.com/125238/liquid-nitrogen-1500-ping-pong-balls-video/)- VIDEO WAS REMOVEDWould you wear a camera all day? * Autographer wearable camera takes the whole taking pictures thing out of taking pictures -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/25/autographer-wearable-camera-takes-the-whole-taking-pictures-thin/) * My prayers are answered - no more lost socks (http://gizmodo.com/5946000/thanks-to-rfid-youll-never-lose-a-sock-again) Remember When * Antarctic explorers brought their own snow (http://gizmodo.com/5947311/top-of-the-first-antarctic-explorers-packing-list-lots-and-lots-of-cocaine) Media Corner * Flavorwire » Video Essay: “How Time Travel Works” (http://www.flavorwire.com/331886/video-essay-how-time-travel-works) * Doctor Who workout (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/09/30/introducing-the-doctor-who-workout-program-pic) What the Chuck! * How expensive is printer ink?
