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- Movie to video game to movie
- Nanobots can fix anything
- 5,000 years of gaming
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Introducing the team…
- Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
- 22 – Tom Posz – (from California, USA)
- 25 – Lane Williams
- 26 – Joanie
- 27 – Brad P. from NJ
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On This Day In History for November 21, 2012
This is the 326th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 40 days remaining in 2012
- It was on this date in 1620 that the Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.).
- It was also November 21,1783 in Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d’Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
- Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound on this date in 1877.
- Today in 1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper, “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, is published in the journal “Annalen der Physik”. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy formula E = mc².
- The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated today in 1942. However, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943.
- November 21, 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the “Piltdown Man” skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
- 48 years ago, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world’s longest suspension bridge.
- The forerunner to the modern Internet, the first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI November 21, 1969
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- Lewis Binford, American archaeologist born on this date in 1931
- also born today in 1931, Georgian scientist Revaz Dogonadze
- American astronaut Henry Hartsfield, celebrates his 79th birthday today
- Spock’s half brother, Sybok – actor Laurence Luckinbill, turns 78
- The man who brought us movies like Ghostbusters, Stripes, Caddyshack and more, actor/director Harold Ramis turns 68.
- Happy birthday to Dr. Julian Bashir from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, actor Alexander Siddig is 47 today.
- And finally Russian chess master Evgeny Bareev, is 46
It’s also World Hello day – which Chuck thought was “Hello World day”.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 21, 2012
News
- So long Rosetta Stone – Hello Universal Translator
- Apple pays $21 million for stolen clock design
Hacks & Strange Stories
- IRL: Red Riding Hood’s grandmother ain’t going to take it!
- Homeless man arrested for charging phone in the park
- Artificial Limb Powered by Rocket Fuel
Remember When
Geek Library
- Support Wikipedia and donate!
- Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie Recipe
End of Show Stuff
No show for 11/28. Chuck is traveling again!
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