Technorama Ep 451 : Does this planet make me look Titan?

Coming up in this episode… Fat-Planet

New time travel machine
Self-driving taxis
Cool nicknames

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Feedback

Q: What movie have you seen the most?

Justin: Blade Runner, or… Hrm wait no. A Christmas Story. I watch it roughly 1.5 times each year, at minimum. Maybe more on Average.

Rob: Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Megaforce, and Rocky Horror Picture Show. They are all about even

Feedback regarding the moon

Ben: Chuck is RIGHT regarding the rotation and revolution of the moon. If the moon had no rotation while orbiting the earth then the same side of the moon would forever face the sun. HOWEVER, the same side of the moon FACES THE EARTH which means that it has to rotate in perfect synchronicity with its revolution thereby allowing the Earth to always see the same side.

On This Day In History for October 7, 2015

This is the 280th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1542, Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain on this date in 1582.
The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S on this date in 1826.
It was 103 years ago today that The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
October 7, 1916, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
82 years ago today, Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
October 7, 1958, The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
56 years ago today, U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
Also today in 1996, The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

Danish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, Niels Bohr, born on this date in 1885.
Several computer scientists have birthdays today including
- Henriette Avram, born today in 1919
- John Hopcroft, who turns 76
- and turning 60, Ralph Johnson
The co-founder of the IMAX Corporation, Graeme Ferguson turns 86
South African archbishop and Nobel Prize laureate Desmond Tutu is 84
and finally cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 60.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 7, 2015

News

Self-driving taxis will begin trials in Japan next year

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