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- Disney
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Feedback
- Q: What sci-fi gadget do you want most?
- Scott: I’m torn between a sonic screwdriver or a replicator. Although a real light saber might be handy
- Daniel: It depends on what schematics the replicator has in it and how big it is. If the replicator can make the sonic screwdriver you are set, because sonic screwdriver beats lightsaber by turning it off. Plus it does quite literally ANYTHING it needs to do.
- Ranger Craig: A flying car. We got all the other stuff but that.
On This Day In History for August 26, 2015
This is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 127 days remaining in 2015.
- It was on this date in 1498 that Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
- Also today in 1768, Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
- August 26, 1791, John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
- The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote on this date in 1920.
- 4 years ago today, The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert, born today in 1728.
- Also born on this date in 1740, the inventor of the hot air balloon, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier.
- Another inventor, Lee de Forest was born today in 1873. He invented the Audion tube.
- Mother Teresa would have been 105 today.
- Physicist, space scientist, and mathematician, Katherine Johnson turns 97.
- British computer scientist, Karen Spärck Jones would have been 80.
- One of the most famous voice actors in the world, or should we say “in a world…”, Don LaFontaine would have been 75.
- And finally, sharing the same birthday on the same year, actors Macaulay Culkin and Chris Pine both turn 35 today.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August 26, 2015
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Listener Birthday Calendar
- Aug 26 – SF Edwards
- Aug 27 – Chuck’s forgotten iPod
- Aug 29 – Ken Crawford
- Aug 30 – Maximilian Björsten, Stockholm Sweden
- Aug 31 – Tim Downing
- Aug 31 – Ron Johnson
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Media Corner
- Charity Batman dies in car crash
- Disney is making a Jungle Cruise movie starring The Rock
- Disney is also making a KILLER Star Wars Park
- Would you name your kid Anakin?
Question of the week:
- What’s the toughest scientific concept to wrap your head around?
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