Episode 774: The Simulation that EVERYONE is talking about

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• QOTW: You’ve been granted the ability to instantly download any single skill or area of knowledge directly into your brain, Matrix-style. What do you choose, and what’s the most absurd, non-practical way you’d immediately use it?

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On This Day In History for June 18, 2025

This is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 196 days remaining in 2025.

• It was on this date in 1858, that Charles Darwin received a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
• Also today in 1873, Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• 97 years ago today, Aviator Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stultz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• Columbia Records introduced the long-playing record album (or LP) in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on this date in 1948.
• That same date in 1981, The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, made its first flight.
• June 18, 1983, Aboard Space Shuttle STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
• It was on this date in 2006, that The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 was launched.
• It was 16 years ago today that The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft was launched.
• It was on this date in 2023, that Titan, a submersible operated by OceanGate Expeditions, imploded while attempting to view the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board including the co-founder and CEO of the company, Stockton Rush in the North Atlantic Ocean..

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• English astronomer and merchant, William Lassell, born on this date in 1799.
• American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library, Henry Clay Folger was born 168 years ago today.
• Also born 167 years ago was Scottish-English mathematician and academic Andrew Forsyth.
• Born on that same date in 1870,  French mathematician and philosopher, Édouard Le Roy.
• English lieutenant and mountaineer, George Mallory, born June 18, 1886.
• Born today in 1907,  Swiss-American metaphysicist, philosopher, and author, Frithjof Schuon.
• German mathematician Oswald Teichmüller was born 112 years ago today.
• Also born on that same date in 1915,  American mathematician Alice T. Schafer.
• American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Jerome Karle, born on this date in 1918.
• American astronomer and cosmologist Allan Sandage was born 99 years ago.
• American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Dudley R. Herschbach, born on this date in 1932.
• Ukrainian colonel, engineer, and astronaut, Vitaly Zholobov is 88 today.
• American actress, Carol Kane, born on this date in 1952.
• Also born on that same date in 1962,  American physicist and academic, Lisa Randall.

Listener Birthdays

• 18 – Xianfox from Appleton
• 19 – Steven (sphen603) from Wichita, Kansas
• 21 – Ascii Adam from the Hook Show
• 22 – Lance Heath
• 22 – Jack Stevens
• 22 – Chris Martinez (Scotland)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for June 18, 2025

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News

• 1,000-foot mega-tsunami could erase parts of the U.S., scientists say it has happened before
• Unprecedented Close-Up View of Asteroid Shows Rocks That Look Surprisingly Familiar
• First-Ever Photo of a Single Atom Captured : A Game-Changer for Science – Glass Almanac

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Remember When

• Cassette Data Storage From The 1970s | Hackaday
• Bill Atkinson – Wikipedia (Passed Away June 5)

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• What’s the most absurd ‘internet of things’ gadget you can imagine existing in the near future?

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