{"id":4943,"date":"2016-11-08T22:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T14:53:14","slug":"technorama-ep-489-world-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2016\/11\/08\/technorama-ep-489-world-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorama Ep 489 : World Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><b><\/b><strong>Coming up in this episode&#8230;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2016\/11\/08\/technorama-ep-489-world-serious\/cbytdiqw4aagdyz\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2016\/11\/CbyTdiQW4AAGDYz.jpg?fit=900%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"900,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cbytdiqw4aagdyz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2016\/11\/CbyTdiQW4AAGDYz.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4945\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2016\/11\/CbyTdiQW4AAGDYz-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"cbytdiqw4aagdyz\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2016\/11\/CbyTdiQW4AAGDYz.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2016\/11\/CbyTdiQW4AAGDYz.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2016\/11\/CbyTdiQW4AAGDYz.jpg?w=900&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engineer doctor<\/li>\n<li>High beams in China<\/li>\n<li>Drink all you like!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1hJ\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2539\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4943-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep489_161109.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep489_161109.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep489_161109.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep489_161109.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep489_161109.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xWPaTt6xPtY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>On This Day In History for November 9, 2016<\/b><br \/>\n<em>This is the 313rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 52 days remaining in 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was on this date in 1620, that Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.<\/li>\n<li>This is also the anniversary of The Great Boston Fire of 1872.<\/li>\n<li>NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida November 9, 1967.<\/li>\n<li>That same day in 1967, the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.<\/li>\n<li>37 years ago today, the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.<\/li>\n<li>Also today in 1985, Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.<\/li>\n<li>November 9, 1994, The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.<\/li>\n<li>It was also this date in 2005, The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German astrologer and theologian, Martin Chemnitz, born on this date in 1522.<\/li>\n<li>Also born on this date in 1931, Russian surgeon and Transplantologist Valery Shumakov.<\/li>\n<li>American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, Carl Sagan, born on this date in 1934.<\/li>\n<li>Born November 9, 1941, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Tom Fogerty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for November 9, 2016<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Listener birthdays (November 9-15)<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>10 &#8211; John Noble from the Island<\/i><\/li>\n<li>13 &#8211; Pippa (London UK)<\/li>\n<li>13 &#8211; Jennifer Therrien (Canada)<\/li>\n<li>15 &#8211; Jackie Breller (Krazy Joe &amp; Christine&#8217;s daughter)<\/li>\n<li>15 &#8211; Chuck Jolley aka nitestarr &#8211; (Horn Lake, MS)<\/li>\n<li>15 &#8211; Tabz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/technorama.wikifoundry.com\/\">Wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>News<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/neil-degrasse-tyson-spent-the-world-series-ripping-line-1788535319\">What would Neil do?<\/a> (during the world series)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/foods\/brewer-claims-to-have-created-an-alcoholic-beer-that-doesnt-give-you-hangover.html\">A beer with no hangover<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/news\/chinese-drivers-who-blind-others-with-full-beam-headlights-forced-to-stare-into-the-light-by-police.html\">High punishment for high beams in China<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/11\/4\/13525172\/amazon-alexa-big-mouth-billy-bass-hack-api\">Man hacks Alexa into singing fish robot, terror ensues &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Shout out to the chat room<\/b><br \/>\nWhat us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. 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