{"id":5222,"date":"2018-01-30T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2018-01-30T09:18:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:18:50","slug":"technorama-ep-524-lopsided-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2018\/01\/30\/technorama-ep-524-lopsided-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorama Ep 524 : Lopsided Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up in this episode\u2026<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5223\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2018\/01\/30\/technorama-ep-524-lopsided-black-hole\/attachment\/12008\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2018\/01\/12008.jpg?fit=445%2C382&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"445,382\" 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=\"12008\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2018\/01\/12008.jpg?fit=445%2C382&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5223\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2018\/01\/12008-300x258.jpg?resize=300%2C258\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2018\/01\/12008.jpg?resize=300%2C258&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2018\/01\/12008.jpg?w=445&amp;ssl=1 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nasa<\/li>\n<li>Space<\/li>\n<li>Nasa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1me\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9681\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5222-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep524_180131.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep524_180131.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep524_180131.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_Ep524_180131.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep524_180131.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\/CoOCeIfetnY?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>Feedback<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Question of the Week: If you had no super powers, which superhero (or villain) would you pick a fight with?\n<ul>\n<li>Scott Stephanie Long: The Tick<\/li>\n<li>Mike Robison: The Amazing Squirrel Girl<\/li>\n<li>Lone Guise Knight: Wonder Dog<\/li>\n<li>Myron Dupler: Zhadum. Nightwing<\/li>\n<li>John Miller Jr: Gleek<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>On This Day In History for January 31, 2018<\/b><\/h5>\n<p>This is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining in 2017.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was on this date in 1606, that Guy Fawkes, as part of the Gunpowder Plot, is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.<\/li>\n<li>Also today in 1747, the first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.<\/li>\n<li>155 years ago today, Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.<\/li>\n<li>Also on January 31, 1930, 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.<\/li>\n<li>January 31, 1949, These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>It was also this date in 1950 that United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.<\/li>\n<li>Also today in 1958, the first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.<\/li>\n<li>Ham the Chimp travels into outer space aboard Mercury-Redstone on this date in 1961.<\/li>\n<li>It was 51 years ago today, that The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.<\/li>\n<li>That same date in 1971, Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, liftoff for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon aboard Apollo 14.<\/li>\n<li>It was on this date in 2010, that Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Theodore William Richards, born on this date in 1868.<\/li>\n<li>American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Irving Langmuir was born 136 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>Sofya Yanovskaya, the Russian mathematician and historian was born 121 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>American actress, singer, and dancer, Carol Channing, born on this date in 1921.<\/li>\n<li>Born January 31, 1921, American tenor and actor Mario Lanza.<\/li>\n<li>Norman Mailer, the American journalist and author was born 94 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>Also turning 89 today is American computer scientist and engineer Irma Wyman.<\/li>\n<li>Rudolf M\u00f6ssbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1929.<\/li>\n<li>American actor and producer, James Franciscus was born 83 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>American actress, Suzanne Pleshette, born on this date in 1937.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Listener Birthdays<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24 &#8211; Cynthia Fry<\/li>\n<li>25 &#8211; Kreg Steppe<\/li>\n<li>26 &#8211; Will The Computer Guy<\/li>\n<li>27 &#8211; Mark in Memphis<\/li>\n<li>27 &#8211; Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast<\/li>\n<li>29 &#8211; Sarah P. from NJ&#8230; who was born in OK, moved to VA, married Brad P, moved to NJ, and is now back in VA<\/li>\n<li>01 &#8211; Matt Baum aka Racer X, Pittsburgh PA<\/li>\n<li>01 &#8211; Brandon Kirkwold &#8211; MN<\/li>\n<li>02 &#8211; Gary Lindros &#8211; aka Gary from Jacksonville &#8211; Groundhog&#8217;s Day Rules!!!<\/li>\n<li>02 &#8211; Chuck Provenzano aka podlurker aka Chuck&#8217;s evil twin<\/li>\n<li>02 &#8211; Oreo Cookie Monster<\/li>\n<li>03 &#8211; Euan Campbell McGregor &#8211; Scotland, UK<\/li>\n<li>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/technorama.wikifoundry.com\/\">Wiki<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for January 31, 2018<\/i><\/p>\n<h4><b>News<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/18\/01\/20\/239248\/we-all-nearly-missed-the-largest-underwater-volcano-eruption-ever-recorded?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">We All Nearly Missed the Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Recorded &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/01\/you-could-soon-be-manufacturing-your-own-drugs-thanks-3d-printing\">You could soon be manufacturing your own drugs\u2014thanks to 3D printing | Science | AAAS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/nasa-runs-successful-first-tests-of-compact-nuclear-rea-1822233354\">NASA Runs Successful First Tests of Compact Nuclear Reactor for Mars Base<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/b><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/snow-car-police-simon-laprise-montreal-canada\/\">Internet Can\u2019t Stop Laughing At These Cops Who Ticketed A Car Made Of Snow With This Note | Bored Panda<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Shout out to the chat room<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>What us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET on Facebook. 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