{"id":700,"date":"2008-03-05T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T04:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=700"},"modified":"2008-03-05T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T04:40:26","slug":"cct208-the-beta-bunch-2062222428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2008\/03\/05\/cct208-the-beta-bunch-2062222428\/","title":{"rendered":"CCT#208: The Beta Bunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>On This Show&#8230;<br \/><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li> Dr. Robert Ballard\n<\/li>\n<li> Star Wars according to a 3yr old\n<\/li>\n<li> Kick butt retro calulator watch\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\">On This Day in Tech History<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> 1496 &#8211; England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1836 &#8211; Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver (.34-caliber).\n<\/li>\n<li> 1850 &#8211; The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1872 &#8211; George Westinghouse patents the air brake.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1904 &#8211; Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of ball lightning formation.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1912 &#8211; Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1936 &#8211; First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft..\n<\/li>\n<li> 1943 &#8211; First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1958 &#8211; Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1960 &#8211; Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy<br \/>\npublicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due<br \/>\nto a coastal phase.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1968 &#8211; U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops Island to study the Sun.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1970 &#8211; Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1978 &#8211; Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1979 &#8211; Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst<br \/>\noriginating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery<br \/>\nof soft gamma repeaters.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1979 &#8211; Voyager 1&#8217;s closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1979 &#8211; Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1982 &#8211; Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.\n<\/li>\n<li> 1998 &#8211; NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Births\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 1512 &#8211; Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)\n<\/li>\n<li> 1575 &#8211; William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)\n<\/li>\n<li> 1794 &#8211; Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)\n<\/li>\n<li> 1910 &#8211; J<br \/>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5983\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-700-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep208_080305.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep208_080305.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep208_080305.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_Ep208_080305.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep208_080305.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Show&#8230; 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