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All aboard! It’s time for your weekly adventure through history with Trish and Mike! On today’s episode we take you back in time and through space - to the moon! For centuries odd flashes of light have been witnessed on the moon. What are they? Aliens? Meteors? From astronomy to the Astrodome, we learn about the first indoor baseball game. You won’t find too many bugs in AstroTurf but you can learn about where the term ‘bugs' for computer glitches came from as we discuss the invention of COBOL thanks to a very important American female mathematician and Navy veteran. Technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the past century alone but not everyone is a fan. The band Metallica launched a lawsuit against this P2P sharing site 21 years ago. It’s an Old Bet Sean Parker made a ton of cash off his idea. I wonder how many tonnes 24 million dollars is? Terry Fox started his Marathon of Hope 41 years ago this week, his goal was to raise $1 for every Canadian. All this and more on The Time Machine with Trish and Mike!
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All aboard! It’s time for your weekly adventure through history with Trish and Mike! On today’s episode we take you back in time and through space - to the moon! For centuries odd flashes of light have been witnessed on the moon. What are they? Aliens? Meteors? From astronomy to the Astrodome, we learn about the first indoor baseball game. You won’t find too many bugs in AstroTurf but you can learn about where the term ‘bugs' for computer glitches came from as we discuss the invention of COBOL thanks to a very important American female mathematician and Navy veteran. Technology has grown by leaps and bounds in the past century alone but not everyone is a fan. The band Metallica launched a lawsuit against this P2P sharing site 21 years ago. It’s an Old Bet Sean Parker made a ton of cash off his idea. I wonder how many tonnes 24 million dollars is? Terry Fox started his Marathon of Hope 41 years ago this week, his goal was to raise $1 for every Canadian. All this and more on The Time Machine with Trish and Mike!