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Mad Marv

re: WD-40.  There is a version of WD-40 that is safe for use on

electronics, it’s called WD-40 Specialist Contact Cleaner.  I bought

some because the buttons / triggers on my Oculus Quest controllers got

sticky and I took them apart to clean the insides.  I had to try two or

three different hardware stores to find this spray.

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Mad Marv: People never really consider how zombification invalidates life insurance claims.

On This Day In History for July 19, 2023

This is the 200th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining in 2023.

It was on this date in 1843, that Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain was launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world

Also today in 1934, The rigid airship USS Macon surprised the USS Houston near Clipperton Island with a mail delivery for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, demonstrating its potential for tracking ships at sea.

It was also this date in 1952 that saw the opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Also today in 1963, Joe Walker flew a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention

On July 19, 1977, The world’s first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).

July 19, 1983, The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT was published

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

American businessman, founded the Colt’s Manufacturing Company, Samuel Colt, born on this date in 1814.

American astronomer and physicist, Edward Charles Pickering was born 177 years ago today.

English astronomer, Fiammetta Wilson, born on this date in 1864.

Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic was born on that same date in 1865.

American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven, Percy Spencer was born 129 years ago today.

Also turning 94 today is Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H Gaston Glock.

Indian astrophysicist and astronomer, Jayant Narlikar is 85 today.

English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and astrophysicist, Brian May, born on this date in 1947.

Mark Crispin, American computer scientist, designed the IMAP was born on that same date in 1956.

Also turning 41 today is American actor Jared Padalecki.

Listener Birthdays

23 – John Miller Jr. – Lancaster SC

23 – Dave Perillo, MegaPodTastic and Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July  19, 2023

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