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Episode 770: Don’t Quark Your Day Job

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  • QOTW: Would you rather live on a terraformed Mars (thin atmosphere, limited Earth contact) OR live in a massive orbiting space station (crowded, artificial everything)?
    • On This Day In History for April 16, 2025

    This is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining in 2025.

    • It was on this date in 1582, that Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founded the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
    • Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founded the University of Münster on this date in 1780.
    • On April 16, 1853, The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opened the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
    • It was 115 years ago today that the oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opened for the first time.
    • Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel on April 16, 1912.
    • Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD on this date in 1943. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
    • 53 years ago today was the launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
    • That same date in 2012, the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.

      • Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

      • German mathematician and astronomer, Petrus Apianus, born on this date in 1495.
      • The English mathematician, invented the octant, John Hadley was born 343 years ago today.
      • Born April 16, 1823, German mathematician and academic Gotthold Eisenstein.
      • American inventor, Wilbur Wright was born 158 years ago today.
      • Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer was born on that same date in 1889.
      • Henry Mancini, the American composer and conductor was born 101 years ago today.
      • Russian physicist and academic, Vadim Kuzmin, born on this date in 1936.
      • American captain, pilot, and astronaut, David M. Brown was born 69 years ago today.

        • Listener Birthdays

        • 16 – Donna Tomasi
        • 18 – Skaifey (Anthony)
        • 19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter & Geek in Training)
        • 21 – Kim and Kreg’s Anniversary

          • And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 15, 2025

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            • This 18-Year-Old Wins $250,000 After Finding 1.5 Million Mysterious Space Objects
            • NASA’s James Webb space telescope captures new view of Uranus
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