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Episode 776: The Hyperdrive is out…Again!

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  • QOTW: If you could temporarily break one fundamental law of science or physics to make your weekend better, what scientific law would you break, and what would you do?

    • Mad Marv

    I would really like to see the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics break.

    Specifically entropy and I’d like to see the total entropy of the universe decrease.  Entropy is states of disorder and randomness.

    Entropy is supposed to always increase and therefore can be used to determine the direction of time.  So if entropy somehow decreased across the universe…

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_as_an_arrow_of_time

    Marv

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      • On This Day In History for July 16, 2025

      This is the 197th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining in 2025.

      • It was on this date in 1536, that Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returned home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France.
      • That same date in 1661, The first banknotes in Europe were issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
      • Also today in 1769, Father Junípero Serra founded California’s first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolved into the city of San Diego, California.
      • Also on July 16, 1790, The District of Columbia was established as the capital of the United States after the signature of the Residence Act.
      • John Robertson Duigan made the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia on this date in 1910.
      • Also on July 16, 1935, The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
      • It was 80 years ago today that the Atomic Age began when the United States successfully detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project.
      • On July 16, 1956, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed its last “Big Tent” show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows were held in arenas.
      • That same date in 1965, The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opened.
      • On July 16, 1969, The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission was launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida, USA.
      • It was also this date in 1994 that the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.
      • Millennium Park, considered Chicago’s first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, was opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley on this day in 2004.

        • Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

        • Norwegian pilot and explorer, Roald Amundsen, born on this date in 1872.
        • Frits Zernike, the Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 137 years ago today.
        • Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer was born on that same date in 1903.
        • American farmer and businessman, founded Orville Redenbacher’s, Orville Redenbacher, born on this date in 1907.
        • American actress Phoebe Cates is 62 today.
        • American actor, comedian, and producer, Will Ferrell, born on this date in 1967.

          • Listener Birthdays

          • 18 – Lord Doomicus
          • 18 – Nikolai from Dancing With Elephants
          • 23 – John Miller Jr. – Lancaster SC
          • 23 – Dave Perillo, MegaPodTastic and Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!
          • 26 – Aaron Heath (Adelaide, Australia)
          • 27 – Wife of Will The Computer Guy
          • 29 – Shaun Farrell, host of the Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast
          • 29 – John Kratzer
          • 30 – Brian Hunt aka Zaphodbblx
          • 31 – Wedding Anniversary of Will The Computer Guy (2007, 9 years)
          • 31 – Denise Inglis

            • And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 16, 2025

            • If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our website and look for the Birthday Calendar link.
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