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Stewe Lundin (Reply to Question of the week)

“Well anything by Hans Zimmer.

Or why not Vangelis. One of my absolute favorite songs is Love Theme from Blade Runner.

But as an album I would say the Last of the Mohicans. That album often plays on my Spotify account”

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On This Day In History for December 8, 2021

This is the 342nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 23 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1660, that A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appeared on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare’s play Othello

It was also this date in 1941 that World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared December 7 to be “a date which will live in infamy”, after which the U.S. declares war on Japan

That same date in 1953, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his “Atoms for Peace” speech, which lead to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world

It was on this date in 1990, that the Galileo spacecraft flew past Earth for the first time

Exactly two years later, the Galileo spacecraft flew past Earth for the second time

Also today in 2010, the Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passed the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km

That same date in 2010, with the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX became the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

It was on this date in 2013, that Metallica performed a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all seven continents

2 years ago today, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in China was reported.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Queen of Scots, daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise, at Linlithgow Palace, Mary, born on this date in 1542.

Eli Whitney, the American engineer, invented the cotton gin, was born 256 years ago today.

Danish astronomer and mathematician, Peter Andreas Hansen, born on this date in 1795.

French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Georges Méliès was born 160 years ago today.

Born December 8, 1861, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet William C. Durant.

American cartoonist, created Popeye, E. C. Segar, born on this date in 1894.

Kateryna Yushchenko, the Ukrainian computer scientist and academic was born 102 years ago today.

Julia Bowman, American mathematician and theorist was born on that same date in 1919.

American actor, singer, and dancer, Sammy Davis, Jr. was born 96 years ago today.

Vladimir Shatalov, the Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut was born 94 years ago today.

American actor, director, and producer, David Carradine, born on this date in 1936.

Born December 8, 1943, American paleontologist and ornithologist Larry Martin.

Also born on that same date in 1947,  American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic, Margaret Geller.

 

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On This Day In History for December 1, 2021

This is the 335th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 30 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1862, that In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation

108 years ago today, The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, began operation.

Also on December 1, 1952, The New York Daily News reported the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery

It was also this date in 1984 that NASA conducted the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes

On December 1, 1988, World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.

That same date in 1990, Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France met beneath the seabed.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Czech physician and astronomer, Tadeáš Hájek, born on this date in 1525.

French astronomer and historian, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc was born 441 years ago today.

French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, Marie Tussaud, born on this date in 1761.

Mary Martin, American actress and singer was born on that same date in 1913.

American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, Lou Rawls, born on this date in 1933.

Also turning 86 today is American actor, director, and screenwriter Woody Allen.

American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter, Richard Pryor was born 81 years ago today.

Born December 1, 1940, American electronic engineer and inventor Jerry Lawson.

American singer-songwriter, actress and producer, Bette Midler is 76 today.

Also turning 75 today is Irish singer-songwriter and pianist Gilbert O’Sullivan.

Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist was born on that same date in 1949.

Also born on that same date in 1954,  English chemist and engineer, Judith Hackitt.

Also turning 60 today is American biophysicist and academic Raymond E. Goldstein.

Also born on that same date in 1970,  American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Jonathan Coulton.

Listener Birthdays

1 – Claudio Miranda (ClaudioM)

2 – Ben Fryxell from the MacMania Podcast

6 – SuperMoonMan

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Clever Physics Experiment That Produces “Something From Nothing”

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On This Day In History for November 24, 2021

This is the 328th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1642, that Abel Tasman become the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania)

The Texas Provincial Government authorized the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety) on this date in 1835

That same date in 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species

On November 24, 1877, Anna Sewell’s animal welfare novel Black Beauty was published

Also on November 24, 1932, In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opened

The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon on this date in 1969

It was on this date in 1973, that A national speed limit was imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months

That same date in 1974, Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed “Lucy” (after The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German organist and composer, Charles Theodore Pachelbel, born on this date in 1690.

Scott Joplin, the American pianist and composer was born 153 years ago today.

Dale Carnegie, American author and educator was born on that same date in 1888.

American physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist, Bessie Blount Griffin was born 107 years ago today.

Dutch-Swiss physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate, Simon van der Meer, born on this date in 1925.

American publisher and author, founded the National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr. was born 96 years ago today.

Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Tsung-Dao Lee, born on this date in 1926.

Indian-English drummer and songwriter, Pete Best is 80 today.

Ted Bundy, American serial killer was born on that same date in 1946.

American actor, Dwight Schultz is 74 today.

Listener Birthdays

25 – Lane Williams

26 – Joanie

27 – Brad P. from NJ(but who was born in VA, and has moved back there…)

28 – Ben Sweetser

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November  24, 2021

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On This Day In History for November 17, 2021

This is the 321st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 44 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1800, that The United States Congress held its first session in Washington, D.C

On November 17, 1820, Captain Nathaniel Palmer became the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)

It was 74 years ago today, that American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observed the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century

Also on November 17, 1970,  The Soviet Union landed Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft

48 years ago today, In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began on this date in 2003

Also on November 17, 2019, The first known case of COVID-19 was traced to a 55 -year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German mathematician and astronomer, August Ferdinand Möbius, born on this date in 1790.

Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate, Eugene Wigner was born 119 years ago today.

Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company was born on that same date in 1906.

Born November 17, 1917, American mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari.

Also born on that same date in 1938,  Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist, Gordon Lightfoot.

American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, Martin Scorsese, born on this date in 1942.

Also turning 78 today is American model and actress Lauren Hutton.

Listener Birthdays

Nov 22 – Tom Posz – (from California, USA)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November  17, 2021

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Ferris-wheel-size chunk of the moon is orbiting suspiciously close to Earth | Live Science

NASA’s Perseverance rover scrapes at Martian rock to ‘look at something no one’s ever seen’ – CNN

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On This Day In History for October 27, 2021

This is the 300th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1904, that The first underground New York City Subway line opened, later designated as the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line

It was also this date in 1961 that NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1

October 27, 1962, By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averted nuclear war

It was 33 years ago today, that Ronald Reagan suspended construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation, Isaac Singer, born on this date in 1811.

English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer, John Cleese is 82 today.

American colonel, engineer, and astronaut, Steven R. Nagel was born 75 years ago today.

Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic, Carlos Frenk, born on this date in 1951.

Also born on that same date in 1953,  American actor, director, and screenwriter, Robert Picardo.

Listener Birthdays

28 – Dylan Licata (San Antonio)

29 – Big Jim Clark, MegaPodTastic

30 – WolfGeek (Indiana)

1 – Amber Elstad

2 – Mark McCoy

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October  27, 2021

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China’s Shenzhou 14 is on standby to launch in case of space station emergency

Jupiter hit by another space rock

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On This Day In History for October 20, 2021

This is the 293rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 72 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1961, that The Soviet Union performed the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine

On October 20, 1973, The Sydney Opera House was opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction

Also today in 2003, The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structure known to humanity, was discovered by students at Princeton University.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

English physicist, mathematician, and architect, designed St Paul’s Cathedral, Christopher Wren, born on this date in 1632.

Tom Petty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer was born on that same date in 1950.

Also turning 63 today is American-Danish actor and producer Viggo Mortensen.

Also born on that same date in 1964,  American politician and lawyer, 49th Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris.

American computer scientist and engineer, founded Slackware, Patrick Volkerding, born on this date in 1966.

Listener Birthdays

20 – Mike from near Des Moines, Iowa

21 – Daniel Ebdrup Jensen (D. Ebdrup)

21 – Justin Diehl (nulloperations)

22 – Zach – zml2008

22 – Cassandra Therrien (Canada)

25 – Mad Marv – spelled “K – Y – L – E” but pronounced “Marv”. Hope that helps

25 – HMNSHLD

25 – BritOnTour (Jason)

25 – Scott (Minneapolis)

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Nuking an Incoming Asteroid Could Actually Work, Study Suggests

How scientists learned to enter people’s dreams – BBC Science Focus Magazine

Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink

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On This Day In History for October 6, 2021

This is the 279th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 86 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1927, that saw the Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie

44 years ago today, The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9 -01, made its maiden flight

It was on this date in 1995, that The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, was discovered

On October 6, 2007, Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth

That same date in 2010, Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, was founded

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German navigator and geographer, Martin Behaim, born on this date in 1459.

Born October 6, 1846, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company George Westinghouse.

Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony, Reginald Fessenden was born 155 years ago today.

Meghnad Saha, the Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic was born 128 years ago today.

Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Ernest Walton, born on this date in 1903.

Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1908.

Italian automobile designer, Orazio Satta Puliga was born 111 years ago today.

Riccardo Giacconi, the Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate was born 90 years ago today.

Nikolai Chernykh, Russian astronomer was born on that same date in 1931.

American computer scientist and academic, Sheila Greibach is 82 today.

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Kevin Cronin, born on this date in 1951.

Also born on that same date in 1978,  Chinese astronaut, Liu Yang.

Listener Birthdays

6 – John Deurholt (Jo Dho)

9 – Itsuko Rumpke (sounds like IT SUE-Koe)

9 – Mario (New Jersey)

10 – Victor Cajiao

10 – Garrett Riffal

11 – Bruce Barr

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February  17, 2021

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Chuck & Craig,

Apologies for being 14 months behind.

In episode 609 you got a question about Plex and using a (Synology) NAS

– I’ve been using Synology for a few years now, and use Plex as my video/audio delivery server system. I have ripped around 400 DVDs and at lest as many CDs to the NAS and Plex does a great job. It is entirely

possible to deliver video outside your home network to your mobile devices. You can sign up for a Plex account free of charge which permits you to have other people share their content with you, one can  pay for

Plex Server services monthly or a one-time-lifetime charge which allows you to install the server software onto your network and gives other neat stuff to play with.

Plex can automatically transcode, but the limitations of the NAS then come into play. I currently have Synology model DJ920 4-bay with 4 4TB raided drives which does a good job and I would recommend looking at the stats to see about your own setup(s).

Hope you’re all keeping well.

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On This Day In History for September 15, 2021

This is the 258th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 107 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1835, that HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reached the Galápagos Islands. The ship landed at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago

The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opened in Bowral, New South Wales on this date in 1915

It was also this date in 1948 that the F-86 Sabre set the world aircraft speed record at 671 miles per hour (1,080 km/h)

Also on September 15, 1968, The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship was launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere

It was 40 years ago today, that the John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operated it under its own power outside Washington, D.C

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris, Jean Sylvain Bailly, born on this date in 1736.

James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist, short story writer, and historian was born on that same date in 1789.

American astronomer and academic, Anna Winlock was born 164 years ago today.

Spanish mathematician and engineer, Esteban Terradas i Illa, born on this date in 1883.

English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Agatha Christie was born 131 years ago today.

Born September 15, 1907, Canadian-American actress Fay Wray.

Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1929.

English singer-songwriter, computer scientist, and author, Stan Kelly-Bootle was born 92 years ago today.

Also born on that same date in 1941,  Polish general, pilot, and astronaut, Mirosław Hermaszewski.

Also turning 75 today is American director, screenwriter, and producer Oliver Stone.

Also born on that same date in 1946,  American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Tommy Lee Jones.

Also turning 37 today is Duke of Sussex Prince Harry.

Listener Birthdays

18 – Jeff Schultz (Gorbash)

20 – Joel Harper (Rincewind) / Milwaukee WI

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On This Day In History for September 1, 2021

This is the 244th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 121 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1804, that Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, was discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

143 years ago today, Emma Nutt became the world’s first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company

It was also this date in 1934 that The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, was released to movie theatres

It was 69 years ago today, that The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, was first published

On September 1, 1972, In Reykjavík, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beat Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion

47 years ago today, The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h)

It was on this date in 1979, that The American space probe Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passed the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).

39 years ago today, The United States Air Force Space Command was founded.

It was 36 years ago today that A joint American-French expedition located the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German organist, composer, and educator, Johann Pachelbel, born on this date in 1653.

English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, Francis William Aston was born 144 years ago today.

German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft, Engelbert Zaschka, born on this date in 1895.

Born September 1, 1922, Canadian-American actress and singer Yvonne De Carlo.

American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer, Lily Tomlin, born on this date in 1939.

Also born on that same date in 1946,  Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer, Barry Gibb.

Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress, Gloria Estefan, born on this date in 1957.

American captain, pilot, and astronaut, Christopher Ferguson is 60 today.

Also turning 55 today is American video game designer, co-founded Irrational Games Ken Levine.

Listener Birthdays

1 – David Kloempken

2 – Scott Tyler

5 – Ben Vaughan (benvon) [1977]

6 – Susan Murph (SusietheGeek) How to Grow Your Geek Podcast

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 1, 2021

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On This Day In History for August 18, 2021

This is the 230th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 135 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1783, that A huge fireball meteor was seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast

That same date in 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered helium

118 years ago today, German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flew his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers

On August 18, 2020, the new Microsoft Flight Simulator was launched

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Italian composer and conductor, Antonio Salieri, born on this date in 1750.

Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician was born on that same date in 1774.

American businessman, founded Marshall Field’s, Marshall Field was born 187 years ago today.

American businessman, Max Factor, Jr., born on this date in 1904.

Born August 18, 1911, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer Klara Dan von Neumann.

American actress, Shelley Winters, born on this date in 1920.

Also born on that same date in 1933,  French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor, Roman Polanski.

Vincent Bugliosi, the American lawyer and author was born 87 years ago today.

Also turning 78 today is American actor and comedian Martin Mull.

Also born on that same date in 1950,  English drummer and sculptor, Dennis Elliott.

American actor and dancer, Patrick Swayze was born 69 years ago today.

Also born on that same date in 1954,  Italian astrophysicist, astronaut, and politician, Umberto Guidoni

Also turning 64 today is American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter Denis Leary.

American actor and producer, Malcolm-Jamal Warner is 51 today.

Listener Birthdays

19 – Brian Litecky (blitecky)

19 – Matt Rider (The Eagle Scout Geek )

20 – Jedi_Kez (aka Brian From Winnipeg)

22 – Zoidberg [1967]

22 – Kyle Slingo

22 – AlchemyDragon

24 – Kira Fiore (Krazy Joe & Christine’s daughter)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for August  18, 2021

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Asteroid Bennu has 1 in 1,750 chance of smashing into Earth, NASA says – CNET

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