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• QOTW: You accidentally trigger a teleportation device that merges you with a household appliance. Which appliance are you now fused with and what hilarious superpowers do you possess?

On This Day in History for September 25, 2024

This is the 269th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 97 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 1513, that Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.


• 334 years ago today, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas,was published for the first and only time.


• On September 25, 1890, The United States Congress established Sequoia National Park.


• Also today in 1906, Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrated the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles..


• 68 years ago today, TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, was inaugurated.


• It was also this date in 1974 that Dr. Frank Jobe performed first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.


• That same date in 1992, NASA launched the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe failed while preparing for orbital insertion.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• Ole Rømer, the Danish astronomer and instrument maker was born 380 years ago today.


• English explorer and navigator, Steven Borough, born on this date in 1525.


• French geologist and engineer, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont was born 226 years ago today.


• German palaeontologist and geologist, Karl Alfred von Zittel, born on this date in 1839.


• Born September 25, 1893, Swedish mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér.


• American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter, Shel Silverstein, born on this date in 1930.


• English mathematician and scholar, Bryan John Birch is 93 today.


• Also born on that same date in 1937, American computer scientist and lawyer, Mary Allen Wilkes.


• American actor, singer, and director, Anson Williams is 75 today.


• American actor, singer, and producer, Mark Hamill, born on this date in 1951.


• Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist was born on that same date in 1952.


• Also born on that same date in 1956, American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation, W. Daniel Hillis.


• American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries, Jamie Hyneman, born on this date in 1956.

Listener Birthdays

• 10/1 = 101 & Stephen Wesche (From Saint Louis Missouri) (Pronounced Like the first part of the word “Wet” and the word “She”)

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 25, 2023

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News

• Three-Mile Island nuclear site reopening to power AI


• NASA’s flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant. | Mashable


• Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier


• How NASA Could Find Evidence of Life on Another Planet Within 25 Years – Slashdot

Hacks & Strange Stories

• Vaporizing Plastics Recycles Them Into Nothing But Gas, Researchers Find

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Question of the week

• If you could invent a gadget from any sci-fi movie or show, what would it be and what hilariously impractical use would you put it to?

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