Episode 718: I am a nerd among nerds

Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show. Feedback 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. QOTW:  Technorama Avner: Subscription Renewal. This is why everyone is watching small fires inside empty old CRT sets 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: