Chemistry, Update & Dragons
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Chemistry, Update & Dragons
Ready for a party in your ears from those wacky Nerds again? This week we are celebrating, scratching our chins in suspicion, and looking at upcoming events that we can use to make money. But first, grab a cup of Earl Grey, hot, get a comfy seat and get ready because we have a party. It’s here, that marvellous time of year when we find out who has won a noble prize! It’s awesome, kind of like a Nerds holiday celebrating knowledge and learning, yay! For those wondering Buck is bouncing around the office with excitement. Speaking of which, his topic this week is the Nobel prize winners in Chemistry, and it is for the Lithium Ion battery. A long time coming we know, but still, it is definitely worthy. Buck is still reading the lists and articles about this, and the Professor is enjoying this to.
Next up we have DJ telling us about the latest with him doing little, erm, um, oh, sorry. Apparently it is about the new Dolittle movie, not him being lazy. Now there are some interesting points in this section so make sure you listen carefully. We won’t give away all the details here, no, listen in and see what is happening. We can tell you there is a name change, and no, it isn’t DJ being rebranded to some funny name such as Purveyance Slave Droid. Mainly because he still hasn’t learned how to make the perfect cup of Earl Grey.
Next we hear how someone has had an epically lucky coincidence when naming their crowd funding campaign. We are told it is completely unintentional though. Although Buck thinks that this is the next generation of Citizen Con, sorry, Star Con, no, what is it, star rippoff? Oh you know what we mean. Anyway, this bloke was trying to raise capital for a game he was developing and listen in to hear the rest of this fantastic story.
As usual we have the shout outs, with special mention to Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, the first all female spacewalk crew. Then we have the usual remembrances, birthdays and special events. We are going to be appearing at Supanova Brisbane so stop by and say hello, we will be happy to see you, also we have a special announcement this next week. Until then, take care of yourselves, look out for each other and stay hydrated.
EPISODE NOTES:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 winners - https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/science-technology/chemistry-nobel-for-development-of-lithium-ion-batteries-67159
Dolittle movie update - https://deadline.com/video/universal-dolittle-robert-downey-jr-trailer/
Day of Dragons confusion - https://twitter.com/icotom/status/1182291839027761152?s=20
Games currently playing
DJ
– MK 11 - https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/mortal-kombat-11-ps4/
Rating – 4/5
Buck
– World of Warships - https://worldofwarships.com/
Rating – 4.5/5
Professor
– Creeper World 3 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/280220/Creeper_World_3_Arc_Eternal/
Rating – 9/10
Other topics discussed
Kryten (Red Dwarf character)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryten
John Goodenough (Oldest Nobel Prize winner at the age of 97)
More facts about the Lithium-ion battery
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
1970s energy crisis (Major industrial countries of the world, particularly the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, faced substantial petroleum shortages, real and perceived, as well as elevated prices.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis
ElectroBOOM (Iranian Canadian comedian, electrical engineer and YouTube personality.)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE
Roast Rabbit (from the Warner Brothers show : Wackiki Wabbit)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6feJ7k36BPk
Energizer lithium ion batteries
- https://www.energizer.com/batteries/energizer-ultimate-lithium-batteries
Memory effect (also known as battery effect, lazy battery effect, or battery memory, is an effect observed in nickel-cadmium and nickel–metal hydride rechargeable batteries that causes them to hold less charge.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect
Nickel Cadmium batteries (type of rechargeable battery using nickel oxide hydroxide and metallic cadmium as electrodes.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel–cadmium_battery
How to prolong lithium batteries
- https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
Baghdad battery (also known as Parthian Battery is a set of three artefacts which were found together: a ceramic pot, a tube of copper, and a rod of iron.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
Oxford Electric Bell (also known as Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since. It was one of the first pieces purchased for a collection of apparatus by clergyman and physicist Robert Walker)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
Better battery management
- https://hackaday.com/2019/10/07/better-battery-management-through-chemistry/
Sonic the Hedgehog movie redesign
- https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sonic-the-hedgehog-redesign-delays-movie-to-2020/1100-6467149/
Day of Dragons (Kickstarter project by Beawesome Games)
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beawesomegames/day-of-dragons
Day of Dragons (Magic the Gathering card)
- https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=438615
100% science-based dragon MMO
- https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ks6iu/100_science_based_dragon_mmo/
Time of Dragons (2016 MMO dragons’ game)
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/353130/Time_of_Dragons/
Dragonheart (1996 British-American fantasyaction-adventure film)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonheart
Dragon Rider (original title: Drachenreiter is a 1997 German children's novel)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Rider_(novel)
Smaug (The Hobbit character)
- https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Smaug
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_V:_Skyrim
Are we making new tags for duplicate game names harder to use
Name Collision (the nomenclature problem that occurs in computer programs when the same variable name is used for different things in two separate areas that are joined, merged, or otherwise go from occupying separate namespaces to sharing one.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_collision
How to name things: the hardest problem in programming
- https://www.slideshare.net/pirhilton/how-to-name-things-the-hardest-problem-in-programming
Day of Dragons raise $500k on Kickstarter
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattpaprocki/2019/10/14/day-of-dragons-raises-500k/#69be3d4730c5
Two hard things
- https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
Terminator joins Mortal Kombat 11
Castology (TNC Podcast)
- https://thatsnotcanon.com/castologypodcast
Shoutouts
3 Oct 2019 - Boyan Slat’s floating boom in capturing plastics along with microplastics finally works after some setback in its initial stage - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/03/ocean-cleanup-device-successfully-collects-plastic-for-first-time
8 Oct 1582 - Between Oct. 4 and Oct. 15, 1582, because the 10 intervening days have simply been declared out of existence by the pope. (This offer may not apply outside Italy, Spain and Portugal.) All this happened because the Earth year is about 11 minutes short of the 365¼ days set by Julius Caesar. It's really 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. If the drift kept up, Easter would eventually have been observed in the summer, and Christmas in the spring. - https://www.wired.com/2010/10/1008gregorian-calendar-skips-days/
14 Oct 2019 - Nobel Prize winners announced in the fields of Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Literature, Economic Sciences and Peace - https://time.com/5694094/nobel-prize-winners-2019/
16 Oct 2019 - Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir from expedition 61 will venture to the far side of the station on the Port 6 truss structure. The duo will set their suits to battery power on Friday at 7:50 a.m. when the spacewalk officially starts and exit the Quest airlock. NASA TV begins its live coverage beginning at 6:30 a.m. Once there, the spacewalkers will take about five-and-a-half hours to replace the failed power regulator with a spare BCDU. - https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2019/10/16/koch-meir-spacewalk-moves-to-friday-as-crew-adjusts-schedule/?fbclid=IwAR2ZuRsNHtKz9ec5c5ZoddN7ecV8juLAgi_lzKzkZubtDjdpDTbgWYL2doI
Special mention: 17 Oct 2019 - The leading solar car competing in the World Solar Challenge has burst into flames, forcing the team out of the race for the first time in 20 years. The solar car — from the Vattenfall Solar Team — caught alight on the Stuart Highway, just south of Port Augusta this morning, just 263 kilometres from the Adelaide finish line. - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-17/solar-challenge-leading-vehicle-bursts-into-flames/11611112?sf221644014=1&fbclid=IwAR3qWK_7BtjmI0QrWAn8e1BR5-QUN-jXhpNjBD-lopYDeEjBwVrkdVSSQeM
Remembrances
11 Oct 2019 - Alexei Leonov, Soviet Russian cosmonaut,Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. He was connected to the craft by a 4.8-metre (16 ft) tether. At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off and was barely able to get back inside the capsule. Leonov had spent eighteen months undergoing weightlessness training for the mission. In July 1975, Leonov commanded the Soyuz capsule in the Soyuz–Apollo mission, which docked in space for two days with an American Apollo capsule. Leonov was an accomplished artist whose published books include albums of his artistic works and works he did in collaboration with his friend Andrei Sokolov. Leonov took coloured pencils and paper into space, where he sketched the Earth and drew portraits of the Apollo astronauts who flew with him during the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his notes to 2010: Odyssey Two that, after a 1968 screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Leonov pointed out to him that the alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun shown in the opening is essentially the same as that in Leonov's 1967 painting Near the Moon, although the painting's diagonal framing of the scene was not replicated in the film. Clarke kept an autographed sketch of this painting—which Leonov made after the screening—hanging on his office wall. Clarke dedicated 2010: Odyssey Two to Leonov and Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov; and the fictional spaceship in the book is named Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. He was the last living member of the five cosmonauts in the Voskhod programme. He died from a long illness at the age of 85 in Moscow. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Leonov
11 Oct 2019 - Robert Forster , American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, Lebanese terrorist Abdul Rafai in The Delta Force, and Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Forster's varied filmography further includes titles such as Me, Myself & Irene, Mulholland Drive, The Descendants, Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, and What They Had. He also had prominent roles in television series such as Banyon, Heroes, and Twin Peaks (2017). He won the Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television for his performance as Ed Galbraith also referred to as the Disappearer in the Breaking Bad episode "Granite State", reprising his role in the series' sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, which premiered the day of his death. He died from brain cancer at the age of 78 in Los Angeles, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Forster
14 Oct 1984 – Sir Martin Ryle, Englishradio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. In 1946 Ryle and Derek Vonberg were the first people to publish interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths. With improved equipment, Ryle observed the most distant known galaxies in the universe at that time. He was the first Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, and founding director of the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. He was Astronomer Royal from 1972 to 1982. Ryle and Antony Hewish shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974, the first Nobel prize awarded in recognition of astronomical research.[6] In the 1970s, Ryle turned the greater part of his attention from astronomy to social and political issues which he considered to be more urgent. He died from a long illness at the age of 66 in Cambridge. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ryle
Famous Birthdays
14 Oct 1801 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this device of 1832 the phenakistiscope. The projection of stroboscopic photographs, creating the illusion of motion, eventually led to the development of cinema. Plateau also studied the phenomena of capillary action and surface tension. The mathematical problem of existence of a minimal surface with a given boundary is named after him. He conducted extensive studies of soap films and formulated Plateau's laws which describe the structures formed by such films in foams. He was born in Brussels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plateau
14 Oct 1927 – Sir Roger Moore, English actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985, beginning with Live and Let Die. His most notable television role was playing the main character, Simon Templar, in the British television series The Saint from 1962 to 1969. He also had roles in some American television shows and films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including replacing James Garner and portraying Beau Maverick in the Maverick series in 1960 to 61. Moore starred with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders television series in 1971 to 1972, and had roles in several theatrical films in the 1970s and 1980s. Moore was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for services to charity. In 2007, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television and film. In 2008, the French government appointed him a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was born in Stockwell, London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore
14 Oct 1946 - Katy Manning, English-Australian actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She has also made many theatre appearances, and is now an Australian citizen. In 2009, Manning moved back to the UK to pursue new acting work and currently lives in London. While she played the part of Jo Grant alongside Jon Pertwee's incarnation of the Doctor, Manning struck up an immediate rapport with her co-stars Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), John Levene (Sergeant Benton), Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates) and Roger Delgado (the Master). Fans of Doctor Who often refer to these characters as the UNIT family — UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, being the fictional United Nations organisation that the Doctor worked for. Manning is the only surviving Doctor Who companion from Jon Pertwee's era. She was born in Guildford, Surrey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Manning
Events of Interest
14 Oct 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. Eastman's invention revolutionized photography by using coated paper and rollers, rather than heavy glass dry plates, to reproduce images. Eastman began looking for ways to "make the camera as convenient as the pencil," after amassing the heavy, complicated, and expensive equipment he needed to keep a picture record of his vacation. This invention allowed him to mass produce a small hand-held box camera filled with rolls of film with 100 exposures. Millions of Americans recorded the first snap shots of their everyday lives using the Kodak camera, which was introduced in 1888.
- https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/kodak-film-patent-issued-october-14-1884
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US306594A/en
14 Oct 1892 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection of 12 stories originally published serially in "The Strand Magazine". The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes
14 Oct 1926 - Winnie the Pooh was published, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit. The characters of Kanga, a toy kangaroo, and her son Roo are introduced later in the book, in the chapter entitled "In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath". The bouncy toy-tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(book)
14 Oct 1947 - Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound, Yeager flew the X-1 rocket over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude). The rocket plane nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis” (after Yeager's wife), was designed with thin, unswept wings and a streamlined fuselage modeled after a .50-caliber bullet. Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager’s achievement was not announced until June 1948. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yeager-breaks-sound-barrier
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Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)
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