Episode 814: Never Give a Dalek Root Access

*Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show.* #### **Feedback** - QOTW: You get unlimited funding to build a themed escape room based on any obscure sci-fi movie—what is the theme and how do players escape? - Question-of-the-week | Technorama Podcast #### **On This Day In History for October 7, 2026** Today is October 7th, 2026, the 280th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 85 days remaining. - Let’s start our journey through time by traveling all the way back to 3761 BC, which marks the traditional epoch reference date and start of the modern Hebrew calendar. - In 1477, Uppsala University was inaugurated in Sweden, having received its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV earlier that year. - Moving ahead to 1826, the Granite Railway began operations in Massachusetts, cementing its place in history as the first chartered railway in the United States. - In 1912, the Helsinki Stock Exchange witnessed its very first transaction. - Just one year later, in 1913, the Ford Motor Company revolutionized manufacturing by introducing the world’s first moving vehicle assembly line. - Then in 1919, KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, was founded, making it the oldest airline still operating under its original name today. - In 1958, America’s crewed space-flight project officially got a new name, becoming known to the world as Project Mercury. - A year after that, in 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 3 made history by transmitting the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. - In 1996, a new player entered the media landscape as the Fox News Channel began broadcasting for the first time. - And in 2002, the Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on mission STS-112, heading up to continue the assembly of the International Space Station. Happy birthday goes out on this date to: - The legendary Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate Niels Bohr, who was born 141 years ago today. - Also born on this date, 107 years ago, was American computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram. - The beloved South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, would have celebrated his 95th birthday today. - We also celebrate John Hopcroft, the esteemed American computer scientist and author, who is turning 87 today. - Scottish physicist and academic David Wallace is also celebrating, turning 81 today. - And American computer scientist and author Ralph Johnson is turning 71 today. 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