Today in Tech History: June 17, 2008 Video
Today in Tech History: June 17, 2008 Video Transcript
Hi, I'm Tom Merritt. It's June 17, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. In 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean. She was a passenger, but she would go on to do flying of her own. Some say with aliens. A lesser known hero of the space age, Jack Parsons, died on this date in 1952. He helped develop solid rocket fuel and invent Jet Assisted Takeoff. Thank him every time you fly somewhere with way too much luggage. Parsons was also way into the occult and L. Ron Hubbard allegedly stole his girlfriend at one time. Parsons would apparently pray to the god Pan before every rocket launch. Probably to avoid hitting aliens. And more recently, Linux father Linus Torvalds left his famous job at Transmets, in order to work full-time at OSDL on the Linux kernel. With the help of aliens. Maybe.
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