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#540 – The Space Time Continuum with Fran Blanche
Dave talks with Fran Blanche about, well, everything including her theory on the space time continuum!
00:00 – Fran Blanche
02:00 – Fob watches
04:30 – Solar power and grids
08:00 – Green Power
11:10 – Fran Lab
14:00 – Commercial and mixed use buildings
16:30 – Youtube
17:15 – GoFundMe
19:30 – Woodworking shop & Storage
23:20 – Alan Bean paintings
26:40 – Next video
29:20 – Philly Lockdowns
35:25 – IEEE
36:40 – Engineering Groups
37:40 – Freemasons
39:15 – Engineering Rings, the Iron Ring
40:30 – Engineers Creed
44:00 – Old Electronics Smell, Smells, Elastomers & Outgassing
48:50 – Smithsonian drama
51:00 – The new space revival
52:30 – Accents and The Beatles
57:20 – LED displays in the 80s
1:01:40 – Film vs Tape
1:06:30 – Bogus old electronics display ads
1:10:50 – The Youtube Algorithm & Age
1:16:00 – eYoutubers & Webrings
1:21:15 – Fran’s Theory of Space Time