Above LA 4K
An evening pause: The creator strongly advises that you watch this in full screen HD with sound on. And I agree.
Hat tip Tom.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Magnificent
Looking at this piece you realize just how immense the United States is, LA being a significant but small part of it, and the level of sophistication it takes both technologically and socially to make it work. In only the last 100 years we have gone from literally farming with the horse and buggy, to nuclear weapons, to walking on the moon, to landing on Mars, to mapping and manipulating DNA, to 3D printing etc, etc. Contrasting that with the knowledge that humans as a species has only really been around in their modern form for about 150,00 years? Approximately 3,000,000 years as a species in total? Existing on a planet that is aprox. only 4.5 billion years old, part of a universe that is in total approximately 13.7 billion years old.
All of that time culminating in a technological spike in only the last 100 years and a video like this. Amazing when you think about it.
I submitted this video after watching the one from San Francisco just before the fire. that was posted a few weeks ago. The contrast is amazing, look how far we have come since the early 1900s.