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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
Hi Bob. I have a cool evening pause for you.
The Eurovision Song Contest is a yearly event where each country has nominated a musical performance to a final pan-European vote. Now the new European country The Islamic State will participate with ABBU from their province Sweden. The melody is taken from a gay band of the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEzDD0dZU8U
“Taken from the Israeli comedy show ‘Eretz Nehederet’.”
The last Karman lecture was great, I recommend it to us who are nerdy about these things. By Williford who is deputy science manager of Mars 2020. With such intelligence and presence and intensity in charge, I think this looks very good. Finally I got an explanation for the dropping off of sample tubes, and I’ve watched a whole conference about this issue without getting the point at all. Some bad ideas about this have been proposed. But the samples will be dropped all in the same location, in order to allow for the rover to then risk going into inaccessible terrain. Suddenly it sounds rational. And he also explains why it isn’t possible to send the many tons heavy and complex and maintenance intensive lab equipment needed to detect life, to Mars.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/109855482
This Mars rover is a Rube Goldberg machine. But I suppose that it has to be, because Mars isn’t our ordinary back yard. Yet.