Saturday Night Live – Washington’s Dream
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
This skit is, surpringly, only a year or two old. Nate Bargadze (Washington) is a fantastic stand-up comedian, and I highly recommend his Netflix specials.
Only a year or two old! I thought this harked back to ancient times when it most always funny (1980’s). How’d they get this past Network management?
They’d rather target kids
https://reactormag.com/movie-review-boys-go-to-jupiter-by-julian-glander/
They don’t listen to talk radio
They laugh about 5280 feet to a mile. A number everyone has to memorize. But a mile is a good unit of measure in that it is the distance that a young man can travel at a trot to completion. Temperatures of 0 to 100 is the range that people in a temperate climate will experience throughout the year. 0 is shivering cold. 100 is sweating hot. Weights from 0 to 100 is the range that people can intuitively understand. 100 being the max that a man can lift overhead. And then 100 to 200 pounds is the healthy weight range of men and women. Women down to 100 and men up to 200.. And yeah, 5280 looks pretty arbitrary. But then, the conversion of 0 – 100 Fahrenheit is -18 to 38 Celsius. Not a people friendly way to measure temperature.
How many stones is that?
SNL remembered how to be funny?
Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer and began his system patterned after the familiar nautical and astronomical 360° With minutes and seconds. (that’s how degrees became part of temperature)
With influence presumably from masons, he changed it to have prominent temperatures divisible by 33°. He lived on the northern coast of Europe where he took the average winter time temperature as zero, and the average summer temperature as 100 for a starting point. (50° remains near earths average still to this day)
Zero was adjusted to the temperature where salty sea water begin freezing to decks of ships. (The most dangerous occurrence for that area of Europe) freezing freshwater at 33°, human body temperature at 99°, boiling water at 231° etc…. but then the metric system was devised with more precise measurements and Fahrenheit attempted similar alterations. Intentions and reality did not coincide and it ended up the way it is today.