Transient
An evening pause: In celebration of the first monsoon rain this past Saturday here in Tucson.
Hat tip Willi Kusche.
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
Occasionally get extremely well defined lightning storms coming in off Lake Michigan, but have not seen one like the video, in quite a while.
Lots-o-rain, thunder, and lightning, the past 10 days in Michigan. Had a very late Spring, then it went straight to the 90’s. We are in peak Tornado Season, colliding Low & High pressure zones, tend to concern us. (On the upside, the Tornado count this season is only 50% of the historic average.)
>Northern Wisconsin & the Upper Peninsula were hammered over the weekend. Michigan Tech (in Houghton, Michigan,) is temporarily closed.
“Flash Flooding, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula”
June 17th, 2018
https://youtu.be/zqsbwoD0izU
0:45
pivoting…
Had an F-5 tornado wipe out a few towns 62 years ago-
The West Michigan Tornadoes of April 3, 1956
https://youtu.be/saUr-j93RKQ
21:25
As a meteorologist, this is a true delight!
Visually excellent, but the stupid sound effects could have been left out. Seeing lightning miles away and hearing a crack at the same time?
It reminds me of combat footage where a bomb explodes in the distance and somebody has added an explosion sound so they occur simultaneously.
It cheapens the show.
ted-
completely agree on fake sound fx’s. (especially with historical films)
For this one, it’s more “art” than a documentary (as it were), but agree the delay is an integral part of the experience, it’s a feature of reality, not a bug.
Enjoy watching thunderstorms from a safe distance (miles), but after twenty years in the South and some way-too-close-for-comfort-strikes, just as happy to live in place where lightning storms are uncommon.