Veritasium – The Ames Window
An evening pause: A wonderful demonstration that one should never assume your first glance is right.
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
An evening pause: A wonderful demonstration that one should never assume your first glance is right.
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


A fascinating video! I immediately thought of its potential for further philosophical shenanigans. “Shenanigans” involving our sense of sight and the application of the mind’s capacity to Reason brought to this evidence.
Years ago, I accepted the epistemological axiom that “reason must be man’s only absolute.” Thereby, all claimed knowledge becomes “contextual.” It exists within the context of reason. Therefore, it must always remain open to new evidence or reasoned reinterpretation of the old.
Is it not wonderfully “curious” our latest discoveries in the world of “quantum” revolve around (no pun intended) our interpretations of what we try to “see” (measure) of them? The idea that attempting to establish where an electron is “causes” it to not be there? And now “entanglement?” We have reached the point of “wisdom” where we now actually question causality and identity in the name of both! Yes, the atom, Einstein, light – and its pesky speed, present metaphysical “anomalies.” Epistemological ones, however? Well, that is another matter………..
To my knowledge there has never been any evidence that logical contradictions can exist. When those among us accept “evidence” they perhaps do, it is subsequently determined – empirically or experimentally, they do not. Sadly, however, the former has become both materially fundable and psychologically fungible.
The video again demonstrates the importance of always reminding ourself that “illusion” only has conceptual understanding following conceptual understanding of “reality!” To the extent one doubts or questions Reality itself, illusion no longer has contextual meaning.
The video also provides evidence there will always remain aspects of the mind that we do not understand. If and when one among us comes to understand such an aspect, it will not “invalidate” what we already understand. It will just further “contextualize” it!
Great post, Robert!