Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
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
Excellent!
Apologies for the thread hijack, but is anyone watching the Starliner demo launch? Sounds like the spacecraft’s engines didn’t fire, it might be coming back in rather than getting to ISS.
$0.25 each in lots of 5000 on Alibaba. Shipping in 15 days. The product description notes bird control and chemical reaction abatement as primary uses. The description appears to reference the LA Reservoir directly:
“. . . pouring a nice blanket of dark spheres over a reservoir prevents that hot California sun from breaking through, . . .”
And: ” . . . shade balls reduce water loss by about 300 million gallons a year, which is pretty good for a side gig.”
I bet it drove the Russian an Chinese recon satellite operators absolutely knuts….”What are those crazy Americans doing NOW ?!”