Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a one-third chance of rain during the day, and a near-certainty of rain Wednesday night. We’ll have a high of fifty-nine.
It’s the anniversary, from 1938, of Orson Welles’s radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds,” at the time causing some Americans to think an actual Martian invasion was under way.
Welles was both director and narrator of the CBS Radio Mercury Theatre on the Air program.
All of this, of course, was an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
Wikipedia has an article about the broadcast and historians’ differing views of the reaction to it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio).
Scientific American‘s daily trivia question asks about extinction. (Clicking on the question leads to its answer.)
Approximately how many species went extinct every year before human impact?