Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast is for a snowy day, with a high temperature of twenty-nine degrees. Accumulations of about two inches are forecast for the Whippet City.
Wired recalls that on this day in 1968, Apollo 8 delivered Christmas Eve Greetings From Lunar Orbit:
1968: The crew of Apollo 8 delivers a live, televised Christmas Eve broadcast after becoming the first humans to orbit another space body.
Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders made their now-celebrated broadcast after entering lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, which might help explain the heavy religious content of the message. After announcing the arrival of lunar sunrise, each astronaut read from the Book of Genesis.
In the present, back on Earth, or at least not so far from it as Apollo 8 once was, a very clever FPV pilot has filmed a radio control plane’s flight over Manhattan. Raphael “Trappy” Pirker is an Austrian who has recorded first person view footage from flights all over the world.
It’s a remarkable film.
The flight generated a bit of hand-wringing from a model aircraft association about supposed threats from the small plane, but those dangers are both overblown and (in this era of unreasonable and ill-considered ‘security’ measures) predictable.
Hat tip to Singularity Hub for the videos.