Good morning, Whitewater.
Midweek in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventeen. Sunrise is 7:05 AM and sunset 5:12 PM, for 10h 07m 22s of daytime. It’s a full moon today, with 99.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Videographer Alphonse Swinehart’s latest work, Riding Light, is a depiction (with a few liberties for watchability) of a photon of light’s journey from the sun to Jupiter. Despite the great speed of at which light travels, that’s a journey from the sun to the solar system’s with planet would still take about forty-five minutes. (The photon would reach Earth in under nine minutes.)
Riding Light from Alphonse Swinehart on Vimeo.
On this day in 1922, Ford buys Lincoln:
The acquisition came at a time when Ford, founded in 1903, was losing market share to its competitor General Motors, which offered a range of automobiles while Ford continued to focus on its utilitarian Model T. Although the Model T, which first went into production in 1908, had become the world’s best-selling car and revolutionized the auto industry, it had undergone few major changes since its debut, and from 1914 to 1925 it was only available in one color: black. In May 1927, lack of demand for the Model T forced Ford to shut down the assembly lines on the iconic vehicle. Later that year, the company introduced the more comfortable and stylish Model A, a car whose sleeker look resembled that of a Lincoln automobile. In fact, the Model A was nicknamed “the baby Lincoln.”
Google-a-Day asks a geography question:
Due to its vast territory, in 2009 a bill was proposed in Russia to reduce “what”, down from eleven?