Five Things This Week: week 8, 2018

Primal Space @ YouTube
I’ll go out of my way to heed the alert indicating SpaceX is streaming a launch. I don’t expect watching a rocket blast off will ever get old for me – maybe that comes from remembering the first Space Shuttle launch, or just my fascination with man slipping the surly bonds of Earth. But watching any SpaceX launch you have to ask, “How are they getting those incredible shots?” This short video goes into some of the tech behind that tech. 
Outside Magazine
This three-year-old long-read came back to relevance this week when a death in Yellowstone was confirmed to be that of a treasure hunter. It’s not anyone in the Outside story, but it still speaks to the fact that this modern-day mystery still haunts folks’ dreams with the elusive hope of literally discovering treasure.
As I’ve mentioned in my selfie post and my story this week, I’ve been sick. So these next three are very much sick-related:
3Airborne
Yeah, I know it’s not a clinical thing, and maybe it’s truly a placebo thing, but I do feel like it helps.
4
Water. A lot of it.
5SleepAnd a lot of this.