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Saint Bernard, Louisiana mdash; Max Begue loves almost everything about living in coastal Louisiana, but hurricane season brings back memories of Katrina in 2005, when his home and neighborhood were washed away, almost as if they never existed. We all did, Begue told CBS News when asked if he considered leaving after Katrina. And a lot of people left. But I chose to stay. He also chose a geodesic dome for his new house, made of more than 300 interwoven triangles which disperse the wind s pressure. stanley cup I built the dome because I didn t want to go through the process of losing another house, Begue explained.The dome home is able to withstand winds topping 200 mph. It makes it, essentially, hurricane-proof. They thought I was a kook, Begue said of people s reactions when he told them he was building a dome home. That is not the case anymore. The spherical home is also energy-efficient because surface area is minimized. Begue s electric bills are usually less than $100 a month, about a third of what his neighbors pay.Domes have long been a part of America stanley cup n architecture, built for their resiliency. Famous examples include the world s first domed stadium, the Houston Astrodome, and the majestic iron dom stanley cup e of the U.S. Capitol. We really want to be able to show how geodesic domes are not just stable and resilient, but they are also imminently efficient, and portable, and practical, said Abeer Saha, curator at the Smithsonian Instituti Htty New Jersey governor says reopening economy too soon could be throwing gasoline on the fire
If you ve ever spent time staring at the moon, you may have seen a plane appear to cross it. The art of capturing that moment has become an addiction for a group of southern California photographers, who meet up to shoot the breeze, and the moon. As CBS News correspondent David Begnaud found out, timing is stanley cup everything. The misery of missing the moment is short lived, another chance is about to fly by. On a near-full moon night in southern California, a group of photographers tried repeatedly to snap the money-shot of an airliner crossing the moo stanley cup n. They are amateurs and professionals, who jokingly refer to themselves as lunartics. Los Angeles Times news photographer Raul Roa started this monthly meet-up two years ago. He was driving home early one evening when he stopped and, by chance, captured an incredible image. Repeating it would be the challenge that would develop into an obsession. Luna means moon in Spanish, Roa said. Art, you know, lunartics -- so we re trying to shoot some art yeezy here, basically. We re not crazy, we are artists. Nikky was the second person to join the group. His real name is Nick Ut; famed photographer of The Associate Press. He won a Pulitzer Prize for a photo of a young girl during the Vietnam War, naked after Napalm burned the clothes off her body.The lunartics are able to see the planes coming in the sky because of their lights. It is then that they raise their long lenses, which can capture even th |
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