One more reason to be grateful Isaac Newton invented gravity

From The Writer's Almanac, other things you could be watching tonight:

"Other cities have developed their own ball-dropping traditions. Atlanta, Georgia, drops a giant peach. Eastport, Maine, drops a sardine. Ocean City, Maryland, drops a beach ball, and Mobile, Alabama, drops a 600-pound electric Moon Pie. In Tempe, Arizona, a giant tortilla chip descends into a massive bowl of salsa. Brasstown, North Carolina, drops a Plexiglas pyramid containing a live possum; and Key West, Florida, drops an enormous ruby slipper with a drag queen inside it."

And in Woodland, North Carolina, terrified residents worry every sundown means the solar farms have finally sucked away all the light of the sun.