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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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Join the Snowflake Squadron!

Video below the fold. I would laugh except that I am crying instead. This video illustrates with actual footage what today’s modern left is all about.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • hondo

    It is so difficult to take them seriously. I’m retired Army. I grew up on concrete mean streets in Brooklyn around your era Bob.
    I sometimes wonder if this is all a “Be Che For A Day” festival.
    What I see is a collection of beta-males fired up on caffeine and sugar drinks, accompanied by shrill hysterical females (?). I don’t even want to go near the ensemble of the gender(s) confused.
    Is that it? It’s not lost on me that they exercise their bravery within the confines of their ultra-blue enclaves.
    Snowflake is an understatement.
    the Emperor (the left) does indeed have no clothes.

  • Cotour

    And so what?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4226566/Scientists-discover-massive-reservoir-greenhouse-gases.html

    This is an example of science used to continue and pump the fear (in the snowflakes) and the general public’s subconsciousness. May, might, could, will eventually, could be disastrous etc, etc. These scientific study’s that the media takes and polishes and reformulates and turns into the next block buster, mega disaster…………….that no one could do a damn thing about even if they wanted to. There may be millions of earth killing asteroids within orbital striking distance that we do not even know about……so what?

    Ignorance is bliss, especially when what you have discovered is far beyond any living things ability to control or influence in any way shape or form for the most part. It does not mean that there should not be research but the story lines that are created related to them border on abuse IMO.

    Sex and fear sells, and the media must continue to do what it does, to all our disadvantage in many cases, this story above being one of them.

  • Mitch S.

    A bit off topic but not entierly.
    i think some people hear might see the irony, if not the humor in the following article about the russian spy ship off Connecticut.
    Notice how the old hands brush it off as they know this stuff has been going on for decades.
    But the Dem politicians have to spin it as if this is all because of Trump – even though they damn well know better.
    And then there are the snowflakes wondering if they should pull their kids out of school…

    http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-groton-sub-base-20170215-story.html

  • wayne

    This guy has a few other video that are fairly good.

    Mitch–
    A most excellent point!
    These people have no clue, and no historical perspective.
    They all act like the World started, the day they were born.

  • Mitch S

    Yikes my typos were bad in the above post!
    Pretend I typed:
    “A bit off topic but not entirely.
    I think some people here might see the irony”

    I do tend to miss caps for some letters because my keyboard’s shift key is stingy.

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