On the radio…
UPDATE: The show started late due to technical problems, but is going on now!
I will be doing another long guest appearance tonight on The Space Show with David Livingston, beginning at 7 pm (Pacific). You can listen live here. (link fixed, though now it doesn’t matter as the show just ended. It will be archived and available in a day or so.)
As always, I strongly encourage my readers to call in. Makes the show more fun.
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UPDATE: The show started late due to technical problems, but is going on now!
I will be doing another long guest appearance tonight on The Space Show with David Livingston, beginning at 7 pm (Pacific). You can listen live here. (link fixed, though now it doesn’t matter as the show just ended. It will be archived and available in a day or so.)
As always, I strongly encourage my readers to call in. Makes the show more fun.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
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Bob,
Thanks for the nugget on the speculation and about Musk and a space telescope. Makes a tremendous amount of sense to me. Hope it happens sooner rather than later. I still have a suspicion someone will figure out how configure a space telescope with an array of cube sats. Maybe it would be a radio telescope rather than optical, but the things are too dang cheap and the replacement of individual cube sats would seem so easy compared to trying to repair a traditional space telescope. Really enjoy your appearances with Dr Livingston. One of the few things which can motivate me to stay up until midnight any more!
I’m looking forward to listening… As I always do… Bob, you are generally the best regular guest on the space show… And believe me, it bugs me to bits that I never get chance to speak with the pair of you due to the bloody time difference.
But I have to say, can’t we get a crowd funding thing going or something to get Dr Livingston some new equipment? The show still sounds like an 80s FM radio talk show with bad reception…. But it’s actually an archive of immense importance, and deserves a better sound quality.
I would bung in to help David get a better sounding set up… He might fight it… But the quality of the show itself deserves it.
Any thoughts?
I wished I was listening last night in regards to the Small Modular Reactors (SMR). One of my co-workers came from INL (Idaho National Labs) and talks about them all the time. The caller is correct, one of the private contractors is NuScale. They are still building the first experimental model at INL.
I have not heard of any space applications, so far they have been targeted towards electrical utilities with microgrid applications.