January 12, 2022 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
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Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID 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. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four 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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Embedded below the fold in two parts.
To listen to all of John Batchelor’s podcasts, well worth your time, go here.
Readers!
Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID 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. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four 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.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
Bob – It hit me how many SPACE developments are currently happening after listening through AudioBoom to your latest appearance on the John Batchelor Show – the current episodes covering Starlink, Ariane 6, Chinese Robot Arm, Roscosmos, Virgin, JWT, Perseverance, and the Chinese Moon Rover & Chang’e-5 lunar lander. I also wonder how many people heard you cover these many topics through the Batchelor podcasts, internet radio, and WOR 710 radio. Do you know?
For those who don’t follow Batchelor, in addition to podcasting & being part of iHeart internet radio, John Batchelor is on the legendary WOR 710 radio station with a listening audience in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The WOR 50,000 watt class radio station probably can reach millions.
Besides listening to Bob’s segments on Space, other topics Batchelor recently covered with guests include:
Kazakhstan
Ukraine / Russia / NATO
China
Omicron
Energy Crisis in Europe
Inflation
Many of these stories have an indirect effect on space exploration.
For example, for Kazakhstan, one of Russia’s spaceports is located in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. About two months ago Bob covered the story of the UAE providing funding towards a joint project with Russia & Kazakhstan to upgrade the oldest Soyuz launchpad at Baikonur. So now you know that at least some of your additional gasoline expenses are going towards space launches in Kazakhstan:)
In regards to Ukraine, as Bob has reported on Jan 1, if tensions between the US & Russia escalate high enough over the Ukraine crisis, this would most likely affect the US Russian joint operation of the ISS.
Moving on to the subject of China, Gordon G Chang is one of Batchelor’s China Experts. There are numerous economic, military, and political developments in China that will have some type of effect on the Chinese Space Program.
This goes to show that BtB Space stories just don’t exist in isolation, but are very much connected to Geopolitics, History, and the current Global Economic trends.
Given the above, here is another Heinlein quote to consider:
“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.”
With respect to Heinlein, a current variant of that could be: “A generation which is ignorant of Geopolitics, History, Global Economics & Elites will screw up it’s Space Exploration”. I know – it’s not very snappy.
Some items of interest from phys.org: “We conclude or I believe-rationality declined decades ago.” Duh…
“Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random.”
That ranks right up there with the Channeled Scablands as massive flood erosion after all.
Now, could this finding hurt Dawkins…but at the expense of helping rehabilitate Lysenko and epigenetics? Stay tuned!
Last but not least:
“New Study Calls Into Question Early Claims of COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ of Health Misinformation.”
Uh-huh!