January 6, 2023 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
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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
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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.
Your comments about “Big Space” satellites and cube sats reminded me of this meme with a picture of a guy surrounded by stuff like a boom box, a land line phone, a PC, a VHS player with the text “20 years later and all of these things fit in your pocket”
https://rb.gy/hvbgds
Which reminded me of this meme with the text:
1985: I bet there’ll be flying cars in 2022
2022: My mask protects Ukrainian pregnant men from climate change
https://rb.gy/erhoko
Wow, checking on this evening’s Starlink launch, I see it has been shifted to tomorrow evening, meaning SpaceX will be making two orbital launches, one from each coast, less than an hour apart. These a few hours after a Cargo Dragon returns from the ISS.
Keep rocking, boys!
Ray-
thanks for that factoid.
Tangentially–
I’ll drop this in here; excellent long-range tracking film of the COSMO-SkyMed launch from early in 2022.
-includes fairing deployment
SpaceX tracking footage
https://youtu.be/FWUv7XXBb2Y
4:43
Here’s one (not just for you Wayne), Jordan Peterson just announced this is the year that everything changes. 6 min.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V-hB-4fnqtM
AI…. chat GPT
Zimmerman will be glad to hear that he predicts most of the University will be out of business.
Max: I only have three words: With Folded Hands
Max-
Good stuff.
Here’s two selections anyone might like, Peterson interviews his brother-in-law, Jim Keller:
Jordan B. Peterson (Episode 272)
“Zeroes and Ones: Into the Depths of Computation with Jim Keller”
(July, 2022)
https://youtu.be/1TmuJSbms9c
2:17:57
Jordan B. Peterson (Episode 308)
“AI: The Beast or Jerusalem?” with Jonathan Pageau & Jim Keller
(December 2022)
https://youtu.be/0ll5c50MrPs
1:30:29
Mr. Z.:
Good to know the Archive comes in handy!
https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive