July 1, 2026 Quick space links with no links
BtB’s stringer Jay was locked out of X yesterday for silly reasons, and thus he could send me no stories. No matter. This post is still an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
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
The other day Robert had an article about earthquake predictions. I attempted to post this reply below, but it (I, my phone, something) was glitchy.
Robert, thank you for mentioning the Garbage In Garbage Out in the article.
I trust these earthquake computer “models” about as much as I trust the Globull Hoax computer “models.”
My six brothers and sisters and I grew up near the Stanford Linear Accelerator, and near the San Andreas Fault. I often state that I would rather live near a fault line, than a “tornado alley” that routinely is visited by tornadoes. Yes, a fault line will eventually move. Heck, in a few million years San Francisco will be in Alaska, as the tectonic plates shift.
We experienced the brute force of an earthquake during the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. I will never forget the look on sports announcer Al Michaels face as Candlestick Park shook. I will also never forget the regular Americans who stepped up to assist. A portion of the double-decker East Bay 880 freeway collapsed, trapping drivers and passengers. In a portion of the poorer parts of the East Bay, regular people grabbed ladders, climbed and crawled between/under huge blocks of collapsed concrete, and rescued many.
It’s not a simple binary question of either living by tectonic faults or tornado alley. Most of the US is by neither of them.
Ronaldus, you and Bob have misread this earthquake paper.
Just because a scientist uses a computer, does not make their work suspect.
Just because a scientist creates a model, does not make the model worthless.
And I agree with you about most (all?) of the AGW papers!
Lastly, I witnessed first-hand the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. After studying earthquakes for years, to finally experience a BIG one, was quite something. But that’s a story for another day…
I haven’t been able to post anything for the past few days because of what appear to be problems with Cloudflare.
A satellite TV firm might be in financial trouble:
Dish DBS possible Chapter 11 filing
I have been having the same problems with Cloudflare. I have tried to post numerous times. Many were that I needed to re verify but some of the time the Cloudflare “button” didn’t even show .
Yup. The only browser I use on a regular basis is Firefox. I tried clearing the cache and history, but that didn’t work..
The machine I use for posting to BTB runs openSUSE Tumbleweed. I also have Firefox installed on some FreeBSD computers, but I had no luck using that.
Are you still having the same problems? Shane said he rolled things back. I want to find out if that fixed things.
Test article comment.
If this comment posts then things are better. I don’t see the Cloudflare “button” that was there when I posted at 8:05 PM.
My previous two comments went through without any problems. Maybe I’ll have 3 for 3…..
It seems Shane might have disabled Cloudflare for the moment. Please comment away.
If this comment posts then things are better. I don’t see the Cloudflare “button” that was there when I posted at 8:05 PM.
For orbital refueling
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-nasa-refuel-device-future-space.html
Radiation sensor news
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-physicists-sensor-precision.html
NASA and L3Harris will have a tough time matching SpaceX in performance, cost, and time to flight. They probably won’t beat Blue Origin, either.