March 13, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Short video of Buran being airlifted to Baikonur for its launch in 1988
It is amazing how authoritarian societies so rarely come up with original ideas. Buran and the Energia rocket that launched it definitely included some improvements over the space shuttle, but they were still copies, nonetheless.
- Short video showing the retrieval of one of SpaceX’s fast boats, used during Dragon crew splashdown
Simple, efficient, and quick.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Short video of Buran being airlifted to Baikonur for its launch in 1988
It is amazing how authoritarian societies so rarely come up with original ideas. Buran and the Energia rocket that launched it definitely included some improvements over the space shuttle, but they were still copies, nonetheless.
- Short video showing the retrieval of one of SpaceX’s fast boats, used during Dragon crew splashdown
Simple, efficient, and quick.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. 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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Curious about SpaceX’ boat names: we know what happened to Goose.
The names of the fast boats, Maverick and Goose, are familiar to Top Gun fans, but the support ships, Bob and Doug, are named after NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew SpaceX’s Demo-2 crewed orbital flight test, the company’s first manned spacecraft.
Edward,
I did not know that. I originally thought the vessels were named after Bob and Doug McKenzie from “Strange Brew”.
I always loved Buran
https://twitter.com/11K25_Energia/status/1635384987955630080?cxt=HHwWgMDQ4ev-hrItAAAA
Wormhole?
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-counterportation-quantum-breakthrough-paves-world-first.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-calmest-red-dwarfs-wilder-sun.html
Space evolution–Pancosmorio theory
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-human-evolution-earth-absolutely-essential.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-fundamental-constants-universe-fine-tuned-life.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-multiverse-universe-suspiciously-existunless-physicist.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-rolls-royce-uk-funds-moon-nuclear.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-quantum-outer-space.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-prototype-telescope-international-space-station.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-state-suborbital-space-science.html
time-reflected waves
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-electromagnetic.html
disasters
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hard-disasters.html
Dark matter?
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-quantum-mechanics-particles.html
exploding star catalog
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-largest-stars.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-webb-captures-rarely-prelude-supernova.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-simulations-perspective-universe.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-transiting-mini-neptune-exoplanet-characterized-gaseous.html
Martian concrete and space rock
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-scientists-cosmic-concrete-strong-regular.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-odds-newly-found-asteroid-earth.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-history-uk-winchcombe-meteorite.html
soak
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-capture-carbon-dioxide-equivalent-forest.html
roll out solar
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-roll-to-roll-printable-perovskite-solar-cell.html
Venus
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-venus-fleet-balloons.html
space water
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-earth-meteorites-scientists.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-tool-hidden-beneath-planet.html
Terminator zone
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-terminator-zones-distant-planets-harbor.html
Robot tech
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-robots-multiple-materials.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-soft-robot-shifts-sea-ease.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mix-and-match-kit-enable-astronauts-menagerie.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-soft-polymer-based-tactile-sensor-robotics.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-effective-strategy-remotely-snake-robots.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-robots-mental-well-being-workas.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-deep-framework-quadrotors-agile-robots.html
Humans beating machines
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-super-ai-gameplay-spurs-humans-strategies.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-method-boost-online-databases.html
New materials
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-synthesis-technique-monolayer-honeycomb-sic.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-unique-image-scientists-high-speed-camera.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-xcel-radioactive-minnesota.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-numerical-simulation-materials-oriented-ultra-precision-diamond.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-crystal.html
battery and tech news
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-3d-internal-rechargeable-batteries-revealed.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-stalactites-stalagmites-battery-longer-lasting-batteries.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-ev-station-placement-lessen-power.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-electroactive-bacterium-generates-well-defined-nanosized.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-cheaper-flexible-alternative-indium-tin.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-nanoripples-graphene-strong-catalyst.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-benefits-floatovoltaics-solar-panels-reservoirs.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-scientists-energy-saving-tunable-meta-devices-high-precision.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-lithium-niobate-laser-technology.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-python-based-orders-of-magnitude-speedups.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-nernsteinstein-carbon-nanotube-style.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-breakthrough-discovery-materials-science-current.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ai-metal-organic-frameworks.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-quantum-tool-materials-high-precision.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-laser-driven-creation-high-energy-ions-boosts.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-magnetism-fosters-unusual-electronic-quantum.html look at the shape
Self-driven lab
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-self-driven-laboratory-chemical-discovery.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-chemists-ways-materials-energy-applications.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-elusive-antiaromatic-molecule-lab.html Space molecules
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-concepts-dynamic-nature-molecules.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hot-thermal-metal-frameworks.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-single-cell-sequencing-solution-unleash-disruptive.html
robo-labor
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-team-robots-teamwork-fruit-autonomously.html
plant needles
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-world-microneedle-based-drug-delivery-technique.html
Gamma skies
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-nasa-fermi-captures-dynamic-gamma-ray.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-helicopter-titan-airplane.html
The brain
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-visually-foot-unique-brain-region.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-spatial-enables-flexible-memory.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-native-language-brain-wiring.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-neuronal-avalanches-brains-epilepsy-patients.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-hiv-brain.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mirror-imaging-molecules-neuron.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-explore-brain-sensory-network-threat.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-tumor-blood-vessels-immunotherapy-brain.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-multilingual-approach.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-dog-chicken-explores.html
It is by caffeine I set my mind in motion
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-molecular-component-caffeine-play-role.html
Malaria and medical news
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-age-old-scientists-uncover-malaria-wily.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-triggering-bitter-receptors-asthma-copd.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-3d-covalent-framework-large-pores.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-genes-schizophrenia.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-brain-hemorrhage.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-extra-chromosome-linked-gene-decreased-viral.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-calcium-key-player-safe-brain.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-cancer-cells-dna-next-generation-radiotherapy.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-estrogen-factor-disturbed-heart-rhythm.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-hitchhiker-techniques-reattaching-tendon-bone.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-genome-cancer.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-tool-cells-muscles.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-scientists-reveal-potential-approach-liver.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-smart-nanotechnology-accurate-delivery-insulin.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-team-bacteria-killing-viruses-deploy-genetic.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-glow-in-the-dark-proteins-viral-diseases.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-statins-heart-disease-people-apnea.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-rapunzel-virus-evolutionary-oddity.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-epilepsy-easier-blood.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-technology-easily-tb.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-receptor-blasting-visualized-scientists-technology.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-method-absolute-dose-radiotherapy-cancer.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-exposing-cancers-bacteria-immune-cells.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-common-dry-chemical-linked-parkinson.html
THIS is the COVID vax I want
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-experimental-covid-shot-egg-based-technology.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-web-based-tool-vaccine-faster-accurate.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-sars-cov-omicron-xbb15-variant-highly.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-approach-door-covid-nanobody-therapies.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-discovery-high-risk-covid-patients.html
Oh, look
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-common-cold-children-immunity-covid-.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-covid-pandemic-long-lasting-effects-adolescent.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-covid-.html face-blindness?
Get out more
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-psychological-benefits-commuting-remote-doesnt.html
Never trust a shrink
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-people-personality-disorders-psychology-studieshere.html
Greens
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-kids-ready-insects.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-arctic-climate.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-cow-dung-sustainable-material-future.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hydrogen-fuel-prolong-methane-problem.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-low-cost-device-air-pollution.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-affective-relationship-local-environment.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-human-largely-responsible-invasive-lanternfly.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-river-deltas-valuable-threat.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-long-term-ss-thistlegorm-artificial-reefs.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-comprehensive-oxygen-loss-coral-reefs.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-team-foot-tubes-red-tide.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-global-climate-insufficiently-composition-local.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-reveals-inequity-journal-peer.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-culling-rabies-outbreak-ineffective-strategy.html I call BS
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-exploring-climate-human-raptor-relationship.html
Poor ponies
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-overheating-thoroughbred-racehorses.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-strong-link-social-entrepreneurship-language.html
Genes
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-discovery-gene-aid-climate-resilient.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-technology-cells-genome.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-gene-editing-technique-reverses-vision-loss.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-method-cell-sample.html
ugh
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-revolutionary-scientists-mice-fathers.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-virus-resistant-safely-restrained-coli-medical.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-california-schools-immune-political-analysis.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-regenerating-bone-deer-antler-stem.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-biomolecular-action-nanoscale.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-quick-screen-virus-proteins-antibiotic.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-landscapes-disease-scapes.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-media-propagate-stereotypes.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-key-protein-sperm-pave-contraceptives.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-child-teen-mortality-largest-decades.html
Ammonia
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-electrodriven-chemical-looping-ammonia-synthesis.html
history
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1636774406432210952
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-fasting-ramadan-lenient.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-marcos-family-power-philippines.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-lasers-chemistry-reveal-ancient-pottery.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-neolithic-ceramics-reveal-dairy-multiple.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-highlights-gender-bias-persistence-centuries.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-extreme-nighttime-pollution-delhi-air.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-t-rex-skeleton-switzerland.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-reveals-notre-dame-de-paris-cathedral.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-uncovering-ritual-ancient-stone-monument.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-roman-era-gravesites-unusual-funerary.html (the unquiet dead)
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-aims-taboo-spirituality.html
how your phone spies on you
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-spying.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-fake-extremely-biased-twitter-content.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-high-performance-photon-detectors-combat-spies.html
why budgets matter
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-life-death-fiscal.html
I thought the Cato Institute lied
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-small-businesses-minimum-wage-hikes.html
They were right on drugs
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-prescription-drug-reclassification-limited-impact.html