September 14, 2022 Quick space links
Links courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who does the trolling on Twitter so I don’t have to. Commentary however is mostly by yours truly.
- Startup to use Google-developed technology to provide laser satellite internet capabilities
Much of this work is presently for the military, so details are sparse.
- Boeing’s Starliner crew transport vehicle for sale for $350K, in a parking lot in Cocoa Beach
The picture is astonishing. This is nothing more than a souped-up small RV, built to move the astronauts to the launchpad. The price, $350K, seems quite high. It is also remarkably weird that Boeing is selling it like this. Check out the for-sale sign, in the window dashboard.
- Firefly wins NASA launch contract
The contract is for a five-year period with a maximum payment of $300 million. The award also suggests that NASA is very confident Firefly’s not-yet-flown Alpha rocket will successfully reach orbit on its next launch attempt, now scheduled for September 19th.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
Links courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who does the trolling on Twitter so I don’t have to. Commentary however is mostly by yours truly.
- Startup to use Google-developed technology to provide laser satellite internet capabilities
- Boeing’s Starliner crew transport vehicle for sale for $350K, in a parking lot in Cocoa Beach
- Firefly wins NASA launch contract
Much of this work is presently for the military, so details are sparse.
The picture is astonishing. This is nothing more than a souped-up small RV, built to move the astronauts to the launchpad. The price, $350K, seems quite high. It is also remarkably weird that Boeing is selling it like this. Check out the for-sale sign, in the window dashboard.
The contract is for a five-year period with a maximum payment of $300 million. The award also suggests that NASA is very confident Firefly’s not-yet-flown Alpha rocket will successfully reach orbit on its next launch attempt, now scheduled for September 19th.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
Fact checking the fact checkers
COVID news?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-scientists-mechanism-inflammatory-cytokine-storm.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-commercial-sanitizers-norovirus-thought.html
Large groups of bees don’t sting as bad:
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-honeybees-larger-groups.html
Sure…
Pack em in
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-urban-densification-lacks.html
Mark of the beast
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-painless-tattoos-self-administered.html
Big brother
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-intelligent-cooperation-surveillance-epidemic-smart.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-deep-learning-augmented-smart-mirror.html Dance fool!
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-advancing-human-like-perception-self-driving-vehicles.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-bird-eye-view-safety-autonomous.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-deep-learning-ai-x-rays-explosives-luggage.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-users-ai-humans-flagging-problematic.html
Global warming fighting–real cheap–really
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-refreezing-earth-poles-feasible-cheap.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-decarbonizing-energy-trillions-dollars.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-science-cities-companies-earth-limits.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-energy-transition-climate-proofed.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-competition-china-energy-funding-21st.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-thickness-arctic-sea-ice-year.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-reframe-transition-low-carbon-electric-power.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-road-electricity-potential-strategies.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-dutch-city-meat-ads-world.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-envisioning-net-zero-food.html
Roll your sleeve up poors
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-focusing-covid-vaccination-efforts-advantaged.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-health-wary-misusing-ai.html
tree-sap for your wounds, poors
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-topical-ointment-tree-sap-effective.html
Lies
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-lies-common-laptops-devices-behavior.html
Cell-to-human
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-cell-person-math.html
If we do it–it isn’t fake
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-fake-science-websites-hijack-experts.html
Coming for your gold
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-gold-atoms-catalyze-methanization-carbon.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-bacterial-vesicles-coated-gold-nanoparticles.html
Don’t use yours–use ours
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-off-the-shelf-crypto-detectors-false.html
Whoops
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-tidal-marsh-fake-habitat-california.html
Just hurt and like it
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-silencing-gut-pain-killers.html
Presidents
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-presidential-narcissism-linked-longer-wars.html
Teachers
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-teacher-shortages-real-heard.html
Good luck on airplanes
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-scientists-infant-minute.html
let the weeds live
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-crops-grown-cooperate.html
Bad how?
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-collaborate-multiple-areas-publish-highly.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-shallow-water-sustainable-alternative-deep-water-scientists.html
volcanoes killed the dinos?
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-dinosaurs-depth.html
cyber privacy
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-method-privacy-safety-encrypted-messaging.html
Teacher! leave those kids alone
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-reveals-students-ideal-subjects-behavioral.html
blood
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-blood-stem-cell-medicine-future.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-drug-cancer-gene-flag-immune.html
drinking and drugs
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-exploring.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-problems-persist-kids-exposed-cannabis.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-block-liver-age.html
pandora’s glove-box
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-alphafold-ai-excels-proteins.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-longer-physicist-discovery-telomeres.html
ugh
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-erotophilia-sexual-sensation-seeking-good-predictors.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-mucus-based-lubricant-highly-effective-hiv.html