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.
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 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
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.
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 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
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