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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on ISS has detected a surplus of positrons, anti-matter electrons, that physicists believe are caused by the existence of dark matter.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on ISS has detected a surplus of positrons, anti-matter electrons, that physicists believe are caused by the existence of dark matter.

The lead scientist of the experiment also emphasized that dark matter is not the only possible explanation, and that “The detailed interpretation of our data probably will have many theories.”

Genesis cover

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

3 comments

  • Thomas

    This could all just be more science fraud. Corrupt Cosmology scientists, in their never ending search for more funding, have to make ever more elaborate hoaxes- and “Dark Matter’ is just the latest. Taking their cue from phony global warming, they have made up an entire category of invisible matter, and now invent the numbers to justifiy spending over a billion dollars of taxpayer money. These scientists need to be investigated for fraud. Felonies may even have been committed.

    Or,

    It could be cosmologists doing their job without having to put up with half truths, outrageous lies, mudslinging and smears by allies of fossil fuel companies. Unlike Climatologists they get to conduct actual science.

  • You might want to read this essay, Faster than Light?, something I wrote back in September 2011 soon after a team of physicists at CERN made the claim — since proven false — that they had detected evidence that neutrinos could move faster than light. I was struck by the open-minded reaction of physicists to this extraordinary claim, compared to the close-mindedness of global warming climate scientists to any challenges to their theories.

    That open-mindedness among physicists was and continues to be very inspiring. The minute such open-minded disappears, however, I will be the first to point it out.

  • Thomas

    Thanks Robert, I just read your essay, Faster than Light. I I do remember when the research was published, and you are correct, other physicists were open minded about the results from CERN. Thats because CERN is a world class, highly respected physics lab. So when they release data, its taken seriously- and also subject to peer review. As it turned out, they went back, did further research, and found out they were wrong. The point is they were allowed to conduct their research with dignity. No one accused them of being fraudulent, which is ALWAYS the charge, whenever any climate research is amended. Their were no charges of corruption. No ones name was dragged thru the mud.

    You claim climate science is close minded to criticism. You give the example of ‘other scientists’ trying to get data and being refused, and name Stephen McIntyre. But Stephen McIntyre is not a scientist. He is a consultant who worked in the mining business for many years. He has no training as a scientist, and no training as a climatologist. He is therefore UNQUALIFIED. If you look at the field of climate skeptics, it is filled with people such as Stephen McIntyre- people who are allies of fossil fuel industry, without scientific credentials, who nonetheless feel entitled to smear climate scientists.

    But to say climatology is not open to new data , or to criticism is simply untrue. The peer review process in itself is criticism. But its criticism done by people who are qualified.

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