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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.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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Freedom Toons – Jordan Peterson sings Evanescence

An evening pause: I don’t know why, but to me this cartoon, which puts the fundamental words of Jordan Peterson to the tune of a rock song, with appropriate but light-hearted visuals, seems perfect for this year’s Memorial Day. From the song:

You cannot escape the suffering that comes with life
Carry all your pain
Become hero archetype

The past generations who sacrificed their lives for our civilization, whom we are supposed to honor and remember today, understood these words and didn’t need a teacher to explain them. Today’s generation, badly taught by my 60s generation, needs to hear them and think about them. If they do, the future will be bright indeed.

Hat tip Geoffrey Carman.

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

7 comments

  • wayne

    Geoffrey-
    Good find! Two of my favorite things.
    I’m actually watching Seamus on the Timcast IRL podcast live-stream tonight.

    Jordan Peterson / Akira the Don
    “Pet A Cat When You Encounter One”
    (May, 2020)
    https://youtu.be/_lRjwOJQ_A0
    4:10

    “If we didn’t all attempt to make terrible things even worse than they are, then maybe we could tolerate the terrible things that we have to put up with to exist”

  • GaryMike

    wayne;

    “If we didn’t all attempt to make terrible things even worse than they are, then maybe we could tolerate the terrible things that we have to put up with to exist”

    Specifically reminds me of environmentalists wanting to roll back the “Industrial Age” toward the stone age:

    I believe it to be a quoted quote about a current YouTube post about a Jordan Peterson opine about cats that I haven’t yet watched..

    Nevertheless, it rings true.

    People who can’t cope wanting to call the shots for everyone.

    Nah.

  • James Street

    “Mansions of the Lord” from We Were Soldiers | West Point Band and West Point Glee Club
    4 minutes
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jccNoxn1HoU

    “The Mansions of the Lord” lyrics

    To fallen soldiers let us sing
    Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
    Our broken brothers let us bring
    To the mansions of the Lord

    No more bleeding, no more fight
    No prayers pleading through the night
    Just divine embrace, eternal light
    In the mansions of the lord

    Where no mothers cry
    And no children weep
    We shall stand and guard through the angels sleep
    While through the ages safely keep
    The mansions of the lord

  • geoffc

    Seamus went on the Mikala’s podcast with Jordan Peterson, and they made him do his Peterson imitation to Jordan’s ‘face’ Seamus was both embarrassed and hilarious, and Jordan thought it was funny. His takeaway “Do I sound that Irish?”.

    As a Canadian, what is so funny about Jordan Peterson, is he has the accent of a farm boy hick. Which makes listening to him say such interesting and thoughtful things all the funnier, and more awesome with that accent. (He is a farm boy from rural Alberta and proud of it).

  • wayne

    geoffc–

    …working on the rail crew in southern Saskatchewan….

    “Lunchbucket”
    Jordan Peterson / Akia the Don (Jan 2018)
    https://youtu.be/n3uYYAdothI
    2:32

    “The men were testing him out. It’s like, “Can you take a joke? Can you be useful? Can you at least be amusing? Is there something worthwhile about you? No? well you’re outa here, because you never know when we might actually need to depend upon you.”

  • geoffc

    Podcast reference is:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtZAlhq4iQA

    Timestamp is called out in description, but around 43:42.

    It is really funny to watch/listen, and then watch the responses from everyone.

  • Kevin Smith

    Almost as good,

    https://youtu.be/byGmt1Yd4BE

    Sorry about that.

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