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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.

 

So please consider donating or subscribing to Behind the Black, either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. I could really use the support at this time. There are five 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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Hans Zimmer – Pirates Of The Caribbean Medley

An evening pause: Performed live in Prague 2017.

Hat tip Alton Blevins.

I am in need for evening pause suggestions. If you are interested in suggesting an evening pause, please say so in the comments (without providing a link to that suggestion). I will contact you so you can forward it directly to me to schedule. The guidelines for submitting Evening Pauses:

1. The subject line should say “evening pause.”
2. Don’t send more than three in any email. I prefer however if you send them one email at a time.
3. Variety! Don’t send me five from the same artist. I can only use one. Pick your favorite and send that.
4. Live performance preferred.
5. Quirky technology, humor, and short entertaining films also work.
6. Search BtB first to make sure your suggestion hasn’t already been posted.
7. I might not respond immediately, as I schedule these in a bunch.
8. Avoid the politics of the day. The pause is a break from such discussion.

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

4 comments

  • Brendan

    We all have that moment of coincidence, where you are thinking of someone, and, wallah! They call! Those are usually pretty happy times.

    Not all of them are happy.

    Last night, I was thinking about Mark Steyn, and the ongoing lawsuit of Michael Mann. I haven’t kept up with Mark’s writing as much as I used to, as he has placed much of his creative efforts on his GBNews show. Mark’s oratory is almost as good as his writing, but the lack of a podcast of the GBNews, or his weekly Mark Steyn Show, makes it difficult when one is rushing about with the kids. So, I haven’t been to his website in a while. But it was still on my mind this morning, and I opened it up, to see his familiar Ave atque vale: Ball’s Bearing. Mark has long written obituaries (and they are very good) and I knew of only one person of fame with the name Ball.

    https://www.steynonline.com/12840/ball-bearing

    It was, sadly, whom I expected. I was a regular reader of Tim Ball when the global warming hype was on its upsurge (and I worked at a National Lab). Tim’s thoughts and analysis, and his sharp critique of the insanity, was always enjoyable to read. I suppose it was his success at ripping apart the propaganda that raised the ire of Michael Mann. So when Dr. Ball made the quip (following the gay adventures of the Penn State coaches on young men there) “Dr Mann belongs not at Penn State but in the state pen,” it opened the door to Mann’s wrath, and he filed his frivolous suite on Dr. Ball in Canadian court.

    Unlike the lawsuit against Steyn and the now disreputable National Review, which dragged on interminably in DC courts, the Canadian lawfare suit lasted only three years. But it was enough to help drag Dr. Ball down, destroy his life savings, and start a run of ill health that would eventually end in his untimely demise. Mann never had to pay any penalty (as he should have under Canada’s loser pays law). His lawyer, part of the leftist lawfare clique, handled it for him. Probably receiving his own payment from a shadowy leftist network leading back to characters who wish Western Civilization no good tidings. Even today, Mann’s malfeasance is celebrated by the left.

    Rest In Peace, Tim Ball. God be with you.

  • iowaan

    i have a video for you to consider for your evening pause.

  • Alton

    You probably have seen it….but

    I have been watching Mark Steyn on U Tub

    Past shows are archived.

    At GB News on You Tube.

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