Tony Bennett – It Had to Be You
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four 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.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
For fun: An astronomer said that he read about the Moon illusion, that the size of the Moon on the sky seems to change much more than it physically does due to its eccentricity. It was claimed that one can cover the full Moon behind a fingernail on arm’s length, which is quite counter-intuitive. He calculated in his head that a 1 cm wide finger on a 1 meter arm covers 1/300 of a circle which is one degree. The Moon is only a half. But he had to go out and check if it’s actually true!
Astronomy is the dichotomy of theory and observation/exploration. Science can’t really “prove” anything, but mathematics can. And it is always reliable. One can’t check out a charm quark with the finger, but we know it’s there (or there). Still, human instinct has the urge to see if it can outsmart logic. I think it is a sound general distrust to claims that doesn’t make any exception for logic. Before logic was discovered, not too long ago, who would’ve thought that anything like that could be?