Tuesday, October 31, 2023

FAA wraps up safety review of SpaceX's huge Starship vehicle
Mayim Bialik Calls Herself a “Stranger in a Strange Land” Over Jew Hate on Display
House GOP Unveils Bill to Fund Israel by Cutting IRS Budget
Astrobotic lander arrives at launch site
Palestinian Professor on Baby in Oven: 'With or Without Baking Powder?'
Hezbollah: We, ah, Need to Reduce the Numbers of Martyrs We're Producing
New Japanese spacecraft aims to explore the mysterious moons of Mars
How NASA plans to change the way people fly to the moon
A Do-It-Yourself Demonstration Project Of Wind, Solar And Batteries Comes Nowhere Near Eliminating Fossil Fuels
Securing American Nuclear Leadership: A Matter of Climate Action and National Security
Balloon Animals and Bouncy Castles on the Moon. The Case for Inflatable Habitats
The Battle of Civilization By Benjamin Netanyahu
The Global War on the Jews
I spy with my Cold War satellite eye… nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East
The Crab Nebula Seen in New Light by NASA’s Webb
Giant planets cast a deadly pall
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #Ad
Did dust from the Chicxulub asteroid impact kill the dinosaurs?
Rocket Lab plans launch of Venus mission as soon as late 2024
China’s Space Pioneer raise funding for its Falcon 9-class rocket

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Sci-fi inspired tractor beams are real, and could solve a major space junk problem
India’s 2040 moon landing could make it a space superpower

The Indian government has announced a long-term plan for its space program. It includes a Venus orbiter, a Mars lander, a crewed space station by 2035 and a crewed lunar landing by 2040. India also plans to launch a crewed spacecraft dubbed the Gaganyaan by 2025.

Highlander's Henry Cavill-Led Reboot May Be Alive and Kicking Again
Let there be no mistake. Israel has right to defend citizens against Hamas
Intuitive Machines targets launch to the Moon in mid-January
The Holy Land by Robert Zubrin #ad
Why is America Going Back to the Moon #ad
Blue Origin reveals mockup of Blue Moon lunar lander prototype
Musk says Starlink will provide Gaza connectivity for aid groups
NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Has Noah's Ark been found? Archaeologists reveal 'ruins' found in Turkey's boat-shaped mound date back 5,000 years ago - the same period as the Biblical flood
8 missions SpaceX could fly on Starship before Mars
Head of NASA concerned China could try to claim lunar territory on moon's south pole
The Latest On Global Warming Is … There Is No Global Warming, Part II
Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment
Putin aims to have Russian space station by 2027
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?
Hamas Puts Its Pogrom on Video
Why Dean Phillips Is Taking On Joe Biden
Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago, study suggests

Friday, October 27, 2023

‘South Park’ Skewers Lucasfilm Boss Kathleen Kennedy In ‘Panderverse’ Special The special is a hoot. Without revealing too much, Kathleen Kennedy comes off better than one might expect.
Putin sees space exploration as risky but interesting work
Overcoming the Barriers to Nuclear Energy Revival
The Latest On Global Warming Is … There Is No Global Warming
JWST Takes a Detailed Look at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
On-time Artemis landings by SpaceX, Blue Origin possible, but face “great challenges”
NASA's Webb Makes First Detection of Heavy Element from Star Merger
Here's how NASA's Roman Space Telescope will hunt for lonely black holes and distant exoplanets
NASA spacecraft snaps 'face figure' on Jupiter during close flyby of the planet: See the photos
If alien life is artificially intelligent, it may be stranger than we can imagine
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series) #Ad
Israel Tries to Part the Fog of War
I Backed Trump, but Now I’m for Haley
Google Founder’s Airship Gets FAA Clearance

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Haters try to bring down Aussie-style sushi restaurant in NYC — because the owner is white
Futuristic bionic hand syncs with the brain and skeleton, bridging robotics and biology
HUNT FOR ALIEN TECHNOLOGY FINISHES SCAN OF 1.6 MILLION STAR SYSTEMS “FLAGGED AS INTERESTING TARGETS”
Electric Vehicles: Toyota’s Battery Charge
Report: Tlaib Employed Hamas Activists, Had 'Extensive Fundraising Ties' to Hamas Supporters
How was it that 32 years ago, this woman consented to marry me? How was it that 32 years later, we're still married? Proof, in this vale of tears, great joy can exist. Thank you for everything, Dearest, especially the years yet to be
NASA's Dragonfly preparing to fly through atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan
SpaceX to launch final piece of NASA's 1st two-way laser communications relay
Israel Is Justified In Taking Radical Steps To Ensure Its Continued Existence
A Brother on the Moon #Ad
Why aliens might already know that humans exist
How the Saudis Can Help
Can Speaker Mike Johnson Govern?

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Sen Ted Cruz was kind enough to repost my article on SpaceX and the regulators on the social network formerly known as Twitter.
14-year-old prodigy who invented soap for skin cancer named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’
South Park Takes On Woke Casting in New Special 'Joining the Panderverse'
My suborbital life, part 2: Objectives, timeline, training
NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away
Air on Mars may one day be breathable thanks to new ‘desert-dwelling bacteria paint’, scientists reveal
Japanese government grant to support work on new ispace lunar lander
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #Ad
AI tech makes ruined ancient scrolls from Pompeii readable
Tim Peake to quit retirement to lead UK’s first astronaut mission
Scientific American is back to distorting the facts to buttress its ideology

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Squad of female IDF combat troops eliminated nearly 100 Hamas terrorists
Ted Cruz comes to the defense of SpaceX against the regulators

Recently, the Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science held a hearing about human commercial space flights . During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bill Gerstenmaier, formerly at NASA and now vice president of build and flight reliability for SpaceX, had an exchange concerning the regulatory delays that are holding up the second test launch of the Starship. Starship is the massive rocket ship SpaceX is developing that promises to revolutionize spaceflight, take people back to the lunar surface, and fulfill CEO Elon Musk’s dream of establishing a city on Mars.

NASA Is Struggling to Open Its Asteroid Sample Container
The weird aliens of early science fiction
A student asked her cosmology professor the meaning of life. Here was his response.
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #Ad
War Destroys Leftist Orthodoxies
Israel Needs Unconditional Surrender From Hamas
Chevron Bets on Peak Green Energy

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Is Elon Musk’s SpaceX the rocket company to rule them all?

Recently, there has been musing that SpaceX has become an “accidental monopoly” in the space launch business. Elon Musk has dominated the launching of things and even people into space, and some people think it’s a problem. But the situation may be temporary.

Moon rush: the launch of a lunar economy | FT Film

Newt’s World – Episode 619: The Conservative Futurist
SpaceX fires up Starship prototype in deorbit burn test
Watch NASA's VIPER moon rover conquer a lunar 'obstacle course'
Why is America Going Back to the Moon #Ad
NASA starts reassessment of Mars Sample Return architecture Also NASA can save the Mars Sample Return mission by going commercial
Israel war: Finally, we have Greta Thunberg’s analysis of the Israel-Hamas war
Leaked audio captures Sheila Jackson Lee disparaging staffer

Saturday, October 21, 2023

10 People Donald Trump Has Driven To Insanity
Booming Texas could be the most populated state by 2100, new study finds
Asteroid mining firm prepares for historic deep space mission with help of Elon Musk's SpaceX
NASA's innovative rocket nozzle paves way for deep space missions
Why Sending Ukraine ATACMs Will Help It Win in the Long Term
Report: Hamas terrorists were high on drugs called the "cocaine of the poor" when they carried out their surprise attack on Israel
Stop Betting Against America
Hydrogen Electrolysis Can Give Nuclear Power a Boost
Why NASA’s return to the Moon will likely succeed this time

Eric's analysis is first rate, at usual, but he does neglect Jim Bridenstine's relentless selling of the Artemis project to both sides of the aisle in Congress, which I describe in Why is America Going Back to the moon #ad. Congress now supports going back to the moon where it did not before during the last two attemps, which I also describe in Why is it so Hard to Go Back to the Moon #ad.

Why Hamas Atrocities Lead the Left to Hate Israel More
An intense narrow equatorial jet in Jupiter’s lower stratosphere observed by JWST

Friday, October 20, 2023

Is It Wrong to Cure Blindness?

As someone who has been blind in one eye from birth who is married to a woman who is legally blind and works with blind people for the State of Texas, as would reply. "Hell no!"

Japan provides up to $80 million subsidy to moonshot startup ispace
America needs a grand strategy for outer space
First Artemis Crew Trains for Mission Around Moon
NASA's Artemis moon astronauts may wear electric field spacesuits to fight pesky lunar dust
A Fast Radio Burst Has Been Traveling for Half the Lifetime of the Universe
The Gabriella Doria Stories #Ad
Could Neptune's largest moon swing a spacecraft into the planet's orbit?
The Left’s Anti-Semitism Crisis Is the Right’s Opportunity
DeSantis vs. Newsom on Violent Crime

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Astronomers say new telescopes should take advantage of “Starship paradigm”
Russia Suffers ‘One of the Most Serious Blows’ of the War
Small launch companies struggle to compete with SpaceX rideshare missions
Queen guitar legend Brian May helps analyze NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples
Relativity and the physics of immortality
Israel Reshuffles the U.S. Presidential Election Deck
A Brother on the Moon #Ad
Glenn Youngkin’s Plan to Save Gas Cars
Solar giant Qcells says Dalton factory expansion is complete
Researchers design gene therapy that can effectively target glioblastoma

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

U.S. Marines test fire the M72 LAW with a Robotic Goat

Marines Test Fire Robot Dog Armed With Rocket Launcher
Israeli intelligence releases audio of Hamas discussing 'misfired' hospital strike: 'It's from us?'
India sets 2040 target for crewed moon landing
Israel looks to roll out SpaceX Starlink internet amid war with Hamas
NASA's Lucy spacecraft continues approach to asteroid Dinkinesh
What Everyone Needs to Know About Hamas’ Lie About a Rocket Strike on a Gaza Hospital
TEST FLIGHT TO KICK OFF INDIA’S HUMAN EXPLORATION PLANS, INCLUDING A MAN ON THE MOON BY 2040
Galleria-area hotel cancels pro-Palestinian conference, citing safety concerns
WORLD WAR III IN SPACE? DEFENSE CONTRACTOR BAE SYSTEMS IS BETTING OVER $5 BILLION ON IT.
It’s possible that frozen worlds with subterranean oceans are incubators of organic life. But then how did life get here?
Can We Find the Heaviest Elements in Asteroids?
Update on Self-Driving Cars
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #Ad
A Decent Outcome Is Possible in Gaza
Why It’s Obvious Iran Approved Hamas’s Attack
The Gaza Hospital and the Missing Aid

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Citing slow Starship reviews, SpaceX urges FAA to double licensing staff
SpaceX to the FAA: The industry needs you to move faster
Blue Origin unveils plans for orbital transfer vehicle
DARPA is asking a $170 billion question about making money on the Moon
SpaceX gearing op for a possible WDR as it waits for regulatory approval
University of California and NASA Ames unveil plans for $2 billion Berkeley Space Center
NASA’s Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
This is What it Would Be Like to Fly Across Mars
Five New Fusion Prospects, Minus the Neutrons
How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #Ad
Appeasing Iran Has Failed
Muslim Americans Against Hamas
The Siege of Hamas Is No War Crime

Monday, October 16, 2023

Dark Shadows (Original) - Angelique's 'forbidden' ritual!

NASA’s Psyche Mission Proves Awesomeness Still Exists in a Horrible World

The news from around the world has been especially horrible of late. Between wars in Ukraine and Israel, a U.S. border crisis and more than the usual amount of political bickering, one would be forgiven for thinking that the world is spiraling into the abyss.

But occasionally, something happens that reminds us that human beings are still capable of doing awesome things. As Space News notes, NASA has launched the Psyche mission to an asteroid by the same name on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The Psyche probe will spend five years and 10 months voyaging to the asteroid, using a gravity assist maneuver at Mars, before settling into orbit around its destination within the main asteroid belt for about two years to study its secrets.

NASA shuffles astronaut missions, Boeing's Starliner to remain grounded even longer
Sell your technology to us, Nasa said: Isro chief S Somanath
What Israeli Victory Would Look Like
Don’t Hire My Anti-Semitic Law Students
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
Hamas’s Enablers Should Take Gaza Refugees
This exoplanet might literally be the most metal planet out there
AI revealed the colorful first word of an ancient scroll torched by Mount Vesuvius

Sunday, October 15, 2023

It’s official: The era of China’s global dominance is over
Asteroids are Hiding Never-Seen Elements From Beyond The Periodic Table
Israel's 'Iron Beam' laser weapon may join combat service soon
Exploring a metal-rich asteroid could launch the start of space mining

NASA has launched a probe in the direction of a great metal asteroid called Psyche, located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid is of great interest to both scientists and people interested in accessing the abundant resources of the solar system.

A War Like No Other: Israel Will Fight Hamas in 6 Dimensions
The universe keeps dying and being reborn, claims Nobel Prize winner
Hamas documents reveal plans to target schools and kidnap children: Report
Why is America Going Back to the Moon
The Global Left Is Coming For Elon Musk
House Republicans introduce bill to block Palestinian refugees from US ‘to protect America’s national security’
GOP Flips Dem State After Trump-Backed Candidate Wins Key Election

Saturday, October 14, 2023

The Accidental Monopoly

"The Mad Doctor"- Benedict reviews #34

For All Mankind: Season One
Mysterious magnetism in Apollo moon rocks is natural in origin, new study finds
VC billionaire Marc Andreessen on Tesla and SpaceX: They ‘probably would have gone under’ with anyone besides Elon Musk
‘All hands on deck.’ How Israel’s vital tech sector is navigating the war
NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to this huge metal asteroid
NASA should consider commercial alternatives to SLS, inspector general says
What Israeli Victory Would Look Like
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?
Hamas Targets Jews but Slaughters Indiscriminately
The Marxian Roots of Campus Anti-Semitism
Egypt Can Save Gaza’s Civilians

Friday, October 13, 2023

If Biden Really Wants to Help Israel, He Must Stop the War on American Energy Now

Watch Live: SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches NASA's Psyche asteroid mission

How Mars Lost Its Magnetic Field—and Then Its Oceans
A New Drug Mimics the Effects of Exercise
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is about to become a workhorse for NASA
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series)

Brought across to undeath in the 15th Century, the Contessa Gabriella Doria has walked the night, feeding on the blood of the living. However, on occasion, she had faced foes far more formidable and certainly more evil than a vampire.

The False Choice Between Ukraine and Israel
A new map of the human brain offers insights, clues to future treatments.
How to build Moon roads using focused beams of sunlight

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Goodbye to the two-state solution
What makes Rep. Rashida Tlaib cry? Not beheading babies
Massive planet collision identified from bizarre space 'afterglow'
NASA Plans to Build Houses on the Moon by 2040: Report
NASA's recovered Bennu asteroid samples show evidence of carbon, water
The Moral Duty to Destroy Hamas
Biden Faces an Iran Reckoning
A Brother on the Moon

On a December day in 1967, a pilot whose jet fighter is in the process of cracking up ejects a moment sooner and therefore lives when he otherwise might have died. A life that would have ended on the tarmac at Edwards Air Force Base continues on. Six years later, Major Robert Lawrence, United States Air Force, becomes the first black American to walk on the Moon.

Exxon Mobil agrees to buy Pioneer Natural Resources for nearly $60 billion in all-stock merger
With Psyche, a journey to an ancient asteroid is set to begin
Sole Gaza power plant out of fuel

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

This new desalination device makes water cheaper than your tap
There's only one thing Israel must do now to Hamas by Newt Gingrich
Astrobotic resumes flights of Xodiac suborbital vehicle
The late, great Rush Limbaugh speaks from beyond the grave: Unleash Israel and Win Peace
German Nazism's Successor: Islamic Nazism
NASA astronaut walks on the 'moon' to get ready for Artemis landings
NASA Psyche Mission
NASA revealing OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample today
Offshore wind turbines need rare earth metals. Will there be enough to go around?
What’s Next for NASA’s UFO Research?
Plasma tech transforms blue-green algae into a wound-healing wonder
Children of Apollo (3 book series)
ISS Faces Another Coolant Leak Linked to Russian Hardware
The U.S. Needs a Defense Buildup
Israeli Victory Is Critical to U.S. Interests

Monday, October 09, 2023

The food industry is using AI to create healthier, tastier snacks and meals. It could super-charge nutrition in America
Book Review: Climate Uncertainty and Risk, By Judith Curry
The Space Force needs its own advocate on Capitol Hill
3D printing could shake up construction industry and bring tech to the moon
Deep space missions will test astronauts' mental health. Could AI companions help?
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
Happy Columbus Day!
White House blasted for throwing BBQ as war rages in Israel
US sends warships and fighter jets to support Israel
“He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea. May Hashem cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor. May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you. Amen."
Why does the Universe appear fine-tuned for life to exist?
The world’s most powerful computer could soon help the US build better nuclear reactors
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
Nikki Haley blasts Biden admin over $6B hostage deal with Iran in light of Hamas attack on Israel
Texas at the School-Choice Crossroads
War Returns to the Middle East

Sunday, October 08, 2023

Has the James Webb Space Telescope found signs of life on Europa?

Recently, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide at a specific location on Europa’s icy surface in a disrupted “chaos terrain” called the Tara Regio. The discovery has great implications for the possibility of life on the moon of Jupiter.

Why U.S. astronauts are going back to the moon
Amazon launches first Project Kuiper satellites with goal of creating a megaconstellation
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Liftoff Imminent: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft Sets Sights on Earth-Like Asteroid
Three points on Israel-Hamas war: scaled threat, intelligence failure, political ramifications
Why is America Going Back to the Moon
The Moral Difference Between Israel and Her Enemies
NYPD, LAPD and Miami cops deploy extra officers to Jewish areas and synagogues following Hamas terror attack on Israel
Israel’s Opportunity to Destroy Hamas

Friday, October 06, 2023

What Age of Empires teaches us about ant warfare strategies
Video confirms Ukrainian special forces fought Wagner group in Sudan
Here's how Artemis 2 astronauts will exercise, sleep and use the toilet on their moon mission
The Netherlands Will Be Signing The Artemis Accords
Would You Ever Want to Live on the Moon or Mars?
After two failed attempts in the past year, Japan could be next in line to land on the moon
Watch Elon Musk give updates about SpaceX from annual space congress
Prada to design Nasa's new Moon suit
The ‘least crazy’ idea: Early dark energy could solve a cosmological conundrum
Nobel peace prize 2023 live: jailed Iranian women’s rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi wins award
The Gabriella Doria Stories (3 book series)
The Culture War Is Coming for Your Car
Fifty Years Since We Almost Lost Israel
The first two Amazon Kuiper satellites are set to launch on October 6

Thursday, October 05, 2023

Researchers Develop Bioprinted Full Thickness Human Skin
Archaeologists unearth tomb of high-class escort who seduced Alexander the Great?
US transfers seized Iranian weapons to Ukraine
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

I'm still in the middle of reading this biography of one of the most fascinating and important men of the 21st Century. Highly recommended.

Impulse Space CEO Tom Mueller talks early days at SpaceX, moon bases and a booming space industry
NASA wants a 'lunar freezer' for its Artemis moon missions
Axiom Space, Prada Join Forces on Tech, Design for NASA’s Next-Gen Lunar Spacesuits
A Brother on the Moon
AMERICA’S NEW PRECISION STRIKE MISSILE HAS CHINA IN ITS CROSSHAIRS
Russia withdrawing Black Sea fleet from its main base in Crimea
Republicans Against U.S. Weapons

Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Russia talks a big future in space while its overall budget is quietly cut
Artemis Accords signatories seek to boost transparency and safety in lunar exploration
NASA extends New Horizons mission through late 2020s
It’s crunch time for companies building NASA’s commercial lunar landers
mRNA COVID vaccines saved lives and won a Nobel — what's next for the technology?
Ars takes a close-up look at the first US lunar lander in half a century
Children of Apollo (3 book series)
Nikki Haley’s Good Healthcare Idea
Troy Nehls nominates Donald Trump for open Speaker of the House position
Republicans Cut Off Their Own Heads

Sunday, October 01, 2023

What would China’s collapse mean for the race to the moon?

One of the more significant developments of the current decade had been the second race to the moon. While NASA and a coalition of nations and commercial companies have started Project Artemis, China has begun its own lunar effort. The prize is not so much the bragging rights for the side who gets to the moon first but which side accesses the abundant resources of Earth’s nearest neighbor.

But geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan has a prediction that could throw the idea of a moon race between two superpowers in doubt. Zeihan believes that China has at most 10 years before it collapses.

Haley says Trump campaign sent her bird cage after he called her ‘birdbrain’
Creating New Stories That Don’t Suck
A Nazi speech in Ramallah tells a much larger tale
The world should remember Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint as arrogant, ungrateful cowards for turning on J.K. Rowling in trans row
White House: US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia have ‘basic framework’ of normalization deal
The new space race: Mars, the Moon, and the new political frontier
NASA publishes never-before-seen photos of 'ravioli' moon orbiting Saturn
SpaceX inks first Space Force deal for government-focused Starshield satellite network
Why is America Going Back to the Moon
Brian May, best known as Queen's guitarist, helped NASA return its 1st asteroid sample to Earth
NASA eyes October launch for "Psyche" asteroid mission
NASA selects SpaceX for rideshare launch of smallsat mission