Friday, July 30, 2021

U.N. climate panel confronts implausibly hot forecasts of future warming
China's Zhurong rover reaches complex terrain on Mars
Space start-up Varda, founded by SpaceX and Founders Fund veterans, aims to build factories in orbit
Nelson remains hopeful Congress will provide additional lunar lander funding

Our Time Press, which I am told is the largest black owned newspaper in Brooklyn, has just picked up my piece about Major Robert Lawrence, the first black astronaut.

Also, what if Robert Lawrence had lived?: A Brother on the Moon

Russia rocket mishap briefly nudges International Space Station out of position
Jeff Bezos Is the Modern Day Howard Hughes, But Better
Is Joe Biden Sinking?
The U.S. Should Send a President to Space
UFOs May Be Earthly and Dangerous

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Dubai is making rain with drones. Why aren't we?
Hubble finds water vapor on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede
Blue Origin has a secret project named “Jarvis” to compete with SpaceX
China is working on a relay satellite to support lunar polar missions
Japan is joining the push to return to the moon
Harvard-Led Team to Search for Extraterrestrial Space Tech and UFOs
Air Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be "Just On The Horizon"
Can we trust the climate scientists?
Antibodies from Sinovac's COVID-19 shot fade after about 6 months
How to Avert Disaster in Afghanistan

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next.

Dexter: New Blood (2021) Exclusive Sneak Peek Trailer | SHOWTIME

Japan is joining the push to return to the moon

According to Space News, Japan has recently passed a space resources law similar to ones enacted by the United States, Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that would give Japanese companies permission to “prospect for, extract and use various space resources.” The new law is an indication that Japan intends to be part of the international return to the moon, led by NASA. Japan is a signatory of the Artemis Accords that seeks to spell out rules for cooperation in the exploration of space, particularly the lunar surface.

NASA's Mars helicopter nailed its 10th flight — double what engineers had hoped Ingenuity would do
Blue Origin is still catching up to Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Josh Hawley proposes anti-critical race theory 'Love America Act'
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io is emitting strange radio waves and NASA's Juno probe is listening
Falcon Heavy to launch Europa Clipper

Friday, July 23, 2021

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for the Europa Clipper Mission
The Beauty of Billionaires in Space
Why Not Award Ashli Babbitt’s Killer the Medal of Honor?
Starliner cleared for second uncrewed test flight
In historic first, NASA spacecraft maps what lurks below the surface of Mars
Russia Averts Possible Disaster as New Space Station Module Finally Reaches Proper Orbit
Conservatives' Understanding Of Climate Science Is More In Line With Climate Scientists Than Liberals'
4 bizarre Stephen Hawking theories that turned out to be right (and 6 we're not sure about)
Strengthening Taiwan’s Resistance
Scientists want to build a new, very different Arecibo Telescope to replace fallen icon

Thursday, July 22, 2021

NASA should beware of Critical Race Theory
Ignore Jeff Bezos Going to Space. Tesla’s Elon Musk Is the Real Winner.
NASA developing 10 kW movable PV array for moon mission
NASA Administrator reacts to Blue Origin flight, discusses government's role in future space missions
The long-term quest to build a 'galactic civilisation'
Despite Tuesday’s flight, Jeff Bezos is running out of time to save Blue Origin
Ben & Jerry’s Israel Boycott Could Cost Unilever
Majority of Americans ‘Not Confident’ Kamala Harris Is Ready to Be President
Bipartisan Bill Would Improve Medicare Patients’ Access to Care

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Carbon Capture Promises to Slash Emissions, and Greens Hate It
On Apollo 11 Anniversary, Buzz Aldrin Still Inspires
Jeff Bezos blasts into space on own rocket: ‘Best day ever!’

Apollo 11: One Small Step on the Moon for All Mankind

NASA should beware of Critical Race Theory
SpaceX test fires massive Super Heavy booster for Starship for 1st time
Why NASA should visit Pluto again
Can Consciousness Be Explained by Quantum Physics?
When was Jesus born?
Jeff Bezos’ flight is an ego trip, yes, but it sets the stage for so much more
Ben & Jerry’s Won’t Sell Ice Cream In Certain Parts Of Israel Just Three Years After Partnering With Outspoken Anti-Semite

Friday, July 16, 2021

Space Force working on laser defenses
This is disturbing if true:

"In the movie, Phoebe Waller-Bridge figures out that a conspiracy is at hand. One of the Apollo 11 astronauts dropped dead before the mission and someone (the government?) put an imposter/ lookalike in his place. Ultimately, she is arrested when Boyd Holbrook’s character (a police officer) sees her flashing off a picture of the deceased body being loaded into an ambulance, looking to shuttle him away."

The problem is that this makes no sense. Apollo 11 had a backup crew that was training in the same way as the prime crew. If Armstrong, Aldrin, or Collins had "dropped dead" his backup would have been assigned to take his place. Something similar happened during Apollo 13 when one of the prime crew had been exposed to the German Measels.

UK’s First Gas-Fired Allam Cycle Power Plant Taking Shape
Iranian dissidents to visit Israel next week - why?
'Hubble is back!' Famed space telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch

Apollo 11 Launch

The second-greatest thing I ever saw was the moon landing
House appropriators approve NASA spending bill with revised lunar lander and nuclear propulsion language
NASA seeks proposals for commercial space station development
NASA is growing space chile peppers on the ISS -- and astronauts will taste them
'Alien burp' may have been detected by NASA's Curiosity rover
Chinese rocket companies are preparing for hop tests
‘We Are Not Afraid’
The Climate-Change Agenda Goes Out With a Bang

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Blue Origin’s mystery passenger revealed: At age 18, Oliver Daemen will be youngest spaceflier
The wasted outrage over the private space race

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson has already flown into space on board his SpaceShipTwo rocket plane. Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos is set to celebrate the July 20th anniversary of the first moon landing on his New Shepard rocket with another suborbital flight. SpaceX’s Elon Musk is developing a space tourism business on spacecraft that actually go into low Earth orbit.

The space race between Branson and Bezos is about business and branding
Could asteroids have supplied enough water to fill Earth’s oceans?
NASA Is About to Try a 'Risky' Maneuver to Save Hubble, Which Is Still Offline
Texas Democrats Suppress the Vote
Biden Turns Back the Progressive Clock
The Sanders Democrats Go For Broke

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Old and busted: Jeff Bezos is a greedy monopolist who abuses his workers

New hotness:

Smithsonian To Receive Historic $200 Million Donation From Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's foundation, Club for the Future, selects 19 space-based charities to each receive a $1 million grant
Device harvests power from your sweaty fingers even while you sleep
SpaceX prepares for first Super Heavy static fire
Chinese rocket companies are preparing for hop tests
Iran’s Giant Middle Finger to the Biden Administration

Octavia was excited to journey with her uncle, Caius Julius Caesar, to Gaul. Her knowledge of magic and her skill with weapons would be an asset for Caesar's plan to add Gaul as a province to the Roman Republic. However, stirring in the north, beyond the Rhine, an army of the undead threatens to overrun the world and plunge it into eternal night. Can an alliance of Roman legions and Gallic warriors stop the threat? Octavia's adventure in the northern lands was about to take a dread turn.

NASA Announces Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Concept Awards
‘Inflammation clock’ can reveal body’s biological age
Critical Race Theory Is a Hustle
Innovation Moves to Middle America
Joe Biden, Jim Crow and Texas Voting

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Trump says he paved the way for billionaires’ space race
From a sourpuss killjoy, aka Bernie Sanders: "Here on Earth, in the richest country on the planet, half our people live paycheck to paycheck, people are struggling to feed themselves, struggling to see a doctor — but hey, the richest guys in the world are off in outer space!"
Sir Richard Branson and crew have landed safely. Also, The space race between Branson and Bezos is about business and branding

The race between Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin for which billionaire will be the first to fly into space on his own rocket has certainly captured the public imagination. If schedules hold up. Branson will be the first at the head on a six-person crew on July 11. Bezos will follow on July 20 with a crew that includes his brother, someone who paid $28 million to charity for a seat, and “Mercury 13” pilot Wally Funk.

VIPER, NASA’s Moon resource mapper
NASA will attempt a 'risky' maneuver to fix its broken Hubble Space Telescope as early as next week
How To Watch Richard Branson’s Historic Virgin Galactic Space Launch On Sunday
A Brother on the Moon
Drought-hit New Mexico town eyes economic liftoff from Virgin Galactic space launch
Pentagon Sees China’s Offensive Space Technology ‘On the March’
Several city- and state-sized asteroids impacted young Earth. Probably.

Saturday, July 10, 2021

How it all started: A Space Race to Change the World
A blast from the past: A Final Commercial Frontier, things have changed considerably in the past 15 years
Are UFOs from outer space? Key questions the UAP report left unanswered
Supply chain, Artemis program limit SLS use for science missions
NASA awards contract to Northrop Grumman to build Gateway module
Bezos, Branson, and the Big Business of Space and How to watch Branson’s flight, which Jeff Bezos is still hopping mad about
China Is Building an Area 51
New Evidence Indicates Enough Illegal Votes In Georgia To Tip 2020 Results Plus the real reason Trump supporters think that 2020 election was rigged.

Friday, July 09, 2021

NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract
Why Russia, China, and Iran Are All Screwed by the Pandemic
China's Chang'e 6 mission will collect lunar samples from the far side of the moon by 2024
ELON MUSK SUGGESTS TURNING A STARSHIP INTO A GIANT SPACE TELESCOPE
Elon Musk's 'No A--hole' Policy at SpaceX Is a Great Example of Who You Should Hire and Fire
Palatial, 2,000-Year-Old Public Building Revealed in Jerusalem
Donald J. Trump: Why I’m Suing Big Tech
The Keystone XL Goes to Court
‘Stopping The Worst’ — McConnell Explains What He Would Do If He Becomes Majority Leader Again

Monday, July 05, 2021

Ladyhawke (8/10) Movie CLIP - The Transformation (1985) HD in honor of the late Richard Donner

The 'most complicated machine humans have built' keeps US technology a decade ahead of China
Cows could help us in the plastic crisis — with the bacteria in their guts
Congressional hearings on UFOs? They're probably coming
Elon Musk at 50: the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire went from getting fired from PayPal, and living in his office, to being one of the world’s most successful and controversial tech CEOs
Lunar Exploration as a Service: From landers to spacesuits, NASA is renting rather than owning
Radio telescope faces “extremely concerning” threat from satellite constellations
The sky is full of potential UFOs—here’s why
School Choice Marches Ahead

Sunday, July 04, 2021

Are UFOs from outer space? Key questions the UAP report left unanswered

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released its Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena report. The report analyzes 144 reports of UAPs, what the government calls UFOs, being sighted by military personnel between 2004 and 2021. Eighty of the reports referred to objects that were tracked by multiple sensors. Twenty-one of the reports describe 18 incidents in which the objects displayed unusual flight characteristics.

1776 - Sit down, John!

Driver caught with apparent SpaceX Starlink dish bolted to hood
NASA's Perseverance rover is driving itself around Mars using an enhanced auto-navigation system
Spray-on treatment could keep roads strong for longer while also making cities cooler
COULD AI KEEP PEOPLE ‘ALIVE’ AFTER DEATH?
Netflix Is Releasing A New Series About UFOs

Saturday, July 03, 2021

“The Tomorrow War” is a fun ride with some heart behind it

“The Tomorrow War,” starring Chris Pratt as an everyman high school science teacher and military veteran who is thrust into a future war against alien invaders, recently became available on Amazon Prime. On one level it is an explosion and gun fire-laden action movie of the sort we see too little of in these woke times. On another level, the movie has some lessons to impart about the primacy of family above all in modern life.

The Chinese-Russian Lunar Axis adopts a plan from the late Paul Spudis
NASA preps 'more complex and riskier' Hubble Space Telescope fix
NASA seeking proposals for next phase of Artemis lunar lander services despite industry protests
Riches in space
Nautilus-X, NASA’s Cancelled Interplanetary Shuttle
The ‘Hustlers’ Who Started America

Friday, July 02, 2021

Japan’s Space Journey: From the Land of the Rising Sun to the Moon
The Veep From ‘Veep’ or Selina Meyer walks among us
Tel Aviv team develops RNA ‘missiles’ to directly target cancer cells
How Viruses Could Cure Cancer and Save Lives
Here’s what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year
FOUR REASONS WHY CHINA’S NEW SPACE STATION WILL OUTPACE THE ISS
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age
California’s Growing Cultural Blacklist
Beijing’s Century of Dodging Danger Is No Guarantee of Stability
Who Owns the Fourth of July?