Happy Independence Day! Well, we did it. The pandemic is over* and we’re now back to normal.** We’ve been through a lot over the past year, and now by golly it’s time…
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“Have you looked at the sky lately?” (Part 2) The NASA Death Probe That Could Have Been
Militarized Mars Rover (D3 concept sketch). You know they wanted to. On 20 Aug 1977, the United States launched the space probe Voyager 2 on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus…
Did Italian space satellites change votes from Trump to Biden in the 2020 election?
An in-depth analysis based on the technical and logistic capabilities of a foreign government’s ability to electronically alter American votes from orbit. No. WE Linde and JE Dever contributed to this story.
Our (last minute) gift for you on this Fathers Day
Forgetting to get a gift for Fathers Day is a tradition that is as old as Mother’s Day itself. Here’s a card you can print. Or email if printing is too much…
I’m a foreign policy expert and everything you think is wrong
President Biden speaks to the troops at RAF Mildenhall. You probably didn’t know that. I’ve noticed that many of you out there are very wrong about things involving foreign policy. I…
“Have you looked at the sky lately?” (Part 1) The Bionic Man and America’s space program: Did a Soviet Union “death probe” provide the technology for NASA’s Mars rovers?
This is the latest installment of Damper Three’s award-wanting investigative series, The True Costs of the Six Million Dollar Man, which seeks to unearth the truth behind the development and use…
Comparing the most successful space rovers
With the United States and China both actively exploring Mars with high tech rovers, we here at Damper 3 have collected an extensive list* of the strengths and weaknesses of the most…
What to say to your sanctimonious time-travelling future self when he tries to stop you from doing something cool
Time pieces pic by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash. Pic of man by George Hodan on https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ It happens to all of us, eventually. If you’ve avoided it so far, then congratulations. But your luck…
Signs that new job might not be for you
The US economy has been through some turmoil over the past year, to say the least. But with COVID-19 restrictions lifting across the country, many who lost their jobs are anxious to…
An in-depth look at China’s Zhurong Mars Rover
On 14 May 2021, China became only the second nation to successfully land a remote-controlled rover on the surface of Mars.* Damper 3’s scieneticians have poured over everything we could find in…