I am very pleased to announce that there has been a major upgrade to the Bad Astronomy site: I have merged my Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board with the Universe Today board.
The new board is (at least temporarily) called The Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum, or just BAUT for short. Fraser Cain, the admin of UT, and I both think this is the next logical step for both our boards. His focused on space and astronomy, and mine was astronomy and space, if you catch the difference. We have a lot of overlap, and where we don’t overlap we can strengthen each other’s abilities. By merging, we increase our reach, and get two communities together who should really know each other.
The board went live on Saturday night/Sunday morning, with Fraser and I working hard to get it set up. Everything appears to be going well, with everyone posting merrily away. We’re talking about astronomy, space travel, extraterrestrial life, how to observe, what a moonbase would be like… literally everything from the ground up.
So come on over! It’s a good crowd. You’ll like it there.
September 5th, 2005 at 12:25 pm
“Bad Astronomy and Universe Today” doesn’t really roll trippingly off the tongue. Presumably “Astronomy Today” is taken, so may I suggest “Bad Universe”?
September 5th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
Yay, the largest gathering of anal-retentives on the entire web!
September 5th, 2005 at 5:03 pm
Does ‘zebra boy’ indicate what his dad did to a zebra ?
September 6th, 2005 at 8:43 am
Ummm… have you seen the rest of the web? At least these forums are discussing something tangible.
September 6th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
I almost had a heart attack when I saw the title of this blog entry. WOW, the Theory of Everything has been dicovered! Then I read the blog. Oh, that’s still sort of cool.
September 6th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Yes, Gryfin210, the BA and Universe Today have single-handedly (double-handedly? But that sounds a bit dodgy…) unified quantum chromodynamics and gravity, just over their weekend. Hurrah!
At least, that’s what I thought, too, when I saw the title.
Maybe now the BA’s robot filter will stop thinking I’m a robot.
“The computer is your friend. Please report for termination.”
September 8th, 2005 at 12:42 am
The new forum is a pain
At least on the old one posting a reply was not tantamount to a Crash Application button
October 8th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
Sticks…
I’ve posted a few times without problem – using Netscape, MSIE (shudder), and Firefox – and using Mac, Windows and Linux boxes…
As for this grand unified thing… I’m just waiting for Mr BA and Mr UT to move in together and share sushi. No telling what their respective families would do though – but I bet it would be spectacular.