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I am getting ready right now to head back to the planetarium for another showing of "Black Holes: the Other Side of Infinity" (see my previous blog post for more info). Tonight we’re showing it to the museum donors, so I get to hobnob with people who make more money in one day than I will ever see. 
We’ve had some press from yesterday’s showing to journalists. The picture above is actually me while I was watching the entire program for the first time; the picture was from The Denver Post, which accompanied a nice article. There was also coverage in several other local Denver papers.
Tomorrow, finally, I get to go home. I will probably not be able to blog again until Thursday night, but I’ll try to get back on track as soon as I can.’
February 1st, 2006 at 8:11 pm
“I get to hobnob with people who make more money in one day than I will ever see. ”
I’m sure that, working for NASA, you get to see lots of money. It’s just that none of it is yours (well, almost none).
- Jack
February 1st, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Wow, that picture is gorgeous!! I really wish we had a planetarium anywhere near here. Any chance it will be available online?
February 1st, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Phil doesn’t work for NASA (as far as I know). He probably gets some grants from them.
February 1st, 2006 at 9:48 pm
i always thought phil was a cartoonist, everyones always saying he works for Peanuts.
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February 1st, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Yeah, that looks really cool. I’m hoping the show will play at a planetarium near me. Is there website I can goto to stay updated as to where it will be showing?
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:14 am
Why would someone who has enough money to be an Alpha Romeo aficionado (Jack Hagerty, namely) nag about the amount of money someone else gets?
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:15 am
I’d like to echo what Sam asked above: Whom do I contact to find out more information about this movie? Here in Charleston, West Virginia, we have a relatively new facility called the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, and it has a very nice planetarium. I would LOVE for them to get this film about black holes, it looks excellent. What person or organization would I point them to if they wanted information on getting this film?
February 2nd, 2006 at 8:53 am
Looks like this is one of those amazing and inspiring shows in Astronomy done in recent years. Congratulations, Phil, on your participation. The trailer looks very nice and the credits are cool.
I´ve had the chance to see two of the other major shows they have in exhibition:
- “The Search for Life: Are We Alone?” narrated by Harrison Ford
and
– “Passport to the Universe”, narrated by Tom Hanks,
at the new Rose Center for Earth and Space of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and they are both awesome, they rock! I really recommend them to anyone who might have the chance to see them.
I´ll put this new one on my list, as I´m sure it will be up to the expectations , especially with you as a science consultant
In the meantime, I hope you have already recovered from the crazy Las Vegas lifestyle and I do hope you were left with enough money to manage to get back home. Or did you hit the jackpot?
I think you did hit the jackpot as you are doing what you like to do, you get paid (not much) to do it and you are having fun at the same time. The way it should be. To finish it up, you are sharing all these with the rest of us.
Cheers!
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Hi Chuck. I’ve heard your voice many times, and now I see your post on a blog I frequent. Small world, indeed! I live in Parkersburg and have attended shows at the Clay Center (opera to symphony to planetarium) since they opened. When I saw BA’s blog about this planetarium show, the Clay Center was my first thought. I’m glad you beat me to the punch, and I hope your inquiry will lead to the show making its way to “Almost Heaven.”
Go Mountaineers and Go Herd!
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Bob sez: “Why would someone who has enough money to be an Alpha Romeo aficionado (Jack Hagerty, namely) nag about the amount of money someone else gets?”
Maybe someone who bough their Alfa over 30 years ago and hasn’t been able to afford a second one since (but the first one’s still running fine).
Uh, how did you know I was the “Alfa” Jack Hagerty, and not the “Porsche” Jack Hagerty from Louisiana? (we can take this off line so as to not bore the other good people here.)
- Jack
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Will that show be presented at the Montréal planetarium by any chance?
February 28th, 2006 at 7:57 am
Phil,
There’s an article about the show in the Science section of today’s New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/science/28prof.html