Comments on: MMMMMmmmm, BayCon http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:34:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kaptain K http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/comment-page-1/#comment-15386 Kaptain K Sat, 27 May 2006 14:30:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/#comment-15386 My (very shaky) link to fame: I didn't graduate from the same University as Larry Niven! :) My (very shaky) link to fame: I didn’t graduate from the same University as Larry Niven! :)

]]> By: SuperCorgi http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/comment-page-1/#comment-15387 SuperCorgi Fri, 26 May 2006 23:29:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/#comment-15387 "Authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle will be there" I too am turning green with envy. Larry Niven was the first "hard" sci-fi author I ever read. Loved his stuff -- even the fantasy. Hey, ask him why he never finished the "Integral Trees" series. That was a fascinating setting and I wanted more! “Authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle will be there”
I too am turning green with envy. Larry Niven was the first “hard” sci-fi author I ever read. Loved his stuff — even the fantasy. Hey, ask him why he never finished the “Integral Trees” series. That was a fascinating setting and I wanted more!

]]> By: Jim F. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/comment-page-1/#comment-15390 Jim F. Fri, 26 May 2006 16:22:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/#comment-15390 I had to laugh when I discovered that savelivesinmay has (or had?) a link to "Sky and Telescope". One click on that and I was looking at a beautiful picture of the comet. The one that didn't hit Earth. You gotta wonder. Is this a gullability test? A joke? A sincerely deluded individual? A bunch of people who are actually sorry that they have to go back to work on Tuesday? Sigh. P.S. Chatting with Larry & Jerry... I'm turning green with envy. :) I had to laugh when I discovered that savelivesinmay has (or had?) a link to “Sky and Telescope”. One click on that and I was looking at a beautiful picture of the comet. The one that didn’t hit Earth. You gotta wonder. Is this a gullability test? A joke? A sincerely deluded individual? A bunch of people who are actually sorry that they have to go back to work on Tuesday? Sigh.

P.S. Chatting with Larry & Jerry… I’m turning green with envy. :)

]]> By: Blake Stacey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/comment-page-1/#comment-15389 Blake Stacey Fri, 26 May 2006 16:07:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/#comment-15389 Now that the world and human folly are still around, here's <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/05/alienated_duck.php" rel="nofollow">one more for the pareidolia file.</a> It might be even better than the Lenin in the shower curtain. Now that the world and human folly are still around, here’s one more for the pareidolia file. It might be even better than the Lenin in the shower curtain.

]]> By: Tara Mobley http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/comment-page-1/#comment-15388 Tara Mobley Fri, 26 May 2006 16:06:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/#comment-15388 Dammit! Phil Plait is giving talks about an hour from where I live, and I can't really go! If I can make it on Sunday, I will. It will, of course, depend on if I have the funds and BayCon isn't all sold out of day passes. Otherwise I'll just have to read about it here. Dammit! Phil Plait is giving talks about an hour from where I live, and I can’t really go! If I can make it on Sunday, I will. It will, of course, depend on if I have the funds and BayCon isn’t all sold out of day passes.

Otherwise I’ll just have to read about it here.

]]> By: NelC http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/comment-page-1/#comment-15391 NelC Fri, 26 May 2006 12:31:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/#comment-15391 Heh, I was just looking at my Ringworld game last night. Box is looking a bit sad, but the books are still in pretty good nick. I was looking up some planetary data on Plateau, and wondering if the existance of free oxygen at that height indicated some kind of biology going on in the depths of the atmosphere.... And, no, I'm not selling. The game is too pretty for me to give it up yet. Heh, I was just looking at my Ringworld game last night. Box is looking a bit sad, but the books are still in pretty good nick.

I was looking up some planetary data on Plateau, and wondering if the existance of free oxygen at that height indicated some kind of biology going on in the depths of the atmosphere….

And, no, I’m not selling. The game is too pretty for me to give it up yet.

]]> By: Pandabear http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/comment-page-1/#comment-15395 Pandabear Fri, 26 May 2006 12:08:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/05/25/mmmmmmmmm-baycon/#comment-15395 Ringworld rings a bell somewhere.. I remember an adventuregame called just that and found it listed as abandonware: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1347 It might require DosBox to play though.. Ringworld rings a bell somewhere.. I remember an adventuregame called just that and found it listed as abandonware: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1347 It might require DosBox to play though..

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