OK, maybe not all media, but this week I am on radio, TV, and a podcast. Not too bad!
- First off, I’m featured on "Declassified: Countdown to Doomsday", a two-hour TV show about different end-of-the-world disaster scenarios. It airs on Wednesday, June 14 at 9:00 pm. on the SciFi Channel. Check your local listings. This show should be fun; we talked about several ways the world can end, and I tried valiantly to make sure to point out that although these scenarios are real, the odds of them happening any time soon are very low (as I like to say, how many people do you know who have been killed by a gamma-ray burst?). The show is hosted by Matt Lauer.
- Second, I’ll be doing my regular "Brains on Vacation" segment on the Are We Alone radio show. We talked about the inefficacy of intercessory prayer (say that three times fast!). That airs on Sirius Satellite radio, on the Discovery Channel (channel 119), Wednesday at 2:00 and 9:00 a.m., and 9:00 p.m. EST, and repeats Sundays at 11:00 p.m. EST. This means one of the shows airs at the same time I am on the SciFi channel. That’s kinda cool!
- Finally, I did an interview with the good folks at The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, a fine group of skeptics which includes the delicious Rebecca, whom you may remember from such blog entries as this and of course this. We talked about all sorts of things, including the comet that didn’t kill us all in May, and how NASA is getting screwed by Congress. I also wax on about manned versus unmanned space exploration. You can see the show notes here.
Not only that, but I just got back from doing another TV interview for a show that’ll air next year. I’ll talk more about that later!
June 12th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
Cool, the BA on Sci-Fi channel!
Looking forward to seeing that.
Incidently, that program comes on after ‘The Day After’ (at least, over here it does).
June 12th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Actually I know a guy who was killed by a gamma-ray burst. Although it’s a tragic event the story is quite funny,what happened was that …..
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**Internet Connection Interrupted**
June 12th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Argh! Both airings are on during other shows I wanna see! You’re on at 9 when I’m recording Lost, and again at 11 when I’m recording the Daily Show and Colbert Report. Hmm… maybe I should just go to the iTunes store and download those episodes and record your show. What to do?
June 13th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Great press Tom—congratulations!
Have you heard about Steven Hawking talking to a sold out lecture about the need for humans to have a lunar colony/mars colony and space stations in order to prevent the future extinction of the human race?
His book “A Brief History of Time” was a best seller.
Do you have a book in the works?
June 14th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
The ‘Room for Skeptics’ will be open during the BA’s appearance on the tube, for commentary on the commentary…come by and join us!!!
June 14th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
It’s a boob-tube night…
Leading in to the Carlin-Coulter cage match on Leno tonight, we’ve also got Phil Plait on the SciFi Channel. It should be a cheerful evening, since he’s discussing the end of the world…….
June 14th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Don’t fusion explosions from H-bombs produce gamma ray bursts? Fission bombs? If so, any strength to those bursts at all?