I’ve had a MySpace page for months, and for some reason it never occurred to me to say anything about it here. So now I am. If you have a MySpace page, go ahead and add me as a friend!
And while you’re at it, I have another request: add GLAST, too! A few months ago, my group at work stumbled on this idea to create MySpace pages for our satellites as a lark, to see what would happen. Then the more we thought about it, the better the idea got. We can put in updates, links to other satellites, add pictures, and have some fun with it. So there you go, the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope gets the first one (here’s more info on GLAST, too). At some point we’ll have to let the GLAST management know we did this, but maybe if we wait until we have a few hundred friends they won’t yell at us quite so much.
September 8th, 2006 at 10:08 am
The Mars Rovers had livejournals (unofficailly), which were mostly a joke with a few facts sprinkled in. I think this works much better. More space hardware MySpace pages!
September 8th, 2006 at 10:21 am
Hey Phil, don’t forget what birthday is September 8! I didn’t.
September 8th, 2006 at 11:03 am
Star Trek, you mean? Yeah, I didn’t blog about it. I probably should have. Sigh.
September 8th, 2006 at 11:32 am
I’m disappointed that you haven’t Phil. Especially with all the stuff about the TOS coming back to television with “spiffed up” effects.
September 8th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
I’ve been busy.
September 8th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Is it safe to view MySpace pages, I heard that there was an advert on there that planted viruses on your PC
September 8th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
The picture of Phil with the gnome in his ear is priceless.
September 8th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
I prefer Facebook to MySpace, but it looks like I my have to start using MySpace if more and more sattelites have them!
September 8th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
I heard some perv in Ohio tried to get GLAST to meet him at a Denny’s in Akron.
Dang probophiles!
September 8th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I remember when myspace was called GEOCITIES. This isn’t some new invention. Personally, I don’t see the point. This site of yours is amazing. Not really sure what making another site on some big site servers adds to the party.
September 8th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
If GLAST, or its team, was given a university email address it could join facebook. So can BA, for that matter, since he is at a University and thus must be able to get a university email address.
September 8th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
“Do you really want to add The Bad Astronomer as a friend?”
hmmm….
“Click “Add” only if you really wish to add The Bad Astronomer as a Friend.”
Oh, all right… added. Seemed like MySpace was trying to tell me something there, though.
September 9th, 2006 at 7:27 am
Sorry, but somewhere I heard that just by visiting a MySpace site you can get a virus, due to an advert and nobody here has addressed this, so I will not be visiting as the PC engineer I used last time seems to have gone out of business
September 9th, 2006 at 9:10 am
[...] I just read about the GLAST satellite’s MySpace page on the BadAstronomy blog. For many reasons, this is very cool. As a kid I was constantly seeking out new info on astronomy news, reading countless books and magazines. Imagine how geeky I could have been had I had these types of resources. I wish I were 12 again! [...]
September 9th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Added. Yay! I now have both Phil Plait and a sattelite as friends. Very cool.
September 9th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Woot! I was a part of the BA’s MySpace before Phil made it ‘cool’! Lol.
September 9th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
accept me! accept me!
September 10th, 2006 at 9:18 am
You never get me there. It is require on MySpace to have ugly profiles.
September 11th, 2006 at 4:26 am
Sorry, but somewhere I heard that just by visiting a MySpace site you can get a virus, due to an advert
Not true! No viruses from Myspace. It’s safe.
Phil, you’ll be going into my Top 20!