Phil Plait, der Bad-Astronomy-Blogger, hat eine Aktion gestartet, bei der er per Video Fragen zum Thema Astronomie beantwortet. Der Mann ist echt gut im mitreissenden Erklären, verzichtet auf Fachchinesisch und spricht ein recht verständliches Englis…

I like this idea! Posting them on Sunday night would be great since I can’t watch YouTube videos at work. Then I can start my morning off at home with a BAD video and coffee. I hope you choose this question soon. It would probably make the kid’s day hearing their name and all.

NARF!

I’ve got a webcam around here somewhere as well and can probably help out.

I sometimes get worried about the rise of voice chat, video blogging and the increased reliance on speech and sound in games and suchlike, because the text-based internet has been such a godsend for me and, I’m sure, many other deaf people.

It’s reassuring to know what we’re not the only subset of the population who find communication via text essential. When Doom 3 was released with vital spoken plot cues and not a subtitle in sight, the makers got many more complaints from those for whom English was not a first language than from those who simply have a hearing loss.. not that THEY paid the slightest attention to the complaints anyway

http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/olbers.html

Fourth paragraph down, part way through, you begin to answer my problem . . . nearly 10 years ago. Thanks!

BTW I made a small edit to your transcript, changing the email address to avoid email-spamming robot scanners.

I can type reasonably quickly, but this took much longer than I thought it would. Don’t expect any more transcripts from me again for a while. Sorry.

Hi, Phil Plait from badastronomy.com here. I am very pleased to announce a new feature to the blog and this is where you, the reader, ask me, the astronomer, an astronomy question that’s been bugging you and then I’ll answer it here on the webcam and post it to the blog. I call this new feature, “Q & BA” (laughs). Okay, all you have to do is think of an astronomy question that’s been bugging you, like “How big is the universe?” or “I heard this thing on the Internet that an asteroid is going to hit the earth in the year 2026–what’s that all about?” And then all you have to do is send it to me and there are two ways to do this. One, is to send it to thebadastronomer “at” gmail “dot” com or you can post it to the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum, or BAUT Forum. Now, I have more detailed instructions on the blog. Just go to the sidebar and look for the button that says “Q & BA”, click it, and you’ll see everything you need to know there. And what I will do is I will go through the questions that week and over the weekend, I will create the webcam blog, put it up on Sunday nights so that on Monday morning, when you get to work, you can blow off what ever it is your boss wants you to do and instead you can read about astronomy. So the first one will get posted on Monday, February, the fifth. So let’s get those questions sent in! See you on the blog.

As for making transcripts. . . the way to get anything done on Web 3.1 is to make somebody else want to do it for you, for free. In other words, each time you do a video post, ask your faithful readers, “Would one of you take a break from writing Wikipedia articles on Firefly? I’ll re-post your transcript at the top level and make you famous if you transcribe this video.”

P.S.: Good to see that there are more fans here from Germany!!
PPS: I will see Harald Lesch live in the “Planetarium Bochum” on Februrary 21st!

For *this* video, the text is pretty much a transcript of the video already. There is no more new info there.

Practicing to step into Carl Sagan’s shoes? How do you say billions?

Er, Phil, 60 divided by 29 is a bit closer to 2 per day, I think…

But, Phil, you must know that the Great Green Arkelseizure Theory has never been widely accepted outside Viltvodel VI…