I am giving away a copy of the softbound book Beautiful Universe, a wonderfully, um, beautiful book featuring nearly 100 pages of gorgeous pictures of the heavens. It was sent to me by the good folks at Sky and Telescope magazine because I am a contributing feature writer. It’s a great book (see more about it here), but my bookshelf is overflowing with astronomy books, so I figure why not give a BABloggee a chance to own it?
So here’s your chance. All you need to do is go to the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today bulletin board. I’ve created a thread in the Fun-n-Games section called "Beautiful Universe giveaway contest!" If you’re already a registered user, just post something in that thread, like "I wanna win the book!" It doesn’t matter what you post as long as you post. Post ONLY ONCE. If you post more than once I will delete the extra posts.
If you are not already registered at the board, it’s easy and free. We don’t charge anything, and we don’t do anything with your emails or info. I hate spammers more than you do, guaranteed (I get thousands of spams a day– and not just email but also comments on this blog and on the BAUT board!), so I swear that info stays in our database and that’s it.
On Thursday, February 8th at noon Pacific time I will close the thread. I’ll generate a random number, and whoever has that number post wins the book! I’ll send you a private message or email confirmation, and you can send me your snail mail address. The book will wing its way to you the next day. There will be no cost to you at all (the cover price of the book is US$9.99).
Oh– speaking of BAUT, don’t forget about "Q & BA". I’ll be making my video answer this weekend, so get those questions to me!
January 31st, 2007 at 11:42 pm
You’ll autograph that book, I’ll presume.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:09 am
Why would you want him to autograph a book he didn’t write?
February 1st, 2007 at 2:11 am
Phil, look at the cam not at the screen!
February 1st, 2007 at 3:55 am
giving a book away? hmmm…i generally try to find more bookshelves first..;)
February 1st, 2007 at 4:13 am
does the book weigh 90% more than it should according to present day physics?
February 1st, 2007 at 6:55 am
I have that book and it is beautiful. Have already looked through it several times. It is well worth entering the random number thing to get it.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:37 am
Good idea! I have last year’s issue – it’s a nice collection of great astrophotography. As the BA said, it’s softbound, like a stiff magazine, but it’s great. Plus Phil can autograph it and write a message to the winner! Maybe it will be worth something some day… (-8~
February 1st, 2007 at 7:41 am
Writing the book required intelligence, that which made the writer of the book therefore required intelligence, the big bang made the writer of the book, therefore comic strip artists should be considered authorities on the origin of the universe, or something like that
February 1st, 2007 at 8:10 am
What about us non-Americans? Particular those in Europe?
February 1st, 2007 at 9:01 am
Or New Zealand?
February 1st, 2007 at 9:24 am
Phil -
OT question: What Web Cam are you using? It’s good quality and I’ve been looking to get one myself.
Thanks!
February 1st, 2007 at 9:43 am
Why would there be a problem with Europe or New Zealand? The last time I checked, they had snail mail delivery, too.
February 1st, 2007 at 10:19 am
you’re thinking of a number between 70 and 72
February 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
I think this is just a cheap stunt to get more people to register, right Phil?
Rob
February 1st, 2007 at 11:55 am
@shoeshine boy
Because the postage costs more than the book itself.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:05 pm
BAs mention of Sky and Telescope, reminded me that he has a nice little article about the Face of Mars in the Feb issue. It’s accompanied by a really cool picture from the latest Mars probe. There’s also a good article on Saturns rings.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Phil,
If you need help getting a random number, I suggest this book. It has received mixed reviews, but I think you’ll get use out of it.
February 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
When I first saw your picture I was tempted to quote Steve Martin in Planes, Trains & Automobiles: “Where’s your other hand? ”
But I resisted
February 1st, 2007 at 7:52 pm
“I think this is just a cheap stunt to get more people to register, right Phil?”
It’s working…
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:07 am
Will the book help a new user? And just why are you giving it away again?
Will the winner have to pay for postage? So how much does the book weigh?
Hmmm,
February 2nd, 2007 at 10:06 am
Among other things academic, I teach an ongoing course called “Our Glorious Universe” to retired professionals through our continuing ed program and utilize many of the posted photograhs as background. “The Beautiful Universe” will provide much more background with which to enhance the course.
February 4th, 2007 at 9:27 am
My dictionary defines the term “random number” as being 44.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
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