Comments on: Q and BA Episode 7: By Any Other Name http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/ 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. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:58:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: The Bad Astronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32992 The Bad Astronomer Fri, 30 May 2008 15:59:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32992 Jeff, my pleasure. That was a great shot! Jeff, my pleasure. That was a great shot!

]]> By: Jeff http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32991 Jeff Fri, 30 May 2008 15:40:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32991 Phil What a surprise when my tracking started to show hits from badastronomy.com. My first thought was W.T.F. did I do wrong. I was pleased to see you used one of my photos for your video blog . I was also very pleased to see the flickr creative commons license guidelines adhered to with a link as well. Not many people follow those guidelines so thanks also for being on the "up and up". Best Regards from the middle of Canada Jeff Phil

What a surprise when my tracking started to show hits from badastronomy.com.
My first thought was W.T.F. did I do wrong.

I was pleased to see you used one of my photos for your video blog .
I was also very pleased to see the flickr creative commons license guidelines adhered to with a link as well.

Not many people follow those guidelines so thanks also for being on the “up and up”.

Best Regards from the middle of Canada
Jeff

]]> By: Drbuzz0 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32987 Drbuzz0 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:07:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32987 Phil! You completely forgot that the names of stars are recorded in book form in the US patent office and.... oh yea... nevermind. I really liked that Q and BA, though. I assume that pretty much all the stars or other objects visible by the naked eye or a nominal telescope probably have been given some sort of label and cataloged by this point? Phil! You completely forgot that the names of stars are recorded in book form in the US patent office and…. oh yea… nevermind.

I really liked that Q and BA, though. I assume that pretty much all the stars or other objects visible by the naked eye or a nominal telescope probably have been given some sort of label and cataloged by this point?

]]> By: Astrolink [Global Edition] » Barred for life | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32986 Astrolink [Global Edition] » Barred for life | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:23:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32986 [...] form Hubble. It’s NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy (NGC stands for New General Catalog, as my last real episode of Q and BA notes). All by themselves, normal spirals are weird enough. We know that stars closer in to the [...] […] form Hubble. It’s NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy (NGC stands for New General Catalog, as my last real episode of Q and BA notes). All by themselves, normal spirals are weird enough. We know that stars closer in to the […]

]]> By: names girl boy » Q and BA Episode 7: By Any Other Name http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32959 names girl boy » Q and BA Episode 7: By Any Other Name Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:54:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32959 [...] Original post by The Bad Astronomer [...] […] Original post by The Bad Astronomer […]

]]> By: Nigel Depledge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32954 Nigel Depledge Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:40:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32954 Phil, what I think you were struggling for was this: "That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet..." Anyway, that was a good one! Phil, what I think you were struggling for was this:
“That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet…”

Anyway, that was a good one!

]]> By: The Bad Astronomer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32990 The Bad Astronomer Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:36:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/18/q-and-ba-episode-7-by-any-other-name/#comment-32990 A couple of things: 1) I know about the Rosette nebula, of course. It's a famous one. But it's not the <b>Rose</b> nebula. Evidently there <i>is</i> a <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/12/hubble.rose/" target="_Blank" rel="nofollow">Rose Nebula</a>. I knew of this nebula itself, but not the name. 2) I marked Virginia's post as spam, since it linked to a link farm. 3) Transcripts of many of the Q and BA episodes have been made, but I haven't uploaded them yet because I'm still trying to figure out how to organize all this. I'll do it at some point. As Jack Hagerty pointed out, I don't have a script to work from; this is all ad lib. Jon Voisey from <a href="http://angryastronomer.blogspot.com/" target="_Blank" rel="nofollow">The Angry Astronomer</a> has sent me transcripts after I post the episodes, so I've got them, I just need to get organized. 4) Bee, I just use a webcam and edit the file using Windows Movie Maker, one of the truly most awful pieces of crappy software it has ever been my misfortune to use. In the future I will use different software, but I'm too busy to learn it now. Eventually. A couple of things:

1) I know about the Rosette nebula, of course. It’s a famous one. But it’s not the Rose nebula. Evidently there is a Rose Nebula. I knew of this nebula itself, but not the name.

2) I marked Virginia’s post as spam, since it linked to a link farm.

3) Transcripts of many of the Q and BA episodes have been made, but I haven’t uploaded them yet because I’m still trying to figure out how to organize all this. I’ll do it at some point. As Jack Hagerty pointed out, I don’t have a script to work from; this is all ad lib. Jon Voisey from The Angry Astronomer has sent me transcripts after I post the episodes, so I’ve got them, I just need to get organized.

4) Bee, I just use a webcam and edit the file using Windows Movie Maker, one of the truly most awful pieces of crappy software it has ever been my misfortune to use. In the future I will use different software, but I’m too busy to learn it now. Eventually.

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