Comments on: Griffith Observatory apparently OK http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/ 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. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:52:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Australia’s new chief scientist | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-123335 Australia’s new chief scientist | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:42:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-123335 [...] Cool: An astronomer has just been named as Australia’s new Chief Scientist. Penny Sackett, who ran the rebuilding of the Mt. Stromlo observatory after devastating fires in 2003. [...] […] Cool: An astronomer has just been named as Australia’s new Chief Scientist. Penny Sackett, who ran the rebuilding of the Mt. Stromlo observatory after devastating fires in 2003. […]

]]> By: Antnie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36042 Antnie Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:13:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36042 I found the "Centered in the Universe" show at the Griffith Observatory to be a big disappointment! With all the new information, images, footage from the current mission to Mars, Saturn, Pluto Shuttle missions ect... for a planetarium to show images of a desk and fake twilights emerging from a piece of paper is nothing but theatrics that belong in movie theaters. There is so much fact and good science that could have been presented. They instead choose to fluff up the show with a lot of "There is so much we don't know yet" to try to amaze us. A great place with a bad show. I found the “Centered in the Universe” show at the Griffith Observatory to be a big disappointment! With all the new information, images, footage from the current mission to Mars, Saturn, Pluto Shuttle missions ect… for a planetarium to show images of a desk and fake twilights emerging from a piece of paper is nothing but theatrics that belong in movie theaters. There is so much fact and good science that could have been presented. They instead choose to fluff up the show with a lot of “There is so much we don’t know yet” to try to amaze us. A great place with a bad show.

]]> By: Russ Brown http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36023 Russ Brown Fri, 11 May 2007 08:43:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36023 Great to hear you had such a good time in Oz, Phil. Hope you'll be making the trip again sometime soon. Come and visit - I'll buy you a pack of Minties! Now there's hospitality! Great to hear you had such a good time in Oz, Phil. Hope you’ll be making the trip again sometime soon. Come and visit - I’ll buy you a pack of Minties! Now there’s hospitality!

]]> By: Mark Skarr http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36041 Mark Skarr Fri, 11 May 2007 04:50:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36041 Are you moving to Colorado or just visiting? I'd love to get a chance to meet the Great Bad Astronomer! (I just can't aford to make it to TAM.) Are you moving to Colorado or just visiting? I’d love to get a chance to meet the Great Bad Astronomer! (I just can’t aford to make it to TAM.)

]]> By: Chris Ho-Stuart http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36040 Chris Ho-Stuart Thu, 10 May 2007 21:14:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36040 Great story; and thanks for a moving obituary for the Mt Stomlo observatory. Good usage of the vernacular as well... Great story; and thanks for a moving obituary for the Mt Stomlo observatory.

Good usage of the vernacular as well…

]]> By: icemith http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36039 icemith Thu, 10 May 2007 18:26:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36039 Ooops, even with the best *planing*, the plank is not as the plans required! It may improve with better *planning*. Or better proof-reading! Sorry for the typo. Ivan. Ooops, even with the best *planing*, the plank is not as the plans required! It may improve with better *planning*. Or better proof-reading!

Sorry for the typo.

Ivan.

]]> By: icemith http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36038 icemith Thu, 10 May 2007 18:19:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/05/09/griffith-observatory-apparently-ok/#comment-36038 Glad to hear that the Griffith has been spared, but look at it as a wake-up call, and that local authorities better plan the area to deny a future opportunity for another fire. I"m sad to hear that the proliferation of *exotic* timber species, including Euclalytus - familar to Australians, but should only exist here in their native land - has upset the balance in the California landscape. The "gum" tree has developed in hand with fire, as it needs it to enable the seed pod to burst and start new life. True, some of the blackened tree stumps may also produce suckers which may grow into trees themselves. The expansion of Canberra suburbs, and the mis-guided planing that placed tree plantations too close (with pine trees - an exotic here in Australia, but useful for commercial reasons, for building frames etc., and paper pulp), has caused the same conditions that enable wildfires to menace our Human endeavours in many parts of the world. Ivan. Glad to hear that the Griffith has been spared, but look at it as a wake-up call, and that local authorities better plan the area to deny a future opportunity for another fire. I”m sad to hear that the proliferation of *exotic* timber species, including Euclalytus - familar to Australians, but should only exist here in their native land - has upset the balance in the California landscape.

The “gum” tree has developed in hand with fire, as it needs it to enable the seed pod to burst and start new life. True, some of the blackened tree stumps may also produce suckers which may grow into trees themselves.

The expansion of Canberra suburbs, and the mis-guided planing that placed tree plantations too close (with pine trees - an exotic here in Australia, but useful for commercial reasons, for building frames etc., and paper pulp), has caused the same conditions that enable wildfires to menace our Human endeavours in many parts of the world.

Ivan.

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