Comments on: Stephen Colbert: On Notice!

By: Russell Hamstead

Russell Hamstead — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:51:38 +0000

Far out this guy (Phil Plait) is lame. get a sense of humour for heavens sake. Your clearly need to get out more…

By: Zucchi

Zucchi — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:10:51 +0000

Colbert in reality is a sci-fi and fantasy geek. He’s pro-science, and his satirical persona on the show is deliberately ridiculous. He’s had Neil deGrasse Tyson on his show repeatedly, and they seem to have a great time. I’d love to see Phil on the show.

By: Colbert treads on NASA | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Colbert treads on NASA | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:56:12 +0000

[...] NASA launches the COLBERT treadmill into space. Presented without comment (except CURSE YOU STEPHEN COLBERT!) here’s Colbert’s NASA [...]

By: Colbert mocks me again | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Colbert mocks me again | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:14:25 +0000

[...] in the world but me. Stephen, what must I do? I wrote a book about the end of the world, and I even threatened to have Buzz Aldrin punch you. And yet you still invite Derrick Pitts on your show, and not [...]

By: Richard Smith

Richard Smith — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:35:43 +0000

Aww, now Colbert’s gone and ruined it by “converting” from HB to landing believer on last night’s show (October 3rd). Maybe the threat of a possible confrontation with the BA was too much and he needed some sort of “out”…

By: Bad Astronomer Phil Plait puts Stephen Colbert On Notice « Space News

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait puts Stephen Colbert On Notice « Space News — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:58:17 +0000

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By: Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 9/4/2007 - General Science

Seed's Daily Zeitgeist: 9/4/2007 - General Science — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:58:46 +0000

[...] Stephen Colbert: On Notice! The Bad Astronomer challenges Stephen to a duel. Grab the popcorn, kids; someone questioned the moon landing. [...]

By: LARRY

LARRY — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:51:47 +0000

Phil, that was very funny and I share your dislike of colbert. I hated him ever since he had on that founder of the minutemen. He’s just a bad entertainer who some crook at comedy central put on the air. Keep doing what your doing because we need it.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:20:29 +0000

Phil, I love your site and everything you have to talk about… but dude, Colbert purposely pushes the Bill O’Reilly gimmick. Don’t take him that seriously.

By: Mattfn

Mattfn — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:48:47 +0000

Ah Phil….

The entertainment you spawn with your ruminations…….

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:57:49 +0000

I know the moon hoax is true you see I was in a US army hasmat unit and we were sent to area 51 to cotain a germ outbreak my teem was killed but Ifound the movie set where the hoax was filmed and broadcasted .All this happed in march on my playstation2 maybe Mr Colbert is a big video game addict like me

By: Meshakhad

Meshakhad — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:25:30 +0000

Awesome. For good measure, attach a solid rocket booster to your forearm.

By: Irishman

Irishman — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:46:45 +0000

So, Phil, your visibility may have gone up through using Digg, but I have to say the quality of the blog comments has gone down – way down. I can’t even bother to respond to them because apparently none of them are reading the other blog comments, just posting their 956th iteration of the same comment.

By: Lurchgs

Lurchgs — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:18:30 +0000

nuts- I really wish I could edit my posts – I meant to comment on the number of individuals who fee constrained to post without bothering to read the OTHER posts. What’s the point – besides showing how you like to shoot your mouth off.

ee – that’s an image I can live without

By: Lurchgs

Lurchgs — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:13:41 +0000

Just Al got me thinking… WWF isn’t right.. for this kind of confrontation, you need Celebrity Deathmatch.. or my favorite Muppets – Waldorf and Statler.

By: Alan K

Alan K — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:29:50 +0000

*grabs hold of the Bad Astronomers arm*

“Leave him Phil, he’s not worth it!!”

As we say in the UK

By: NASAWFF

NASAWFF — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:28:24 +0000

Rock on!!!!! NASA’s got your back!!!!

By: Wes

Wes — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:24:56 +0000

I’m getting a really good laugh at the people who don’t understand that Phil is joking and call him an “idiot” because he supposedly doesn’t understand that Steve Colbert is joking. It reminds me of people who deny global warming by trotting out op-eds paid for by ExxonMobil which allege that the scientists claiming the climate is changing are just doing it for money. Or creationists who censor comments in their threads about how the evil atheist darwinists won’t let them speak their minds. You could point out the irony of this to them, but they can’t see it.

Phil, I thought your video was funny, and if Steve Colbert responds in some way I’d love to see it! If you really want to get to him, go for his wrists!

By: MadMoll

MadMoll — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:06:44 +0000

I can guarantee that Stephen has seen this.

By: KaiYeves

KaiYeves — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:01:17 +0000

I really hope you aren’t talking to me, Travis.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:58:18 +0000

Sorry, balloons on the Moon? How would that work? I’m surprised Elwood Herring didn’t see what was wrong with that idea when he quoted Joe Public.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:49:02 +0000

Oh my god, people get over it! Phil was obviously joking…those who are repeatedly pointing out that Phil is an attention-whore (whatever the hell that means) and an idiot for taking this guy seriously (never heard of him, myself) need to take a reality check.

Phil is a hero and a role model for a lot of people, myself included. Download a life.

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:47:36 +0000

Joe Public:
“Moon is easily visible from earth, so whoever lands on moon has to hoist a balloon or fire a flair on moon to conclusively establish moon landing.”

The Moon might be easily visible from Earth, but sending up even a large balloon from its surface would still not be visible except through a powerful telescope, and neither would a flare (note spelling). It would still not convince sceptics such as yourself, even if it were visible. And Photoshop wasn’t around in the 60′s, nor were powerful computers capable of clever image manipulation. I personally have examined plenty of genuine high quality lunar photographs with modern software, and as far as I can tell there is no evidence of a hoax. But of course sceptics will see hoaxes everywhere they look.

The Moon landings are the greatest achievement of the U.S. and possibly the whole world, ever. You should be proud of what your country’s done (I’m assuming you’re American), not pouring scorn on a stupendous achievement which was done in the name of Science.

By: Procyan

Procyan — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:55:59 +0000

Yer yella Colbear, ya hear? Yella if you don’t face up. Yella belly…Yella!

By: AMDubbin

AMDubbin — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:03:15 +0000

My cousin writes for the show (seriously… watch the credits and look for the same last name). I’ll be sure to let him know that you’re calling Colbert out. Maybe we can make this happen.

I’m on your side, Phil!