Hello, my BABlogees. I am back from Alaska, Canada, and other points north. Saying I’m tired is like saying a Gamma-Ray Burst is a rather large explosion.
I’m tired.
Sorry about not blogging the past few days, but the internet connection situation was difficult (like, having to walk about 0.4 miles to get to the wireless access point and back and not having enough minutes and and and). I am too exhausted to write anything coherent now, but I’ll have something on Monday sometime.
If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the BA Blog has moved to its new home at Discover Blogs. The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking and all that) is still online, too.
Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
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September 9th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Welcome back, Phil. No hurry; get rested and refreshed.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:34 am
He’s sleeping now.
Ssshhhh! Don’t wake him!
We’ll have to get our BadAstronomy fix later.
September 10th, 2007 at 1:46 am
It sounds like much fun was had.
September 10th, 2007 at 5:00 am
Welcome back to terra firma.
September 10th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Grab a Nap and Sandwich! WELCOME BACK!
September 10th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Phil, yer a slacker. In MY day when I did astronomy lectures on cruises I had to walk 0.5 miles to my internet access point, and due to choppy seas, it was uphill BOTH ways!!
So, quit yer whinin’
Welcome back, Phil. I’m sure the room will stop moving any time now.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Sleep? Rest? No time! There’s bad astronomy afoot!
While you were cruisin’ der fjords in the land of Seward, the artist Mos Def was on Bill Maher’s show talking about how he doesn’t believe anyone ever landed on the moon. Of course, he also thinks OJ is innocent and Osama bin Laden wasn’t behind 9/11.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:13 am
haha, sweet dreams Phil
September 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Actually Dr. Phil, I don’t believe you went on a cruise at all. It was a hoax.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Welcome back Phil, and we made sure to prepare this terrible freezing weather for your return
September 10th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
It’s fine, take a rest. When I got back from Oz, I slept ’till noon. Say, you didn’t SEE a gamma-ray-burst, did you? Don’t worry if you did, because if I hear about a giant green monster destroying Boulder, I won’t tell the army anything.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
He’s tired because the Aurora Borealis disrupted his orgone energy flow leading to a chi imbalance. The effect was enhanced due to clandestine HAARP experiments in that part of the atmosphere attempting to find Thetans hiding in the noctilucent clouds.
Mmmyep.
>>> Mos Def was on Bill Maher’s show talking about how he
>>> doesn’t believe anyone ever landed on the moon.
>>> Of course, he also thinks OJ is innocent and Osama
>>> bin Laden wasn’t behind 9/11.
OJ orchestrated 9/11.
From the Moon.
September 10th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Great trip! I went on this same cruise back in 2001. The ship left Vancouver at 5pm Monday, Sept 10… and you know what happened next. On Tuesday morning there were signs up all over the ship announcing that internet access was free “due to the terrorist activity in New York”. Unfortunately, without any news (no stops for at least another day), nobody knew what terrorist activity they were talking about. It was really weird, we were trapped on the ship and news trickled in slowly (1 plane down, 3 planes down, 1 plane missing, one tower hit, both towers collapsed).
Every time we docked there was a mad rush for phones and news, of course. And yet, when on the ship, we were still taken aback by the beauty and peace of the inside passage, the whale sightings, and, of course, glacier bay. It was breath-taking, scary, peaceful and panicked. All a bit surreal.
By the time we got back a week later, some planes were flying again in Canada and cruise ships were permitted to dock (some earlier arrivals were not so lucky, and were held at sea for a few days).
And kudos to my cruiseline (Norwegian) who ultimately made internet access AND phone free for the duration of the trip, so people could find out news and make alternate travel arrangements for getting home.
That and the glaciers are things I’ll never forget.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
One more Bad Astronomy siting. Our planetarium in Edmonton, AB is putting on a UFO conference. Bad World of Science! Help us Phil… you’re our only hope!
September 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Why does no-one use Dr. Phil’s proper title? It has been earned - not conferred.
Just curious.
September 10th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Why are you so tired? Did you do something foolish like get up before noon during the cruise? Silly, silly B.A.
September 10th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Because there’s no need for formality on a blog…
Sure, we could call him Dr Plait all day long, but why? We all understand and respect his level of education as well as his mind - why do we need to use cumbersome, excessively formal titles in an inherently informal setting?
September 11th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
He’s the OTHER Dr. Phil.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
He’s the OTHER Dr. Phil.
(Like the OTHER white meat.)