Comments on: Live chat now!

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:16:31 +0000

hey there hope you can help me out im trying to get an inteligent source…and real source
i would like to know if you or someone could aide me in finding the actual …real zodiacal sun signs as they r now…in the present time. and if i give you two birth dates could you help me determine which constellation they fell under when born?
example..saggitarius is said to be under certain days…but the tropical zodian is incorrect beacuse the earth and starrs n such are in a different postion then they were when they made up the whole 12 zodiac thing.
could you please help me or respond letting me know where i can find the actual postions and stuff??
there r 22 actual zodiacal constellations…at present…?
anywho thanks if you cant help..
thought id give it a whirl!
Tara
chapteranduniverse@yahoo.com

By: SchizotypalEmma

SchizotypalEmma — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:25:10 +0000

Hey, I’m sort of new here(been reading the blog for a couple of months) so it’s kind of a shame that my first post would be this, but you were talking about comics at one point and I love this one:

http://www.basicinstructions.net/2006_07_01_archive.html

That’s a link to the archive. I hope that you enjoy it!

By: buffalodavid

buffalodavid — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:16:04 +0000

Enjoyed watching the show, even if I couldn’t get the chat to work.Sometimes It works on the Leo Laport feed and sometimes it don’t. But todays time was perfect for me, access to broadband and no bosses around to questuin why I’m on the net at work. Looking forward to more.

By: Blu-Ray-Ven

Blu-Ray-Ven — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:30:40 +0000

thanx again Mr. BA, i was at my mothers and my sister and I were whaching you, she liked the content

By: VesperDEM

VesperDEM — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:40:51 +0000

That was really fun and informative. I’m really jealous that you have a signed first edition of Ringworld! Truly my favorite story and author of all time!

I hope you do that again sometime!

By: tomr

tomr — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:36:06 +0000

Hey, thanks for the live chat, that was fun…a couple of random and maybe useful things that got lost in the scroll bar:

Chang’e is pronunced Chang (rhymes with gong, or with Ang, as in Ang Lee, the director) e (sounds like uuh, or a sound you’d make when puzzled–we don’t really have that sound in English).

Sound files at:
http://www.mandarintools.com/sounds/chang2.aif
http://www.mandarintools.com/sounds/e2.aif

Unless they’ve changed something since I last used it, to make a perfect circle in Photoshop, just hold down the shift key while drawing an oval.

By: JanieBelle

JanieBelle — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:35:09 +0000

That was really great, Dr. BA. Sorry I had to cut out.

It was very personal and friendly and lively. I enjoyed it a great deal.

Kisses

By: Jesús Pineda

Jesús Pineda — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:34:12 +0000

Great chat BA!

It was very fun, perhaps you could post on some topics that eluded you eye during the chat:

–The confrontation between Anonymous and $cientology
– On GRB’s, AGN’s and the Pierre AUGER observatory: I would love to see what you ahve to say about the possible relation between high energy cosmic rays and active galactic nuclei.

I’m sure someone else can add to the list.

By: Yoshi_3up

Yoshi_3up — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:30:14 +0000

Ah, that was great, BA. Also, the time fit perfectly. You should do it more often, like once a week.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:28:41 +0000

Best day to do this:

Why not keep doing it at the same time as this one?

By: Jewel

Jewel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:27:21 +0000

That was a lot of fun, Phil! Thanks!

By: CarrieP

CarrieP — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:20:51 +0000

fun chat. Thanks!

By: Cairnarvon

Cairnarvon — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:53:26 +0000

If you use an IRC client you won’t get any of Phil’s commentary, which is kind of what’s carrying the conversation.

By: Mus

Mus — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:53:17 +0000

Blah. It doesn’t work. Thanks a bunch for trying to help though!

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:51:23 +0000

The name of the channel is #bad-astronomy

By: nils

nils — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:42:38 +0000

Ya what is the name.

By: Mus

Mus — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:30:57 +0000

Hmm… I’m trying to get into the chat room, but I don’t know how. What’s the chat room name? I tried chat1.ustream.tv:6667 but it didn’t work. I’m just in there by myself :-/

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:19:48 +0000

The chat itself is just an IRC chat room. You could try connecting with a standalone client, such as X-Chat or mIRC.

By: Mus

Mus — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:10:45 +0000

Oh no!!! the chat room doesn’t work heeeellllppp!!!!

It just won’t connect. Keeps saying:

connect to chat1.ustream.tv:6667
please wait….

any ideas?