Comments on: Bad Astronomy at the Detroit Science Center http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/ 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 08:23:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Adrian http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88413 Adrian Thu, 22 May 2008 20:06:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88413 Hey phil, I saw and enjoyed the show at the planetarium at the DSC. You look good in an afro :). I'm also finally getting around to reading your book (bought it in the gift shop at the DSC). Hey phil, I saw and enjoyed the show at the planetarium at the DSC. You look good in an afro :). I’m also finally getting around to reading your book (bought it in the gift shop at the DSC).

]]> By: Clair http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88412 Clair Thu, 15 May 2008 12:58:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88412 I hate that I missed this. I wrote the center to find out if there was public transit from the airport, but they said no, and I just couldn't afford the rental car for the day. :-( I hate that I missed this. I wrote the center to find out if there was public transit from the airport, but they said no, and I just couldn’t afford the rental car for the day. :-(

]]> By: Faithful reader http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88411 Faithful reader Wed, 14 May 2008 15:22:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88411 What Mark said :-) Mark Bobakon 12 May 2008 at 11:43 am Darn it! I’m in MI, and I remember that you were coming here from a previous blog entry, but I didn’t realize it was this weekend! I missed it! What Mark said :-)
Mark Bobakon 12 May 2008 at 11:43 am

Darn it! I’m in MI, and I remember that you were coming here from a previous blog entry, but I didn’t realize it was this weekend! I missed it!

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88410 StevoR Wed, 14 May 2008 03:54:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88410 Oops! Typo correction : The 'Southern Pleiades' is actually IC 2602. Sorry. Oops!

Typo correction : The ‘Southern Pleiades’ is actually IC 2602.

Sorry.

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88409 StevoR Wed, 14 May 2008 03:52:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88409 <blockquote> # <b>Gnat </b> on 12 May 2008 at 11:34 am Phil, Do you have any plans to visit Chicago’s Adler? *hint*hint* </blockquote> Or Adelaide, SouthAustralia, please, BadAstronomer? We've got a great planetarium out at Mawson lakes ... & some fantastic people running it who'd make you very welcome! Oh &, of course, we've got the southern hemisphere skies to offer you with their Magellanic Clouds, Omega Centauri (our new nearest galaxy? ;-) ), the amazing Eta Carinae & its nebulas, the Dark Emu indigenous "constellation", 47 Tucanae, the Southern Cross, the False Cross asterism, the Southern Plieades - Theta Carinae IC 20602, ....

# Gnat on 12 May 2008 at 11:34 am
Phil, Do you have any plans to visit Chicago’s Adler?
*hint*hint*

Or Adelaide, SouthAustralia, please, BadAstronomer?

We’ve got a great planetarium out at Mawson lakes … & some fantastic people running it who’d make you very welcome!

Oh &, of course, we’ve got the southern hemisphere skies to offer you with their Magellanic Clouds, Omega Centauri (our new nearest galaxy? ;-) ), the amazing Eta Carinae & its nebulas, the Dark Emu indigenous “constellation”, 47 Tucanae, the Southern Cross, the False Cross asterism, the Southern Plieades - Theta Carinae IC 20602, ….

]]> By: Todd Slisher http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88408 Todd Slisher Tue, 13 May 2008 13:33:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88408 Oh, BTW yes Rachel Nevada is a stage name, but I'm too much of a gentleman to reveal her real one ;) If you look it up, Rachel is a town in Nevada near many 'UFO' sites. However, choosing Rachel Nevada as a narrator was based on her voice, not the name. This was a total co-incidence. (Or perhaps Aliens were using mind control on me to select her as a narrator?... hmmmm). Oh, BTW yes Rachel Nevada is a stage name, but I’m too much of a gentleman to reveal her real one ;)
If you look it up, Rachel is a town in Nevada near many ‘UFO’ sites. However, choosing Rachel Nevada as a narrator was based on her voice, not the name. This was a total co-incidence. (Or perhaps Aliens were using mind control on me to select her as a narrator?… hmmmm).

]]> By: Paul http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88407 Paul Tue, 13 May 2008 06:10:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/05/12/bad-astronomy-at-the-detroit-science-center/#comment-88407 it was a sweet show. yeah sometimes it was cheesy but it was a funny good kind. really cool and i learned a lot it was a sweet show. yeah sometimes it was cheesy but it was a funny good kind. really cool and i learned a lot

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