Emily Lakdawalla, the blogger for The Planetary Society, has learned from the master. She will be hosting a live video chat Wednesday May 14 (tomorrow) at 3:00 p.m. Pacific time (22:00 UT) on her UStream channel. You can get more info on her blog.
I’ll be there in the chat room, and I urge everyone else to take a look too. Emily is very knowledgeable and very funny, so I’m sure this’ll be a good way to spend an afternoon.
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May 13th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Great, hopefully her live stream will be as entertaining and informative as the BA stream.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I will be in the chatroom but I will not hear anything because I will at work and the computer do not have sound, one thing is she is better loking then the BA.
May 13th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Yes, a lot of hair in the head, and very little hair in the rest of the body. That’s more like it.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Huh. She sorta looks like me. Perhaps I will tune in.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Redhead… I’m a sucker for redheads. Now if BA got a red wig, that would be something to see.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Actually, Jewel, that occurred to me too. I think together you would look very different, but in the picture there’s a resemblance.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
You’re probably right, Phil. People tend to look a bit different in person than in photographs.
May 13th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
@Jewel
Indeed. I usually look like this in photographs:
http://www.bigthings.ca/newfound/pictures/squid1.jpg
But in person, I’m not quite that tall.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
LOL! You actually resemble PZ!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Speaking of which, Phil, remember when you talked about the ridges in Phobos during the last vid chat? Emily has a great entry on that somewhere in that huge blog of hers (and PS’es too, of course). In a nutshell, she says they might have been generated by ejecta flying off from a big impact on Mars. Too late around here (and I’m too sleepy) to go dig it up right now, but I might do it tomorrow if you’re interested.
Nice reply on the “ethereal” characteristic of dark matter too, BTW…
May 13th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
@jewel
Indeed, you do look like EL, at least in a sisterly way.
LOL! You actually resemble PZ!
I never really thought of that before, but I suppose I sort of do resemble him. Something makes me recall that he’s about 5′9 or so, which would make me quite a bit taller.
We came about our cephalopodity quite differently I suspect.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Evolving Squid - are you really the Flying Spaghetti Monster?!
If so, please bless me with your noodly appendages, please!
May 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am
No, I am merely a manifestation of a multi-dimensional being who inhabits this world because chicken vindaloo is so damn tasty and can’t be had outside this solar system.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:45 am
# Evolving Squidon 14 May 2008 at 9:29 am
No, I am merely a manifestation of a multi-dimensional being who inhabits this world because chicken vindaloo is so damn tasty and can’t be had outside this solar system.
Lister?
May 14th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Wish the world would be ruinning on UTC. Note to BA: It’s midnight for me when Emily goes online
May 14th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Now I have a craving for chicken vindaloo. lol.
I should be getting home from work around the time of the broadcast, so hopefully I’ll be able to tune in. Should be fun.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Her blog is awesome. I joined the Planetary Society mostly because of it. I urge other readers to join too.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I used to be a Planetary Society member. I let my membership lapse a while back, but not for any good reason. I suspect laziness…I’m thinking about forgoing laziness and rejoining, though.
May 14th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Emily’s chat was fantastic! Thanks Phil for posting about it.