I’m doing a live video chat starting at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (21:00 UT) today, Sunday May 18. If you look below and see/hear me talking about doing astronomy or house-husband work, then you’re good. I urge you to go to the UStream page, though, so you can participate in the chat room (or find/use an IRC client you like; the server is chat1.ustream.tv and the room is #bad-astronomy). If you want to change your nickname there, type "/nick Giordano Bruno" (or whatever) in the text field.
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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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May 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Can I suggest putting a little clock somewhere on your pages so we can see the time as your stream thinks it is? Might help those of us who have no idea of the time difference between GMT and MT.
May 18th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
A quick trip to http://www.whattimeisit.com/ will tell you Crux.
May 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Cool, thanks Jewel.
May 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Most welcome. I have that site bookmarked. I use it much more than I ever thought I would…
May 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
LOL. Of course there is a “Time til chat” thing at the top of the blog post, too. Didn’t see it either, Crux.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I missed the majority of it, but from what I saw you touched on some VERY interesting topics this time.
Same time next week?
May 18th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Disappointed that I missed your video chat today, would like to catch your next one if possible, do you have a time and date scheduled yet?
May 18th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Cool chat yet again. Even Ustream glitchiness and the odd troll didn’t manage to spoil the fun. Thanks Phil.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:21 am
I’d like to say thanks, too, Phil. Being a ustream newbie, I don’t think ustream is all that bad. There are so many technical details in pulling off realtime video chats. The bandwith to stream live video to over 300 individuals simultaneously alone makes me dizzy. And it’s dozens, if not hundreds of channels at the same time.
So let’s cut ustream some slack and enjoy what we manage to get from the intertubes.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Damnit I keep missing all of these! I either wake up too late, or there isn’t one on the day I’m up on time. Grr!
May 19th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Enjoyed the chat.
Thanks Phil!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Hi, i really enjoyed the chat. Thanks