I’ll be doing another live video chat starting at 15:00 Mountain Time (21:00 UT) on Sunday June 8. If you look below and see me blabbing about the AAS meeting, then you’re golden. 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 Edwin Hubble" (or whatever) in the text field.
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June 7th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Isn’t Sunday the 8th?
June 7th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Yep. Which means that Phil’s countdown widget is a day fast.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:32 am
D’oh! Got my dates wrong. I fixed it , thanks.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:49 am
FYI, online comic strip mentions Wil Wheaton:
http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/life_imitates_art.JPG
June 7th, 2008 at 9:31 am
See you tomorrow then.
+100 googleplex cool points if you wear a Chiquita Banana hat during the chat.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:32 am
googolplex*
June 7th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Hoping to be there. Study and fambly willing : )
June 7th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Any chance that you will say something about the things-we-see-from-very-very-far-away-are-
ancient-history-or-in-another-point-of-view-
they-are-not – you hinted at something like that in the last one, IIRC, and that sounded pretty interesting. And complicated. So, err, yeah.
June 7th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I missed the last one. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it tomorrow.
June 8th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Completely off the subject:
In Sunday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was a column taken from the
New York Times. It may be in the Denver paper. It is about the
situation in Texas. The school board has an 8-7 majority for
science and against creationism. It is a very tenuous majority.
One swing vote will change the science text books from fact to
fantasy.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
[...] astroblog. Eh… even wat anders: wie vanavond ná het voetballen niets te doen heeft kan via een live-sessie met Phil Plait gaan chatten via US-stream. 23.00 uur Nederlandse tijd [...]
June 8th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
So, I heard there’s some blackout right now (when the chat is supposed to be) where Phil is. Word in the chatroom is that he can’t do it this week.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Ah, I missed it. Had to go to another city today.
June 8th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
DO’H missed again