Kevin Grazier is many things: astronomer with the Cassini Saturn mission; science advisor for Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Virtuality, and The Zula Patrol; smart aleck, and a friend of mine.
He was at Dragon Con, and the two of us did a few panels together. One was the Science of Science Fiction, a repeat (more or less) of what we did at Comic Con, as well as another on the Science of British SciFi, where we both ragged on and showed our love for Doctor Who, Torchwood, and other programs.
We did a third event, too: a live version of AstronomCast with my dear friend (and Dragon Con heartthrob) Pamela Gay. That was a lot of fun (despite missing Fraser Cain, mutual friend — I have a lot of friends, I guess — and cohost of AC), with Kevin and me going all over the map about astronomy, science and scifi. I’ve known Kevin a couple of years, so we sass each other, riff, and generally have a blast.
The link above has the download of the episode, a whole hour of astronomy-y goodness. Listen, enjoy, lose an hour of your life. My friend Hale-Bopp enjoyed it, too.
Image credit: mhaithaca on Flickr, Creative Commons license. It’s from DragonCon 2007; I didn’t see any pictures from this year’s con showing all of us!
September 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Wow. Does Pamela actually emit light? You’d think that would be a bit of a hindrance for an astronomer.
September 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Enjoyable episode. While the Eagle may have been cool for its time, I was always intrigued and fascinated by Moya.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Are you googling me now Phil?
September 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I always listen to AstroCast, and was excited about this episode with you. But after the first half hour, there didn’t seem to be much in the way of actual astronomy to it, it seemed more like a bar talk to me, and about science fiction shows, not astronomy.
Cool if I could be there doing the drinking and the talking, but couldn’t even make it to the end here.
September 9th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
The public link to the facebook photo I took of the whole gang from 2008;
http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=917004&l=e58f2&id=500321661
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xinit/2826610294/in/set-72157607203832680/
September 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I had to miss this taping, but I did catch your Science of Science Fiction panel. I imagine it’s something you two will be asked to repeat again. And again. And again… >.>
September 10th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hey, Phil! So this is why I’m suddenly getting lots of traffic on that photo. Thanks for the credit and link, and always feel free to help yourself. Tragically, I didn’t make it to this year’s session! Too much going on at the con.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
[...] (I’ll most likely give my Death from the Skies! talk) and I just bet Kevin and I will do one of our famous panels where we nitpick movies and each other. Mostly each other. That’s a lot of [...]