Comments on: That’s a rap http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/ 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 21:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Michael L http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117631 Michael L Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:17:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117631 @Moonliner: Nothing about cookies, but, hey, there's this awesome rap about the LHC going around the toobs. I don't think Phil has posted it yet... Hey! Why am I getting all kinds of WOOHOO in my email? I just had some guy from the CIA send me evidence that the moon landings were faked! @Moonliner:

Nothing about cookies, but, hey, there’s this awesome rap about the LHC going around the toobs. I don’t think Phil has posted it yet…

Hey! Why am I getting all kinds of WOOHOO in my email? I just had some guy from the CIA send me evidence that the moon landings were faked!

]]> By: Steven Sittig http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117595 Steven Sittig Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:04:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117595 Phil, I've been reading a book published in 1956 by a John R. Pierce of Bell Labs. Check this quote from p.81 of "Electrons and Waves" "Cyclotrons with diameters a great as 17 feet have been made. Such a huge beast will accelerate particles to energies of almost half a billion volts." I think it's fantastic to see the pace of technology in the sciences this past century. Pierce would freak if he knew of the LHC! Phil, I’ve been reading a book published in 1956 by a John R. Pierce of Bell Labs. Check this quote from p.81 of “Electrons and Waves”

“Cyclotrons with diameters a great as 17 feet have been made. Such a huge beast will accelerate particles to energies of almost half a billion volts.”

I think it’s fantastic to see the pace of technology in the sciences this past century. Pierce would freak if he knew of the LHC!

]]> By: Moonliner http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117576 Moonliner Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:58:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117576 WHEREAS I have known the BA for many years, through email contact and having an opportunity to job shadow him at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and WHEREAS I have been daily reading posts and followed the transition from the original Bad Astronomy site to Discovery, and WHEREAS I have subscribed to both the RSS and BA's Twitter, and WHEREAS I, after discovering the LHC Rap yesterday did knowingly and willingly forward it to the BA, LET IT BE KNOWN that I take full responsibility for this posting and the thread that follows. My apologies to all. Now, did someone say something about Mrs. Fields cookies? :) WHEREAS I have known the BA for many years, through email contact and having an opportunity to job shadow him at the Goddard Space Flight Center, and

WHEREAS I have been daily reading posts and followed the transition from the original Bad Astronomy site to Discovery, and

WHEREAS I have subscribed to both the RSS and BA’s Twitter, and

WHEREAS I, after discovering the LHC Rap yesterday did knowingly and willingly forward it to the BA,

LET IT BE KNOWN that I take full responsibility for this posting and the thread that follows.

My apologies to all.

Now, did someone say something about Mrs. Fields cookies? :)

]]> By: Jeff http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117574 Jeff Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:44:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117574 Did you see the PHD comics series on the LHC. I found it very interesting. http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1066 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1067 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1068 Did you see the PHD comics series on the LHC. I found it very interesting.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1066
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1067
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1068

]]> By: Sili http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117564 Sili Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:47:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117564 What?! You expect people to pay attention? How elitist! Sent you a link a while back to some very pretty <a href="http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/20-most-incredible-light-phenomena-pics/1412" rel="nofollow">atmospheric phenomena</a> - and here it is again, since I just rediscovered it. <a href="http://www.somethinghappens.net/d/20080910.html" rel="nofollow">Perhaps you'll like this feature from Roswell</a>. What?! You expect people to pay attention? How elitist!

Sent you a link a while back to some very pretty atmospheric phenomena - and here it is again, since I just rediscovered it.

Perhaps you’ll like this feature from Roswell.

]]> By: J_w23 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117548 J_w23 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:12:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117548 I lately had a delicious diner in some Sushi restaurant in uptown Denver... Only later to find out that the guy paying the bill was a Big Pharma Lawyer. Just a note I wanted to make, but not really important for the post. I lately had a delicious diner in some Sushi restaurant in uptown Denver… Only later to find out that the guy paying the bill was a Big Pharma Lawyer. Just a note I wanted to make, but not really important for the post.

]]> By: andyo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117537 andyo Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:58:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/10/thats-a-rap/#comment-117537 Those status update sites are hilarious. Thanks. By the way, you can catch Abe on Conan fairly regularly. He's still around... Those status update sites are hilarious. Thanks. By the way, you can catch Abe on Conan fairly regularly. He’s still around…

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