Comments on: Welcome to the end of the world http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/ 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. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:54:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phil’s Death From the Sky « IBY’s Island Universe http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-130175 Phil’s Death From the Sky « IBY’s Island Universe Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:38:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-130175 [...] Death From the Sky …sounds cool. Again, my busy schedule is forcing my hands on blogging things late. (having 4 AP classes is not a [...] [...] Death From the Sky …sounds cool. Again, my busy schedule is forcing my hands on blogging things late. (having 4 AP classes is not a [...]

]]> By: It’s the End of the World as We Know It » Blog Archive » Death From the Skies Is Now Available! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-127459 It’s the End of the World as We Know It » Blog Archive » Death From the Skies Is Now Available! Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:50:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-127459 [...] [Via Welcome to the end of the world | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine] [...] [...] [Via Welcome to the end of the world | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine] [...]

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-127210 StevoR Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:24:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-127210 FrankZA Said: October 21st, 2008 at 12:42 am : <i> "Regarding the 99.9…9% comment… I predict that will be incorrectly interpreted and used by the odd creationist to “prove” that we must have been created. Anyone want to bet?" </i> No. I'm broke enough already & the odds aren't that good. ;-) Dr Phil Plait, the bad Astronomer, Thankyou! Thanks for writing your book(s) & the blog & thanks for writing so well! I haven't read the book yet - haven't yet got my copy - but I will & I trust you & yeah I liked the intro! :-) ;-D 8) As to your question : <i>"What horror movie is still scary once the lights are on?" </i> Well that depends on the person and on a lot of subjective & contextual factors now doesn't it? Personally, the remake of <i> 'War of the Worlds' </i> (yeah the Tom Cruise / Dakota Fanning version) left me with the chills even afterwards w lights on & even seen off my fairly small TV .. For some reason that scene with the burning train ... Shudder! Also 'Cabin Fever' stopped me sleeping and kept me scared, Aliens and others too .. Then again maybe I'm more imaginative or plaincowardly than many -but after reading the "Lord of the Rings" as a kid I was seeing the balrog in the shadows for months afterwards. (Lo-oong time pre-movies & all.) Then again in quite a different way altogether there's one movie that still scary (& rings all too true) today & that's Al Gore's <i> 'An Inconvenient Truth" ... </i> ;-) , :-( But I'll leave y'all with one final true example - when I was a boy one of the first movies I ever saw was <i> "Star Wars : Return of the Jedi" </i> which my Mum took me too and saw with me. I loved it & was an instant convert to SF - but my mum? *She * had nightmares about Jabba the Hutt for several nights thereafter! ;-) So there's one unlikely but true case. Who woulda thought! ;-) FrankZA Said: October 21st, 2008 at 12:42 am :

“Regarding the 99.9…9% comment… I predict that will be incorrectly interpreted and used by the odd creationist to “prove” that we must have been created. Anyone want to bet?”

No.
I’m broke enough already & the odds aren’t that good. ;-)

Dr Phil Plait, the bad Astronomer, Thankyou! Thanks for writing your book(s) & the blog & thanks for writing so well!

I haven’t read the book yet – haven’t yet got my copy – but I will & I trust you & yeah I liked the intro! :-) ;-D 8)

As to your question :

“What horror movie is still scary once the lights are on?”

Well that depends on the person and on a lot of subjective & contextual factors now doesn’t it?

Personally, the remake of ‘War of the Worlds’ (yeah the Tom Cruise / Dakota Fanning version) left me with the chills even afterwards w lights on & even seen off my fairly small TV .. For some reason that scene with the burning train … Shudder!

Also ‘Cabin Fever’ stopped me sleeping and kept me scared, Aliens and others too .. Then again maybe I’m more imaginative or plaincowardly than many -but after reading the “Lord of the Rings” as a kid I was seeing the balrog in the shadows for months afterwards. (Lo-oong time pre-movies & all.)

Then again in quite a different way altogether there’s one movie that still scary (& rings all too true) today & that’s Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth” … ;-) , :-(

But I’ll leave y’all with one final true example – when I was a boy one of the first movies I ever saw was “Star Wars : Return of the Jedi” which my Mum took me too and saw with me. I loved it & was an instant convert to SF – but my mum? *She * had nightmares about Jabba the Hutt for several nights thereafter! ;-)

So there’s one unlikely but true case. Who woulda thought! ;-)

]]> By: Grand Lunar http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-127204 Grand Lunar Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:58:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-127204 Me want the book! Me want the book! I gotta stop putting of my ordering of the book and get to it! Before the world ends... BTW, IIRC, the 9th Doctor used the same phrase of the title of this post to Rose in the episode entitled, what else, "The End of the World". Me want the book! Me want the book!

I gotta stop putting of my ordering of the book and get to it! Before the world ends…

BTW, IIRC, the 9th Doctor used the same phrase of the title of this post to Rose in the episode entitled, what else, “The End of the World”.

]]> By: FrankZA http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-127165 FrankZA Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:42:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-127165 Regarding the 99.9...9% comment... I predict that will be incorrectly interpreted and used by the odd creationist to "prove" that we must have been created. Anyone want to bet? Regarding the 99.9…9% comment… I predict that will be incorrectly interpreted and used by the odd creationist to “prove” that we must have been created. Anyone want to bet?

]]> By: Curt W. Loose http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-127161 Curt W. Loose Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:05:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-127161 I am an amateur astronomer and a professional bookseller. I love this book and will be promoting it enthusiastically! I am an amateur astronomer and a professional bookseller. I love this book and will be promoting it enthusiastically!

]]> By: Tucker http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-127112 Tucker Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:23:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/20/welcome-to-the-end-of-the-world/#comment-127112 Man that sound *awesome* Man that sound *awesome*

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