Two quick updates:
1) SkyPhoto, the charity to raise money for a boy with leukemia, is now accepting PayPal. So you can now buy a very cool photo of the sky much more easily.
2) Hubble’s Hotties, a video I made displaying some of my favorite Hubble images, is now up on Hulu for you Amurcans. You ferrners can’t see it, but the video is available to most of the rest of the planet up on YouTube.
If you went to BadAstronomy.com and found yourself here, never fear: the BA Blog has moved to its new home at Discover Blogs. The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking and all that) is still online, too.
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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December 6th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I don’t know what kind of file you uploaded to YouTube, but it will now accept 720p versions of videos… just add &fmt=22 after (&fmt=18 for slightly lower quality). It also results in better sound.
December 6th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
@ Cat’s Staff,
I wish YouTube would delete all submitted videos that don’t meet a minimum standard in video/sound quality, and that the videos are reasonably enjoyable to the viewer and not just for those who made the bloody video — whose sole reason for uploading the video is ‘I have a camera and I’m pissed out of my mind’!
December 6th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Hey Phil, http://www.spaceweather.com is reporting that a superbolide exploded over colorado last night.
Video: http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/showvid.php?f=20081206_010628_001
December 7th, 2008 at 2:34 am
“ferrners” LOL I think you mean foreigners!
December 7th, 2008 at 6:40 am
meh. Until you upload it to a *real* video sharing site, not low-quality youtube, or the American pandering hulu, I won’t be watching it. Way to screw over all non-Americans.
December 7th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Us ‘ferrners’ can watch it on Hulu by using Hotspot Shield ” http://www.hotspotshield.com/
December 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am
You’re too young to remember Lyndon Johnson starting an address “Mah Fellow Amurricans…”
December 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Gopher65, if it’s any consolation, it’s much higher-quality than most of what you see on YouTube. It’s definitely worth a watch.
December 8th, 2008 at 4:59 am
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=1046071
Drop in meningitis after vaccine applied.
Hey Phil, here’s a today news story in the Toronto Star which helps validate vaccines.
Michael
December 8th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Shouldn’t that be Merkins? Or maybe that’s just how W says it, not sure about the Colorado pronunciation.