Comments on: Whoa, three more interviews

By: What would I do with $20,000,000,000? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:37:46 +0000

[...] I was interviewed on The Takeaway last week, I was asked what I’d do with NASA were Obama to pick me to run it. I said I’d make [...]

By: Bruce A

Bruce A — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:00:39 +0000

Actually in Japanese it’d be フィールプライト.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:42:16 +0000

Phil Plait in Japanese: フールプレート

By: Podblack

Podblack — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:34:41 +0000

What a lovely plug for the podcast – thanks!

By: Yanchik

Yanchik — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:34:39 +0000

Whoa, fellers. Phillip was a Greek name last time I looked; Phil Hippos, friend of horses.

So for the Russian (as a non-native speaker aware of the links with Greek, Kiril and Methodius (hence Cyrillic)) my best guess would be

Фил (or Филип) Плат

Forgive me, Ivan, and maybe you’re a native Russian speaker, but I can’t imagine a Russian actually pronouncing your version ?

No big worry, just intrigued.

By: Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:24:12 +0000

It’s a brilliant comment and spot-on.

NASA’s real problem (aside from its bureaucratic ones) is one of outreach and making the public understand the good that it does above and beyond its core activities.

By: Emmanuel Marinakis

Emmanuel Marinakis — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:44:13 +0000

Hello Philip, happy new year to you and all your readers and may this year bring along with happyness, knowledge about the World we live in, our Universe, as this is Astronomy’s year

Anyway, since I’m a greek, if you want I can translate for you the greek article from the newspaper you gave the interview to.. Just say so

Cheers and regards from Greece