Comments on: Tyson spaghettifies!

By: Tyson over spaghettificeren en Aphosis en Astroblogs

Tyson over spaghettificeren en Aphosis en Astroblogs — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:23:58 +0000

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By: Mech

Mech — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:43:12 +0000

Great video – gotta love NDT….I just got his book, and am 1/8 of way through looking fwd to the rest.

By: Geomaniac

Geomaniac — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:43:12 +0000

I’m pulling my weight Dr. P! I just finished reading my personally autographed (by you) copy I got from the JREF and oddly enough I don’t fear the sky as much as I used to. You clearly explain how the odds for most of the scenarios in your book actually happening are exceedingly low. You almost make spaghettification sound yummy though. Thanks for a fun(?) read.

By: nancy

nancy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:36:10 +0000

I just came here for the FSM reference, and am leaving satisfied.

/is spaghettification the state of being touched by His Noodly Appendages?
//LOVE your book, Phil. I’m taking my time with this one.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:50:04 +0000

Have to nitpick with Neil, but a) getting an object to Earth’s escape velocity wouldn’t send it to the edge of the universe…you’d still have to escape the sun’s gravity. b), you could tell people about how you die by spagettification because IIRC this all occurs before you hit the event horizon.

By: Cheyenne

Cheyenne — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:24:34 +0000

Breaking Bad is good stuff. Got it on DVD.

On a side note – Obama might soon be announcing Gration as the head NASA chief. That decision is more epically painful than the thought exercise of having one’s iron ripped out from a Magnetar.

Fighter jock. No space experience at all. UGH UGH. Obama is basically sitting science on the kitchen bar stool and patting it on the head. And then promoting moon exploration boy to class prez.

Obama has stepped up and knocked homer after homer off the plate with science picks for his lead agencies. Then he goes with this dude? WTPH?

By: George Kopeliadis

George Kopeliadis — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:58:33 +0000

@Cheyenne
I think pure iron or some iron alloys are magnetic. Chemical compounds with iron aren’t necessary. I don’t think that iron compounds in our blood are magnetic.