George Hrab’s 365 Days of Astronomy full-length video is up on YouTube!
The best part, of course, is 33 seconds in.
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Thesaurus? Fine by me!
The video was done as part of the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, in turn as part of the International Year of Astronomy.
And, of course, it’s made of awesome, because that’s how Geo rolls.
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February 12th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Why oh why does Uncle Sam think that YouTube needs to be blocked?
Oh yeah, I suppose Uncle Sam would like for me to actually do some work.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
We’ve been cheated! George Hrab promised 365 days of Astronomy and that video is only three minutes long!
February 12th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Larian LeQuella, because you would not get any work done!
February 12th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Ok that was cool…
February 12th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Yay, awesome! *watches again*
February 12th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
P.S. I forgot to emphasize the word “any”!
February 12th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Yes. Checked your email?
February 12th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
That George Hrab dude rocks!!!
February 12th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I like the bit of scrolling text that wasn’t the lyrics, just to see if we were paying attention.
February 12th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
OK, I admit it… I shot beer out of my nose when Jamie Farr popped up.
February 12th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
w00t! good stuff. an excellent Darwin day present
February 12th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
George Hrab doeth rock. See his geologic podcast. It too rocketh.
February 12th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
‘Far” out….
J/P=?
February 12th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
This is just as good with the sound down…the visual is great stuff.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Best home made, or at least low budget, music vid I’ve seen. Excellent stuff George.
February 12th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Heh…
SEXtant or PROtractor…
February 13th, 2009 at 12:37 am
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February 13th, 2009 at 5:47 am
George rocks. Great video too.
Very TMBG. In a good way.
February 13th, 2009 at 7:18 am
I liked “George Precision HARB” lol.
Uncle Sam tries to block Youtube for me, but if I use the right proxy server, I can watch embedded videos, but can’t go to the site. So I still have the ability to not get work done, I just have to work a little harder at it.
February 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Fun video… not much real information on how far this stuff really is…
So, he’s saying what, exactly? That it’s far away?
February 13th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Lovely hat.
But I don’t like narrow ties.
February 13th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Go listen to the podcasts at 365daysofastronomy.org
Each ten minute or so episode is about astronomy. One per day by a variety of people on a variety of topics. And you can hear George’s theme song that’s a 25 second version of the video chorus. Or fast forward over it if it’s the sixth podcast in a row. Stop at about 1 minute into the podcast.
Great fun in the video.
February 13th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
This video totally just made my day.
February 13th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
The bowler really suits him.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Awesome!!! Favourited!