Guiding skeptically to the Universe

For some reason, the Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe crew decided they needed more ~~cowbell~~ Phil, so they had me on this week to talk about TAM, eclipses, gravitational geoids, and probably other stuff. I don’t know, I never pay attention during interviews. Except when Rebecca talks, but only so I can ignore her even harder.

Evidently they have pretty sharp listeners, some of whom are women who think talking about ion drives is cool. Awesome. I knew there was a reason I like doing podcast interviews.

March 24th, 2009 10:02 AM by Phil Plait in Astronomy, Cool stuff, Skepticism | 11 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

11 Responses to “Guiding skeptically to the Universe”

1. Mchl Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am

Phil: Somehow you seemed like you didn’t get the Twin Ion Engine reference
2. Ryan Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 11:54 am

“Except when Rebecca talks, but only so I can ignore her even harder. ”

I just laughed. A lot.
3. gopher65 Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

For some reason I haven’t been able to hit the SGU website for a couple days now. I keep getting a 503 internal server error. Has this been constant, or is it just happening at the few times I’ve tried to access the site?
4. Mchl Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

I have no problems accessing SGU site. I have been however locked out from their forums (as well as anything hosted on skepchick.org) for several months now
5. Janiece Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Here comes the Bad Astronomer bump…

Thanks, Phil.
6. Anna Velichko Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

I love it when they have you !
7. fil Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

This was a great episode!
Does Phil hold the record for most SGU interviews?
8. Mully410 Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

SGU rocks! I can’t wait to listen to this one.
9. detentiondnb Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 6:44 pm

Was in fact a great episode.

You certainly do have a tendency to sound a lot more excited about Science than the stereotypical tv-role Scientist.

Phil Plate for Science Minister
10. Daniel J. Andrews Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

I just heard you on last year’s Astronomy Cast with Dr. Grey. Nicely done. An interesting episode.
11. Daniel J. Andrews Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

Oops. That’s Dr. Gay. Sorry. She’s and Fraser are great too.

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