Comments on: TAM 7! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:17:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stone Age Scientist http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/comment-page-1/#comment-198421 Stone Age Scientist Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:29:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/#comment-198421 That can't be right. I'm pretty sure it was this plane that Phil boarded, and not some wings of steel. If you look closely enough, you can even see Phil taking a spa right beside WW. <img src="http://www.tvcrazy.net/tvclassics/wallpaper/pages/wonderwoman/images/invisible-plane.jpg" width="550" height="400" alt="WWinvisibleplane"> That can’t be right. I’m pretty sure it was this plane that Phil boarded, and not some wings of steel. If you look closely enough, you can even see Phil taking a spa right beside WW.

WWinvisibleplane

]]> By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/comment-page-1/#comment-198294 Torbjörn Larsson, OM Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:37:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/#comment-198294 Nitpicking the nitpicking, hopefully before JP beats me to it: Wings of aluminium, titanium and composites (say, A340). Staving off nitpicking of nitpicking of nitpicking: Plus assorted electronics, hydraulics and landing gear. But mostly fuel I think, for example an A380 have 155 m^3 of it in the wings. (I can't get an estimate of wing weight though.) Nitpicking the nitpicking, hopefully before JP beats me to it: Wings of aluminium, titanium and composites (say, A340).

Staving off nitpicking of nitpicking of nitpicking: Plus assorted electronics, hydraulics and landing gear. But mostly fuel I think, for example an A380 have 155 m^3 of it in the wings. (I can’t get an estimate of wing weight though.)

]]> By: hughcumber http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/comment-page-1/#comment-198053 hughcumber Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:37:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/#comment-198053 Won't be there myself being in the UK but I wrote a song for TAM: http://derivationprobability.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-old-mans-tam-man.html Won’t be there myself being in the UK but I wrote a song for TAM:

http://derivationprobability.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-old-mans-tam-man.html

]]> By: Buffalodavid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/comment-page-1/#comment-197919 Buffalodavid Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:23:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/#comment-197919 My first TAM. See you there! My first TAM. See you there!

]]> By: Siphoneuphoria http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/comment-page-1/#comment-197898 Siphoneuphoria Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:40:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/#comment-197898 I am so ready to experience TAM7 vicariously through you, Phil. Have a great time! I am so ready to experience TAM7 vicariously through you, Phil. Have a great time!

]]> By: Michael Kingsford Gray http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/comment-page-1/#comment-197887 Michael Kingsford Gray Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:40:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/#comment-197887 Subluxations? They are <em>old</em> sensations! I have for sale a new form of woo: <em>SUPERLUXATIONS</em> Oh for a booth at TAM to sell my scam. You lot might be the ideal Rube ore schlemiel. (Oh no excuse my rambling, I have you confused with the gambling.) Subluxations?
They are old sensations!

I have for sale a new
form of woo:
SUPERLUXATIONS

Oh for a booth at TAM
to sell my scam.

You lot might be the ideal
Rube ore schlemiel.

(Oh no excuse my rambling,
I have you confused with the gambling.)

]]> By: Jack Hagerty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/comment-page-1/#comment-197854 Jack Hagerty Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:36:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/07/tam-7/#comment-197854 15. George E Martin Says: "PZ usually tries to set up some sort of social meeting with his minions, often at a venue where one can get beer, when he is attending something. I wonder if BA could do the same?" Is there any venue in Vegas where you *can't* get beer? And just about anything else? (and for those of you with your minds where they shouldn't be, prostitution is illegal in Clark County). - Jack 15. George E Martin Says: “PZ usually tries to set up some sort of social meeting with his minions, often at a venue where one can get beer, when he is attending something. I wonder if BA could do the same?”

Is there any venue in Vegas where you *can’t* get beer? And just about anything else? (and for those of you with your minds where they shouldn’t be, prostitution is illegal in Clark County).

- Jack

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