Amy Roth — that’s Skepchick Surly Amy to you — interviewed Cassini tour designer John Smith. It’s part of a new segment on Skepchick called Keep your day job:
Amy is a cool chick: artistic, skeptical, tattooed, photographically inclined, and loves astronomy. I got to hang with her and other skepchicks last week in Pasadena, and life is always better when that happens.
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The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.
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April 29th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Speaking of Saturn
http://www.physorg.com/news191770440.html
April 29th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Worth every penny…
April 29th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Speaking of tattooes, I think you are long overdue to show us your ink. Seriously how long are you going to keep us in the dark?!
April 29th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
In regards to the previous Huffington Post article – this is a perfect example of scientists working together.
April 29th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Speaking of tattoos, when do we get to see yours?
April 29th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
That picture of Saturn backlit with Earth hidden in the rings ( visible at 3 min 45 secs in & again 5 min. 40 secs in) is my all time favourite.
Tour guide to Saturn. How good is that!? I honestly cannot imagine having a better job.
Thankyou Cassini team.
I <3 *LOVE* <3 your work!
(&, yes, I literally *cannot* emphasis that enough, I want to put ‘LOVE’ in large font too but don’t know how!)
Thanks for this video too Amy Roth, John Smith & BA for sharing it here.
Brilliant. Even Superluminous in fact.
April 29th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
1) This is obviously a hoax. Amy doesn’t sound the least bit surly.
2) Enceladus’s polar jets look like a bunch of flagella. Since we all know they’re irreducibly complex, doesn’t this prove that moons can’t evolve?
3) It’s great to hear Cassini has many more years left in it.
4) While checking my dictionary for the correct spelling of “Enceladus”, I noticed it was missing “embiggen”, which should be between “embezzle” and “embitter”. Time for a new dictionary, I guess.
April 29th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Interesting to note that John Smith the tour guide to Saturn was inspired by the Apollo moon shots to enter science.
I think that has implications on the cancellation of Constellation with the inspirational potential that mission & major human space exploration to new places generally has.
I’ll also add that I was happy to recognise quite a number of the photos in that video from this blog.
April 30th, 2010 at 6:22 am
Thirding Max and Jem’s comment.
May 12th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
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