Comments on: Bad Universe episode 2 airs October 6!

By: MattShizzle

MattShizzle — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:53:22 +0000

What the hell, is Discovery Channel trying to kill this show by airing it less than once a month and not saying when the next episode will be?

By: Princess Sparkle Pony

Princess Sparkle Pony — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:12:43 +0000

Well, dang, I don’t have cable, it’s not on iTunes, and Discover doesn’t have it anywhere online.

I guess I’ll never see it!

By: hale-bopp

hale-bopp — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:44:30 +0000

I will be on another trip at the time. Want to know when the third episode will air? Hang on, let me check my travel schedule…just find the next time I will be out of town and that will be it.

By: tommy

tommy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:59:46 +0000

First episode was great (apart from the annoyingly often repeated “Holy Haleakala”), can’t wait for the next one.

By: Revyloution

Revyloution — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:42:43 +0000

Ill add one more vote to ‘please make this available on the intertubes’

Im cable free also, and I would love to watch this show. It’s a real shame that many TV shows are tempting piracy by simply not allowing any streaming.

By: reidh

reidh — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:37:05 +0000

I notice that the “scientists” can change what it is that they know, everytime they find out that what they said they knew before was incorrect or mistaken or contrary to what is found presently to be the case, they think. Its like listening to someone who is thinking outloud, who changes his mind often. As long as what they think does not corelate to anything thought before they thought of it. like the threat to the earth from Asteroids, or comets. or the threat to the earth from distant gamma radiating stars, or from the sun itself. All which have been intimated and thought of before by others who are/were not “scientists”. This drives them batty, and will cause them to write books and launch t.v. shows, debunking and otherwise casting aspersions upon those sources, and preserving their position of Intellectual Dominance of Certainty, which is actually anymans domain.

By: reidh

reidh — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:17:00 +0000

Cool to be considered a nuisance by people producing a t.v. show about their red herrings and straw man estimations. cool.

By: David McCaffery

David McCaffery — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:49:53 +0000

Phil, what about us in Australia….when do we get the show? The family can’t wait to see both episodes!

I guess we’ll just have to keep re-reading ‘Death From The Skies.’

By: RFranklin

RFranklin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:16:51 +0000

NOOOOOOO this is on at the same time as the new South Park episode!!!!!!! Oh well, I’ll just have to wait a few hours until the episode goes up on the South Park site

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:49:19 +0000

@ ^ alfaniner : We’re all different, some of us are just more different than others!

I’m sure it is just an odd co-incidence. I hadn’t noticed the nom de plums similarity there until you pointed it out.

By: alfaniner

alfaniner — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:42:58 +0000

#36, #37, #38. I swear, we are all different people…
…or at least, I am.

By: Tribeca Mike

Tribeca Mike — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:03:29 +0000

Hopefully there will be a few less explosions this episode. Having been a member of the Rock Of The Month Club in the sixties, I started to feel really sorry for those bad boys you shot at last time.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:07:45 +0000

It’s my night to be in the dorm so I’ll make 20 teenage girls watch it.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:03:12 +0000

Oh the fact that it’s a Wednesday night sucks! I don’t get home till after 10 pm. Hopefully I won’t miss too much, and maybe we can use IO to record it for later viewing.

I know Discover does DVDs of stuff; PLEASE tell us that Bad Universe will be a boxed set. I’ll buy it!

By: Deepsix

Deepsix — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:33:01 +0000

Great show, but you really do need a sidekick. My schedule just happens to be open.

By: UncleAl

UncleAl — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:02:04 +0000

Alien deep space drive is obvious: It goes forward in space while going backward in time. Thus anywhere is accessible almost instantaneously at a mere few mph.

“Black space suddenly looked horribly wrong as the ship began to slip through progressively decompactified dimensions in exponentiating IPD starflight. A newbie on her first slide down the sharp edge of spacetime swallowed most of a long, long scream.” Uncle Al gets a techno-woodie just thinking about it. Will the crew have problems parallel-dimension parking?

NASA says, “Who wants a Baikonur sleigh ride?”

By: alfaniner

alfaniner — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:57:32 +0000

Good! Now they will have enough shows to broadcast a marathon every Arbor Day or some such! I mean, as many times as cable reruns Man V. Food or those stupid cake shows, it would be nice to see something educational for a change.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:12:06 +0000

When does the shiny disc come out?

By: Sandy L

Sandy L — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:59:04 +0000

You totally rocked the first show. I enjoyed it immensely!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:44:19 +0000

And in the UK?

By: JediBear

JediBear — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:41:00 +0000

Dude, you have a show?

Already on the calendar. Looking forward to it.

By: J Greer

J Greer — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:54:21 +0000

I very rarely watch TV. Bad Universe is the exception. I just want the ability to buy commercial copies so I can show them to my students!

By: Siobhan

Siobhan — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:00:35 +0000

I JUST managed to get time to watch the first episode last night. I was a bit irked that they had a commercial for Jesus halfway through. Was that a Discovery channel thing, or maybe a “local” spot? Did anyone else see the Jesus ad?

ETA: Oh, and I really enjoyed the show. I kept checking my DVR to see if any more were coming up.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:55:19 +0000

Here’s the link to my source for the above info :

http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/atik.html

& here’s Omicron Persei’s wikipedia page :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron_Persei

& if you missed the BA’s article on BP Piscium the other week then this :

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/14/when-a-star-eats-its-own/

is a link to that.
Hope this is useful / interesting / enjoyable for y’all.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:45:52 +0000

Cool. Hope it goes (& rates) well.

Wish I could see it but .. am living in Australia and have no pay TV anyhow so .. I’ll have to wait.

I don’t know if it’ll run on Hulu or iTunes or at Omicron Persei 8.

Now y’all know that Omicron Persei is a real star thought to be 1,000 light years away and this is why it was chosen by the Futurama writers for the millennium connection don’t you?

But here’s a trio of things you may not know :

1. BP Piscium the star the BA wrote about recently regarding stellar consumption of a planet or star is *also* 1000 light years away. So had things been a little different Lur might’ve been a “BP Piscean” which sounds nowhere near as cool admittedly.

2. Kaler’s Stars site for it (link to be provided separately) notes that Omicron Per has a proper name – Atik. So Lur and the other Omicronians are the aliens from the Atik!

3. Unfortunately, Omicron Persei / Atik may not in fact be 1,000 light years distant after all being somewhere around 1,500 to 1,000 ly off withj large uncertainities :

“Atik’s fourth magnitude (3.83, really not all that faint) status is the result of considerable distance, direct measure giving 1475 light years (with a large uncertainty). …[Snip!] … Atik lies at the edge of the ability the Hipparcos satellite to produce good parallaxes. Factoring in the errors could make the star as close as 1000 light years, which would much narrow (but still not close) the gap between the two determinations.”

Source: Kaler’s Stars website – Atik page.

Hmm .. maybe they should gone with BP Piscean after all? Or another more accurately measured star but then again, maybe not. Besides at such distances there’s always bound to be some uncertainty and perhaps Omicron Persei really is an even light millennium away.