Comments on: IRrelevant Astronomy: Dr. Wheaton edition

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:04:52 +0000

Hilarious!!!

,,,and quite informative,,,

Will has a superb voice technique. I wonder if he’s done stand up poetry readings?

Gary 7

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:57:27 +0000

@ ^ & #13 Ratings-bot : Thanks for the explanations, much appreciated.

By: Ratings-bot

Ratings-bot — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:00:35 +0000

@#17 Messier Tidy Upper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(aircraft)

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:25:52 +0000

LOL! Classic.

“Blue ice” though? I don’t get that one.

Also like (#12.) Chris A., I didn’t get the “braking things with magnets–ask George Takei” joke either.

My fave of this series is still the “Bots of Both Worlds” [click the "Robot Wil Wheaton takes over the Universe!" link just above the comments here.] one set in Saturn’s outermost largest “invisible” ring with the wonderful Amy Okuda.

@3. Grizzly Says:

Great. Fart jokes. Poop jokes. Yup. Just what we need to make science more interesting.

Well it is clearly aimed at kids … Yeah, there’s a lot of toilet humour, yeah, I must confess I laughed.

I think there was also some Morden-t wit there too.

@8. carbonUnit & # 14. GlennS : TURDIS

LOL.

I gotta say that’s one very unfortunate “chamelon circuit failure.”

@15. Childermass Says:

Ed Wasser is of course an expert in wiping out planets. His turbo Ginsu Shadow Cruiser slices, dices, roasts Narns to a crisp golden perfection!

True for a while but then he got carried away and lost his head on Centauri Prime. [Looks up & gives Vir wave.]

By: Thameron

Thameron — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:34:32 +0000

They said only close binaries do the planet destroying. Exactly how close is close?

By: Childermass

Childermass — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:38:37 +0000

Ed Wasser is of course an expert in wiping out planets. His turbo Ginsu Shadow Cruiser slices, dices, roasts Narns to a crisp golden perfection!

By: GlennS

GlennS — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:47:42 +0000

@8: TURDIS? ^_^

By: Ratings-bot

Ratings-bot — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:15:00 +0000

@Chris A. – Magnets & George Takei nod to a previous Robot Astronomy Talk Show episode, “Gravity & the Great Attractor”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gU61WHNMZM

By: Chris A.

Chris A. — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:37:43 +0000

Maybe I’m being dense, but I didn’t get the “braking things with magnets–ask George Takei” joke…

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:10:00 +0000

Will is just the latest Star Trek actor to do a fact based program about Astronomy two others include Willam Shatner hosted a Nasa vedio called Universe (this has sold in stores cobined with a documentery hosted by Orsen Wells called Whos out there?) and Nichell Nicoles (Lt Uhra) has been involved with Nasa for years. Off topic I just saw the Will Smith version of the Wild wild west , and there is some bad science in it (of course the show pushed the limits for tec in the 1870s) First a scientist is killed in the begining to witch one of the bad guys make the cheep shot:”and they say you scientists are so smart” but then West and Gordon use a menthed to find out by who killed him by useing a device to look into his eyes for the last image he saw. Well this was a medical theroy that the eyes would record the last image a dead person would see and in fact there was an attemp to id Jack the Ripper this way with out sucess this theroy has since been proven worng , every image you see goes thro your optic nerve to your brain witch sorts it out .

By: RCSI

RCSI — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:05:57 +0000

Wonderful video!

To add to the list of ships, the last scene features Serenity and another ship on the right which I cannot identify.

By: Tobin Dax

Tobin Dax — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:45:24 +0000

Work was not the best place to watch this. I’m still trying to stifle the laughter.

According to the YouTube comments, there are another 6 recognizable ships in the debris. I’ll have to hunt for them after I get home tonight.

By: carbonUnit

carbonUnit — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:40:02 +0000

And Space 1999 Eagle, NX class starship, Imperial Star Destroyer… Do I see a 2001 Monolith in there??

What one letter change from Tardis would be a good name for that little blue ship??

Well done, Spitzer folk!

By: Gus Snarp

Gus Snarp — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:44:21 +0000

@Grizzly – What’s wrong with fart jokes? I for one literally LOLed when the robot said “braking wind”. I’m pretty sure any graduate student office is chock full of fart, poop, and other biological jokes. Mine was.

By: David

David — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:41:23 +0000

No, no no. Your Time Lord name wouldn’t be “The Physician”.
Perhaps “The Looker”.

Any other ideas?

EDIT: I’m a blinkin’ fool, I am. I had heard Wil’s voice and mistaken it for Phil’s.
The question still stands, though.
What would be the Time Lord names of Messrs. Plait and Whedon?

By: Welton

Welton — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:40:05 +0000

This is a very interesting series! I’m gonna watch the rest of it!

By: Alvin Ex Machina

Alvin Ex Machina — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:37:57 +0000

10 minutes?! I don’t have that kind of attention span anymore!

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:21:27 +0000

Great. Fart jokes. Poop jokes. Yup. Just what we need to make science more interesting.

By: Gus Snarp

Gus Snarp — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:09:42 +0000

What’s with the big fireball when the ship explodes? And the sound of the explosion….

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:47:30 +0000

I noticed a Whitestar from Babylon 5 in the debris, which makes sense since Ed Wasser was on Babylon 5.