Comments on: Our Future in Space – panel at TAM 9

By: Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait on time travel, worm holes, Hubble, and sci-fi | TechRepublic

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:06:23 +0000

[...] That pic was from a panel with Pamela Gay and Lawrence Krauss, and it was a rollicking good time of … It’s really fun to see legit scientists who have paid their dues doing actual research doing this fantastic public outreach so that their names become synonymous with science. It’s fantastic! Especially when I go give talks and someone wants to talk about outreach — you mention Bill Nye and everyone knows who he is. That’s great. We could use more voices. The more people talking about science the better. We need people getting the public interested. We need diversity, women, younger people talking about this. We’re seeing it. It is happening, but I would love to see even more. [...]

By: Satan Claws

Satan Claws — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:45:06 +0000

At 41:45 I chuckled when Krauss snapped his neck and jumped in when Nye was talking about finding out about the nature of dark energy.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:21:47 +0000

I remember Almost Live. I loved that show but IMDb has little info on it.

By: Halloweekend « Microwaved Pepys

Halloweekend « Microwaved Pepys — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:12:52 +0000

[...] Gremlins on TV with Becky before falling asleep for a short while. When I awoke I decided to watch this fairly awesome astronomy panel from TAM! 9 that I encourage fans of Phil Plait and Neil deGrasse Tyson (and, really, who isn’t among the [...]

By: Skeptical Salon – Our Future in Space is this Sunday, Nov 27th! | The Skeptical Society of St. Louis

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:33:24 +0000

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By: Michael Dean Lewis

Michael Dean Lewis — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:29:18 +0000

If you believe in dark energy and dark matter then I pity you. No way, no how I will ever believe (faithless I am) BUT to say we don’t understand why the universe is accelerating, or other cosmological oddities that are not explained by those pretending they do, is my contribution. To hear of these phony explanations and proofs of dark matter and dark energy,…really! When? Where? Re-inventing gravity (John Moffat) and further insights do me far better a reality than dark matter or dark energy…ugh! Space travel in the future? Unmanned robots, huge laser propellant engines and small spacecraft with lots of devices…YEAH!

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:23:04 +0000

I like Lawence Krauss a lot but I get the impression he doesn’t want to spend money on sending humans into space.

I have to disagree with that as there is something a lot more awe inspiring about sending a human up on a rocket. It’s something that we can connect with and it surely influences a space program as a whole. I’m looking at you, observatories, probes and rovers!

Anyway, isn’t the AMS on ISS doing some pretty important science? Not to mention that studying humans and long duration flights is important. One astronaut goes up for two weeks and is a wreck when they come back to 1G whereas another goes up for 3 months and is fine at 1G. Why is that? Pretty important to figure that out.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree.

Clear skies!

By: IMForeman

IMForeman — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:34:52 +0000

I really got the impression that Neil de Grasse Tyson REALLY doesn’t like Lawrence Krauss. He bristles everytime Krauss speaks and won’t even look at him.

By: Woah! A Bunch Of Nerds Talk About Conquering Outer Space (Video) | Geeky Gadgets

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:32:36 +0000

[...] participant, modesty forbids me from saying more, but then, who am I to disagree?Here: Source Discover Magazinevar [...]

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This Is Drivel » Blog Archive » ink — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:04:16 +0000

[...] got all wound up about this after astronomer Pamela Gay, appearing on a panel at the annual TAM science meeting, got shut down by astrophysicist Neal de Grasse Tyson after she made the comment that manned space [...]