Speaking of video goodness, we’d be remiss not to remind everyone that Sunday is the premiere of Phil Plait’s new mini-series on Discovery, Bad Universe.
It will be a lot like Armageddon, with Phil instead of Bruce Willis in the role of the balding hero figure. And science instead of complete nonsense. Improvements all around!
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August 26th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Are you implying Armageddon was less than accurate? I was willing to accept all the asteroid stuff, but the idea that Liv Tyler grew on an oil derrick . . . I can only suspend my belief so far.
August 26th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
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August 27th, 2010 at 2:16 am
shoulde be better than “Ice Road Truckers,” or “Monster Quest-Killer Chimps in America,” on History Channel.
August 28th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
@onelegggoalie Perhaps, but “Ice Road Truckers” probably will have better science!
August 28th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
This looks excellent… I hope this will be shown in the UK.
August 28th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
And no life ……..is the statement and you call this science, twelve major hit’s and life
remains, and the humongous hole complete nonsense, a hole with more than thousand miles across?
a direct hit of a hundred mile meteor….? aahh…
Improvements all around…where?
August 28th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
und no life ……..is the statement
and you call this science, twelve major hit’s and life
remains, and the humongous hole complete nonsense, a hole with more than thousand miles across?
a direct hit of a hundred mile meteor….? aahh…
Improvements all around…where?
August 30th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
A huge improvement on the usual Discovery Channel programming, but it seems that the Apophis threat was exaggerated somewhat: it is now know to be extremely unlikely to hit us in the near (several decades) future. Overall good job Phil P., I must say my whole family enjoyed it.