I have been laid low for the last few days by some dreadful lurgy I caught on the plane back from San Diego, but people have been hard at work behind the scenes putting together this edit of the video of our “Science Behind Science Fiction Panel” at this year’s Comic-con. From left to right you have Kevin Grazier (science advisor to Eureka and Battlestar Galactica), Jaime Paglia (co-creater and executive producer of Eureka), Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy blogger) and myself. We talked about how science makes its way into a script, how scientific accuracy is maintained (or not) and the value of retconning. Enjoy!
July 30th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
[...] Comic-Con Video: The Science Behind Science Fiction PanelI have been laid low for the last few days by some dreadful lurgy I caught on the plane back from San Diego, but people have been hard at work behind the scenes putting together this edit of the video of our “Science Behind Science … [...]
July 30th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
[...] and Jaime Paglia (Executive Producer of Eureka). The moderator was Stephen Cass, who contributes to the Science Not Fiction blog at [...]
August 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
[...] so I checked in with Kevin Grazier, Eureka’s science advisor, a JPL researcher, and a panelist on DISCOVER’s “Science Behind Science Fiction” Panel at this year’s… It turns out that Kevin actually wrote the equations, borrowed from a real class he gives that [...]
September 4th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Um…hi! I was wondering–they showed the Battlestar 4.5 promo at Dragon*Con–did you catch it? Would you happen to know where in the name of Kobol it is?
Cheers!
September 5th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Brittany: that promo was given to us by the SciFi channel for showing at Comic Con and Dragon Con, so we can’t put it up: I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until SciFi decides to release it, sorry.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
That is sad to hear, but thank you for the info! A bunch of us can quit the search.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
[...] to sprint through the San Diego Convention Center to make it on time to DISCOVER’s Comic-Con panel on the Science Behind Science Fiction.) One of the things that Sheriff Carter finds himself contending with is a “nanoparticle [...]
March 13th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
[...] hull break open and the Six shoot into space, I was reminded of BSG science adviser Kevin Grazier explaining what happens when you fall out of a spaceship. We’re hoping for a post from Kevin on the potential explanations for artificial gravity, [...]
April 2nd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
[...] (watch the original trailer). Even though not everyone might agree (Phil, I’m looking at you), 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time, both for [...]
April 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
[...] explains, “Last summer at Comic Con, Phil Plait and I were marveling at the success of the online science tattoo gallery that [...]
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
[...] you’re not yet convinced, consider this: Our panel at last year’s ‘Con was SRO in a 1,000-person room—some folks couldn’t even get in the door—and this [...]