Posts in the past four weeks
Wednesday
Aug 18 2010
18:00 UTC
... am very, very happy to announce that the pilot for my TV show, "Phil Plait's Bad Universe" now has an official slot in the Discovery Channel lineup: Sunday, August 29th at 10:00 p. m. (ET)!Woohoo! As a reminder, and because it cracks me up, here's the trailer for the show: Check your local listings for
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Tuesday
Aug 03 2010
17:30 UTC
... while back I posted a pretty cool picture care of the European Southern Observatory: It shows the Moon setting behind the Very Large Telescope observatory in Chile. BABloggee Craig Clem notified me that in July this picture was the victim target of a Fark. com Photoshop contest (some pix maybe NSFW), where people are invited
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Monday
Aug 02 2010
18:15 UTC
Last week was Comic Con, and for the third year in a row, the Hive Overmind Discover Magazine sent me along to be on a panel. Every year we do a variation on discussing the science of science fiction, and this year we focused on its abuse. We asked our panelists (Jaime Paglia [Eureka], Kevin
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Tuesday
Jul 27 2010
13:00 UTC
[I know I already posted this, but the video of the trailer had to be taken down, fixed, and put back up, so I'm reposting to give everyone a chance to actually watch it. Everything works now. Yay! Also, it's up on reddit (actually twice) and Fark, too.]Finally, at last, after many months, I can
Posted by Bad Astronomy
Friday
Jul 23 2010
17:00 UTC
Yes, you read that right. Finally, at last, after many months, I can now officially reveal the project that has kept me so busy over all this time. I think you're gonna like this… so why not just jump right in to the teaser trailer posted online by a small TV network you may have heard
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