A HUGE Deal!

I am long overdue in making this announcement:

MLB (my little brother) is debuting the pilot of a three-episode show called, “Phil Plait’s Bad Universe” on the Discovery channel this Sunday at 10PM ET!

You can go here for the original preview, then here for the subsequent one.

The pilot is about asteroids striking our planet and what we can really do about it.  He includes research about the level of destruction as well as how we might (realistically) repel, divert, or annihilate the intruder.  However, annihilation won’t really do the trick, and he tells you why.

This show is part of the fallout from his writing a book a couple of years ago called:

 

 

 

If you wish to go to his regular site, he inhabits this space (pun intended).

I can’t wait!!

Posted by Sid Plait at 8/26/2010 4:33 PM
Categories: Movies/TV, MLB, Good News!, Astronomy, All, The Environment, Science, Technology, Critical thinking, OMG!
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  • 8/26/2010 5:42 PM Thomas Siefert wrote:
    Great book, unfortunately I have to wait until the show appears in Australia in some format other than cable TV.
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    1. 8/26/2010 5:54 PM Sid Plait wrote:
      Yeah.  I hate that.  I would recommend that all of you BA-ites that live elsewhere just move to America.  However, I can think of a great number of reasons that you might not want to.

      While I'd like to see all of us together here, with BA bumper stickers on our cars, I'd rather see you fighting the good fight where you live.

      Maybe we should have a BA convention in between TAMs.

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      1. 8/27/2010 5:05 AM Thomas Siefert wrote:
        I had a brief chat with Phil in a pub a couple of years ago when he travelled through London on his way to the LHC.

        I also attended TAM London last year, which was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

        I'm happy to see that there's a TAM Australia now that I have moved back, but I will have to give it a miss this year as I only have limited holidays saved up.
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        1. 8/29/2010 10:14 PM Sid Plait wrote:
          There might not be a TAM Australia this year if a comet or an asteroid hits Sydney, as Phil surmises!  What a fun program!  It's very cool to see MLB as a TV star.

          He needs to come up with some other expletives, though.

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          1. 8/31/2010 12:20 PM IVAN3MAN_AT_LARGE wrote:
            "He needs to come up with some other expletives, though."

            Methinks that Phil watched Batman (TV series) too often as a kid.

            Oh, er... Phil wrote a book? 8)
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            1. 9/1/2010 4:32 AM Sid Plait wrote:
              Hey!  What do you mean "too often as a kid"?  What's wrong with that??  It was the best show on TV!!

              Well, that is, next to Gilligan's Island, Green Acres (what WAS the name of that pig? Arnold?  Ahnold?), The Munsters, uhhh, Petticoat Junction. uhhhhhh, well, you catch my drift.  Y'know, CLASS TV!

              The Beverly Hillbillies and their concrete pond.  My Favorite Martian.  Bewitched.  The Love Boat.  Fantasy Island.

              Oh, how could I forget?  My Mother the Car, Lost in Space, and oh, that TV show starring Gronk and Shad.  What was that called?  All I can remember is that catchy tune, "It's about time, it's about space, it's about two men in a (something, something) place."  And Time Tunnel (Lee Meriwether.  Yummy!) .  There were so many!

              Oh, yeah.  My Mother the Car.  (Who played the car?  Ann Sothern, I think.)  One entire season of pure....something.  (Wikipedia says it was voted the second worst TV show in history, exceeded in awfulness only by Jerry Springer.)  

              Man I miss that great time in TV history.

              Sure beat reality TV all to hell.

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              1. 9/3/2010 4:27 AM IVAN3MAN_AT_LARGE wrote:
                I totally agree with you about classic TV, and I'm glad that you found Lee Meriwether (Dr. Ann McGregor in The Time Tunnel ) "Yummy!" -- I fancied her as well! (Most of my friends, in the '70s, fancied Farah Fawcett; in my opinion, blondes are overrated!)

                Also, all the best shows were from the '60s, the '70s, and also some from the early '80s, but then things started to go down the bloody toilet from the late 1980s onwards -- bloody political correctness was partly, if not fully, responsible for that! It's the same with music, too!

                You said:
                [T]hat TV show starring Gronk and Shad. What was that called? All I can remember is that catchy tune, "It's about time, it's about space, it's about two men in a (something, something) place."


                Wikipedia, as usual, has all the answers: It's About Time (TV series) . Also, you can see the opening credits on YouTube here (In the pilot episode, Shad's name was credited as "Shag", but when CBS censors realized that was a slang term for 'rumpy-pumpy', they changed her name to "Shad").

                HDTV is bloody wasted on reality TV and so-called "celebrities" these days!
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                1. 9/3/2010 6:00 AM Sid Plait wrote:
                  I had forgotten (thankfully, but no longer, thanks to you, Ivan) how horrible that intro and song were.  I'm amazed my brain works at all after watching those shows.
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