Be sure to watch “Bad Universe” tomorrow (Sunday) at 10 ET
August 28th, 2010
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Tomorrow night, the 29th of August, the show “Bad Universe” will premier on the Discovery Channel at 10 o’clock eastern time. If you don’t live in the eastern US, check your local listings. The show looks pretty cool, and it stars my friend Phil Plait, (AKA The Bad Astronomer) who is a very active member of the skeptic community and has been debunking bad science for years. It’s really huge that Phil would get a show like this on a major television network, and it’s definitely a great way for him to help spread skepticism and good science.
One nitpick: Phil can’t actually shoot rays of energy out of his eyes. If he could, I’m pretty sure I would have been zapped by now.
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August 28th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Doesn’t look like it was picked up by Discovery Canada. Shame
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August 29th, 2010 at 12:16 am
My Tivo* is already set.
*actually, it’s a knock-off from my cable company
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August 29th, 2010 at 2:20 am
DV82XL said:
Sometimes Discovery puts full shows online, it would be worth checking a few days after the first airing.
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August 31st, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Watch the show and it was very good. Definite influence of the Mythbusters (not a bad thing) but more actual science. The explainations were at a level that anyone over about 12 could understand but not so watered down as to be bad science.
Oh, and there were enough explosions and shooting things into other things at high speed to keep everyone happy.
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