ETA: So, we lost the connection to Blog Talk radio. Jay and I continued the conversation to tape; he’s editing it now and will post the audio as a podcast tomorrow. I’ll let y’all know when it’s up. Sorry…
Don’t know if anyone reading this has had their fill of The Hunt For Vulcan, but just in case you haven’t, I’ll be talking soon about that book, missing planets, error in science (and life, perhaps) and more with Jay Ackroyd on his internet radio program, Virtually Speaking.
Time: 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 Pacific (one hour from now!)
Tune in, if you’re not absorbed in more down-to-earth matters. (I.e….Go Sox!)
Image: Gerrit Dou, Astronomer by candlelight, 1665
piratedan
and just like that, an entire comment thread was lost and there was a great disturbance in the force….
Major Major Major Major
@piratedan: thousands of nice things to say suddenly cut down.
I might listen! Sounds interesting. Will they take call-ins about media bias? ?
BillinGlendaleCA
@piratedan: Cole’s post disappeared and then reappeared after AL’s post.
redshirt
I’m scared.
BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: Why, a disturbance in the Force?
redshirt
@BillinGlendaleCA: I think Cole just changed post times so he could bigfoot Anne instead of vice versa.
Troubling.
Punchy
Missing planets….say what? Did Saturn take a turn? Did someone turn up the heat on Mercury? Did Uranus eat Pluto and grow too big and now we renamed it Kardashian? Where do I Neptune in to find out?
redshirt
It’s the night of bigfooting apparently.
Surely, there must be a better system then what y’all currently use.
For the FPers – no one wants to waste their efforts.
redshirt
@Punchy: Read the “Hunt for Vulcan” by some guy. It’s a fun science read about the “missing” planet Vulcan.
Punchy
@redshirt: Cliff’s Notes or no dice. I got too many other science books on my plate.
Are we looking for Vulcan in hope to mine their rubber?
redshirt
@Punchy: It didn’t exist.
Roger Moore
@Punchy:
There was an anomaly with Mercury’s orbit. Analysis of a similar anomaly in Uranus’s orbit had resulted in the discovery of Neptune, so people hypothesized a small planet closer to the sun than Mercury, which they named Vulcan. People looked for it and at various times claimed to have found it, only to have their “discoveries” invalidated. Finally, Einstein was able to correctly account for Mercury’s orbit with General Relativity with no need for Vulcan.
Tom Levenson
@Roger Moore: Annnnd, Scene!
Roger Moore
@Tom Levenson:
Wouldn’t you say that’s a decent Cliff Notes version?
Tom Levenson
@Roger Moore: It’s great. Makes me wonder what I went on for 46,000 words for.
redshirt
@Tom Levenson: I feel like you could have even written more. Felt a bit rushed at the end. Loved it though and have given out two copies as gifts.
Roger Moore
@Tom Levenson:
It’s all about the journey and the interesting characters you meet along the way. It’s like comparing photographs of the Grand Canyon with a hike to the bottom.
Downpuppy
2 browsers, no sound
Is radio supposed to be this hard?
Doug R
I clicked the link. I got silence
Punchy
@Roger Moore: Much obliged! Thats as succinct as I was hoping for. Glad to see Einstein for the win.
Miss Bianca
I had almost despaired of getting my audio book version of Hunt for Vulcan – I had put in an Interlibrary Loan request for it weeks and weeks ago – and now I have notice that it has arrived! Only now my car’s CD player has died! Aagh! I’m going to try blowing out the CD player with an air compressor, because I have a feeling it’s gunked up from all the road dust that blows into the car from summers full of driving on dirt roads!
scav
whew, I thought it was just my connection and hurrah! for podcast.