Phil Plait, Bad Astronomer, on The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#133)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Philip Plait, also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, writer and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objects, as well as engaging in public outreach advocacy for NASA missions. He has written two books, Bad Astronomy and Death from the Skies. He has also appeared in several science documentaries, including How the Universe Works on the Discovery Channel. From August 2008 through 2009, he served as president of the James Randi Educational Foundation.[2][3] Additionally, he wrote and hosted episodes of Crash Course Astronomy which aired its last episode in 2016. Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Thanks to today’s sponsor, LinkedIn Jobs! Visit linkedin.com/impossible to post your job ad for FREE! 🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥 Deepak Chopra and Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/E-8mF4HWDnE?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Garrett Lisi https://youtu.be/TCZxpMTzRP4 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose https://youtu.be/H8G5onAqlVo?sub_confirmation=1 Juan Maldacena's First Podcast Interview: https://youtu.be/uIzTliTHn7s?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize 🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2 🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/into A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Thumbnail Art: Sloan Sobie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. We will not want to miss this incredible conversation with a legend.
0:20.0	I call him
0:21.4	Venturies Carl Sagan and that is no small amount of praise for Dr. Phil
0:29.4	Plate who is joining us today. I'm hoping that we are now live on the Into the Impossible Network and we are also live
0:37.8	co-streaming on Clubhouse for those of you who don't have video access or don't have an invitation. That would be so
0:44.9	sad to not have an invitation. But that's the way the clubhouse crumbles and
0:50.6	hopefully we can make do with just our video extraordinary and it is such a great
0:57.6	pleasure to welcome Phil Plate the bad astronomer himself where is he got to get him on screen there he here
1:04.8	mary am there is joining us all the way from the wilds of Colorado where he is a
1:11.9	gentleman farmer he has a gentleman farmer, he has a gentleman astronomer, he has an inspiration to literally millions around the world.
1:18.5	As I say, he is this generations, Carl Sagan.
1:21.5	Here is my finger puppet. Phil, do you have a finger puppet of Carl Sagan?
1:27.1	No. All right. You have some puppets and stuff around here, but I'm you have to find them.
1:31.8	I will rectify that and if you're really good, I will throw in a side order
1:36.5	of the very first good astronomer.
1:39.1	This is Galileo Galileo, Galileo,
1:40.8	who Phil is intimately connected with.
1:43.7	Oh, let's see what you got there.
1:44.8	Puppets.
1:45.8	I have Krieger from Archer.
1:47.5	Nice.
1:48.5	So that's, you know, that's about the best I can do.
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