{"id":26634,"date":"2009-06-15T22:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/15\/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait\/"},"modified":"2009-06-15T22:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:54:02","slug":"the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Astronomer Phil Plait on Skeptically Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[On June 19th] we&#8217;ll be talking about Astronomy with popular author and super-blogger Phil Plait!<\/p>\n<p>And, as usual, we have a lot of questions.<\/p>\n<p>Like, why is Pluto now not a planet? What&#8217;s NASA up to lately? And what&#8217;s the deal with the Hubble Telescope? How do we know we really landed on the moon? Is it likely that the world will be destroyed by asteroids, comets, black holes, or supernovae?<\/p>\n<p>Ooh! Like in the Star Trek movie! When Spock is mind-melding with Kirk? He talks about a supernova that &#8220;threatened the galaxy&#8221;! Can that happen?<\/p>\n<p>Um&#8230; the supernova part, not the mind meld.<\/p>\n<p>Ask away on the next Skeptically Speaking, every Friday at 6pm MDT, on CJSR 88.5 FM or live on cjsr.com.<\/p>\n<p>And as always, if you have a question and can&#8217;t\/don&#8217;t want to be live on the show, email us right now and we&#8217;ll ask it for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepticallyspeaking.com\/\">Details and podcasts and whatever here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[On June 19th] we&#8217;ll be talking about Astronomy with popular author and super-blogger Phil Plait! And, as usual, we have a lot of questions. Like, why is Pluto now not a planet? What&#8217;s NASA up to lately? And what&#8217;s the deal with the Hubble Telescope? How do we know we really landed on the moon? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/the-bad-astronomer-phil-plait\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bad Astronomer Phil Plait on Skeptically Speaking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6VA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}