Science Comedian » Jupiter http://www.sciencecomedian.com Brian Malow Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:38:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hawking, Space Colonization and Jupiter Impacts on Time.com http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2009/07/hawking-space-colonization-and-jupiter-impacts-on-timecom/ http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2009/07/hawking-space-colonization-and-jupiter-impacts-on-timecom/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:46:27 +0000 Brian http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/?p=934 “Science Comedian: Talking Hawking, the Moon and Beyond” – our newest video essay is up on Time.com, as part of their celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s about Stephen Hawking and space colonization.

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]]> “Science Comedian: Talking Hawking, the Moon and Beyond” – our newest video essay is up on Time.com, as part of their celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It’s about Stephen Hawking and space colonization.

In April, 2008, Hawking came to Washington, D.C., to honor NASA on their 50th birthday. He presented a new speech entitled, “Why We Should Go Into Space.” That’s the jumping off point for the video. We wrote it. My friend Craig Duff produced it. Tara created some cool graphics, including the exploding Earth animation, and that ridiculous driver’s license for Homo sapiens.

As if to add an exclamation point to its message, between the time the video was finished and the time it was uploaded, a mile-wide hunk of rock and/or ice slammed into Jupiter. Check out the coverage by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait.

As I said in the Time piece (pun intended), “If that had happened here, you probably wouldn’t be watching online video right now.”

]]> http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2009/07/hawking-space-colonization-and-jupiter-impacts-on-timecom/feed/ 3 Brian Malow on Edison, Cell Phones, Vista… http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/08/brian-malow-on-edison-cell-phones-vista/ http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/08/brian-malow-on-edison-cell-phones-vista/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:14:07 +0000 Brian http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/?p=70 An excerpt from “The Final Frontier?” presentation I gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2008.

Mostly about cell phones, but a bit about Thomas Edison and the…

]]> An excerpt from “The Final Frontier?” presentation I gave at the Marian Koshland Science Museum, in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2008.

Mostly about cell phones, but a bit about Thomas Edison and the light bulb, Las Vegas, Windows Vista, and cost-benefits analysis.

More to come…

]]> http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/08/brian-malow-on-edison-cell-phones-vista/feed/ 2 Neal Stephenson on Jupiter Envy http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/07/neal-stephenson-on-jupiter-envy/ http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/2008/07/neal-stephenson-on-jupiter-envy/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:24:25 +0000 Brian http://www.sciencecomedian.com/blog/?p=40 “For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.”…

]]> “For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.”

- Neal Stephenson

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