I’m just doing some final packing and then the wife and I will be flying out to Atlanta to participate in Dragon*Con 2010. This is a gigantic science fiction convention, and we try to represent Astronomy Cast there every year. We’re going to be doing the first ever live show of Astronomy Cast where Pamela and I will actually be together in the same room. Epic!
So if you’re going to be attending Dragon*Con and want to hang out, I should be lurking around the science/skeptic area.
Here’s my schedule so far, but I suspect I’ll be strong-armed into several other panels.
Title: Mystery of Hanny’s Voorwerp
Time: Fri 10:00 pm Location: Crystal Ballroom – Hilton (Length: 1)
Description: Who’s Hanny? What’s a Voorwerp? How’s Hubble involved? See the World Release of the webcomic that explains it all & the 1st Hubble images.
Title: The 2010 Parsec Awards
Time: Sat 04:00 pm Location: Regency V – Hyatt (Length: 2.5)
Description: The Parsec Award is available for original Sci-Fi & Fantasy & Speculative Fiction within the new frontiers of Portable Media.
Title: Astronomy Cast Live!
Time: Sun 01:00 pm Location: 204 – Hilton (Length: 1)
Description: Take a facts-based journey through the cosmos with Dr. Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain
Entanglement is perhaps one of the most confusing aspects of quantum mechanics. On its surface,…
Neutrinos are tricky little blighters that are hard to observe. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory in…
A team of astronomers have detected a surprisingly fast and bright burst of energy from…
Meet the brown dwarf: bigger than a planet, and smaller than a star. A category…
In 1971, the Soviet Mars 3 lander became the first spacecraft to land on Mars,…
Many of the black holes astronomers observe are the result of mergers from less massive…