Astronomy questions from kids, Part 1
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My friend Tina is a teacher in Austin. She asked her sixth grade students to send me questions they had about astronomy, and I answer them on camera. There were so many I had to split this into *5* parts! This is Part 1, and these are the questions they asked me: 1) Why are you called the Bad Astronomer? 2) Have you ever been to space? 3) Do you think aliens are real? 4) If you were as scientist, what would you do? :-) 5) Is there life on other planets? 6) Will humans ever live on the Moon or Mars? 7) What's your favorite planet? 8) Pluto: planet or not?
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so you are saying moon landing is true?
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I heard 2024 people on the moon
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well this year juno comes to Jupiter and hopfully come to Europa
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in 1992 pegsi 51 was discovered if iam wrong
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I've seen Phil on Discovery Channel a multiple times yet again he never fails to Wow me! I think that you're advocacy to share the thrill and the excitement to kids and to other people who may or may not have share the same range of understanding about the universe and all of that sort in a most practical and very basic way for us to understand is pretty brilliant.
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I SAY GOOD DAY.
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I was going to construct a rational, well-constructed reply... Then I looked at your page and discovered that you are a NASA conspiracist. ...Good day, sir.
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Really? The guy with a freaking Ph.D. in astronomy has no business talking to kids about astronomy? ...Really?
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If he got a phd.
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When you said there are most likely more planets like earth. I immediately thought of Gliese581 D. It looks alot like Earth, and is in the goldilocks zone.
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if your a astronomer do you have the right to call yourself a doctor?
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I thought this guy would have just hid after Joe Rogan clowned him. What an idiot What a NASA shill :-(
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I got a kid question DO u think the universe has a purpose?
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@coldarc I bet he would become a lot smarter if he had a blank expression and talked in a monotone.
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phil plait is a moron. he look like his head is gonna explode any moment now..
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My question!! What do astronomers do???
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You forgot to mention that about 99% of astronauts are in the military, so that's pretty much a prerequisite to becoming an astronaut. NASA is a military administrative organization. SETI was created to eavesdrop on terrestrial communications. They monitor a billion channels just in the tiny slice of EM spectrum that we use for communication. Every signal SETI has decrypted to date has been terrestrial in origin.
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Questions I have gotten from children while actually outside using a telescope: "Do the stars burn out in the daytime when the Sun comes up?" "That (Orion's 3 belt stars rising on the horizon) isn't stars, it is a radio antenna" "How do you get your telescope in your car?" "My daddy has one like that, but he doesn't use it on the sky"
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Hi, what would be the affects on earth if we got hit by a mass coronal ejection? if it was strong enough to penetrate the ionesphere would gamma rays give us radiation, or would it simply just knock out all our electronics? and is this possible it could happen?. thanx friendly guy.
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They're yes or no questions, you idiot.
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