{"id":17889,"date":"2010-05-15T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/seticon-update-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T08:15:17","slug":"seticon-update-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/seticon-update-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"SETIcon update | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/344fb_seti_institute.jpg\" alt=\"seti_institute\" width=\"150\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15393\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">I&rsquo;ll be at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seticon.com\">SETIcon<\/a>, a celebration of 50 years of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, August 13 &ndash; 15. It&rsquo;ll be a lot of fun, featuring some famous scientists and actors from Star Trek.<\/p><p>Part of the festivities will be <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seticon.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=79:rock-out-like-a-rock-star&amp;catid=4:programming-parties\">a night of Rock Band<\/a> hosted by me. If people pander enough, then I might take the stage as well. Can I sing or play drums? Come and find out.<\/p><p>They&rsquo;ve also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seticon.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=section&amp;layout=blog&amp;id=2&amp;Itemid=2\">announced some new guests<\/a>, including my friends Robert Sawyer (who wrote the novel Flash Forward) and astronomer Gibor Basri, who was a panelist on the recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/events\/the-quest-for-a-living-world-event\/\">Quest for a Living World event<\/a> I moderated last month. Gibor is actively involved in the Kepler mission, which is looking for new Earths orbiting other stars.<\/p><p>Also &mdash; and this is <em>very<\/em> cool &mdash; there will be a copy of the novel <em>Contact<\/em> signed by Carl Sagan, Jodie Foster, and Jill Tarter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seticon.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=57:auction&amp;catid=4:programming-parties\">auctioned at the event<\/a>. Cripes, I may bid on that myself.<\/p><p>I plan on having a blast. I wind up working hard at these meetings a lot of the time, but for this one I think there will be some kicking back and actually <em>enjoying<\/em> it. You should come, too.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bzPDmaqF8uq5Vc9DzNhgkeRyWg8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f4676_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bzPDmaqF8uq5Vc9DzNhgkeRyWg8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f4676_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f4676_hYEEF46AiaI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f4676_BrBFREdSTSA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ll be at SETIcon, a celebration of 50 years of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, August 13 &ndash; 15. It&rsquo;ll be a lot of fun, featuring some famous scientists and actors from Star Trek.Part of the festivities will be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/seticon-update-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}