{"id":25602,"date":"2010-07-22T08:10:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T08:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/master-of-blastr-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T08:10:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T08:10:53","slug":"master-of-blastr-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/master-of-blastr-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Master of Blastr | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blastr_logo\"<\/a>I am pleased to announce that I will be writing a periodic column for Blastr<\/a>, the new incarnation of SciFIWire, the SyFy Channel’s web news portal*<\/a><\/sup>!<\/p>

I’ve had an informal relationship with SyFy for a while. The panel I moderate at Comic Con every year has Jaime Paglia from the SyFy show \"Eureka\"<\/a> on it, and they’ve been nice enough to let me sneak in<\/del> attend the SyFy\/Entertainment Weekly party every year so I can ogle celebrities<\/a> and pretend I’m cool for an evening. <\/p>

But it’s now official: I’ll be writing a monthly column on the science of science fiction for Blastr, and the inaugural column is now up: Predators, and being abducted by one<\/a>. I pontificate about the likelihood of being snatched from your bed and plopped down on a gaming preserve planet. You probably already know the answer (50\/50, of course, since it will either happen or it won’t), but getting<\/em> to that answer is the real fun.<\/p>

I enjoyed writing the article, and I hope you like reading it. In the future I’ll write about the science of TV shows, comic books, or whatever else the folks at Blastr and I come up with. So set your bookmarks, update your feedreader, and put a little reality into your make-believe. It makes it even more fun.<\/p>

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*<\/sup> Apparently, some people don’t like the misspelled name and have been leaving complaints on the Blastr intro page. I guess these same folks won’t use Flickr or Google, either.<\/em>

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