Welcome to Slackerpedia Galactica

By Aaron on September 15, 2006 at 1:06 am | In Blog Posts |

Here is the straight dope:

The Slacker Astronomy audio podcast published its last episode today. Pamela is now co-hosting AstronomyCast with the excellent Fraser Cain. You’ve heard Fraser on our chit chat shows a few times and we regularly use news items from his web site, UniverseToday.com. Pamela will hopefully join us for future Slackerpedia Galactica episodes when her schedule fits.

So what is Slackerpedia Galactica? That is the name of the new audio podcast that we are publishing on the SA feed and web site. Travis and Aaron have been joined by Dr. Doug Welch, Michael Koppelman and Rebekah Turner for this new show. It will be a 1-2 hour chit-chat style show, with some Slacker Astronomy style scripted segments in it. It will be published monthly. But in between the shows each member of the team will record their own shows that will show up on the feed and their topics and formats will be all over the map. The only requirement is 1. they be fun and 2. they be smart. In other words, follow the SA formula. We also have plans to expand into more video podcasting (yes, more Lite Brite tutorials!).

Slackerpedia Galactica is also a wiki - A place for anyone to post astronomy articles written with a sense of humor and silliness, yet still remaining accurate. This will become our crown jewel.

Doug, Michael Aaron and Travis are also going to contribute to a collaborative astronomy blog we will keep on this site.

We have new forums, launched about a month ago. Our goal with the forums is to build a community. So when the forums get to large, we may freeze new memberships. So sign up while you can, even if you just want to lurk.

Don Cook, aka Dr. Deranged, is going to contribute a weeklyish webcomic called Stellar Worlds. I know he has big plans for the stories told in the comic, so check it out.

Thanks for checking us out and sticking around. We hope you enjoy the new site and endevour.

Clear skies and clear bandwidth!