Council of Doom #1: It’s Alive!

By Slacker on June 1, 2005 at 2:58 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts |

About a month ago we e-mailed a bunch of astronomy podcasts and
invited them to join us to create an Astronomical Council of Doom.

REPREZENT! Official members of the ACoD:

• Singularity
• Skepticality
• The Universe Today
• Radio Frontier Channel
• And us: Travis, Aaron and Pamela.
• Many others have been invited and said they will try to join us for the next show…

The rules were simple. We met via Skype. Everyone could use as much or as little of the show for their own podcast. So visit the other sites to see what they have put online (if anything - no one is obliged to post a thing).

The goals of the Council of Doom are 1. to have a fun time and 2. to build a sense of community among the astronomy podcasters.

This was our first show so was a little formal in the beginning as we got to know each other, but by the end everyone was comfortable annd things were rockin’ and rollin’. Travis was in charge as the MC and made sure everyone had a chance to weigh in.

Talking points:

• Bush’s Moon & Mars directive
• Manned vs. robotic exploration
• Catastrophe Astronomy stories, science or entertainment?
• Favorite hard science, sci-fi movies and TV (and the worst)

We hope to do this again in the summer. But until then download it via our Slacker Extra feed!

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