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Old 10-April-2007, 01:28 PM
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Working title: "Death from the Skies"
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Hmmmmm, I'm wondering if the pack of weirdos, although now slightly larger, gets a mention again.
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Working title: "Death from the Skies"
Is it a colorful death?
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Old 22-April-2007, 11:37 AM
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next book: un-official title contest...

No one won
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I think I may have come closest. Maybe, it's a little death from the skies--I know some get that
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I think I may have come closest. Maybe, it's a little death from the skies--I know some get that
What kind of astronomy are you doing?
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Not to douse this topic with cold water, but the next book already has a title.

And yes, you can ask. But no, I won't tell.
So this was that book
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Out on Ninth Street Hill, where it's dark
That's the place for the little death, all right.
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It's a mind killer alright I think my title (also in that link) is in the spirit of the book's theme as well
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Is it a colorful death?
I'm sure most of these deaths involve the full electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma-rays.
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Thanks, I feel better. If I can't cheat death, I don't want it cheating me!
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Cosmic string whip mentioned?
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Collapse to the quantum vacume ground state?
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mickal555, you win! That's the last chapter. :-)
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Exit Mundi might be an interesting source.
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Beat the deadline Phil! I'm actually looking forward to this book. If I didn't read your blog I wouldn't know about it until it was out...stupid well-written and informative blog

<Just my way of thanking you for your work>
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Old 25-August-2007, 09:40 AM
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Cool Oh no! Not another one...
I have recently published a book titled "The Virtue of Heresy - Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer". It's about the bad science (mostly) that we are taught to use to try to explain what we see.

Publishing a book, especially in the popular science genre, and even more especially one that calls some of the heroes of cosmology half-blind sissies, is a testing task, one that takes your fortitude and tenacity to the brink of collapse. Some wags suggest it preferable that mine should have collapsed

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