I'm surprised no one has posted about this yet. Ivan Semeniuk, a science journalist, does a pretty good debunking of the Fox show on Discovery Canada.

Here's the page, with a link to a lengthy video doing a good job debunking the hoax.

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Surely, Canada is not a hoax...isn't it?

:wink:

They don't call it The Great White Lie for nothing. :P

Hey watch it. :x

We're the Great White North. 8)

Phil, I saw that a while ago, (6 months ago?) after I read your book.

Ivan's great, but everything he mentioned was also in your book. I guess I should have posted it. Maybe I even saw it before I joined this forum.

I really enjoy watching Ivan's segments on astronomy. He used to be the director of the planetarium in Toronto.

Why don't you give him a call and see if you can do a segment on the show? You can even do a "live" interview with them. I'm sure he'd love to have you as a guest.

I'm suprised he didn't mention your book. When I saw saw the segment, I immediately thought you should have been a guest

Later

Pete

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

Actually, Bad Astronomy has been mentioned on the show before:

http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...ht=&#93900

It's how I found out about the site.

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I posted a link to that back in 2003. Ivan must be a big Bad Astro fan...

Sorry, guys..2003..never heard of Phil or bad astronomy

I heard about Phil's book in Astronomy magazine. It took me a couple of months to buy the book and then a long time to actually become a member. When was that article?

Pete

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

The thread is here:

http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...ht=&#53011

Discovery has long since moved their files around on their servers since then...

I've been coming to the BA site for years and I still haven't bought Phil's book ops: so don't feel bad.

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Shoot, I can't get the video to run in Firefox 1.0.2. I have just about every plug-in under the Sun. It won't run in IE either (after which attempt I then had to clean up the spyware that IE allowed in). Too bad the video can't be downloaded.

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What? Theres a Book?

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Here's a link to the video in the original post: http://www.exn.ca/news/video/2001/04...9-moonhoax.asx
And here's a link to the video I mentioned: http://www.exn.ca/news/video/exn2003...ss-planetx.asx

And here's a link to the book: http://www.badastronomy.com/book/index.html

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Careful - that's potentially a bannable offence! :wink:

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Phil has a book??!! :wink:

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Heck, I'm still trying to puzzle out how he got phpBB to display like that. Or, nawwww, it couldn't be a website page.

For something on topic. I was perusing the TV Guide website to see what was on. Can I import Discovery Canada? All they want to show here is Monster Garage and whatever that motorcycle show is. No wonder there's a problem with science education here...

I think Ivan Semeniuk made that video not too long after FOX aired that moon hoax show in 2001. I sent Ivan an email thanking him for doing it and he replied... thought I saved those emails but now I can't find them so I can't confirm the date.

Unfortunately Discovery Canada is the same... Monster Garage, American Chopper, Biker Build Off, etc. makes up a large chunk of their schedule.

Not only that, but also there's a website attached to this BB!

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I didn't buy it either, I conned my girlfriend into buying it for me.

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Well actually my wife wanted her father to read it, which he did (good thing too). Unfortunately he doesn't... respect books (or other people's property apparently) to the degree that I do. So we ended up getting a new one after seeing the condition the first one was in. (I say 'seeing' because I still don't have it back... if it's even in one piece.)