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Rebecca leads a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org and appears on the weekly Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it. You can follow her every fascinating move on Twitter: @rebeccawatson.
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phlebas
11.01.2009
You are warning people to not date scientists? Doesnt that normally take care of itself? Or does science nerd / marching band / Trekkie combine into some inexplicable Sex God alchemy?
Craig
11.01.2009
Um, I believe at the “flaming through the sky stage” it’s a metor.
[no formal astronomy education, distant memory of classifications from something:]
meteoroid = hurtling through space
metor = decending through atmosphere, leaving trail of super-heated gasses
meteorite = chunk of rock that has smacked down.
Why yes, I am married, why do you ask? She’s an English weenie; she studies the discovery of Old English during the 16th century.
Elyse
11.01.2009
@Craig:
Why don’t you give the girl a break? She has some douche trying to kiss her and an asteroid flying at her head!
russellsugden
11.01.2009
@Elyse: Look’s like two guys to me. In fact it looks like an older man and a younger dude with slightly longer hair.
Elyse
11.01.2009
@russellsugden:
LEAVE JOHN LENNON ALONE!
Sam Ogden
11.01.2009
@russellsugden:
It also looks like the older man is shaking the younger dude; probably for spending too much time locked in the bathroom.
Sam Ogden
11.01.2009
@Sam Ogden:
Old guy: Where did you learn that?
Young dude: From you! I learned it from watching you, all right?!?!
doctoratlantis
11.01.2009
I assume this is supposed to be string-theorist Brian Greene trying to pick up Rebecca Watson. But the REAL Rebecca would have identified the meteor right.
(I often sacrifice grammer for the sake of pun.)
elsie22
11.01.2009
I dunno…from what I hear, Zach was pretty dang excited about meeting Phil
. But he’s taken, so that may stop him from asking Phil out.
The Bad Astronomer
11.01.2009
Well, at Comic Con Zach and I never got to this point in our relationship. BAM!
elsie22
11.01.2009
I dunno…Kelly told me something different about that encounter
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Steve
11.01.2009
@Sam Ogden: “Parents who misuse astronomical terms end up with kids who misuse astronomical terms.”
JOHNEA13
11.01.2009
The wanna be kisser just made an asteroidian slip.
Skepotter
11.01.2009
@doctoratlantis: That pun could have been meatier.
killyosaur
11.01.2009
@Skepotter: or did you mean meteor. (Oy… I will now prepare for my flogging.)
StephanieB
11.01.2009
My beloved astronomy textbook* agrees with Craig @2 that the flaming through the sky bit of that rock’s career is called a meteor. The meteorite is the part remaining after it crashes through your bedroom roof while you’re tied spreadeagled to the bed while wearing a clown costume, killing you in an amusing, unlikely, and newsworthy, but still fatal, sort of way.
And this is why I would totally date a scientist, or any other sort of nerd: because in this scenario, I would either die kissing somebody, or arguing geekily technical points with them, or laughing at our mutual geekiness. And really, any of those are a good way to die.
*Horizons, 9th ed. 2006. Seeds, Michael A. Awesome textbook, and it comes with a cd of extra material that features the Bad Astronomer himself. Man, I loved that class. Better than a whole hippy’s worth of acid for blowing your mind, astronomy is.
exarch
11.02.2009
It’s a meteor…….ite.
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