Q and BA Episode 7.5: Suspended Animation

Sad to say, but Q&BA is going on hiatus for a little while. I'm hoping to start it up again this summer, when I have more time to devote to it.

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• q&ba
• bad
• astronomy
• badastronomy
• phil
• plait
• astronomer

[TheBadAstronomer]

greenmagoos, that's pretty funny. An astronaut jumps vertically about a foot, and you claim it's a trampoline? Try listening to what Joe said-- he claimed astronauts jumping *20 feet*. That's what I responded to.

[spacehopperballs]

what a long winded shit talker

[Terezar]

It's too bad this went on a seemingly permanent hiatus, as I really enjoyed this series and I learned a great deal from it too. If you have any plans to revive it that would definitely be somehting I would be interested in and watch. I even have a slew of questions I could ask :)

Space has always fascinated me, and I have learned so much from your live chats, your Q&BA videos, even the questions from kids videos. Keep up the great work

[katkaLojikova]

wow i went to that webpage u talked about saying that those guys r really good.............as it turns out they r awfull atleast for me. U r much much much better in explaining and describing stuf. Thanks for your videos.

[tommylehman]

That's a pretty complicated question. Google "standard candles" and spectral reds shift.

[Alpha7000]

If you have time for a short reply here in the form of a comment, that would be great. I do understand your time constraints too, whenever you can do that would be just fine. Again, thanks a lot for the wealth of info you keep providing.

[Alpha7000]

Hello Phil,

Thanks for the awesome vids. I sent you an email w/ a question a while ago, donno whether it ever got through. I wanted to ask you, simply how do we determine distances: e.g. that a galaxy is a few light years away, vs. 80 or 100 million l.y. away vs. 13.2 Billion light years away. Furthermore, how are we able to tell that i.e. W Cephei is >1600X the Sun's diameter and would be 3000ly away. How can we be sure it is not in fact much closer and has a much smaller diameter?

[rbowden123]

I feel bad that you have to put up with people like greenmagoos, jarrawhite, and that dolt straydog, keep promoting science!! wooo hoo

[asktheastronomer]

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[386sx]

Wow sorry to hear that the Q and A is gone even though you delete my comments from your blog. I'm glad you didn't accept my friend invitation because I would never have such snobby people as a friend. :-)

[Amade0]

you should download Adobe Premiere - its much faster to edit ^^