Ideas for Science Hour Speakers

[KnowTheCosmos]

Hi Everyone!


Pamela and I thought it'd be a good idea to start a thread for all of you to chime in on topics and speakers you'd like to be featured on our "Weekly Science Hour" on Google+.

I can't wait to see what sort of topics and discussions we can start having stemming from our fantastic community here on CosmoQuest!


~Scott (KnowTheCosmos)

[pstew]

The Sun would be a good topic. It has so many interesting features and without it we wouldn't be here. You could even invite Camilla Corona

[KnowTheCosmos]

The Sun would be a good topic. It has so many interesting features and without it we wouldn't be here. You could even invite Camilla Corona

The sun is a fantastic topic! Camilla and her crew are some wonderful people whom we've had the pleasure of working with before! Thanks for the input, pstew!

[redshifter]

Extrasolar planets! What we know about them, how we know what we know, such as detection methods. Maybe a topic covering extrasolar missions such as Kepler and Corot(?). Maybe another one around 'earth-like' planets in a star's habitable zone.

[Barabino]

Extrasolar planets! What we know about them, how we know what we know, such as detection methods. Maybe a topic covering extrasolar missions such as Kepler and Corot(?). Maybe another one around 'earth-like' planets in a star's habitable zone.

I don't want to put you down, but

what we can say about them with scientific 100% accuracy is so little interesting (in practice: only that some planets exist and have a revolution period around their sun of xyz earth days...)

that I find much more real - and fun and interesting too!

reading old gossip magazines picking them from the trash !!

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/scal...91_636x382.jpg

[Swift]

I don't want to put you down, but

Barabino

Anytime one is writing some sort of variant of "I probably shouldn't do this", they are almost certainly correct.

You are trolling a 7 year old post with an image that is off-topic and essentially spam. You seem to be getting yourself in a lot of trouble lately; if you do not start following our rules more closely, you will find yourself banned from CQ.

[Barabino]

ok, i understand my mistake... i believed to be fun, but I was just SPAM... TZK TZK TZK

the EASY solution for me is not to be less provocative, but just avoiding images completely, except nokookies tiny ones from wikipedia - for real reference purpose...

[Solfe]

As much as I like to the topic of the Sun, what about Pluto? For a good chunk of my life, it has always been a point of light or a grainy spot.

[publiusr]

Severe storms..tornadoes might be a good one for spring. Tom Grazulis has a nice speaking voice, as does Chuck Doswell