{"id":8949,"date":"2014-10-04T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2014-10-04T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:11:31","slug":"video-seticon-panel-on-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8949","title":{"rendered":"Video: SETICon panel on black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video of a panel of scientists and science fiction writers on the topic of black holes held at the SETICon 2 event sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Robert J. Sawyer<\/strong> &#8211; one of only eight writers in history to win all three of the science-fiction field\u2019s top awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He frequently writes about SETI, including\u00a0&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andre Bormanis<\/strong> &#8211; Andre is an American television producer, screenwriter and author of the book Star Trek: Science Logs.\u00a0&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alex Filippenko<\/strong> &#8211; Alex is the Richard &amp; Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leonard Mlodinow<\/strong> &#8211; Leonard received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley and now teaches at Caltech&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Moderator: \u00a0<strong>Andrew Fraknoi<\/strong> &#8211; Andrew is the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College and Senior Educator at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h-4Ep1tgwmo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video of a panel of scientists and science fiction writers on the topic of black holes held at the SETICon 2 event sponsored by the SETI Institute: Robert J. Sawyer &#8211; one of only eight writers in history to win all three of the science-fiction field\u2019s top awards for best novel of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: SETICon panel on black holes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology","category-seti","category-solar-sci-fi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2kl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9003,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9003","url_meta":{"origin":8949,"position":0},"title":"Video: Do any Exoplanets have intelligent occupants? &#8211; SETIcon 2 panel","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Below is another panel discussion from the SETI Institute's SETIcon 2\u00a0event. \u00a0This one is titled: Do Any Exoplanets Have Intelligent Occupants?\u00a0As listed in\u00a0the caption, the\u00a0panelists include: Jon M. 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