Get A Second Life

By Aaron on January 24, 2007 at 12:20 am | In Blog Posts |

These will be different than your standard scientific talks. We are doing them in the Cafe Scientifique style, meaning the guest will begin with only a few words on their subject. Then the discussion will be open for everyone to throw in questions, give their own ideas, etc. The idea is for a more fun, informal style chat as opposed to a formal lecture.

First Talk: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007 @ 20UT (3pm EST)
At the Slacker Astronomy Planetarium (Carmine 122, 6, 180 - a PG area, safe for kids)

Dr. Stuart Lowe of Jodrell Bank Observatory in England. He is also the author of the AstronomyBlog and a producer of the JodCast podcast. He received a PhD in astronomy in 2005 and is currently a Research Associate working on ESA’s Planck spacecraft. He’ll be there to answer any and all questions you have on radio astronomy.

Second Talk: Monday, Feb. 5, 2007 @ 02UT (9pm EST)
At the International Spaceflight Museum (Spaceport Alpha - also a PG area)
Dr. Doug Welch is well known to SG listeners. Read his profile here at the Slackerpedia Galactica wiki.

What is Second Life?
SL is an online virtual community. It’s like Everquest and World of Warcraft, except that it isn’t a “game”, has no fighting and the users create the world. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Being a user is free. You only need to pay if you want to buy land or other bells and whistles. Visit www.secondlife.com for more info and to sign up.

A group of us have starting to build a planetarium there. I bought some land and donated it to the Slacker Astronomy “group”. If you have an SL account, join our group to hang out or to help build on the land. It is located at: Carmine 122, 7,180
At the planetarium you can listen to our latest audio show or watch the latest video show. It is a gathering place for SA producers/listeners/viewers to hang out. For example, we’ll try to congregate here during important mission launches/landings, etc. One day we’ll try to host a live SG recording here.
The planetarium is owned by all. So feel free to make your own contributions to it. Once it is done, we’ll begin work on the Cathedral of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which we’ll try to build next door.

Two screen shots of the SA home:

For Current Second Life Members
Aaron’s name is: Slacker Speedwell
Michael’s name is: Slacker Cleanslate
Feel free to add us as “friends” when you login and then join the Slacker Astronomy group.

If you build any object on the land please be sure to make it group modifiable so that others can move it if needed. You can do this in the “built/edit” tool.

Click here to participate in our Second Life thread in the forums.