Cartoon of The Day: Feeling Spacey

 

 Taken at Club Zero Gravity. Someone showed up with planets, stars, and a cookie orbiting his head. Some, substances, can do that to your head. But feeling light-headed after eating too many sweets can have the same effect too.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: Rocket Cart

 

 Pictures from Matt Carlton. So what would have gotten a go-cart to take off like that? Well, yours truly could think of one way.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: This Saturday at The Science Circle - "Celestial Orbits, Part I"

"Celestial Orbits, Part I"
Saturday, February 22nd
at 10AM PST
   
Here I present the basic physics that underpins the orbits of celestial bodies.  Starting from Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation, and using many examples from everyday life, I elucidate fundamental concepts of mass and weight, true and fictitious forces, potential and kinetic energy, and orbital trajectories.  This lays the groundwork for future talk(s) on celestial orbits. 

Presented by William Wall / Syzygy Asymptote

For more information, Click Here. 




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Astronaut Ron Garan: "The Orbital Perspective"

Astronaut Ron Garan will present a talk about life in space and the perspective of our planet from orbit, including a question and answer session.

Ron is an astronaut, a highly decorated Fighter Pilot and Test Pilot, Explorer, Entrepreneur and Humanitarian who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and over 27 hours of EVA during four spacewalks. He flew on the US Space Shuttle and the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the International Space Station. Ron is also an aquanaut and participated in the joint NASA-NOAA, NEEMO-9 mission in Aquarius, the world’s only undersea research laboratory.  Ron’s last assignment was in NASA's Open Innovation Initiative, which seeks to increase openness, transparency, collaboration, and innovation within government.


Friday, July 5th at 9:30 pm PDT

UH Aquaculture Program (45, 82, 25)

The Venus Transit Seen in Second Life

On Tuesday June 5th was a rare occurrence in space. For a brief time, Venus' orbit took it between the Earth and the Sun in what is called a Venus Transit. From Earth, it appeared to be a black spot against the Sun. For those whom couldn't see it in real life due to thick clouds or a lack of safe equipment, they could see live footage in some places in Second Life, such as the University of Hawaii.


For some hours, there was footage of the planet's shadow causing a black dot in the image from the sun. Not everyone saw it from screens inworld, as there were also websites with live footage that were shared through instant messages and group chats.

Interest in science was alive and well that night.

Fear Lurks Redzone Menace

The product "RedZone" advertises itself as being able to detect users of the illegal "Copybot" program, and not only ban them from the owners sim, but every alt in their account as well as putting the names on a blacklist shared with all other RedZone users. First criticized a few months ago, recently more and more are calling for something to be done about this invasive mechanism. Any1 Gynoid offers her own view of the issue, describing it as only she can.

Read Any1's colorful commentary on RedZone in Design.