2015.11.02 13:00 - Fly-bys and life-signs

The Guardian for this meeting was Aphrodite Macbain. The comments are by Aphrodite Macbain.

Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Korel
Aphrodite Macbain: How's the world treating you?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Bruce!
Aphrodite Macbain: Korel is AFK I think
Bruce Mowbray: Hi, Aph! Hi, Kori!
Aphrodite Macbain: I see you have a Canadian t shirt!
Korel Laloix: Osiyo
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, and it also doubles as a FALL t-shirt. Ha ha.
Korel Laloix: Fall in Canada still sounds cold.
Korel Laloix: brb.. going to make the round and find some chocolate... smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: I suppose it depends on what you consider cold
Bruce Mowbray: bye for now, Kori.
Aphrodite Macbain: It's 9 centigrade here
Aphrodite Macbain: CU later Kori
Bruce Mowbray: hey Aph, do you by any chance know how to set hover height in Firestorm?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Bruce Mowbray listens carefully.
Korel Laloix: Back... smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: Click on yourself
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Aphrodite Macbain: then appearances
Korel Laloix: Everyone brought in what they did not give away Sat night... smiles
Aphrodite Macbain: then edit shape
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks!
Bruce Mowbray: got it.
Aphrodite Macbain: then at the bottom of Body
Aphrodite Macbain: there is a choice to Hover
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I needed to lower myself to the cushion.
Aphrodite Macbain: ah
Aphrodite Macbain: nice orange socks
Korel Laloix: I like how you can hover under the floor.. smiles
Bruce Mowbray: ty.
Bruce Mowbray: I chose the leaf to match the socks.
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Korel Laloix: I love orange.. wear a lot of it RL, but not much in SL for some reason.
Aphrodite Macbain: rather than the other way round?
Bruce Mowbray: nope, the other way around. Just kidding.
Aphrodite Macbain: I love orange too. Perhaps it's because I was born near Halloween
Bruce Mowbray: Maybe so.
Korel Laloix: At least you can see my best side from this angle... grins
Bruce Mowbray: For most of my life, orange was my favorite color.
Bruce Mowbray: actually a sort of burnt orange.
Aphrodite Macbain grins at Kori
Korel Laloix: Red is my favorite for sure.
Korel Laloix: Not that I have a bad side..
Aphrodite Macbain: he he
Aphrodite Macbain: you are beautiful from all angles Korel
Bruce Mowbray wonders if Kori got stuck at her hover height.
Aphrodite Macbain: I think we match Bruce
Korel Laloix: I know... smiles.. you are just saying that because it's true... blushes
Bruce Mowbray: Must be that new chocolate she acquired.
Aphrodite Macbain: giggles
Korel Laloix: Reminds me -why I don't eat Hershey's on a regular basis...
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Korel Laloix: I am going to be so wired from all the sugar... lol
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, folks, I've found a cool Australian site:
Aphrodite Macbain: Did either of you go to the Guardians' meeting Saturday?
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...losopherszone/

Aphrodite Macbain: oh?
Korel Laloix: I did not.
Bruce Mowbray: I went to the guardians' meet. In fact I saw you there, Aph. at the very end of it.
Aphrodite Macbain: I am just confused about the need for someone to donate their tier
Aphrodite Macbain: ah I forget who was there
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I don't understand all of that stuff.
Aphrodite Macbain: I assume someone took back their tier
Bruce Mowbray: I trust that Wol, Bleu, and Eliza know how to handle it.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, someone took their tier back.
Aphrodite Macbain: But it requires some action on the part of the residents....
Korel Laloix: How does that work?
Bruce Mowbray: don't know, Kori.
Korel Laloix: Only did the land thing once and that was back in like 2005.
Aphrodite Macbain: I forget...but Wol said it needs to be done by Nov 14
Bruce Mowbray: I've never done that land thing, except in RL.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, he, Bleu, and Eliza are working it out.
Korel Laloix: So someone needs to pick up a premium membership in SL?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes it seems so
Bruce Mowbray: Hoping that someone will donate part of - or a whole tier.
Bruce Mowbray: apparently a tier come with a premium membership.
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- 540 sq metres
Bruce Mowbray: I think they are appealing to persons who might already have a premium memb.
Aphrodite Macbain: The only reason I have a premium membership is to get my little plot of land
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Qt.
Qt Core: Hi all
Korel Laloix: Just 72 bucks a year.. I might can do that.... will ask my financial manager... smiles
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Qt. Do you belong to slooh.com?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Qt
Qt Core: i hope not as i don't know what it is, going to click
Aphrodite Macbain: what is that? slooh.com
Bruce Mowbray: http://live.slooh.com/
Bruce Mowbray: It's a site where one can watch live celestial events... like comet flybys and eclipses.
Qt Core: another time sink ;-)
Aphrodite Macbain: Tell us about the Australian site Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: It's a great site, actually, especially if one is interested in astronomy.
Bruce Mowbray: I watched the live telecast of the asteroid flyby this weekend.
Bruce Mowbray: Halloween asteroid: "Spooky"
Bruce Mowbray: shaped like a skull.
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: was it spooky?
Bruce Mowbray: http://main.slooh.com/event/tracking...oween-asteroid
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, spooky
Riddle Sideways: happy day, All
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Riddle.
Qt Core: Hi Riddle
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, did you see it, Riddle?
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya Riddle
Bruce Mowbray: They think it is a former comet -- sort of hollowed out -- and it looks like a skull.
Aphrodite Macbain tries to imagine a comet looking like a skull
Riddle Sideways: had not seen this
Bruce Mowbray: Only spotted it approaching earth 21 days before it arrived.
Bruce Mowbray: that's a CLOSE margin.
Bruce Mowbray: We were talking about slooh.com Riddle.
Qt Core: probably not enough, not even for Bruce Willis
Bruce Mowbray: a site where one can watch live celestial events through various RL telescopes.
Aphrodite Macbain: :D
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: I imagine you could see the stars very well where you live Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Spooky came 300,000 miles from earth, but still, that's pretty close -- for having no warning.
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes.
Riddle Sideways: online would be much better then late night out in the cold and a pain in the neck
Riddle Sideways: :)
Bruce Mowbray: In fact, I keep track of every ISS pass-=over and try to get out there and watch it.
Aphrodite Macbain: wonderful!
Bruce Mowbray: I have a site through which I can learn of every ISS pass-over about a week or so in advance.
Bruce Mowbray: Just a sec, please:
Aphrodite Macbain: what does ISS stand for ?

Bruce Mowbray: International Space Station.
Riddle Sideways: int. space stat
Bruce Mowbray: You would have to set your own location, of course:
Bruce Mowbray: http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php
Qt Core: this summer i got to see one of its passage just by luck while watching a movie on an open air cinema
Aphrodite Macbain: two shows for the price of one Qt!
Bruce Mowbray: It's the brightest object in the sky - except for the moon.
Bruce Mowbray: (and the sun, of course.)
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks Riddle
Bruce Mowbray: It's really easy to spot, isn't it, Qt?
Aphrodite Macbain: How does looking up at the stars make you feel?
Bruce Mowbray: Divine.
Aphrodite Macbain: I feel very small
Bruce Mowbray: and connected.
Riddle Sideways: offline
Aphrodite Macbain: connected to what Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: a part of the great Being.
Qt Core: i never tried to find it but it is a distracting fast bling in a dark sky
Aphrodite Macbain: what Qt?
Qt Core: the iss
Bruce Mowbray: Out here it is a continuous bright object -- going almost the entire distance from horizon to horizon.
Bruce Mowbray: The earth's shadow precludes the entire distance, of course.
Aphrodite Macbain: Can you photograph it Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, one could easily photograph it.
Bruce Mowbray: with a tripod and a camera whose lens could be set to stay open.
Riddle Sideways: the NASA site and app have the greatest photos
Bruce Mowbray: nods, agrees with Riddle.
Aphrodite Macbain: The lens would have to move at the same rate so it wouldn't be blurry
Bruce Mowbray: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/
Bruce Mowbray: What the photo would be is a continuous white line across the sky.
Qt Core: it's very fast, so short times i think there are famous pics of it in front of the moon
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Korel Laloix: Back to RL.. ciao all.
Aphrodite Macbain: bye Kori
Qt Core: Bye Korel
Korel Laloix: Take care
Riddle Sideways: bye
Bruce Mowbray: Scott Kelly has now stayed in space longer than any other American.
Aphrodite Macbain: how long?
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm, several months. Let me check, just a sec.
Qt Core: is he the guy that would stay there an year while his twin stay on earth and so medical comparison can be made ?
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.airspacemag.com/space/sco...953946/?no-ist
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder whether there would be differences
Aphrodite Macbain: It would be hard to know for sure
Aphrodite Macbain: there are so many variables that could be the cause of change
Qt Core: there are the loss of muscular tissue, calcium from bones

Aphrodite Macbain: yes, weight bearing exercises help bone strength and  in a no-gravity atmosphere, that could be a problem

Bruce Mowbray: He currently serves as Commander of the International Space Station on the one year mission.[8] In October 2015, he set the record for the total amount of days spent in space by an American astronaut, 382.[9]
Aphrodite Macbain: wow
Bruce Mowbray: He's going to be up there for 500 days.
Qt Core: whatever variables there are comparing twins is the closes you can get
Aphrodite Macbain:: I wonder what other physical changes would take place
Aphrodite Macbain: I'd get lonely... I'd get depressed without connection with others
Qt Core: there is some loss of functionality of the immune system too
Qt Core: as even if the iss is quite full of bacteria and such there is much less diversity
Bruce Mowbray: [I might be wrong about the 500 days... I read that somewhere... but am not sure, now.]
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.popularmechanics.com/spac...llys-iss-stay/
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: I think Scott is pretty well connected, actually.
Aphrodite Macbain: via technology
Aphrodite Macbain: but no warm bodies...
Bruce Mowbray: It would be claustrophobia that would cook me, for sure.
Riddle Sideways: will only be spending 342 days this time
Bruce Mowbray: yes, I was wrong about the 500.
Qt Core: i followed the Italian astronaut (Samantha Cristoforetti) mission and she was connected enough to tweet almost daily... i 'ear' from her a lot less now that she is back on earth ;-)
Aphrodite Macbain: Funny to think you would be claustrophobic and not agoraphobic Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: I think the 500 might have been his total throughout all of his ISS missions.
Bruce Mowbray: I have always been claustrophobic --
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Aphrodite Macbain: I didn't know there was a female Italian astronaut
Bruce Mowbray listens. Creo que si?
Qt Core: came back just at the start of summer
Aphrodite Macbain: good for her
Aphrodite Macbain: Is tweeting enough though - to feel connected to others?
Qt Core: and just for this pic she take on the iss she won everything: http://www.retenews24.it/rtn24/tag/s...cristoforetti/
Aphrodite Macbain: won everything?
Qt Core: yes ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=GuzDsPgVrPs
Riddle Sideways: arrg, that was a not good site
Riddle Sideways: pop-ups
Aphrodite Macbain: what did she win?
Aphrodite Macbain: (seems she loves Naples!)
Qt Core: it is just a saying, Aph, and the right pics was this: http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature...in-outer-space
Aphrodite Macbain: Cool outfit!
Qt Core: (the quote is an almost direct quote from a Star Trek Voyager episode
Aphrodite Macbain: life imitating art
Qt Core: and that is a Star Trek uniform too
Aphrodite Macbain: I recognize it!
Bruce Mowbray: The views from the ISS are terrific.
Aphrodite Macbain: Our little world
 

Aphrodite Macbain: Do you think there's life out there beyond bacteria?
Qt Core: yes, but out of reach by distance, in space or in time
Aphrodite Macbain: Nods- the odds are there is something....
Aphrodite Macbain: would we know it if we saw it?
Bruce Mowbray: I'm holding out hopes for some of the moons of Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. . . (and, of course, sub-terranian Mars.)
Qt Core: aliens here i doubt we will notice them if they don't want to be (considering the superior tech they need to have to be able to come)
Aphrodite Macbain: Oh? Are the environments of those planets conducive to life Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: Well, there are possibilities for atmosphere and non-frozen spaces.
Riddle Sideways: Lily Tomlin's "The search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Qt Core: on a bigger scale there are ideas on how to detect a advanced enough alien civilization, advanced enough to use all the energy of their solar system[s] with things like a Dyson sphere
Aphrodite Macbain listens
Aphrodite Macbain: Dyson sphere?
Riddle Sideways: not a Dyson vacuum
Riddle Sideways: cleaner
Qt Core: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Bruce Mowbray: ty, Qt.
Aphrodite Macbain is impressed by the collective knowledge sitting around this pool
Bruce Mowbray: When I go out to view the ISS pass-overs, I can also see the Milky Way galaxy... So impressive.
Riddle Sideways is impressed with the number of URLs passed today
Aphrodite Macbain: I have a meeting in 30 minutes so should get ready to go....
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Bruce Mowbray: kk, Aph.
Qt Core: Bye Aph
Bruce Mowbray: I need to go, also.
Riddle Sideways: ok Aph
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, everyone.
Riddle Sideways: will go too
Riddle Sideways: bye
Aphrodite Macbain: Thank you all for an interesting discussion
Qt Core: no chance for it in a 100/150 km radius from Milan
Aphrodite Macbain: :-) Qt
Aphrodite Macbain: byee