2013.07.19 13:00 - waving & smiling towards saturn

The Guardian for this meeting was Yakuzza Lethecus. The comments are by Yakuzza Lethecus.

Bruce Mowbray: 's current display-name is "Bruce".
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Wol!
Bruce Mowbray: Happy Wave At Saturn Day!
Wol Euler: hello bruce
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/wave-...rth-6C10680007
Wol Euler: and hello korel
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Kori.
Korel Laloix: Heya
Bruce Mowbray: Happy Wave at Saturn Day!
--BELL--
Yakuzza Lethecus: 's current display-name is "Yaku".
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Yaku!
Bruce Mowbray: Happy Wave at Saturn Day!
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/wave-...rth-6C10680007
Yakuzza Lethecus: nice to see you being here again bruce
Wol Euler: hello yaku
Bruce Mowbray: Thank you!!
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey all :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: my avi is stuck
Bruce Mowbray: Good to be here again!
Wol Euler chuckles.
Bruce Mowbray: need a push, Yaku?
Yakuzza Lethecus: i might
Bruce Mowbray watches the dance...
Yakuzza Lethecus: ha really :)
Yakuzza Lethecus: pushing works, i can´t move
Wol Euler: sm
Wol Euler smiles.
Bruce Mowbray doesn't know how to push, actually.
Wol Euler: are you on a text viewer?
Yakuzza Lethecus: no firestorm
Wol Euler: just walk into somebody, bruce
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Wol Euler: physics does the rest
Yakuzza Lethecus: sometimes one needs a push in the right direction :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Bruce Mowbray: Still need a push, Yaku?
Wol Euler: back in a sec, making tea
Wol Euler: oh it doesn*t work if they are sitting
Yakuzza Lethecus: thx bruce now i am fine :)
Bruce Mowbray: oh, sry.
Aphrodite Macbain: 's current display-name is "Aph".
Bruce Mowbray: kk, I shall sit again.
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey aph
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Aph!
Bruce Mowbray: Happy Wave at Saturn Day!
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/wave-...rth-6C10680007
Wol Euler: hello aph
Aphrodite Macbain: smiles at all her friends
Yakuzza Lethecus: i imagine that it´s related to my internet, i can´t even see the logger in the middle of the fountain
Yakuzza Lethecus: or the pillows on the other side of the pavillion
Bruce Mowbray: Where and when The Saturn photo op runs from 5:27 to 5:42 p.m. ET on Friday. That's the time period when the light reflected by a toothy smile and a waving hand can make the 898.5 million-mile (1.446 billion-kilometer) journey from Earth to Saturnian orbit, in time to be captured by Cassini's camera 80.4 minutes later.
Wol Euler: so 1:27 to 1:42 SL time
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm. Yes, I think that would be right, Wol. Just subtract three hours.
Qt Core: Hi all
Wol Euler: so I was wrong :) 2:27 to 2:42
Aphrodite Macbain: what???
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, you were wrong -- actually 2:27...
Bruce Mowbray: Yayyy!
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Qt.
Bruce Mowbray: Happy Wave at Saturn Day,m Qt.
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/wave-...rth-6C10680007
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, San!
Wol Euler: hello san
Santoshima Resident: hi everyone ~
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey qt,san
Qt Core: hi San
Aphrodite Macbain: almost a full house!
Bruce Mowbray: Poor Yaku!
Yakuzza Lethecus: 's current display-name is "Yaku".
Bruce Mowbray: wb, Yaku!
Santoshima Resident: sorry in need to leave ... lunch date
Aphrodite Macbain: bon appetit!
Bruce Mowbray: Bye for now, San!
Yakuzza Lethecus: thx, now everything seems to rezz, bon appetit san
Bruce Mowbray: At the top of the hour (2 p.m. SLT), there will be a NASA live Ustream hangout for waving at Saturn!!!
Wol Euler smiles.
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
Aphrodite Macbain: wonders what we look like from Saturn
Bruce Mowbray: Like one light blue pixel, Yaku.
Bruce Mowbray: Be sure to wave!
Bruce Mowbray: I meant, Aph, sry.
Yakuzza Lethecus: and smile :)
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, wave and smile....
Bruce Mowbray: (I think that happens automatically with avis in SL, though.)
Aphrodite Macbain: How many rings does Saturn have?
Bruce Mowbray: Let's see.... Saturn has been married how many times. . . . ? 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Hmmmm. Mor than I can count, I guess.
Wol Euler: more than the pope but fewer than Zsa Zsa Gabor
Yakuzza Lethecus: hmm it´s 7
Aphrodite Macbain: :D
Bruce Mowbray: UPCOMING EVENTS: Wave at Saturn: Photographing Earth from Deep Space 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT, 2100 UTC) on Friday, July 19, 2013 NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of the Saturn system (and Earth) starting at 2:27 PDT (5:27 EDT, 21:27 UTC) Friday, July 19. Cassini will be nearly 900 million miles (nearly 1.5 billion kilometers) away from Earth. Hear from Cassini scientists live at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and see "wave at Saturn" events around the world.
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
--BELL--
Bruce Mowbray: Pardon my failure to curb my enthusiasm on this one, but I find the technology required for a feat like this to be utterly astounding. (Of course, when I graduated from high school, the USA still didn't have a satellite in orbit yet.)
Bruce Mowbray: or a sattelite, either.
Bruce Mowbray: or however you spell it.
Korel Laloix: Seems a fairly useless activity.. but great marketing for Nasa.
Bruce Mowbray steps into the kitchen to get his typist some wine.
Wol Euler: O.O
Bruce Mowbray: (to celebrate).
Wol Euler was born after Sputnik (I think).
Aphrodite Macbain: what happened to the G&T?
Wol Euler: yes, after
Wol Euler: oh yes, of no practical use at all :) it's a branding exercise
Bruce Mowbray: Sputnik. . . 1957?
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Wol Euler: but an amusing one
Aphrodite Macbain: Sputnick: 1958
Bruce Mowbray: Sputnik 1 (Russian: "???????-1" Russian pronunciation: ['sputn??k], "Satellite-1", ??-1 (PS-1, i.e. "?????????? ???????-1", or Elementary Satellite-1))[1] was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957
Wol Euler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Aphrodite Macbain: ah right. We called my sister Sputnick before she was born in 1958
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Did she go "Beep Beep Beep"?
Aphrodite Macbain: no, waa waaa waaa
Bruce Mowbray: Only Aph's mom knows for sure.
Bruce Mowbray: Before she was born????
Aphrodite Macbain: My baby sister now has kinds of her own, one who is getting married in September!
Aphrodite Macbain: kids=kinds
Bruce Mowbray: YAyyy! Mission accomplished, Aph.
Aphrodite Macbain: :D
Aphrodite Macbain: The colours will be black and yellow!!
Aphrodite Macbain: My mother doesnt approve of black
Bruce Mowbray: My sister is three years older than your sister, Aph. and She also has two kids -- neither of whom is married yet.
Bruce Mowbray: Black and yellow -- for a wedding?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes.
Bruce Mowbray: oh my.
Aphrodite Macbain: you sound like my mother
Aphrodite Macbain: I think it has something to do with bumble bees
Aphrodite Macbain: My sister has beehives on their property
Wol Euler: or taxis, perhapos
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Bruce Mowbray: wonderful! I'm sure the happy couple has their own very good reasons for those colors.
Bruce Mowbray remember s SNL skit with bumblebees.
Aphrodite Macbain: SNL?
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Xir!
Xirana Oximoxi: 's current display-name is "Xirana".
Aphrodite Macbain: waves at Xiri
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey xirana :)
Xirana Oximoxi: hello everyone! :-)
Wol Euler: hello xir
Qt Core: i sadly have to go, bye all
Wol Euler: bye qt, take care
Bruce Mowbray: We are now exactly ONE HOUR from waving-at-Saturn time....
Aphrodite Macbain: Ciao Qt
Bruce Mowbray: Wave at Saturn: Photographing Earth from Deep Space 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m. EDT, 2100 UTC) on Friday, July 19, 2013
Yakuzza Lethecus: night qt
Xirana Oximoxi: hi Wol, Aph, Yaku, Kori, Bruce . Qt :-)
Bruce Mowbray: G'night, Qt!
Aphrodite Macbain: AShall I go on my roof?
Bruce Mowbray: (no waving at Saturn for him...)
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: zzzzz
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Aph. They could probably see you better if you're on your roof.
Wol Euler: no, you might fall off
Wol Euler: and miss the photo op
Aphrodite Macbain: giggles
Aphrodite Macbain: I will be standing in my roof garden
Bruce Mowbray: NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of the Saturn system (and Earth) starting at 2:27 PDT (5:27 EDT, 21:27 UTC) Friday, July 19.
Aphrodite Macbain: among the nasturtiums
Bruce Mowbray: Do you have bumbees in your roof garden, Aph?
Bruce Mowbray: bumble bees, sry.
Aphrodite Macbain: yes! and flutterbys
Aphrodite Macbain: ouch!
Aphrodite Macbain: But it's hot up there!
Bruce Mowbray: WOW.... there are NINE MILLION viewers on the NASA JPL site --- ready to watch the BIG WAVE!!!
Aphrodite Macbain: and wasps
--BELL--
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder whether all this waving will affect the turning of the earth
Bruce Mowbray: HGmmmm. Ponders Aph's pondering.
Bruce Mowbray: Maybe it sill stir up a little breeze and cool us off here in the Midwest.
Bruce Mowbray: We're been having a heatwave all week.
Bruce Mowbray: We've*
Aphrodite Macbain: yes- also in eastern Canada
Bruce Mowbray: And the East Coast. I really feel for folks in cities.
Aphrodite Macbain: Are you sweltering Xiri?
Xirana Oximoxi: my avatar is stuck looking at the sky :)...
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: (Maybe looking for Saturn?)
Xirana Oximoxi: and where I live is not the summer yet...all day stormy quite cold and rainy :-)
Wol Euler: focus on yourself, xir
Bruce Mowbray: Pyrenees Mountains?
Xirana Oximoxi: ahh now:)) thank you Wol:)
Wol Euler: yw
Bruce Mowbray: Free at last!
Xirana Oximoxi: :-)
Wol Euler remembers MLK
Aphrodite Macbain: MLK?
Bruce Mowbray: also remembers MLK... My typist saw him speak in Dallas - when he was an undergrad.
Wol Euler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Wbmp6CQo8
Bruce Mowbray: Martin Luther King.
Aphrodite Macbain: oh ok. Have never seen the acronym before!
Bruce Mowbray: This vid brings tears to my eyes. Truly.
Xirana Oximoxi: me either :-)
Bruce Mowbray: My typist has stood on the eaxct spot where MLK stood when he delivered that speech. (Lincoln Memorial.)
Bruce Mowbray: exact*
Wol Euler too bruce (tears, not standing)
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.hermitdog.com/WashingtonT...HaveADream.jpg
Aphrodite Macbain: My head prickled
Aphrodite Macbain: He was such a good speaker
Bruce Mowbray: (A photo my typist took on that spot.)
Xirana Oximoxi: thans Bruce :-)
Bruce Mowbray: yw!
Xirana Oximoxi: k
Aphrodite Macbain: noce
Aphrodite Macbain: nice
Aphrodite Macbain: pink granite
Aphrodite Macbain: Why was the subject of MLK raised?
Wol Euler: "free at last" :)
Xirana Oximoxi: yes:-)
Wol Euler: it's a pavlovian response :)
Bruce Mowbray: August 28, 1963.
Wol Euler: oh! fifty years next month!
Bruce Mowbray: Cuz Xir was free at last.
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks to Wol's suggestion that she focus on herself.
Wol Euler smiles modestly.
Bruce Mowbray: ;-))))
Xirana Oximoxi: yes..I feel much better now :)
Aphrodite Macbain: ah- OK :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: a wise group
--BELL--
Xirana Oximoxi: we're lucky to have so clever friends with technology matters :-)
Bruce Mowbray: Full text of the 'I have a dream' speech: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marti...ry?id=14358231
Xirana Oximoxi: oh! thanks Bruce! I'll read it later...tomorrow :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: Time to go out in the sunshine. I'll wave at 2:27?
Bruce Mowbray: It's a good thing to read, Xir. . . Something to remind ourselves of how far we still have to go.
Bruce Mowbray: KK, Aph!
Bruce Mowbray: Look out for those bumblers!
Yakuzza Lethecus: hmm i have to admit i recall almost only the ,,i have a dream" almost nothing of the content of the speech
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for the dream Bruce
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks for your being everyone
Yakuzza Lethecus: thx for visiting aph
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye Aph! :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: byeee
Wol Euler: bye aph, take care
Xirana Oximoxi: it's historucal...I never read it before, so now is a good moment to do :-)
Wol Euler remembers watching a film of this in school, and being deeply moved.
Korel Laloix: It is moving.. but sort of sad how things have warped.
Bruce Mowbray: How far we've come from 1963 -- (or I HOPE we've come that far....)
Wol Euler: warped, korel?
visitor Resident: 's current display-name is "visitor".
Bruce Mowbray: listens for more from Kori.
Korel Laloix: I mean racism is alive and well here now.. and getting worse it seems to me.
Bruce Mowbray: I agree, Kori. Same here in southern Ohio.
Bruce Mowbray: Primitive reptilian emotional reactiveness, I fear.
Korel Laloix: And people tread race into things to fit their agenda instead of justice.
Bruce Mowbray: Good point, Kori.
Wol Euler: oh yes, I agree
Wol Euler: and getting more open
Korel Laloix: But good and bad I guess...
Wol Euler: there were a few decades when the racists bothered to hide their faces, now they speak openly
Korel Laloix: I know there has been progress.. but regression as well.
Xirana Oximoxi: I have the feeling that in Spain there's not a big problem with racism, but sometimes economical cise can also develop it
Xirana Oximoxi: crise
visitor Resident: 's current display-name is "visitor".
Bruce Mowbray: crisis*
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Xirana Oximoxi: ahh thanks Bruce :-)
visitor Resident: 's current display-name is "visitor".
Bruce Mowbray: Always the English teacher! slaps his typist.
Xirana Oximoxi: the word is exactly the same in Spanish :-)
visitor Resident: hi
Yakuzza Lethecus: even feuds against nationalities get fed again
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey visitor
Korel Laloix: That being said though.... I have oportunities now that I would not have had twenty years ago.. so I am still thankful for living where I do.
visitor Resident: just i wanna know eny one see me ?
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, visitor!
Yakuzza Lethecus: did you read what i wrote you in the private message before ?
visitor Resident: i cant see my self
visitor Resident: what can i do ?
Xirana Oximoxi: hello visitor... I can not see you well, just a cloud
Bruce Mowbray: You're still rezzing, visitor.
Yakuzza Lethecus: crt + alt + r
Yakuzza Lethecus: might help
Wol Euler: oh, by the way, that link to the speech? it was edited. e.g. the line about Alabama's racists is not in the text.
Bruce Mowbray: oh wow! Didn't know that, Wol.
Wol Euler: nor I :) I'm listening to the full speech on youtube in tzhe background
visitor Resident: what can i do ?
Xirana Oximoxi: oh..so, you mean the text is not complete?
Wol Euler: yes, xir
Xirana Oximoxi: ok..I will do the same...
Bruce Mowbray: One final reminder about the Saturn wave -- coming up in one-half hour. But this live Ustream starts in just a few minutes:
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2
visitor Resident: maybe i do something make me hedin ?
Bruce Mowbray ponders --- visitor DOES seem to be taking a long time to rez....
Wol Euler: ah, born today :) welcome to SL, visitor
Xirana Oximoxi: sometimes, when I use my laptop and I have not very good graphic card it happens to me too to see me as a cloud, visitor
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes, graphics cards make all the difference.
Yakuzza Lethecus: visitor: did you read to try crt + alt + R ? and please try to find the window with the private messages
visitor Resident: what is Sl ?
Bruce Mowbray: SL is Second Life.
Bruce Mowbray: welcome aboard!
visitor Resident: yes dont working
Bruce Mowbray: visitor just joined SL today!
Wol Euler: visitor, you can try reducing your graphic settings, and also reduce the bandwidth.
Bruce Mowbray: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, visitor!!!
Yakuzza Lethecus: for me a relog helped with issues i just had before visitor
Yakuzza Lethecus: so you could try that to log out an log in again
--BELL--
Bruce Mowbray is moving on the the Ustream, now. And hopes to see all of you in the photo taken from Saturn in 27 minutes. WAVE REALLY HARD!
Xirana Oximoxi: bye bye Bruce! :-)
Yakuzza Lethecus: bye bruce
Wol Euler: bye bruce
Xirana Oximoxi: I will also go now...good night all! have a nice weekend! :-)
Yakuzza Lethecus: you too xirana
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Wol Euler: bye xir
Wol Euler: man, I'm missing everyone today
Korel Laloix: less akward that way...
visitor Resident: here is something like help room can i go 2 asking them ?
Yakuzza Lethecus: well but the hi and bye waves are nice too, but sure have a distractive component too
Wol Euler: there is the NCI, New Citizens Incorporated, I think it is
Wol Euler: there are a few things you can do to help, reducing your bandwidth is on
Wol Euler: surprisingly enough :) higher bandwidth sometimes causes problems
Wol Euler: *one
Wol Euler: let's go to IM, visitor, private conversation
Wol Euler: look at your IMs, visitor
Korel Laloix: Sorry.. not been paying much attentino today.
Yakuzza Lethecus: but you are fine kori ?
Wol Euler: not to worry :)
Korel Laloix smiles
Korel Laloix: Having a night out so getting thigns together.
Agatha Macbeth: 's current display-name is "Aggers".
Yakuzza Lethecus: hey aga
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: hello aggers
Agatha Macbeth waves
Korel Laloix: heya
Agatha Macbeth: Are we dancing?
Korel Laloix: Dinner and a play... dress up sort of things.
Wol Euler: great :)
Korel Laloix: So doing my toes... smiles
Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
Agatha Macbeth: I'll go and see
Yakuzza Lethecus: wb visitor
Yakuzza Lethecus: kori; you changed the job from which you used to come to sl a while back ?
Korel Laloix: Yes..
Korel Laloix: Now I get home early on occation though.. so I can hit this round... but not all the time.
Wol Euler: nice
Korel Laloix: Have to feed the Sl addictiong some how... smiles
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: well, enjoy your night out, korel, I hope you have a lovely time
Wol Euler: I'
Wol Euler: I'm off to dance with Sun and Zen
Wol Euler: take care, be happy
Wol Euler: and wave at Saturn in ten minutes
Wol Euler smiles.
Yakuzza Lethecus: i will smile from my pillow
Wol Euler: that counts :)
Korel Laloix: Take care
Yakuzza Lethecus: good night you to
Yakuzza Lethecus: o
Korel Laloix: Ciao