The Solar System
Notes from a presentation by Christian Ready at
Windycon 38 on Friday, November 11, 2011. I have added web links.
The Solar System
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Blast from the past
I was cleaning out a closet this afternoon and came across the center pages of the program for Minicon 12, which I attended back in 1977. At 2:30 PM, on Saturday, April 9, there was this event:
Debate: “Resolved: Science Fiction Should Get Out of the Classroom and Back into the Gutter Where It Belongs” with Lester del Rey and Ivor Rogers
I must have been there, but I do not remember anything about it. It is an old issue and not to be taken too seriously,
Convergence 2011
Convergence 2011
We just got back from Convergence,
the biggest of the local SF cons. We have been going there for some years,
including 2010,
2009 , 2008,
2007 and
2006
We actually did the full four days of the Con, staying over Thursday night as well as Friday and Saturday.
We need to be training for Worldcon in Chicago next year :-)> It was a good time for us. carpe_noctum_93
was able to join us Friday and Saturday in the early evening. Our son J was sick Thursday, but joined us on
Friday.
Convergence 2010 — General Notes
Convergence 2010 — Physics and Fantasy
Convergence 2010 — Physics and Fantasy
Perpetual motion machines, cold fusion, free energy and other fake science stories. Where do they come from and what does physics really allow?
Notes from a panel at Convergence 2010, with web links, comments, and one smart-assed quote.
Windycon Purchase
Windycon photographs
Steampunk wheelchair
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From Windycon.
Windycon on Saturday
mia_mcdavid and I are continuing to have a great time at Windycon. The theme of the convention is Steampunk
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Working in space
We saw a great presentation about the recent mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The speaker was Christian Ready, who has been a regular and popular guest at Windycon for many years. This latest mission has a lot of tasks that are easy to relate to, e.g.
- Removing screws without dropping and losing them.
- Stuck bolts
- Replacing circuit boards.
- Changing batteries
The point was that even simple tasks are much harder in space.
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