--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: <snip>
I've been asked to host another Science Movie Night at the downtown library . . . Anyone have ideas for a movie?
--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I've been asked to host another Science Movie Night at the downtown library for the Utah Museum of Natural History.
"2001 A Space Odyssey" followed by a lecture on: 1) What we would thought would happen in low orbit space station construction, lunar exploration and Jovian exploration in the 1950s and 60s (Werner Von Braun article in Look) vs. what did happen. What will we be doing next? 2) The physics of moving things to low Earth orbit, to the Moon and Jupiter. What would it have taken to build "2001 Space Odyssey" station? 3) The 2001 Clavius station: What will the return to the Moon really look like? 4) The 2001 Discovery "rocket": Nuclear propulsion vs. solid rocket vs. solar sails. 5) Hal in my pocket: What will happen if my cell phone continues to get smarter than I am? - Canopus56 Bump it a week and you can hook in with David Baxter's Utah Space Assoc. conference on Oct. 6-7, announced on this listserve on July 8th. Author: baxman2 Date: 2006-07-08 18:31 -600 To: utah-astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Invitation To SLAS Members "YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE OCTOBER 6th THROUGH 7th 2006, NSS REGIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE, TO BE HELD AT THE MARRIOTT HOTEL IN OGDEN, UTAH." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com