Join the Discussion at Art and Science Collaborations, Inc Sunday May 27th at 10 am SLT

The regular monthly meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
will be held online, in Quat Gallery, on May 27th at 10 SLT, 1 pm
EDT. Topics for discussion:

Avatar X Prize?
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/05/ana-avatar-xprize-jacki-morie.html#more

Lunar Library?
https://www.space.com/40598-lunar-library-wikipedia-astrobotic-moon-mission.html

Sailing to Proxima b ?
https://www.space.com/40512-breatkthrough-starshot-interstellar-sail-technology.html

If we have time:

Will Trump fire NASA's new Head?
https://www.space.com/40640-nasa-chief-bridenstine-climate-change.html

White holes?
https://www.space.com/40422-are-white-holes-dark-matter.html

Viral thinking?
https://www.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html

Medieval proof of Planet 9?
https://www.livescience.com/62475-medieval-comets-reveal-planet-nine.html

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories.

Cheers,

Flash

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Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI): Join the Meeting on Sunday April 29th at 10 am SLT

The regular monthly meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
will be held online, in the Metaverse, on Sunday April 29th at 10 am SLT

Topics for discussion:

Han Solo Movie?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/04/08/solo-star-wars-story-debuts-new-trailer-featuring-surprising-chewbacca-reveal.html

Half our body is not human?
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270

Ocean Fish extinct by 2048?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salt-water-fish-extinction-seen-by-2048/
Suggested by Bill Rabinovitch.

If we have time:

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) :
https://www.space.com/40307-nasa-tess-satellite-earth-like-exoplanets.html

Life above Venus?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a19672527/scientists-propose-craft-to-search-clouds-of-venus-for-life/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=040418

Galaxy Without Dark Matter?
https://www.wired.com/story/the-case-of-the-missing-dark-matter/

BICEP2 Blunder:
http://nautil.us/issue/59/connections/how-my-nobel-dream-bit-the-dust
Suggested by Bill Rabinovitch.

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. If you’re already registered you
can teleport to the meeting via
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/ Otherwise there are directions
for registering at: http://www.solidstatelight.com/ASCI

Cordially,

Flash

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Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) Join the Discussion Jan 28th at 10 am SLT

The regular monthly Meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
will be held online, in the Metaverse, on Sunday, January 28, at 10 am SLT 

Topics for discussion:

Can Without Steering Wheel?
https://www.wired.com/story/gm-cruise-self-driving-car-launch-2019/amp

Our Solar System is Strange?
https://www.space.com/39390-alien-planets-reveal-our-strange-solar-system.html

Big Brother's Supermarket?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42769096

If we have time:

How did Orwell's wife influence 1984?
https://unbound.com/books/eileen/

Government UFO Program?
https://www.space.com/39325-us-government-ufo-program-legacy.html

Self Healing Fungi Concrete?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180117152511.htm

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. You can teleport to the meeting
via http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/

Cordially,

Flash

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Monthly Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. ASCI Meeting - Join the discussion- Sunday November 26th at 10 am SLT

The regular monthly meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
will be held in Quat Gallery, on Sunday, November 26th at 10 am PDT, 1 pm
EDT. 

TELEPORT TO ASCI: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quat/137/92/54


Topics for discussion: 
$450M da Vinci?
https://www.livescience.com/60952-da-vinci-painting-fetches-450-million.html
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Beer on Mars?
https://www.space.com/38873-budweiser-barley-seeds-international-space-station.html
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Zombie Star?
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41916738 
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If we have time:

Interstellar cigar?
https://www.livescience.com/60990-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-space-cigar.html
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Standard Theory Problem?
https://www.space.com/38640-dark-matter-map-big-bang-kavli.html
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Another Standard Theory Problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2017/nov/01/anomalous-bottoms-at-cern-and-the-case-for-a-new-collider?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience
 * * * 
Anti-matter from Lightning?
https://www.livescience.com/61013-lightning-radioactive-particle-accelerator.html
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We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures, and cyber art projects. 

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The regular monthly Meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) at in Quat Gallery, on Sunday October 29th at 10 am slt

 Topics for discussion:

What's your opinion of the new Star Trek Discovery series?
https://www.space.com/38240-star-trek-discovery-cast-videos.html
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What's your opinion of the new Star Wars trailer?
https://www.space.com/38414-star-wars-the-last-jedi-second-trailer.html
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What's your opinion of the new The Orville series?
https://www.hulu.com/the-orville
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If we have time:

Sci-Art pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a28485/russian-rocket-genius-konstantin-tsiolkovsky/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=100417
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Potential Moon habitat?
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/001159.html
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Problems for the Standard Model?
https://www.space.com/38496-hunt-for-hubble-constant-standard-model.html
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We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories.

Cheers,

Flash

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Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) Discussion on Sunday September 24th, at 10 am SLT

The regular monthly Meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
will be held online, in Quat Gallery, on Sunday September 24th, at 10 am SLT


 Topics for discussion:

Cassini's Grand Finale:
https://www.facebook.com/NASA/videos/10155589375686772/

North Korea EMP Attack?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/08/national/threat-of-north-korean-emp-attack-leaves-japan-vulnerable/

Unexpected Jupiter?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/us/nasa-jupiter-juno-mission-observations-first-results/index.html

If we have time:

Next stop after Pluto?
https://www.space.com/38086-new-horizons-second-flyby-plan.html

Ig Nobel Prizes:
https://www.livescience.com/60421-ig-nobels-2017-ceremony.html

Star Wars IX:
https://www.space.com/38139-star-wars-episode-ix-pushed-back-after-abrams-hiring.html

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. You can teleport to the meeting
via http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/

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Monthly ASCI Meeting- Join the discussion on Sunday July 30th at 10 am SLT-

The regular monthly Meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)

will be held online, in Quat Gallery, on Sunday July 30th at 10am SLT/ 1pm ST
pm EST. Topics for discussion:

Are you watching the Eclipse?
https://www.space.com/35080-total-solar-eclipse-2017-path-maps.html



Is Ready Player One an accurate VR prediction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znavw4akfoY

US Space Command?
https://www.space.com/37433-congressional-committee-proposes-us-military-establish-a-guardians-of-the-galaxy-no-really.html

Farthest quantum teleportation?
https://www.space.com/37506-quantum-teleportation-record-shattered.html

If we have time:

Star Wars 8 about family?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kwBQBXdXsY

Blade Runner 2049?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOaI_Fn5o4

Fukushima core seen by robotic fish?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4717998/Possible-melted-fuel-seen-time-Fukushima-plant.html

EM drive powers Salvation?
https://www.space.com/37552-salvation-features-emdrive-experimental-engine.html

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. You can teleport to the meeting
via http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/

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The Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) Monthly Meeting- April 30th at 10 am SLT/1pm EST

Topics for discussion:

Did you march for science?
http://www.space.com/36573-tens-of-thousands-protest-at-march-for-science.html

Brain interface?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4422436/Mark-Zuckerberg-confirms-Facebook-s-brain-interface.html

End of the Jedi? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn0WzX3OcAU

If we have time:

Is Facebook's VR world doomed?
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2017/04/facebook-spaces-social-vr.html#more

Is matter conscious?
http://m.nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/is-matter-conscious

Negative mass?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4419248/Physicists-create-negative-mass-accelerates-BACKWARD.html

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. If you’re already registered for
SL  you can teleport to the meeting via
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/

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Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) will be held online, in Quat Gallery, on Sunday October 30th, at 10 am SLT, 1 PM EST

 Topics for discussion:

A new nation in space?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3833968/The-independent-SPACE-NATION-revealed-Asgardia-defend-Earth-against-asteroids-wipe-humanity.html

New dwarf planet found?
http://www.space.com/34358-new-dwarf-planet-found-2014-uz224.html

Planet 9 makes us wobble?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/20/the-mysterious-planet-nine-might-be-causing-the-whole-solar-system-to-wobble/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_planet-9-250pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

If we have time:
Ten times more galaxies?
http://www.space.com/34382-universe-has-10-times-more-galaxies-hubble-reveals.html

Fusion reactors advance?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161021133915.htm

Quantum teleportation break through?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3837340/Quantum-teleportation-breakthrough-Nasa-reveals-dark-cable-experiment-Calgary.html

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. You can teleport to the meeting
via http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/

Selected transcripts are posted at:
http://www.solidstatelight.com/ASCI/transcripts.htm Your participation
implies your agreement to have your words and image published.

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Join our Monthly meeting of Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) Sunday, September 25th at 10pm PDT/1pm EDT

Meeting will be held at Quat Gallery 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quat/127/89/54

 Topics for discussion:

Are we going to Mars because of Star Trek?
http://www.space.com/34043-star-trek-nasa-mars-journey-inspiration.html

Will we find ET? Has ET found us?
http://www.space.com/34047-star-trek-nasa-seti-talk-first-contact-aliens.html

What are the odds of an asteroid killing us?
http://www.space.com/34070-earth-vulnerable-to-major-asteroid-strike.html

If we have time:

Testing the tooth fairy?
http://www.livescience.com/56126-neil-degrasse-tyson-talks-tooth-fairy.html

Universe has no direction?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3782462/Feeling-lost-Cosmic-radiation-study-reveals-universe-NO-direction.html

Water powered satellite?
http://www.space.com/34096-water-fueled-cubesat-lunar-challenge.html

We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse
experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures,
cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. You can teleport to the meeting
via http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/

Meetings are held using text chat, a transcript is recorded, and selected
transcripts are posted at:
http://www.solidstatelight.com/ASCI/transcripts.htm Your participation
implies your agreement to have your words and image published.

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Monthly Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)- Let's Discuss Pluto! Meeting July 26th 10 am SLT

Pluto- image retrieved from www.imguniverse.net

About Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)

Many SL projects involve collaborating, and ASCI's mission includes fostering such artistic collaborations. ASCI hopes to provide a place for artists, builders, scripter and animators who are collaborating, or wish to collaborate, to meet and discuss their projects with entrepreneurs, educators, scientists and technologists who have projects they want to realize in SL. The larger mission of ASCI is nurturing the intersection of art, science, technology, and the humanities.

ASCI will be meeting in the Quat Gallery on the last Sunday of each month, at 10 am SLT.
Join the ASCI Group (it's free) to receive notices about our SL meetings.


Teleport Here:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quat/131/93/54


Topics for discussion: July 26th 10 am SLT

Pluto!
http://www.space.com/29929-pluto-flyby-new-horizons-spacecraft.html
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Should we fear space aliens?
http://www.space.com/29999-stephen-hawking-intelligent-alien-life-danger.html
 * * *
Ancient Egyptian gods found on Rosetta Stone comet?
http://www.space.com/29980-rosetta-comet-67p-egyptian-gods-names.html
 * * *
If we have time:

Do we explore because we're human, or because we're animals?
http://www.space.com/29940-stephen-hawking-new-horizons-pluto-flyby.html
 * * *
Pentaquark discovered?
http://www.livescience.com/51557-new-pentaquark-particle-discovered.html
 * * *
Black hole emission?
http://www.space.com/29966-black-hole-bullseye-video.html
 * * *
Apollo 11 anniversary:
http://www.space.com/17411-apollo-11-moon-landing-explained-infographic.html

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We hope you can stop by to join the fun and share your Metaverse experiences, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek adventures, cyber art projects, and dorkbot stories. 

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