GeekSpeak – Will there be Christmas on Pluto? Join the discussion Saturday December 24th at 12:00 pm SLT

If you were living there, on Star Date 29941426, would you celebrate Earthly events?  It would be difficult to celebrate a midwinter feast on a planet with a long year where most people never experience winter.  And will you celebrate your Earth birthday or your Pluto or Mars birthday?  Would your age, measured in years, change as you moved from planet to planet?  How do you compare the ages of Earthlings and Marslings? 

If the colonists do celebrate Christmas will they celebrate it every 365 Earth days?  Or will they adjust the date to their own planet?

Will time still be measured in Earth days in the far future?  Will it be easy to adjust to a new day and a new year?

Join us at GeekSpeak on Saturday at noon SLT to discuss time and Christmas in the future.  Bring your friends and an atomic clock.

IM Vulcan Viper, who teaches a meditation class every Wednesday in the GeekSpeak auditorium, if you have ideas for new subjects.

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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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