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December 29, 2020 Archives
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Arianespace Flight VS25 - CSO-2
In the last Arianespace launch scheduled for 2020, a Soyuz rocket will launch the CSO-2 reconnaissance satellite for the French Ministry of Defense into a Sun-synchronous orbit. The Webcast is scheduled to start at 16:25 UTC on 2020-12-29.
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16:09
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: SpaceX's Launch Pad Problem
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13:02
CONTEXT: Earth During a Solar Eclipse
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12:24
CONTINUITY: Nobel Physics Prize Lectures, 2020
Addresses by laureates Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez. I have elided the five minute sanctimonious scientism liturgy at the start.
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12:15
THE HAPPENING WORLD: SLAMU! SCANALYZER Second Life Avatar Meet-up, 2020-12-29
The first, and possibly last, if it doesn't work, SCANALYZER live meet-up will occur in Second Life on Tuesday, 2020-12-29 at 21:15 UTC (Universal Time—go here to convert to your local time zone).
The meeting will occur in Second Life at the beach fire pit on Fourmilab Island.
To participate, sign up for Second Life (it's free), choose an avatar, and teleport in to the meeting. The meeting will last at most one hour. If it works, we may do it again.
Voice will be enabled for the meeting, but if you haven't yet got voice working (it's tricky), not to worry—you can still participate through text chat.
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01:51