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The next ASCI Meeting in Metaverse:
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 1 pm New York time-zone
[Please equate this to Your time-zone!]
Topics & Discussion Leaders:
Avatar Foramsam Popstar (Sam Bowser), a polar research biologist who regularly does work at McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic, has promised to lead a discussion of the first synthetic life-form, a cell created from computer-generated DNA code, which was recently announced by Dr. J. Craig Venter. http://www.nytimes.com/
2010/05/21/science/21cell.html?hp
We will also try to get to a metaphysical discussion engendered by Joe Lykken, a theorist at Fermilab, who said of a recent announcement concerning the ratio of matter to anti-matter created by colliders, "So I would not say that this announcement is the equivalent of seeing the face of God, but it might turn out to be the toe of God." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/space/
18cosmos.html. Creativity Farshore (Jerry Spivak), who worked as an engineer at Bell Labs during the heydays of telecommunications research in the 1960's, will opine that the slight preponderance of matter over anti-matter is merely, "a mistake by God."
Last month we discussed Stephen Hawking's warning that we should avoid contacting extraterrestrials because, "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet." This month we may get to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern region of Kalymkia, in Russia , who not only disagrees with Hawking, he claims to have made contact: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8662822.stm
We hope you will stop by... and share your comments and cyber-art projects, along with your virtual gaming, computer geek, and dorkbot stories. If you have not registered for the Metaverse yet, please allow ample time for registering, downloading the Viewer, and learning to navigate. You can find directions at http://www.SolidStateLight.com/ASCI If you're already registered, you can teleport to the meeting directly via http://slurl.com/secondlife/Quat/137/88/54/
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