The SL UM brown bags for February are going to be astronomy-related, to tie in with the International Year of Astronomy (and the U's astronomy theme semester).
On Feb. 5, we met at Wolverine Island. No one told me it was dress-up day!
From Wolverine, we went to the Science School.
This is a place with a HUGE amount of info, most of it text.
I find that this method of delivery doesn't work as well for me as something less dense but more interactive.........
I wandered around a bit, and found another place that was ... less dense and more interactive.
Well, ok, I couldn't interact with this framed postage stamp, but isn't it cool?
Here I am looking down at the rest of them (still in the other place). Don't you love the floating sign?
I told them they should come over to the place I found, so they did.
Love the sculpture! Intertwined slinkies?
By then our hour was up, so they went back to work and I continued walking around. There is a TON of stuff you can walk to from where we began. I am sure I didn't see more than a tiny fraction of it.
I found a parking lot full of Star Wars vehicles. See me sitting inside? (I wanted a ride, but it didn't go anywhere.)
I watched an eagle fly overhead.
I walked on the sea floor and saw fish (and NASA's underwater living/working thingie).
This is the first place I've seen (and heard) waves.
Hmmm. See that darker place, under the water, lower left above?
I walked down and saw rocks, and in the distance could see ... something else.
It turned out that the second thing was a deep-sea vent, with critters who can live only there, in the extreme heat and pressure.
After I resurfaced, I noticed this pleasant spot. This time when I clicked on "relax" I got to relax (instead of it crashing the SL viewer as the last "relax" I clicked on did!). You can still hear the ocean here.
Do enjoy the design details -- table embellishments, chair "legs," etc.
As I moved on, a bit of orange caught my eye.
Turned out to be a mostly-hidden display on continental drift.
I am hovering just above an area where two plates are overlapping more and more. You can just make out the plates, in the orange..... Note resultant volcanoes!
Upstairs from continental drift was a more conventional sitting/reading space.
They still had their holiday goodies out. I am enjoying a cupcake. (And enjoying playing with the camera in ways I can't, easily, in RL!)
I wandered on outside, and saw these penguins.
Then I found this. Love the sign............
The rocket ride wasn't very exciting (not much of a view out the window), but look where I ended up. Wow, eh?
I did not try jumping off the platform and flying around. Perhaps I will, next time.
There was a place from which you could teleport to displays on the planets.
These would have been cooler if they had been animated, with the moons in orbit rather than lined up...........
The moons were labeled, but labels often don't show up in pics.
From one planet you could teleport to the next, but I didn't see a way to get back to the beginning.
Love the rings!
This is a map of the nearest stars (that's our sun as the center point). You could click on the stars, and learn their names and their distance from our sun. (The blue bar on the floor is 10 light years.)
By then I was about overloaded, so I went back to Wolverine and quit.
Such a LOT of things to see that one can't just decide to see, right now, in RL!!!!
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