Comments on: Talk in Second Life

By: Leila

Leila — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:24:20 +0000

Okay maybe Im the oldest Second Lifer here… SL D.O.B. 10/19/2006
What to expect… lots of idiots wanting to steer you in the wrong direction or wanting free sex from you and even more fantastic people willing to lend a hand. My first piece of advice is learn how to build… thats where the money and the artistic venue is in the game …otherwise plant yourself on a strippers pole and prepare to rot. If you want to build or create clothing or skins you need photoshop or some equivaliant. If you just want to join to chat your going to have to club or join groups that match your interests but if you do that for god sake dont show up looking like a newbie. There unfortunately is an elitist quality to the game regarding your look and your age. Way around it? Tell them this is your alt and you joined in 2004. lol But then dont ask any questions.;-) Word of warning… Second Life can be addictive… Im not joking, BEWARE!

By: Get a Second Life Please! | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

Get a Second Life Please! | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:24:31 +0000

[...] heard about it occasionally, but was recently reminded about the details of how it works by Sean’s post on his talk in Second Life. This is all well and good and, although I’m not currently spending time in Second Life [...]

By: CalTech Physics/Cosmology Professor to give talk in SecondLife - SLUniverse Forums

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:49:48 +0000

[...] in SecondLife on Saturday, Nov 8th at 10am SL time. For more information, see his blog post here: Talk in Second Life | Cosmic Variance And here is the SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spacepor…avo/115/65/278 Thought this [...]

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:56:30 +0000

…and don’t forget folks! The International Year of Astronomy 2009 will have an island in Second Life (in The SciLands, catty-corner to Explorer Island, next to the new MICA island) coming in a few weeks! Check out http://secondastronomy.org for updates!

(sorry for the shameless plug)

Adrienne (Ourania Fizgig)

By: John Branch

John Branch — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:35:17 +0000

I’ll try to be there, Sean. Glad to hear about this. Your guess–

“Chances are that you don’t have your own Second Life identity”

–was probably good, but in my case not correct. I’m coming up on my first SL birthday, as Darkling Nightfire. I may invite Seamus Tomorrow to accept me as a friend in SL, just so I can say I have a physicist as a friend there.

By: More interviews and such | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

More interviews and such | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:34:14 +0000

[...] Incidentally, Sean Carroll is also doing an SL interview on November 8. [...]

By: Guest Post: George Djorgovski, A New World Overture | Cosmic Variance

Guest Post: George Djorgovski, A New World Overture | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:47:19 +0000

[...] the post about my upcoming talk in Second Life, I gave a newbie’s sketchy perspective of the outlook for the medium. But you should also [...]

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:13:04 +0000

I thought VRML was dead. If virtual worlds are this crappy, the future sucks.

By: John R Ramsden

John R Ramsden — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:41:58 +0000

Sean wrote: “There’s no need to spend any money at all if you don’t want to”

Never played Second Life, but if I can ambush the Sheriff of Nottingham’s men in the forest and pinch a chest of gold, I’ll kit myself out with some clothes and a gilrfriend and be in the front row.

By: Lawrence B. Crowell

Lawrence B. Crowell — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:22:12 +0000

We might as well throw down the gauntlet and admit where this may be going. I suspect that 50 years from now the major nodes on the internet-virtual world will not be machines which push electrons through silicon, but neural tissue which runs action potentials — in other words brains. The growing speed of virtual digital production and what I see as a growing interface of these devices with our senses suggests that it will not be terribly long before the neural-cyber interface starts to take shape. I also think people will be lining up begging for it as well.

Lawrence B. Crowell