Meeting Notes
Home Page: SacramentoL5Society.org
SacL5 Officers: Joe Bland President, Jan Rosten VP, Ed Kulis Secretary/Website Admin (click name to email)
- Greetings – Attendees!
- Ed, Gregory, Jan, Joe, Richard, Kris, Michael
- Updates and General Chapter Business
- President’s and Treasurer’s Report(Joe Bland)
- Ed submits SacL5 work hours to Benevity every other month. Last submission netted $820 for SacL5 funds.
- About $9,000 in the account and there’s also the $4500 funds paid to JP Aerospace for the Student Stem Balloon Flight Prize.
- Update on SacL5 Website Report(Ed Kulis)
- Suggested that Home Page of Website show more Feature articles to provide more interesting updated content.
- Recent Website Additions
- Sacremento L5 Society Gallery
- See a slide show collection of SacL5 Website artwork
- NSS Local Chapters Community Blog
- Email Ed Kulis if you would like to talk about adding your chapters info to this page.
- Sacremento L5 Society Gallery
- Previous Meeting Notes
- Recent Website Traffic Report
- NSS Chapters Assembly Notes (Jan Roston)
- Perri is now secretary and she may have recent minutes.
- NSS Chapter Committee (Joe Bland)
- Committee rules were adopted one of which is that that NSS requires chapters to submit email lists. SacL5 is a legacy chapter so it only need submit lists for new members and not members who joined before the rule was adopted.
- NOTE: NSS Chapters Committee(CC) vs NSS Chapters Assembly(CA)
- The NSS Chapters Committee is the formal NSS governing body for NSS Chapters. The CC establishes rules regarding recognition of a group as a NSS Chapter and how NSS receives and acts on input from NSS Chapters. A loose analogy is that NSS Chapters are “franchised” by NSS and must conform to standards and practices set by the CA.
- The NSS Chapters Assembly is a association of interested representatives from different NSS Chapters. The CA proposes changes and suggests novelty and improvements to the CC and the NSS. They also vet any CA rule changes that might impede Chapters recruitment, visibility, activities and access to key NSS contacts.
- The NSS Chapters Committee is the formal NSS governing body for NSS Chapters. The CC establishes rules regarding recognition of a group as a NSS Chapter and how NSS receives and acts on input from NSS Chapters. A loose analogy is that NSS Chapters are “franchised” by NSS and must conform to standards and practices set by the CA.
- CA Chapters Resource Subcommittee(Ed Kulis)
- Recent NSS Resources for Chapters Page
- Ed and Perri published the Summer Resource Chapters Page which is also published in the NSS Downlink.
- Ed received some feed back suggestions on the newsletter and he will follow up with Perri
- President’s and Treasurer’s Report(Joe Bland)
- High School Grants
- Ed is on contact with the Xavier High School, NY Alumni director who says the Headmaster is aware of the proposal. Ed will follow ups.
- We should start thinking about other schools where we have some contact to propose further grants.
- High School STEM Contest
- High School STEM Contest Page
- We will follow up with the Sacramento School of Science and Engineering to determine their activity in anticipation of the next JP Aerospace MiniCube balloon flight.
- General Discussion
- Joe a patent pending for a new type of closed heat engine involving a cycle between Benzene / Cyclohexane + Hydrogen which would allow hydrogen storage at ambient temperatures and pressures.
- Links discussed
- Dark Sky Festival
- September 2024 mountain sky observation event.
- A tower on the moon could provide astronauts with light, power and guidance
- This is very similar to the laser power ideas that we’ve been discussion
Meeting Details for each Months Meeting
Website: https://sacramentol5society.nss.org
Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space Society
Where: Virtual presence only, via Zoom
When: Second Saturday, each month
Pre-Zoom notes:
•These meetings are recorded.
•Folks will be asked to briefly share their video, and phone callers asked to identify themselves.
•We use the “waiting room” format. If I keep you waiting, call me and bawl me out! 916-429-6252
Join Zoom meeting:
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kbdpRGEmNm
Meeting ID: 868 9868 4719
Passcode: Ask Joe Bland email
Chapter Library
- Tours
- NSS Headquarters at the Cape offers tours of Kennedy Space Center
- Paul Turner Books
- See Paul Turner’s Publications at Cle Curbo on Spotify and Space Trade Update
- Quest for Sylvane to buy: Amazon.com Services LLC. To learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFK3R5JK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_4GW4RK0NG26WJWD29GYA
- In the Garden of Mistress Bloom – Awarding winning SciFi Stories
- A debut collection of short sci-fi fiction that explores time and space with mischievous humor.
- JP Aerospace
- Tours
- NSS Headquarters at the Cape offers tours of Kennedy Space Center
- Breakfast on the Moon Series
- SacL5 YouTube Breakfast on the Moon Series
- The YouTube channel contains the series of video conferences that SacL5 organized from 2019 through 2023 to celebrate each of the Apollo Lunar Landing Missions.
- Websites
- Books
- The late Robert Compton, our SacL5 founder. published a Physics text book like no other.
- Design Notes Log G,O.D (General Operations Director)
- This is a text book like no other. It follows the mental processes of the lonely Creator, defining matter to enhance the experience of existence and then creating time to distinguish matter as it moves. The logic continues in this way to build the intuition and demonstrate the mathematics required in the first few years of college physics courses.
- Some of you may remember that thrill. as you learned the calculus of derivatives providing the symbols that could move the static structures of algebra through the pictures in your mind. Compton’s book continues this thrilling awe that mathematics creates as its symbols correspond mostly to the universe with enough accuracy to create houses and steeples and medicine and instruments to travel beyond the clouds and deep into atoms.
- Design Notes Log G,O.D (General Operations Director)
- A Traveler’s Guide to the Stars” by Les Johnson – Realistic discussions of crewed starship designs / timeframes for a feasible trip to Proxima Centuri in a reasonable amount of time
- “The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell – A SciFi novel about the first contact and a a trip to meet singing aliens living near Proxima Centuri. The meeting does not go well.
- The Alice Network – Women Spies in World War 1
- Fly Girls – How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
- Goodnight Moon Base – What if every bedtime was a powerful inspiration for your child’s future?
- The late Robert Compton, our SacL5 founder. published a Physics text book like no other.
- Media
- Moonfall – Leave your physics back at home but if you like a series of mostly predictable travails to reflect dim light on your popcorn then go for it.
- Start Trek: Strange New Worlds – “Quality of Mercy” – Last episode of Season 1. Rich characters, deep references, thoughtful reflection on what qualities are mercy
- The Orville: New Horizons – Comedy but good
- Star Trek: Discovery – No universe too big to save and of course, need to save all multi-verses through all time…
- Severance – Hmm…, might that enthusiasm for work, plaques, and quarterly pizza parties really be for someone else?
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