Meeting Notes
- Greetings
- See our Contact page for more information about members
- Joe Leblanc contacted Joe Bland about joining the SacL5 Chapter. Joe L wasn’t able to attend the 8/12/23 meeting.
- Updates and General Chapter Business
- Joe B will re-certify SacL5 as a non profit organization as is required each year.
- Treasurer’s Report
- Approximately, $8000 in chapter account.
- Looking into getting a more flexible bank account with CD interest rates for a portion of the balance
- Website Report
- SacL5 Website Traffic Report 8/12/23 – Visits: 13,437 (+233)
- Hits from many countries: Germany, Russia, South Korea, Finland, … and many cities in the United States
- JP Aerospace Blog
- Time purchases for a balloon flight of the Student prize. No schedule yet
- SacL5 High School Student Flight Prize
- Joe visited California School of Engineering and Sciences in Sacramento, CA to see if there was interest in the SacL5 Balloon Flight Prize
- Ed will contact the science faculty at Xavier HS, New York, New York to see if there’s interest in competing for the SacL5 Prize
- Will offer $500 donation to the HS to help with the build
- Max flight configurations will be 3 joined mini cubes max mass of 750 grams
- Chapters Assembly Notes
- A new Chapter Assembly President will soon take office
- Ed and Perri will soon work on the Fall newsletter
- Previous newsletters
- General Discussion
- New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper belt Mission Funding in Jeopardy
- Apple’s 3D Headset Vision Pro
- Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion 3D Editior are gaining tools to edit 3D videos
- Power from Sun and Shade
- Need a demonstration of the power generation using the differential between sunlit and shadowed regions on the moon
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
- Paul Turner Books
- 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
- Activities
- Next Balloon flight in tentatively in May 2023
- Links
- Activities
- Breakfast on the Moon Apollo 17
- Saturday morning, 7am PT start December 10, 2022. 8pm in India.
- Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17
- Websites
- Books
- 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?
- 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?
