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, Michael
- Updates and General Chapter Business
- President’s and Treasurer’s Report(Joe Bland)
- Vote requesting US Bank give the present Chapter Vice president access to SacL5’s account, replacing the former Chapter Vice President (minutes so stating are required for this to happen) Vote unanimous to have Jan and Paul get access to the SacL5 bank acount
- Update on SacL5 Website Report(Ed Kulis)
- Website front page reorganized to show Featured articles so the content will change often
- Link for Previous Meetings an Website reports
- NSS Chapters Assembly Notes (Jan Roston)
- There’s a new chapter in Australia
- Suggestions re local virtual ISDCs with student groups
- Would need to reach out to student contacts. Sac State might be starting point. Possibly charge $10 to attend.
- 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
- Chapter Resource Links are also published in NSS Downlink.
- Next is preparation of Fall edition
- 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 made contact with Daryn Johnson, Xavier High School Head of Science department. Daryn expressed interest in working with Marketing to promote the XHS effort. Daryn said he would like the grant timeline to run from Nov 2024 thru Aug 2025
- High School STEM Contest
- High School STEM Contest Page
- Paul turner followed up and is in active discussion with Ken Davis of the Sacramento School of Science and Engineering to determine their activity in anticipation of the next JP Aerospace MiniCube balloon flight.
- JP Aerospace
- JP resurrected old multi terrain vehicles which allowed the team to recover the balloons downrange after flights.
- Area 42 becoming a balloon airport is looking ever more promising.
- General Discussion
- Dark Sky Festival
- September 2024 mountain sky observation event.
- Meet the artist that shot a bouquet of flowers 30,000 meters into space | CNN
- Tokyo, JapanCNN — From flowers locked in ice to space-age pine trees, Japanese artist Makoto Azuma has built a career from a “new genre of art” that blends plants with artificial mediums to strikingly beautiful effect.
- A Japanese Artist Launches Plants Into Space (nytimes.com)
- “Flowers aren’t just beautiful to show on tables,” said Makoto Azuma, a 38-year-old artist based in Tokyo. His latest installation piece, if you could call it that, takes this statement to the extreme
- Homepage | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
- The Sun, The Aurora, Coronal Mass Ejections, and more …
- Rebecca Doyle – Author of Our Moon
- Rebecca is a journalist covering the cosmos, with a focus on astronomy, space exploration, and history.
- Suggestion to create Business Cards and Flyers for hand out when SacL5 members attend relevant events.
- Ed an Gregory will work up some prototypes.0
- Dark Sky Festival
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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