Website: https://sacramentol5society.nss.org
Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space Society
Where: Virtual presence only, via Zoom
When: Saturday, October 8, 2022, 5:00-7:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time
(Note: Pacific Daylight Time started March 13th)
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
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Agenda:
5:00-5:10 Begin regular meeting: Margin for everyone to arrive/greeting of new members.
5:10-6:00 Updates/general chapter business:
• President’s & Treasurer’s report. (Joe Bland)
• Update on SacL5 website (Joe Bland)
• Update on NSS Chapters’ Assembly (CA) and CA chapter resources subcommittee. (Jan Roston, Kris Cerone)
• Update on JP Aerospace. (Paul Turner, Jan Roston)
• Update on Eric’s steam engine (Eric James)
• Update on “Watts On The Moon, Phase 2, stage 2” NASA application (Joe Bland)
• Update on SacL5/JP Aerospace “prize”(Ed Kulis, Paul Turner, Eric James, Kris Cerone)
6:00-6:45 Discussions
• Discussion on SacL5 physical meeting startup date
• Other
6:45 Begin SacL5 Writers Group meeting (Paul Turner)
7:30 Adjourn SacL5 Writers Group meeting.
See everyone this Saturday (tomorrow) at 5:00 PM!
Joe Bland
President, SL5S
7482 Greenhaven Drive
Sacramento, CA 95831
916-429-6252
Meeting Notes
- SacL5 Outreach – Balloon Flight Proposal
- 2x2x2″ Mini cubes available and we can fund about 14 of them.
- Action: Find teachers who would like to participate having their students develop an experiment
- SacL5 Web Site Traffic
- JP Aerospace
- Working on air beams to lighten the structure of their ascender balloons
- Next flight in tentatively in May 2023
- Paul Turner’s New Book
- Quest for Sylvane
by Amazon.com Services LLC
Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFK3R5JK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_4GW4RK0NG26WJWD29GYA
- Quest for Sylvane
- National Space Society Activities
- NSS working on formalizing NSS Outposts which can be a few people associated with the NSS without the formal administration of an NSS Chapter
- JP Links
- Breakfast on the Moon Apollo 17
- Tentatively scheduled for December-2022
- Sunday morning, 6:30 PT start December 11, 2022. 8pm in India.
- Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17
- Websites
- Books
- 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?
