Authors & Aeroplanes
Extropian events are sometimes like London buses. One waits for a week, maybe a few, and then events come piling in one after the other. It's understandable; after all, most folks are either due to come back from holidays soon, or have already come back. So, seasons like Sophrosyne's Saturday Salons come back to us.
Yesterday was another weekend day in which Phineas Messmer organised a dogfight with Royal Caledon Air Force and Extropia Defense Force pilots. It's a great feeling when Caledon's finest decide to come to our shores and join the EDF's own in friendly manoeuvres. Granted, a few Caledonians have alts. or maintain temporal loopholes to ensure an Extropian citizenry, thereby fitting themselves into both forces, but ignoring that I do believe in the flouncy notion of future-happy partnership. So what if Caledon's 'planes use Tesla coils and cranks and not plasma reactors with bio-mechanical gel packs?
Anyway, enough of that. What ensued was a particularly fun and spectacular battle. Not many pilots were in the air, I must admit, but the fight was easier for it. Combat mainly took place over Sen'Jin island, in the Dirac Sea sim, so when 'planes were downed we pilots could conveniently gather at Blood & Thunder's tiki bar and watch the carnage above us.
A little later in the day was an event that Extropia, its citizens and certainly we of the Board had been looking forward to or some time. Scientist and author Catherine Asaro joined Soph for a return to her salon schedule, talking about her books, the future as she saw it, and a delightful breadth of other sci-fi offerings. The discussion was chaotic even by salon standards; probably a symptom of over-excitement on all of our parts, but Catherine held together well. One remarkable reflection was that she seemed to rather enjoy what Second Life has to offer. It's my hope that such an experience will bring our guest a whole new world of excitement. It's hard to deny the creative potential here, at least!
I've a selection of photographs from the event available on my Flickr account but, as ever, would recommend Boc Cryotank's offerings too.
Yesterday was another weekend day in which Phineas Messmer organised a dogfight with Royal Caledon Air Force and Extropia Defense Force pilots. It's a great feeling when Caledon's finest decide to come to our shores and join the EDF's own in friendly manoeuvres. Granted, a few Caledonians have alts. or maintain temporal loopholes to ensure an Extropian citizenry, thereby fitting themselves into both forces, but ignoring that I do believe in the flouncy notion of future-happy partnership. So what if Caledon's 'planes use Tesla coils and cranks and not plasma reactors with bio-mechanical gel packs?Anyway, enough of that. What ensued was a particularly fun and spectacular battle. Not many pilots were in the air, I must admit, but the fight was easier for it. Combat mainly took place over Sen'Jin island, in the Dirac Sea sim, so when 'planes were downed we pilots could conveniently gather at Blood & Thunder's tiki bar and watch the carnage above us.
A little later in the day was an event that Extropia, its citizens and certainly we of the Board had been looking forward to or some time. Scientist and author Catherine Asaro joined Soph for a return to her salon schedule, talking about her books, the future as she saw it, and a delightful breadth of other sci-fi offerings. The discussion was chaotic even by salon standards; probably a symptom of over-excitement on all of our parts, but Catherine held together well. One remarkable reflection was that she seemed to rather enjoy what Second Life has to offer. It's my hope that such an experience will bring our guest a whole new world of excitement. It's hard to deny the creative potential here, at least!I've a selection of photographs from the event available on my Flickr account but, as ever, would recommend Boc Cryotank's offerings too.
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