{"id":2876,"date":"2009-03-07T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2009-03-07T13:32:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T13:32:21","slug":"search-for-life-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2009\/03\/07\/search-for-life-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for Life in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little bleary-eyed this morning, having stayed up to watch the Kepler launch on NASA TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kepler’s mission<\/a> is to locate rocky earth-sized planets around other stars.\u00a0 The satellite carries an instrument called a photometer, or light meter, that measures the very small changes in a star’s brightness that occur when an orbiting planet passes in front of it.<\/p>\n

The real interest is in worlds that orbit in a ‘habitable zone,’ not too near and not too far from their star, where liquid water, and possibly life, could exist.<\/p>\n

The build-up to Kepler has prompted much discussion around the possibility of extra-terrestrial life.\u00a0 A couple of weeks back I joined ‘The Search for Life Beyond Earth<\/a>‘\u00a0 at the Royal Institution.\u00a0 Last night, via a live feed into Second Life<\/a> from Chicago’s Adler Planetarium<\/a>, I joined Scott Gaudi of Ohio State University on a ‘Quest for our Origins – The Search for Other Worlds and Life in The Universe,’<\/em> including a review of the latest techniques for remotely identifying earth-like planets.<\/p>\n

The technical quality of this event was excellent, with live streaming video, multi-screen slides, and sound.<\/p>\n

There is another event tonight<\/a> at 10 a.m Pacific Time (6 pm UK), about the early universe and the cosmic microwave background.\u00a0 Just time for you to sign up; see you there (SL name Erasmus Magic).<\/p>\n

Here are some photos from last night:<\/p>\n

\"Auditorium
Auditorium in SciLands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Scott
Scott Gaudi speaking from the Adler Planetarium into Second Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Multi-screen
Multi-screen live presentation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The Quest for our Origins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Scott
Scott Gaudi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Microlensing
Microlensing (slide from Scott Gaudi's presentation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Colourful
Colourful characters in SL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A little bleary-eyed this morning, having stayed up to watch the Kepler launch on NASA TV. Kepler’s mission is to locate rocky earth-sized planets around other stars.\u00a0 The satellite carries an instrument called a photometer, or light meter, that measures the very small changes in a star’s brightness that occur when an orbiting planet passes … Continue reading Search for Life in Second Life<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[638,230,15,348,336],"tags":[643,644,642,1414],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-events","category-science-centres","category-second-life","category-space","tag-adler-planetarium","tag-kepler","tag-scott-gaudi","tag-second-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-Ko","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}