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Friday, December 17, 2010

Lander Simulator in Second Life Physics Lab

I'm building it inspired by the old Lunar Lander video games, and specially by the Edu-Ware's interactive simulation Rendezvous: A Space Shuttle Simulation, developed by NASA scientist Wesley Huntress. You can play with it in Second Life Physics Lab.

More than just having fun playing with it, the pilot has to master the Newtonian concepts of force, acceleration and velocity and their relationships - in short, Newton's 3rd law - to be able to land it safely.


Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Virtual Bridges

A talk about controlled trespassing between real & virtual by Veronik Broome & Terence Black presented by Momi Hallison - in italian with simultaneous translation to English by Calliope Lexington at grand opening of the renovated Cafe' della Scienza.

Tonight, 7th, at 12:15 PST/PDT (old 'Second Life Time').

Cafe' della Scienza is a science divulgation initiative from Second Physics, conceived by Talete Flanagan e Marjorie Fargis (SL CrazyPress). It's full program can be found at the blog Café della Scienza