I’ve talked about Virtually Speaking Science before, but I’m going to talk about it again. Virtually Speaking Science is described as :
Informal conversations hosted by science writers Alan Boyle, Jennifer Ouellette, Kelly Hills and Tom Levenson, who, with their guests, explore the often-volatile landscape of science, politics and policy, the history and economics of science, science deniers and its relationship to democracy, and the role of women in the sciences. Produced by Sherry Reson. Hosted in Second Life by the Exploratorium.
The upcoming showm scheduled for 8pm ET today (I do wish they’d use SLT) features NBC News’ digital science editor, Alan Boyle, speaking to Virgin Galactic’s vice president for special projects, Will Pomerantz, regarding the future of private sector spaceflight. This of course comes in the wake of the tragic accident involving SpaceShipTwo five months ago.
The show can be watched as part of a live virtual world audience in Second Life at The Exploratorium.
If you’re interested in Science, then this may be for you. Last month they had an episode where Alan Boyle discussed Aliens with Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI. and Don Lincoln, physicist at Fermilab, member of the science team for the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider.
However if you look at the Virtually Speaking Science website I linked to earlier in this post, you can see they have a number of hosts and a number of interesting topics.
To learn more about the background to tonight’s scheduled show read After Accident, Virgin Galactic Takes a Cautious Path to Spaceflight by Alan Boyle on the NBC News website.
However if this doesn’t appeal to you, The Exploratorium is an interesting place to visit, with or without hosts.
SLURL To Exploratorium – http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Exploratorium/147/52/26