James Dearnley, who moderated the SciLands panel discussion at SLCC 2007, recently posted a link to this blog on Facebook. I’m taking the liberty of reposting it here:
Second Health and the SciLands is a comprehensive look at both the Second Health project and NOAA’s new Second Earth installation. Tara5 Oh (SL name) has written a very thoughtful and informative piece that covers the SLCC panel in Chicago as well as these two builds. Check it out!
zazen Manbi has posted an audiovisual recording of the SciLands panel, which occurred at 4:30 PM Chicago time on Saturday, August 25, 2007. Check it out.
Aleister Kronos gives a whirlwind tour of the SciLands, including a nice review of the orientation experience, over on his blog. Check it out.
The 2007 Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) was last weekend (August 24-26). There was a panel by SciLands members, chaired by James Dearnley.
Here is James Dearnley’s blog about the panel
Dave Taylor also announced the existence of the Second Health sims, which he later wrote about on his blog. The Second Health website is also live now.
The UgoTrade blog also has a great article about the SciLands panel and Second Health.
A Hungarian medical student (Bertalan Meskó) also discovered the Second Health sims on his own (before they were announced at the SLCC) and he wrote a bit about them on his blog.
Here is a view from NASA-CoLab (lower half) to ISM’s Spaceports Alpha & Bravo (at the upper left), NASA-JPL (center), and Elon U to the right.
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Torley Linden (formerly Torley Torgeson) took a great 360 degree panorama photo of the SciLands sims NASA CoLab, Elon, Explorer Island (JPL), and Spaceport Alpha (International Spaceflight Museum). Torley then passed it through some filters to give it a lovely Ansel Adams look…
You can see larger versions on Flickr.
Ivan Semeniuk, the US Bureau Chief for New Scientist, posted an article about astronomy in SL on the New Scientist space blog. It mentions Chaac’s planetarium and telescope at the ISM, among other things.
The Washington Times did an article that talked about the SciLands, particularly the University of Denver and their new NRC project, in an article on August 2. Other organizations in the SciLands are also mentioned.
The US State Department’s publication, USINFO, published an article on June 27th about the NASA islands in the SciLands, NASA CoLab and JPL’s Explorer Island. See the article here.
