• NASA Future Forum:  You're invited to join NASA leadership, astronauts, scientists, and engineers along with local business, technology and academic leaders and local, state and federal officials discuss the role of space exploration in advancing science, engineering, technology, education and the economy that benefits your community and the nation. The program features an exciting preview of NASA’s Constellation Program – America’s return to the Moon and beyond. Wednesday, May 14, 8:30 am on.
• Sophrosyne's Special Salon: Coming of Age in Second Life: Tom Bukowski (Tom Boellstorff) will be our guest at a special day and time for a very special Salon. Tom is the author of the new book Coming of Age in Second Life, an anthropologist's in-depth look at our world. Tom is an engaging speaker,an insightful analyst and an SL oldbie. Join us for a wide-ranging look at the culture of Second Life!  Thurssday May 15, 10 am.
• Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: NASA Explores Virtual Worlds: Universa Vanalten (Erika Vick) of NASA Headquarters will be Salon Spotlight Guest for a discussion of NASA's use of virtual technologies, from its expanding presence in SL to potential use on future space missions. 1-2:30 pm, May 17 Central Nexus at Extropia Core.
• Book Club: Join Soph for a discussion of Greg Bear's Eon.Sunday, May 18 from 1-2:30 pm SLT in the reading lounge in the Central Nexus, Extropia Core. The Club meeting will be cancelled if no attendees have read the book.
• Fishing Tournaments: Tuesday and Thursday, 5-6pm SLT, at Tycho Pleasure Beach, by the flagpole. $500L each evening to contest winners!
• Introducing Board Office Hours: Come chat with the Directors - questions, comments, requests, criticisms welcome! Soph will be under the flagpole on Extropia Pleasure Beach Tuesdays from 4-5 pm SLT, and Argent will be there from 8-9 pm SLT Thursdays. Vidal also holds regular office hours for architecture-related matters only.
• New Apartment Complex! Our myPod starter housing has been such a hit, we've expanded into a new complex. If you'd like to be part of Extropia but can't commit to a full parcel, come rent a gorgeous, big apartment with a stellar view!  IM Sophrosyne Stenvaag, or just follow the parcel directions to rent!
• Custom Islands Available! If you want your won private island, sized and terraformed to suit, IM Galatea Gynoid. Prices and Covenant as per the "Tier" and "Covenant" tabs on this website.
• Follow Extropia through social networking!: We're on Twitter as "Extropia," on Facebook as "Extropia Core" and "Extropia in Second Life," on Flickr as "Extropia," and on Eventful as "Extropia" And, don't forget our Google Calendar in the box to the right!
• New to SL? Looking to put down roots? Rent a myPod in Extropia: We have a new housing option in NeoVenice! Our myPods are only $L250 a week, come with 102 prims, and spectacular views of Extropia! Perfect to give you a home location and a workshop or well-furnished room! Find your Pod on the west side of the Extropia sim.
• Commercial, Organizational and Residential land available! IM Sophrosyne Stenvaag or Galatea Gynoid for details: information on policies and prices under the “Join Us” and “Tier” tabs of this website.

New apartment complex - photo by Vidal Tripsa

You're invited to join NASA leadership, astronauts, scientists, and engineers along with local business, technology and academic leaders and local, state and federal officials discuss the role of space exploration in advancing science, engineering, technology, education and the economy that benefits your community and the nation.

The program features an exciting preview of NASA’s Constellation Program – America’s return to the Moon and beyond.

http://www.nasa.gov/50th/future_forums/sanJoseWithGallery.html

NASA's Future Forum will be held RL at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA (http://www.thetech.org/) and attendance is by invitation only.

HOWEVER...for the first time ever you can participate in Second Life! If you have not already done so, please join the Welcome to NASA group in SL to participate via group chat and to receive future notices about this event.
The keynote address given by NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale (SL Xena Dahl) will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
You can also view agendas and keynote addresses given at Future Forums held earlier this year in Seattle WA, Columbus OH, St. Louis MO, and Miami FL at http://www.nasa.gov/50th/future_forums/index.html.

Events will be hosted at Explorer Island, NASA CoLab, the International Spaceflight Museum, and in Extropia Core.

• Extropia At Six Months - Party Time!: Please join us to celebrate six months of future fun! Bring wads of Lindens: Cyber Bunker will hold its grand opening, and we'll have SL's best techno and nerdcore DJ's spinning for us from 3pm on! Sunday, May 11, The Technohenge at Extropia Core.
• Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon: Benjamin Duranske, (Benjamin Noble), author of Virtual Law and the influential law blog Virtually Blind, will discuss his new book and the high-profile legal issues confronting online spaces. 1-2:30 pm, May 10, Central Nexus at Extropia Core.
• Book Club: Join Vidal for a discussion of Masamune Shirow's Appleseed Book 1: The Promethean Challenge, a manga exploration of the fate of humanity in the face of posthuman competition.Sunday, May 11 from 1-2:30 pm SLT in the reading lounge in the Central Nexus, Extropia Core. The Club meeting will be cancelled if no attendees have read the book.
• Fishing Tournaments: Tuesday and Thursday, 5-6pm SLT, at Tycho Pleasure Beach, by the flagpole. $500L each evening to contest winners!
• Introducing Board Office Hours: Come chat with the Directors - questions, comments, requests, criticisms welcome! Soph will be under the flagpole on Extropia Pleasure Beach Tuesdays from 4-5 pm SLT, and Argent will be there from 8-9 pm SLT Thursdays. Vidal also holds regular office hours for architecture-related matters only.
• Custom Islands Available! If you want your won private island, sized and terraformed to suit, IM Galatea Gynoid. Prices and Covenant as per the "Tier" and "Covenant" tabs on this website.
• Follow Extropia through social networking!: We're on Twitter as "Extropia," on Facebook as "Extropia Core" and "Extropia in Second Life," on Flickr as "Extropia," and on Eventful as "Extropia" And, don't forget our Google Calendar in the box to the right!
• New to SL? Looking to put down roots? Rent a myPod in Extropia: We have a new housing option in NeoVenice! Our myPods are only $L250 a week, come with 102 prims, and spectacular views of Extropia! Perfect to give you a home location and a workshop or well-furnished room! Find your Pod on the west side of the Extropia sim.
• Commercial, Organizational and Residential land available! IM Sophrosyne Stenvaag or Galatea Gynoid for details: information on policies and prices under the “Join Us” and “Tier” tabs of this website.

Extropia co-hosted conference The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future will feature a keynote address by William Sims Bainbridge of the US National Science Foundation. We are proud to welcome Dr. Bainbridge, a prolific author on religion, converging technologies and virutal worlds, and host of the upcoming conference Convergence of the Real and the Virtual: The First Scientific Conference in World of Warcraft.

William Sims Bainbridge Ph.D. is a prolific and influential sociologist of religion, science and popular culture. Dr. Bainbridge serves as co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the NSF and has recently taught sociology and computational social science at George Mason University. In 1976 he published his first book The Spaceflight Revolution, which examined the push for space exploration in the 1960s. He then went on to publish Satan’s Power, which described several years of infiltration of the Process Church, a religious cult related to Scientology. In the last thirty years, Bainbridge has published more than a dozen more books dealing with space, religion, and psychology. Dr. Bainbridge’s long-standing interest in “personality capture,” using extensive personality surveys to record individual personalities in software, is reflected in works such as Experiments in Psychology (1986) which included cutting-edge psychology experimentation software written by Bainbridge.

Dr. Bainbridge was instrumental in creating the NBIC Converging Technologies program, and in producing its widely read reports:

• Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001)
• Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science (2003)
• Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies In Society (2006)

Dr. Bainbridge’s two most recent books are God from the Machine (2006) and The Secular Abyss (2007). Dr. Bainbridge has published over 200 articles and essays for various journals and encyclopedias.