Okay, as promised, long World Science Festival post, with pictures!
The whole area around NYU was a street fair, with booths set up for different organizations. The NASA area was CRAZY. I met up with my friend Erin, and we did moon jigsaw puzzles, looked at a Mars panorama through 3-D glasses, laid down and had a rover climb over us, and signed a shuttle tire!
Muse has yet to make it to the International Space Station, but Erin and I did take pictures in front of this great photomural of it:
Me with a member of the MIT spacesuit lab:
I asked if it would be possible to make space fingerless gloves, with the glove being traditional and the fingers being made of the stretchy Biosuit material that the woman’s suit is made out of. She said that was a great question, but the issue isn’t moving the fingers, but getting the hand to bend at the middle. Oh well. She said it was a good idea, though.
Me reading Muse in front of a model of the James Webb Space Telescope in Battery Park. The real one’s going to go 1.5 million miles from the Earth. If we could sneak a copy onboard, that would set some records, wouldn’t it?
The Muse issues I took along:
Astronaut Sandy Magnus signs my Muse:
Sandy’s signature:
Leland Melvin’s signature:
I got to talk to semi-famous science journalist Miles O’Brien, who was moderating the astronaut talk. He said he liked my question a lot, and when I asked for his autograph, he gave me a business card, but I explained why Muse was so important, so he took out his pen again, and:
“Remember me when you rule the world- Miles O’Brien!”
I have some things to say regarding that conversation which are more suited for the Kokonspiracy thread…
You guys are the best…
Awesome!
I like the “Remember me when you rule the world!” comment. Very appropriate.
Santo torta y pan! Many congrats, Kai!
Lucky you! That is so so very cool.
I lovelovelove space, and part of me kind of wishes I’d pursued a career as an astronaut (the other part reminds me I hate being inside for long periods of time so it’d be a bad career choice, really XD). Alas, I must content myself with tv shows and specials, but still ♥
I bet five minutes on a spacewalk will give you enough “outside” to last the rest of the trip.
Oh man can you just imagine the ADRENALINE
It would be so cool
the closet you’d get to being completely alone
man.
I think this’ll be the next thing I think about for an hour or two while I try to fall asleep,* it’s jsut so… cool
*(last time it was almost an hour and a half of designing a dinosaur costume in my head. It takes me a while to get to sleep)
Yes, spacewalking would be amazing.
WIN. I wish I was you.
DUDE. You look like my friend Anne. Now if only your hair was hot pink.
You’re as bad as Radiohead, Simon and Garfunkel, and Brett Dennen. And each town looks the same to me, the movies and the factories.
“….and every stranger’s face I see…”
…reminds me that I long to be homeward bound, I wish I was homeward bound…
…….home, where my thought’s escaping, home, where my music’s playing, home, where my loves lies waiting silently for me…….
One of my all-time favorite songs.
Enough to make me use nested comments.
*love. Grr typo.
“…silently for me.”
That probably went better than if I started singing ‘Creep’.
If you’re talking Trekkie, then Miles was DEFINITELY my favorite character.
Wow!
You know, this sort of thing would make a great Muserology…We’re always looking for more submissions!
Also, wouldn’t you say that a writer who covers space and aviation and is named Miles O’Brien is an aptronym?
Star Trek TNG and DS9 fans, take note!
Miles I get… and isn’t O’Brien the transport officer on the Enterprise?
Miles was his first name.
Really… I thought Miles was just a pun on how far they have to travel, but that’s actually the character’s name…
Nominative Determinism?
7- Different guy, same name.
8- I’d love to make it a Muserology, but you’d have to publish it under my username. Is it really unique enough for a Muserology, though? Lots of kids were there.
8.3- It wouldn’t be the first example of nominative determinism in spaceflight. (Sally Ride, Mark Shuttleworth, Buzz Aldrin’s mother having the maiden name “Moon”…)
Lots of kids may have been there, but none of them have written about it in MUSE! Besides, the writer’s voice and perspective are at least as important as the story itself. When you’re excited about what you’re writing, your reader will be excited too.
As for publishing under a username (take note, all!), you can definitely use a pseudonym in the magazine. Or you could use your first name and last initial.
That’s funny about Buzz Aldrin’s mother. It reminds me of when he guest-starred on 30 Rock, and on the show his favorite hobby was yelling at the moon through his window (“Stupid moon! I walked on your face!!”).
I’ll try to work on something after my Math final.
That’s awesome. I particularly like “remember me when you rule the world”
Wow. Now I want to go to the World Science Festival. In fact, I’m going to add it to my List of Things That I MUST Do.