I did not attempt live blogging today. My brain is completely fried at the end of this intensive and unbelievably exciting and inspiring week at Launch Pad at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. After a great deal of confusion about where, when, and what our breakfast would be this morning, Stan Schmidt led us…
We’ve had our first casualty at Launch Pad this week. One of the participants tripped and fell on some asphalt, breaking a crown. An emergency dental appointment was made, but what I find most telling was that she was more upset about missing classes than she was about the injury. Apparently we’ve been throwing our…
Deborah Ross and I again headed out on a casual stroll this morning — sans Eric James Stone, who had joined us yesterday (he was in the gym today)*. We explored the cemetery near campus and managed to not get lost on the way back. (*Correction: Eric wasn’t in the gym; he was catching up…
After a short astronomy quiz to gauge our pre-class baseline, Mike Brotherton started Launch Pad with a discussion about the scale of the universe. For instance, a single astronomical unit (AU) is the distance between the Earth and the sun, and a light year is 63,240 AUs. But Proxima Centauri — the star nearest our…
