Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Sessions

Friday 29 September, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Author Readings with Cole Gibsen, Marella Sands, and Lloyd Kropp
50 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Reading / Signing / Art Demo

Cole Lanahan (Participant)

Marella Sands, Webster University (Participant)

Lloyd Kropp, Retired from University (Participant)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Looking For Life In Our Solar System
50 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Dr Pablo Sobron, Impossible Sensing (Moderator)

Dr Pamela Gay L, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Participant)

Life requires 3 things: Energy, nutrients, and a solvent like water. These ingredients can be found on scattered worlds all around our solar system...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
The Woolly Mammoth "De-Extinction" Project: Haven't These People Seen Jurassic Park?
50 minutes, 5:00 PM - 5:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Walt Boyes, The Grantville Gazette & Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire Press (Moderator)

Rachel Neumeier (Participant)

Mr. Bob Perry, St. Louis Space Frontier (a chapter of the National Space Society) (Participant)

7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Trivia Thunderdome
1 hour 50 minutes, 7:00 PM - 8:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Game

Jim Yelton, Geek Universe with Jim Yelton/Midnight Entertainment (Moderator)

9:00 PM
9:00 PM
Comic Book Movies: Have We Reached Critical Mass?
50 minutes, 9:00 PM - 9:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

David VonAllmen (Participant)

Jack Snyder (Moderator)

Brock J. Hanke, Self-employed (Participant)

10:00 PM
10:00 PM
Zombie Squad Presents: Practical Survival for Everyone
50 minutes, 10:00 PM - 10:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Kevin Hammel (Moderator)

Swarms of the walking dead, earthquakes, house fires, other unnamed global catastrophes. Are you prepared for all of these? How about any of these?...

Saturday 30 September, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Paranormal 101: The Basics of Paranormal Research
50 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

LIMBO Paranormal (Moderator)

11:00 AM
11:00 AM
In Memoriam: An Open Tribute
50 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Where is Everybody?: The Rare Earth Hypothesis
50 minutes, 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Mr. Bob Perry, St. Louis Space Frontier (a chapter of the National Space Society) (Moderator)

Michael Benjamin D, Hazelwood High School Robohawks (Participant)

Nicholas Kirschman, webster groves school district (Participant)

Fermi's question is part of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and led to the Drake Equation.  A variation on this question i...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Space Colonies and Planetary Chauvinism
50 minutes, 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Ms Christine Nobbe (Moderator)

Benjamin C. Kinney (Participant)

Mr. Bob Perry, St. Louis Space Frontier (a chapter of the National Space Society) (Participant)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Just How Close is The Technological Singularity?
50 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Dr Pamela Gay L, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Moderator)

Nicholas Kirschman, webster groves school district (Participant)

Douglas Ferguson, Ravenous Wolf (Participant)

Mr. Bob Perry, St. Louis Space Frontier (a chapter of the National Space Society) (Participant)

In mathematics, you get a singularity when you divide by zero; in astrophysics it's known as a Black Hole; in our technological society, The Future...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
A Moon City: Competition or Collaboration?
50 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Ms Christine Nobbe (Moderator)

Mr. Bob Perry, St. Louis Space Frontier (a chapter of the National Space Society) (Participant)

Nicholas Kirschman, webster groves school district (Participant)

Google Lunar XPRIZE and the Moon Village are two different approaches for exploring the Moon and developing a permanent city. “The $30M Google Luna...
7:20 PM
7:20 PM
Masquerade Overflow Room
2 hours 40 minutes, 7:20 PM - 10:00 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Feature

10:00 PM
10:00 PM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Screening
2 hours, 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Event

Sunday 1 October, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
41 New Discoveries About the Universe Since Archon 40
50 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Nicholas Kirschman, webster groves school district (Participant)

Ms Christine Nobbe (Moderator)

One year, 365 days. How can we have learned 41 new things about the Universe in just one year? An example is the finding of the first known syst...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Getting to Orbit in 2032: There Has to Be Something Better than Rockets
50 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Dr. Jack Glassman Ph.D., SIUE Department of Physics (Moderator)

Mr. Bob Perry, St. Louis Space Frontier (a chapter of the National Space Society) (Participant)

In 25 years will our primary means of getting to orbit be a refinement of the Chinese fire arrows of 1232? Elon Musk's reusable rockets should be r...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Space Spin Offs: More than Pretty Pictures from Space
50 minutes, 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Ms Christine Nobbe (Moderator)

The Tom Meserole (Participant)

John Kaufmann, User Address (Participant)

Yuri Gagarin became the first human in Space in 1961. Since then about 500 people have traveled to Space with people living continuously in the ISS...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Citizen Science: Discovering Our Own Universe
50 minutes, 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Gateway Center - Ballroom A

Panel

Dr Pamela Gay L, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Moderator)

Nicholas Kirschman, webster groves school district (Participant)

Today, there is more science to be done than people to do it! From an overabundance of data to a desperate need for distributed data collection, pe...