Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
Sessions
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- We Have the Power Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Smart grid? Microgrid? Clean power? What about EMPs, hackers, and squirrels? We can take electricity for granted, but what is the state of our p...
- Panel
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Next Century, the Stars Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | 1 hour
- Robots, space resources, additive manufacturing, beam-pushed starships, and rethinking the problem are making interstellar travel look more and ...
- Panel
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- The Status of Private Spaceflight Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
5:45 PM
5:45 PM
- Cosplay Props Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Making Your Own Way Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- A discussion on the trials, challenges, and benefits of escaping from the default world's default choices. Advice and guidance on creating...
- Panel
8:15 PM
8:15 PM
- Look at Me! Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 8:15 PM - 9:15 PM | 1 hour
- Panel
9:30 PM
9:30 PM
- Alien Intelligences on Earth and in Space Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM | 1 hour
- Before we contact extraterrestrial civilizations, we can practice communicating with alien intelligences right here. Researchers are trying to c...
- Panel
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- 100 years since the end of the war to end all wars Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- November 11, 2018 was the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. What lessons were learned? What lessons weren't learned? How did this war s...
- Panel
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- Asteroid Mining Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour
- Asteroid mining has been a staple of hard SF for decades. Private companies such as Planetary Resources are seriously investigating the pr...
- Panel
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- The Roots of Steampunk: Victorian Technology Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | 1 hour
- Velocipedes and dirigibles, steamships and railways. Steampunk borrows liberally from Victorian era technology this panel explores what ma...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- A Walk Through the Mind of a Rad Tech: Careers In Health Protection Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
3:15 PM
3:15 PM
- Experimental Archaeology Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | 1 hour
- "Experimental Archaeology" refers to hands-on attempts to re-create various aspects of the past. From building a Medieval trebuchet to tes...
- Panel
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Ancient Computers Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour
- The most agreed upon definition of computing is that of a device which completes mathematical calculations and is programmable is some form or a...
- Talk
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Rest of The World In Space Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 1 hour
- A look back of the accomplishments of foreign space agencies over the past year. News, pictures and possible video from...
- Panel
8:15 PM
8:15 PM
- Behind the Screams Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 8:15 PM - 9:15 PM | 1 hour
- Talk
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- What Did Steam Really Do? Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1 hour
- Can you really build a steam powered airship, rocket, ornithopter or derringer? How did steam technology work, really? What was it used fo...
- Panel
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
- Myths and misunderstandings about armor and weapons Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour
- Swords that cut machine gun barrels, 300 lb suits of armor that had to be lifted up by a crane to get on a horse, "plate-mail," all the th...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Qualia: Does Your Reality Match My Reality? Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- Our senses can be different from one person to the next. Color blindness is just one example; what are others? Add to that, we bring diffe...
- Panel
12:45 PM
12:45 PM
- Brave New Economic Worlds Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | 1 hour
- Will self-replicating machines and space resources trash economics as we know it? What will replace it? In a few years we'll be needing a better...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Has NASA outlived its Usefulness? Red Lion Hotel Pasco, WA - 3125- Science/History Track
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- The Shuttles have been retired and Apollo is a fading memory. The US cannot even launch its own astronauts to the ISS. Is it time for NASA...
- Panel