Earlier this week on March 29, I was in Second Life watching the solar eclipse being broadcast by an Exploratorium webteam in Turkey, to a stadium built for this occasion in Second Life, with my friend Zalpha Alphabeta.
This picture was as late as I stayed up but you can see how dark it is in Second Life.
In this picture you see some of the others sitting and watching the eclipse. I'm in the foreground with the red skirt thing.
Zalpha is in the background with the blue hair and the rainbow colored pants.
Zalpha had also given me a dragon earlier in the evening and we flew around, but not together since I screwed up and wasn't able to keep up!
But it was pretty fun. Quite literally, "Here be dragons!"
This picture was taken earlier in the evening. It took me a while to get the Quicktime playing properly in Second Life and I never got the audio to work at all so I had it playing from the Exploratorium's streaming video on their site.I don't think Zalpha had seen it on her screen at all.
But pretty interesting all in all if you can't physically get to the eclipse, to sit and talk to people about it in this virtual space.
