Ars Frontiers lands in Washington, DC: Space, science, AI, and more
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This sounds awesome, I'd really like to sit in for the climate panel. I'm not far from DC, but won't request an invite because I'm sure there are far more knowledgeable Ars folk that can ask better questions than me.
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I’m not even on the right continent but I’m looking forward to it and I hope it becomes an annual thing I’ll make it to one day! The topic selection is so spot on, there’s never a wrong time to discuss those topics but right now they’re all so very important.
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Alas, far too far from D.C. to attend. However, in the proper spirit of matters, I do request the potential showing of a representative (live or otherwise) from our WPL.
It's only fair.
It's only fair.
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Accessing via cellular here. Also, comment voting seems disabled. Related, methinks?
As fresh side thought, will various discussions and panels be streamed or recorded?
Best wishes!
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Everything should be working now - thanks to all that reported issues.
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It would be wonderful if the in-person events could be streamed to an online audience (or even a limited audience like Ars subscribers!) even if that audience could not participate.
Sounds cool either way!
Sounds cool either way!
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I'm surprised nothing on health or Covid, would be nice to see if Beth just automatically speaks in puns.
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I'll have to watch from across the pond.
One comment though, I seriously hope that the panel on climate change is a solar panel.
[Edit:] I'm not seeing anything in the article or event site, but I assume the panels will be (live)streamed?
One comment though, I seriously hope that the panel on climate change is a solar panel.
[Edit:] I'm not seeing anything in the article or event site, but I assume the panels will be (live)streamed?
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Anyone attending, please be nice to your fellow posters and the writers.
I find that whenever I have met anyone from Ars, they are just really decent people with different viewpoints.
Enjoy the conference.
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Changed meet -> met
I find that whenever I have met anyone from Ars, they are just really decent people with different viewpoints.
Enjoy the conference.
Edit:
Changed meet -> met
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I am attending the Ars Technica Conference and hope to come away
1. Empowered
2. With a signed copy of Lift-Off
3. Mission Patch giveaway from Jennifer
4. One of Lee's unused Soylent Packets
5. A maggot or tomato plant growing from my eyeball
I am attending the Ars Technica Conference and hope to come away
1. Empowered
2. With a signed copy of Lift-Off
3. Mission Patch giveaway from Jennifer
4. One of Lee's unused Soylent Packets
5. A maggot or tomato plant growing from my eyeball
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I miss the Ars UK meetings in London…
I hope so, but it does not sound like it, from what I can read in the article. Unless I missed something…
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Quick Poll (completely unscientific)
I am attending the Ars Technica Conference and hope to come away
1. Empowered
2. With a signed copy of Lift-Off
3. Mission Patch giveaway from Jennifer
4. One of Lee's unused Soylent Packets
5. A maggot or tomato plant growing from my eyeball
6. Slightly used Russian ex-military hardware, sold for scrap, proceeds to go to the Slava Ukraini Defense Fund?
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Strongest evidence yet that I wasted my life going into law as opposed to anything that would allow me to justify attendance to this as a work expense.
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Quick Poll (completely unscientific)
I am attending the Ars Technica Conference and hope to come away
1. Empowered
2. With a signed copy of Lift-Off
3. Mission Patch giveaway from Jennifer
4. One of Lee's unused Soylent Packets
5. A maggot or tomato plant growing from my eyeball
6. Attend Dr. Mole’s special symposium in that abandoned grain silo on the edge of town. The one they find all those dead shelter dogs in every solstice.
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Oh man, that would be fun just for the climate portion if wasn’t gonna already be in the desert that week doing geoscience stuff. To a second annual Ars Frontiers!
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Yeah, I saw those 'preliminary' streams, that's why I initially assumed the main event would be livestreamed. But there's nothing mentioned about that.
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I have every reason to believe that this would indeed be a very interesting event, especially with Gallagher's participation.
Sadly, without mention of heavy drinking and wild orgies, I'm afraid I'll have to pass.
Sadly, without mention of heavy drinking and wild orgies, I'm afraid I'll have to pass.
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Washington, DC is a famous city but it's skewed somewhat closer to the east coast of the country. Might I suggest somewhere near the geographical centre of the continental United States next time? Surely this will not be the final Frontier. Or failing that, I hear Honolulu is lovely this time of year.
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As someone will surely remark on, we need to remember that the US isn't the center of mass for all of the posters Ars has, and D.C. might be the best choice for everyone to have equal chance to attend.
Not that I would argue much about the next convention being held somewhere around Boca Chica. Say... Around the time slated for Starship to fly?
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events like this are about networking, and DC is the centre of the US when it comes to the sort of crowd Conde Nast is interested in marketing to. presumably next year's event might be somewhere in Silicon Valley.
i'm also interested in whether the main programme will be livestreamed though. aside from people who live outside the US, i'd imagine that would be an obvious thing to do for a conference covering climate change (reducing travel, etc).
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Quick Poll (completely unscientific)
I am attending the Ars Technica Conference and hope to come away
1. Empowered
2. With a signed copy of Lift-Off
3. Mission Patch giveaway from Jennifer
4. One of Lee's unused Soylent Packets
5. A maggot or tomato plant growing from my eyeball
Number 4 is out of the question. None were unused.
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To be fair, let's not forget the huge contingent of Ars fans from Europe.
I actually think practically very roughly half of Ars readers come from that world region!
FWIW, I'm in Canada. Sometimes airfares are weird though. One thing I noticed is that sometimes it's cheaper for me to fly transcontinentially to Vancouver on an ultra-low airfare airline, than to fly to DC (for as little as USD 50 dollars Toronto-Vancouver(Abbotsford) via Swoop Airlines) -- because I couldn't find an ultra low airfare airline between Toronto and DC. But I know many Americans can fly to DC for relatively cheap, sometimes via alternate airports such as Baltimore, then do a train (Acela) hop. YAMMV. ("A" for air miles, of course).
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