Just a note: this observatory is not part of anything to do with NASA -- it's on the University of Denver's Science School sim, with a nice view of the all-volunteer made-and-supported (and also not-NASA) International Spaceflight Museum. The observatory is a rendition of Meyers-Womble observatory that UD astronomers use in real life, and the telescope in the rotating dome is a marvel of Second Life construction.
After consuming all that Linux soda, you might also note that the observatory has something very rare in Second Life: bathrooms!
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Just a note: this observatory is not part of anything to do with NASA -- it's on the University of Denver's Science School sim, with a nice view of the all-volunteer made-and-supported (and also not-NASA) International Spaceflight Museum. The observatory is a rendition of Meyers-Womble observatory that UD astronomers use in real life, and the telescope in the rotating dome is a marvel of Second Life construction. After consuming all that Linux soda, you might also note that the observatory has something very rare in Second Life: bathrooms!
Some people are seriously trying to win some of that NASA money.
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