Sally Ride Science Festival 2009: Solar Telescopes, Moon Rock and Safety Glasses! - a 360-Degree Panorama

Author: David Engle (Texas_Photo)
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Date taken: October 24, 2009
Date added: October 24, 2009
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$Sally Ride Science Festival 2009: Solar Telescopes, Moon Rock and Safety Glasses! \x2D a 360\x2DDegree Panorama$

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Photos are allowed

Win: that photos are explicitly allowed. Fail: that there is _any freaking question_ at all that photos could possibly be limited. I could become radicalized over this issue. In fact, consider me radicalized :-) I assert that very very soon we will consider the right to photograph to be a basic civil right. We are already working on various assistive technologies which use photographs and other sensor data in order to provide an 'augmented reality' experience. It is only the smallest of steps to move that from 'augmented reality' to 'assistive technology' designed to help people with disabilities, such as memory function. Already I need to take photographs of many things in order to reliably remember them. How far is that from being an Assistive Technology? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology Assisteive Technologies are defined in the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988 as is "technology designed to be utilized in an assistive technology device or assistive technology service. Anyway...semi sorry to rant :-)

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1. Rich, thanks for your comments. This sign was only at the NASA table and is associated with the moon rock, and since these are high school students, the sign was probably posted to either (a) encourage students to take photos of the moon rock or (b) based on previous experience from showing this exhibit to other students, a time-saver (i.e., lots of people were asking if photos were ok, so they put up the sign). Either way, everyone seemed to be having great fun including this GigaPanographer.

Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago by David Engle (Texas_Photo)

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