November Chapter Meeting

To all,

The regular monthly meeting was held as scheduled at the Tempe Denny's at US 60 and Rural Road.

Present at this meeting were Stuart Scott, Don Jacques, Mike Marron and myself.

Old business for today included the Teleprescience RC Racing, The Lunar Habitat development and the Chapter Website. Teleprescience Racing has three cars available and needs one more for the planned racing. Also available are one Remote TV camera, TV receiver and Monitor we need three more sets to complete the car modifications. We are also looking for the equipment that we will need for recording and broadcasting (Internet) the races with funds being raised by the sale of copies of the races to the participants as a separate cost or as part of the entrance fees. Scheduling and Advertising have been put back until after the first of the year, Possible Venues include The Challenger Center in Peoria, Cub Scout Pine Wood Derbies, The Phoenix Science Center and others.

Lunar Habitat design and planning continue with various questions being raised and answers sought for a variety of problems. The Habitat group have opted for the lowest possible tech solutions and are building test designs for evaluations. This approach, in our opinion, allows us the position of letting nature to do its share of problem solving. We have noted the NASA's "One Way Plan for Mars" but are taking that into consideration in our planning. The work continues.

The Chapter Web Site continues to be a problem. Chuck has been unable to recover our original Web Site from the hackers. This leaves us with the options of starting a new site from scratch or not keeping a web site. If we choose to not keep a web site then we lose our ability to communicate with those that are interested in what we have to say and offer comments and suggestions. If we do keep a web site then that leaves us with several options, one is the old 'YAHOO' site, we could update it and go with it, or we can start a new site and go with it. Currently we are experimenting with two different sites, one by Mike on the carrier that services his personal web site and Don is experimenting with a format on the same basis as Mikes, just different servers. Links to the sites will be on my blog later today or tomorrow for both sites for review and comments.

My blog site will be brought up to date and the new information will included as it is available and I will see if I can make down loadable data available.

New business consists of what to have for panels and information for our outreach tables at the up coming Conventions in May and September. So far it is possible that I will be doing the "disaster Strikes" panel again with additional material included. I am thinking about presenting this same material to various groups that request it. Later this year I might even have some demonstrations on what can be done with materials around the home.
Don and Patti will most likely have their Dealer's Table and do panels on Publishing and Writing and Don way have some panels on Science Topics.
Craig D. Porter

Come to the Conventions and see what we do and meet with us at the Table and attend our panels.

CopperCon30

This this past Labor Day weekend at the CopperCon30 Convention the Moon Society Phoenix Members presented several Panels.

Don presented one panel on Comercial Space and another on Settling the Moon. Both Panels were full of interesting information and ideas on how to use Space on a budget including settling the Moon. Don and Patti colaborated on several panels on writing and publishing. They also through a launch party for a couple of authors and they also sold copies of their clients books and their books in the Dealer's Room. Also, both are excellent writers and their stories always please the reader and leave them wanting more.

Chuck's presention on the Space Based Solar Power Satellite was cancelled due to circumstances beyond his control. This panel was to include new material and the clarification of the previous material.

I did three panels on Disasters, one "Disasters Strikes" will be a teaching session on how to survive a Disaster. The other two are about senarios on the Mega Disasters of Science Fiction and Prediction.Weston Osche (pronounced Oaks) helped with on the "Disaster Strikes" panel. Weston was one of the Author Guests of Honor.

If we missed you at the Con we will be at the LepreCon37 and the CopperCon31 Cons in 2011.Come and enjoy the Cons and the presentations that will be available at the Cons on various topics along with costuming and other items.

Information at http://www.casfs.org/.

CROSS SOCIETY ASSISTANCE

All members of the Moon Society, the Mars Society, the National Space Society, the Planetary Society and any other Space based Society in the Valley of the Sun please feel free to make suggestions on how we may help each other meet our goals.

We should be working together to achieve our goals for Space Exploration and Development. As well as supporting the private sector in reaching for our place in Space. That place will require us to get there in the most cost effective way possible to do what needs to be done to protect our enviroment and species.

Without the group of us helping each other in our goals none of us will be able to generate the interest in what is need to succede in our aims.

For those that want to help please address your comments to me at portercd@msn.com.
I will post them to this blog and make sure to pass them onto the other groups.

Craig

ELECTIONS MEETING

At the December 2009 meeting the elections for the coming year were held.

I, Craig Porter, was reelected as the Chapter President, Chuck Lesher was reelected to the Vice Presidency along with Patti and Mike was reelected as Treasurer. Don Jacques declined to run for reelection as President because of other needs and projects.

Don has a project in progress for a Lunar Habitat that he is working on.

Chuck is trying to finish the rewrite of his book with the completion of the sequel.
Patti is also working on the sequel to her book.
Look for them on Amazon some time after the first of the year.
I'm working on a display wall for use when we have a booth or outreach table at a Convention or other event.

Anyone who is interested in joining us for our monthly meeting please feel free to meet with us.
Come share your concerns about our future on the Moon and the development of the Hub for Planetary exploration and the test bed for mining the asteroids for their resources to benefit the Earth's ecology.

The meeting will continue to be held the third Saturday of the month at Denny's on the South East corner of US 60 and Rural Road. The time remains the same, 3:PM.

NEW WEBSITE

There is a new website available for the anniversary of the Moon Missions.

http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

RECYCLING ELECTRONICS

I would like to thank the following corporation for its assistance in my recycling computer components, including three CRT Monitors, a tower, a keyboard and a VCR.

EARTH PROTECTION SERVICES, INC. EPSI
Conducts Electronic Product Recycling & Recovery services in thevalley and across the country. It is primarily associated with Sony, Zenith, LG and Goldstar electronics. They conduct week-end events where they gather all brands for recycling. At other times trhey will accept the products that are manufactured by the above Manufacturers for free recyclying but products are processed for a small fee.

Because I was the member of a non-profit Organization, they waived the fee.

There phone numbers are:
623-934-4409
800-414-0443
FAX 623-934-4366
Cell 605-317-3213

Web Site: http://www.earthpro.com/

COPPERCON 28

CopperCon 28 was an unquallified success for the Moon Society.
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We presented three lectures with question and answers participation.
Chuck's Solor Power presentration was the most popular by far.
Bonnie's Moon presentation was a close second with many participants.
Craig's presentation was the least attended of the presentations, but it had good participation on Sunday Afternoon.
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We had a meet the Moon Society session to introdsuce the attendees to the Moon Society and what we do, including meeting times and frequencies.
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Chuck's and readings were poorly attended.
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The Autograph sessions for Bonnie and Chuck wer not well attended.
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All had a good time with volunteer support by Stuart and David.