Robert Wickman
6 August 2025
The Journey of One Carbon Atom from a Star to Your Closet
Bill McKinley
July 2, 2025
Bill will investigate life in all its forms from smallest to largest, simple to complex, on Earth and beyond
Bill McKinley
June 4, 2025
Bill will discuss the space telescopes with emphasis on NGRST and its coronagraph, the first in space.
Bill McKinley
April 2, 2025
Bill will discuss the speed of sound, fluid flow and vehicles from subsonic to hypersonic (> Mach 5) and beyond
Robert Wickman
March 5, 2025
Robert will speculate about the Multiverse
Bill McKinley
February 5, 2025
Bill will review selected science trivia Q&A for Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats
Robert Wickman
December 4, 2024
More about atoms
Robert Wickman
November 5, 2024
Robert will discuss atoms, their structure and how they form familiar substances
Robert Wickman
October 2, 2024
Robert will explore of some new ideas about how our universe was created, including what may have preceded the Big Bang.
Bill McKinley
September 4, 2024
Bill will discuss the cosmology fireworks caused by the JWST.
Bill McKinley
July 7, 2024
Bill will discuss aspects and analysis of the World War 2 Norden Bombsight
Bill McKinley
May 1, 2024
Bill McKinley will discuss Lasers and the optical science related to lasers
Bill McKinley
April 3, 2024
THE World Problem; It is not warming, pollution, food, water et cetera -- these are only symptoms of THE Problem.
Bill McKinley
January 3, 2024
Quasicrystals are a new type of matter will be discussed and the associated math topics
Bill McKinley
November 1, 2023
We discuss aspects of Parapsychology with a focus on remote viewing.
Bill McKinley & Steve Walbrun
October 4, 2023
We will finish up Disasters with a video on Nuclear Topics followed up by Steve Walbrun who will discuss disaster preparedness for The Villages.
Bill McKinley September 6, 2023
Hear about and discuss disasters: nuclear, EMP, asteroids, comets, chemical, and biological. What are they and what are we facing in these disasters? .
Bill McKinley August 2, 2023
We will review general relativity, FTL (Faster Than Light) designs, & what you need to know to create you own FTL.
Bill McKinley July 5, 2023
“Elements of the Periodic Table”What is the meaning behind the structure of Periodic Table of elements; and, what are some interesting facts about the elements and the way they form molecules
Bill McKinley June 7, 2023
"AI & ML”
Artificial Intelligence [AI] and Machine Learning [ML]; what are they and what is the real state of advancement for each will be discussed
Bill McKinley May 3, 2023
"Atmospheric Optical Phenomena”
Aspects of Decryption/Encryption ["DEncryption"] of cryptography will be presented including the components of the encryption and decryption process
Bill McKinley April 5, 2023
"Atmospheric Optical Phenomena”
Earth's atmosphere produces a multitude of optical phenomena. We shall examine many of the optical effects produced by the combination of the Sun and the atmosphere of Earth.
Bill McKinley March 1, 2023
"I Resolve …”
We will examine optical resolution. Most information on optical resolution is at least misleading or not about actual resolution. We will examine what is rigorously correct optical resolution. The principles discussed are appropriate for all resolutions.
Bill McKinley February 1, 2023
"Space Weather”
Just like the interface of Earth's atmosphere and surface has weather, the
interface of space and the planet Earth has Space Weather. We will review and
discuss Space Weather what is it and what are the effects.
Bill McKinley January 4, 2023
"Gerontological Humor”
Bill presents and discuss some Humorous aspects of Gerontology..
Bill McKinley December 7, 2022
"Theories of Aging, Parts 2 & 3”
Bill will present and discuss Gerontology. The science of life from middle age to end of life. This is Parts 2 [11/2/22] and 3 [12/7/22], Theories of Aging.
Bill McKinley October 5, 2022
"Theories of Aging”
Bill will present and discuss Gerontology. The science of life from middle age to end of life. This is Part 1, Theories of Aging.
Bill McKinley September 7, 2022
"Human Systems & Senses”
Bill McKinley will discuss the systems that make up the human body and the senses with detect signals from the environment.
Bill McKinley August 3, 2022
"JWST First Look”
A Discussion of the first imagery collected by the James Webb Space Telescope and the associated science
Gregg Cieslak July 6 2022
"“The 10,000 Year Clock” or “The Clock of the Long Now”
A look at the reasoning, design concepts, history of timekeeping, the engineering, and the construction of a mechanisms that communicates ideas long into the future.
Bill McKinley June 1, 2022
"From Data to Wisdom"
Bill discusses what you need to know about how to use data
to get information, improve your knowledge and increase
your wisdom
Bill McKinley May 4, 2022
"Take the Time for Time"
Bill will discuss the topic of time and how to calculate time
Jim Laurent April 6th 2022
"Travel to and habitation of Mars"
Jim will discuss travel to and habitation of the planet Mars, and discuss the question of should this be undertaken.
Bill McKinley March 2nd 2022
"Collection of Interesting Technical Topics and Imagery"
Bill will discuss various tips, tricks, and things of interest to scientists and engineers with an emphasis on imagery
Bill McKinley January 5th 2022
"Big Bang & Cosmology"
This presentation discusses the steps of and timeline of the Big Bang plus additional comments on the cosmology of the universe
Howard Marsh December 1st, 2021
"UFO's - Are They Real?"
This presentation focuses on US government's attempts to find out what they are. Howard will discuss several of the more credible sightings and what the analyses have concluded. The talk ends with the consideration of the possibility that these are devices of extraterrestrial origin and looks at how that could be possible
Bill McKinley November 3rd, 2021
"Regenerative Agriculture"
Bill will discuss the techniques developed by man to sustain farming agriculture and increase farming productivity
Bill McKinley October 6th, 2021
"Life"
Bill will investigate life in all its forms from smallest to largest, simple to complex, on Earth and beyond
Gregg Cieslak September 1st, 2021
"Synthetic Biology"
For thousands of years Man has been tweaking plant and animal characteristics to produce desirable variations. Gregg will describe what a new approach called Synthetic Biology where scientists can engineer and manipulate a cell’s DNA into a DNA-like computer program. The cell then processes that DNA making a cell do whatever is programmed
Gregg Cieslak August 4th, 2021
"What is a Carbon Footprint and Is It Important"
Gregg will describe what a carbon footprint measures, where the concept of a carbon footprint originated, and how we use a carbon footprint to measure our impact on the environment.
Gregg Cieslak July 7th, 2021
"Hoover Dam Monument"
Most people know the Hoover Dam but do you know about the monument? The Hoover Dam Monument memorializes the people who planned, constructed, and died on during the Dam Project. It also commemorate the Dedication date by immortalizing it in a terrazzo stone star map identifying key celestial events based on Earth’s orbital motions. The talk will detail these astronomical events and elaborate on more of the earth’s motions. Earth’s motion more complicated that you think
Gregg Cieslak June 2nd, 2021
"Colonizing Space"
I’ve put together some information that I found regarding NASA’ s Artemis project which plans to establish permanent base for humans on the moon. I’ve also collected some information regarding SpaceX plans to colonize Mars over the next 30 years. Elon Musk claims that he could settle 1 million people on Mars by 2050, but his plans only show about 100 thousand.
Gregg Cieslak May 5th, 2021
"How big is big, How small is small?"
Last month it was mentioned that many people do not have a “good feel” for how big some numbers (like a billion dollars or trillion miles) really are. At this meeting we will discuss big and small numbers to gain an appreciation for their size, and we’ll discuss other numbers that are just too big and too small to appreciate.
Gregg Cieslak April 7th, 2021
"How Big is the Universe"
Gregg will discuss some of the confusing information about how big the Universe is believed to be, how big the Universe might actually be and How big the Universe we can see is.
Gregg Cieslak March 3rd, 2021
"Ancient Greek Astronomy and the Antikythera Mechanism "
Gregg will discuss how the Greeks theory of the universe was visualized and recorded and a mechanism that they built to help them calculate and predict astronomical events and actions.