Hangout-a-thon

Our Goal: Celebrate science

CosmoQuest is your place to learn and do science. From offering opportunities to partner with scientists to map our our Solar System and beyond, to producing Astronomy Cast, EVSN, 365 Days of Astronomy, and the Visión Cósmica, we offer myriad programs for anyone with a passing fancy or deeply held love of space sciences.

Join us for our 32 hour Hangout-a-thon on November 3-5, and pass the HAT for science.

Watch Live

http://YouTube.com/c/CosmoQuest

http://Twitch.tv/CosmoQuestX

Friday

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• Hour 1: 4pm LA / 7pm Boston
  Grand Opening Welcome
  guests: The CosmoQuest Build Team
  Join us for the grand opening of this weekend’s events. Over 32 (not-contiguous) hours, we’ll bring you guests, games, science, arts, & Minecraft. Meet our team, learn about what’s to come, & hear about our goals.
• Hour 2: 5pm LA / 8pm Boston
  Ticket to Orbit
  guests: the game designers – Pamela, Tanya, Annie, Noel (absent – Dave)
  We are a space community that, ah, loves to play with trains. In this hour, we introduce you to our newest paraody of our favourite game: Ticket to Orbit!
• Hour 3: 6pm LA / 9pm Boston
  Expanding to other worlds without repeating colonial past
  host: Pamela Gay. guests: Thilina Heenatigala & Beth Johnson
  There are people alive today who will walk on the Moon and Mars in some not terribly distant tomorrow. As humanity expands to other worlds, how do we do better than our ancestors to respect one another and the environments?
• Hour 4: 7pm LA / 10pm Boston
  Musical Guest: Kristi Kates
  Musician, actress/voice talent, Twitch Partner, creating music & nonsense on the internet & beyond, plus theme nights and eclectic gaming also on Twitch. Performing a set of astronomy/space-themed pop songs for the CosmoQuest Hangout-a-Thon!”
• Hour 5: 8pm LA / 11pm Boston
  Meet the Staff: Beth Johnson
  CosmoQuest is a collaboration. We literally couldn’t do everything we do without the efforts of our staff. In this hour we celebrate the work of Beth Johnson, who shapes our voice to the world through her writing on our shows & socials.
• Hour 6: 9pm LA / midnight Boston
  Storytime: an excerpt from Edgar Rice Burroughs “A Princess of Mars”
  Science fiction is an inspiration to many of us. In this hour we look back at one of the early stories of exploration, Edgar Rice Burroughs “A Princess of Mars.” This story inspired the terrible movie John Carter, and Pamela’s voice will work to redeem it.

Saturday

More timezones are listed here.

•  Hour 7: 8am LA / 11am Boston
  The Rules: 2023 Telling
  Common goals, shared ideals, and mutual respect can make amazing things possible. In this hour we look at the CosmoQuest Collaboration rules and honor the inspirations that make this community what it is today.
• Hour 8: 9am LA / noon Boston
  Celebrating Bennu
  hosts: Pamela Gay & Annie Wilson, guests: Bennu Mappers
  Eff Bennu! There, I said it. With that out of the way… It’s time to look back at what we somehow accomplished in just 92 days, and what that is helping allow for science. Hour 1 for EU / Africa audiance.
  
• Hour 9: 10am LA / 1pm Boston
  Diggy Diggy Mars
  We can’t always get what we want when we want it. Sometimes we have to build it… in Minecraft. The CosmoQuest community got each other thru The Pandemic by hanging together in our own 8-Bit reality. This weekend we’re dreaming of a future on Mars. Come see the build and join the team.
  
• Hour 10: 11am LA / 2pm Boston
  Meet the Staff: Erik Madaus
  CosmoQuest is a collaboration. We literally couldn’t do everything we do without the efforts of our staff. In this hour we celebrate the work of Erik Madaus, our aerospace correspondent who keeps us up to date on everything that tries to leave the launch pad (space is hard).
• Hour 11: noon LA / 3pm Boston
  Meet the Staff: The Real Fake Admin
  The Real Fake Admin appeared one day and started creating awesome thing. From advancing Rocket Bot to helping with events, he earned a place as our youngest team member. 
• Hour 12: 1pm LA / 4pm Boston
  Meet the Staff: Our Fearless Leader
  CosmoQuest is a collaboration. We literally couldn’t do everything we do without the efforts of our staff. In this hour we celebrate the work of Pamela Gay (who would really like to avoid this, but we won’t let her).
• Hour 13: 2pm LA / 5pm Boston
  Second Careers in Space Science
  host: Pamela Gay, guests: Nancy Atkinson, Beth Johnson, Dave Ballard
  We don’t always know who we will get to be when we grow up. In this session we talk to people who found their way into second career in space science and adjacent fields.
• Hour 14: 3pm LA / 6pm Boston
  DINOSAURS IN SPAAAAACE!!!!!
  Guest: Trevor Valle
  Pamela’s favorite image caption says (paraphrase) “The Chixulub Asteroid’s shockwave launched dirt, vegatation, & dinosaurs into space.” let’s discuss that terrible end and the science around the extinction of dinosaurs.
• Hour 15: 4pm LA / 7pm Boston
  The Moon: There and Back Again
  host: Gordon Dewis, guests: Nancy Atkinson, Dave Ballard, Erik Madaus
  It has been 50 years since humans last stood on the Moon, but in theory we’re going back in the next few years. Which nation will land first is still unknown, but we can dream of what science they might accomplish… and what could hace been if we and gone to stay 50 years ago.
  
• Hour 16: 5pm LA / 8pm Boston
  Astronomy Cast
  hosts: Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay
  Join us for a facts-based journey through the cosmos as we explore both what we know and how we know it about this universe we share. In this episode we look at science missions alive and exploring in the outer solar system.
  
• Hour 17: 6pm LA / 9pm Boston
  No Man’s Sky: Why we explore in games
  host: Ally Pelphrey, guest: Fraser Cain
  Humans are driven to explore, but most of us are planet-bound…. and all of us are stuck in this Solar System through the forseeable future. What we can’t do in reality, we can do in our games. Join us to discuss No Man’s Sky.
  
• Hour 18: 7pm LA / 10pm Boston
  Celebrating Bennu
  Eff Bennu! There, I said it. With that out of the way… It’s time to look back at what we somehow accomplished in just 92 days, and what that is helping allow for science. Hour 2 for the Americas.
  
• Hour 19: 8pm LA / 11pm Boston
  Sci-Fi Before and After the Mariner Missions
  guests: OnTheDiagonal, Beth Johnson, Ally Pelphrey
  Science Fiction has a remarkable capacity to inspire science, but it also has to change in reaction to science’s newest discoveries. In this session, we look at the massive change that came when humans started sending robots to other worlds, starting with Mars.H
  
• Hour 20: 9pm LA / midnight Boston
  Storytime: an excerpt from Edgar Rice Burroughs “A Princess of Mars”
  Science fiction is an inspiration to many of us. In this hour we look back at one of the early stories of exploration, Edgar Rice Burroughs “A Princess of Mars.” This story inspired the terrible movie John Carter, and Pamela’s voice will work to redeem it.