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Today is Google Meeting day once again....
I am hoping we can have a strong turnout of Admins and at least one non-Admin member.
I am interested in finding out what appetite the Admin community has to stretch beyond current activity.
We have a small active community and we can probably keep going for another year without changing anything.
On the other hand, the people who are going to be ON Mars in future years are alive today, and the global Internet is available a large percentage of them.
In addition, the community whose efforts on Earth will support the Mars venture are alive today.
This forum is potentially a resource for future Mars explorers and settlers, and for supporting teams on Earth.
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Depending upon who arrives, we may have (I hope we WILL have) other subjects to discuss.
Note: Last week I was overwhelmed by the challenges of dealing with technical issues ... Google has changed the menu structure, and I failed to monitor the waiting room properly. I am open to suggestions for improved performance, but I've noticed that other groups sometimes spread the work load a bit. Perhaps we might be able to use that idea, although with Google Meeting I'm not sure how that works. I've seen that system used extensively with Zoom.
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The Google Meeting systems test turned up an issue. Zoom leaves debris behind that Google doesn't like, so I had to reboot the browsers. We are online now and will be able to set up at the top of the hour.
It is 00:16:51 by the UTC clock.
Waiting room is open at 00:58 ...
This meeting was devoted primarily to deep dives into defense of Canada against possible predatory neighbors. In the course of the discussion I tried to start Google Earth but my browser could not handle the work load of the modern application.
I decided to install Google Earth Pro for Ubuntu, and will report if the program runs.
The installation package is only 57.3 MB. I assume the actual program is larger.
OK !!! The installer unpacked to these folders:
50.3 kb
24 kb
254.6 MB
243 bytes
That looks more like the size I would expect for a program this massive.
There are 400 files to extract
This installation is incomplete. I'll have to investigate.
OK ... it turns out that like with many Linux programs, it was necessary to use a terminal session to install the program. That was done, and the program is ready to run. However, OpenFOAM is running so I'll leave well enough alone. The program will be availabvle for the next Google Meeting. I hope to be able to go to any place on Earth that kbd512 wants to go to explore.
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