cljohnston
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Downloaded Second Life about a month ago, and I'm having a total blast!
I'd been hearing about it for years, but always thought it'd probably be something lame — not worth the HD space.
Well, the first thing I did in-world was visit the International Spaceflight Museum...
Then I started searching out all things Sci-Fi!
Let me tell you — there's lots of neat stuff in here!
The Babylon 5 Experience is creating the entire station (in about 1/8 scale), and they were about halfway done when I toured the sim.
They've already got the Zocalo, a working Core Shuttle (the view is amazing!) and Cobra Bays where you can launch in a Starfury or Thunderbolt!
JMS was given a tour in August, and he was most impressed. Reading the chat transcript of his visit was cool: He made one comment I'll always remember, while he was riding the elevator between levels: "You know, the one on the set didn't actually move — so technically this is my first ride." He gave his full blessing for them to continue. How cool is that!
There are a couple of Stargate sims which have the Gate room and control area modeled, but Stargate Central Command has the entire Cheyenne Mountain Complex — with 28 levels! They also have Atlantis.
There are several areas devoted to Firefly, like Firefly's Bar, Hale's Moon, and Washtown. Several versions of Firefly-class transports exist, in a wild variety of detail.
For Star Wars & Star Trek, there's Little Mos Eisley & United Federation Starfleet, to name just a couple.
There are several cool builds with a Blade Runner-esque feel to them, like Devil's Moon, S.I.C. #49, and Hangars Liquides, but my favorite (in ALL of Second Life) is InSilico.
Here's a great video tour!
I'm putting together a Flickr photostream with all the cool Sci-Fi I'm finding, but right now it's all InSilico images.
SF in SL - a set on Flickr
And there's a whole lot more than this!
I tell you, SL is the best free download since Orbiter!
I'd been hearing about it for years, but always thought it'd probably be something lame — not worth the HD space.
Well, the first thing I did in-world was visit the International Spaceflight Museum...
Then I started searching out all things Sci-Fi!
Let me tell you — there's lots of neat stuff in here!
The Babylon 5 Experience is creating the entire station (in about 1/8 scale), and they were about halfway done when I toured the sim.
They've already got the Zocalo, a working Core Shuttle (the view is amazing!) and Cobra Bays where you can launch in a Starfury or Thunderbolt!
JMS was given a tour in August, and he was most impressed. Reading the chat transcript of his visit was cool: He made one comment I'll always remember, while he was riding the elevator between levels: "You know, the one on the set didn't actually move — so technically this is my first ride." He gave his full blessing for them to continue. How cool is that!
There are a couple of Stargate sims which have the Gate room and control area modeled, but Stargate Central Command has the entire Cheyenne Mountain Complex — with 28 levels! They also have Atlantis.
There are several areas devoted to Firefly, like Firefly's Bar, Hale's Moon, and Washtown. Several versions of Firefly-class transports exist, in a wild variety of detail.
For Star Wars & Star Trek, there's Little Mos Eisley & United Federation Starfleet, to name just a couple.
There are several cool builds with a Blade Runner-esque feel to them, like Devil's Moon, S.I.C. #49, and Hangars Liquides, but my favorite (in ALL of Second Life) is InSilico.
Here's a great video tour!
I'm putting together a Flickr photostream with all the cool Sci-Fi I'm finding, but right now it's all InSilico images.
SF in SL - a set on Flickr
And there's a whole lot more than this!
I tell you, SL is the best free download since Orbiter!