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Fed2 Star
Earthdate September 30, 2018
[This is a subscription mailing list. Details about how to stop
receiving it are at the foot of the email.]
For a fancy formatted version go the Fed2 Star website:
http://www.ibgames.net/fednews/current/index.html
In this week’s final Fed2 Star: your last warning that the game is
closing down. the Fed2 Star is ending too, join us in Fed on Saturday
and Sunday to party and say goodbye, some more things to do in Fed
before it dies, a final farewell, real life news about the mission to
Ryugu asteroid, a short walk will improve your memory, a comet that
photo-bombed an astronomer’s pic, and Titan seen in infra-red. No
Winding Down this week.
Official News
REMINDER: FED WILL CLOSE FOREVER ON MONDAY MORNING
by Hazed
So this is it. The final weekend for Fed before the game closes for
good, after thirty years of continuous running.
For the reasons behind the closure you can read our announcement from an
earlier edition of the news, here:
http://www.ibgames.net/fednews/2018/180902/official01.html
When the reset happens on Monday morning, the game won’t fire up again.
Fed DataSpace will be no more.
THIS IS THE FINAL FED2 STAR
by Hazed
With the end of Fed, comes the end of the Fed2 Star. This is the last
ever issue of the Galaxy’s best news. I am sending it out early so you
all receive it before the party starts on Saturday night (see the next
story).
I have been writing about Fed for almost as long as the game has been
running: from Line Noise on Compunet, a weekly news bulletin on Genie,
the news on AOL, the Federation Chronicle when we first moved to the web
and then the Fed2 Star for the revamped game. You can read past
bulletins in the Fed archives, here:
http://www.ibgames.net/archives/fed/index.html
The end of the Star doesn’t mean I will stop writing. I’m not quite sure
what form my future writing will take but once I figure it out I’ll use
the Fed2 Star mailing list to tell you what’s happening.
Alan will be continuing with Winding Down (although there is no issue
this weekend), and you can continue to receive it in your inbox every
week by subscribing to the mailing list – just send an email to:
winding-dow...@googlegroups.com
or read it each week on the website:
http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/index.html
PARTY ALL NIGHT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
by Hazed
As it’s Fed’s final weekend we’ll be doing our best to go out with a
bang by partying on Saturday and Sunday nights. I hope as many old
players as possible can join us to celebrate the game we have loved and
to raise a glass of Diesel’s Old Peculiar in toast.
If you have left it to the last minute to realise you have forgotten
your password, then you can still email feed...@ibgames.com to ask me
to reset it for you.
Then put on your party hat and your dancing trousers and we’ll see you
in Chez Diesel.
A FEW MORE FED2 BUCKET LIST IDEAS
by Hazed
Did you know there is an ATM behind the sun?
That used to be one of the running jokes on AOL, which led many people
to die a fiery death trying to find it. So when I was writing the
locations for the revamp of Fed2, I actually put the machine in there.
You can get to it by very carefully navigating around the sun.
Of course, in order to get any money out of it, you need to know the PIN…
One more thing to do as you drink to Fed’s farewell. Before she finally
turns out the lights in her bar, have a chat to Diesel. I wrote a whole
lot of dialog for her which probably nobody has ever seen! Here’s just
some of the words she will respond to:
Hello
Bye
Diesel
Chez Diesel
Mars
Earth
Martians
Alien Protection League
Ruins
Ale
Recipe
Pizza
Ming
Galactic Administration
Clothes
Bat
Speaking of Diesel’s bat, you can try to take the bat or if you really
want to live dangerously, kiss or grope diesel…
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
by Hazed
With the sounds of the great rock classic by Europe ringing in our ears
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw), Fed DataSpace comes to an
end.
Ming has finally got his revenge, and will be able to laugh as he
watches the galaxy that rejected him close down. For of course, he’s not
dead – he’s been in hiding on an obscure asteroid, hatching plots for a
comeback to power.
The Martians, too, can celebrate as with the end of the universe they
can claim that they won. Safe inside their time-loop they will continue
when everything else is destroyed.
Bella, who created the universe, will be the one to flip the switch that
makes the stars go out, one by one. I, the demi-goddess Hazed, together
with my fellow demi-goddess Freya, will watch as the green goddess
destroys her creation.
All that is left is to say… Goodbye!
REAL LIFE NEWS: PROBES LAND ON ASTEROID AND SEND BACK PICTURES
by Hazed
And now for the last few real life news stories… starting with a brief
note that the Hayabusa 2 has landed two rovers (called Rover 1A and
Rover 1B, which are very boring names) on the surface of the Ryugu
asteroid, and they have sent back their first images.
See the pictures, and read all about this mission, here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45667350
REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU EXERCISE WAS GOOD FOR YOU!
by Hazed
Just ten minutes of light physical exercise can boost the brain’s
ability to store memories, researchers have found.
Scientists at the University of California who were studying brain
activity discovered that the parts of the brain responsible for memory
formation and storage increased their connectivity after a brief session
of light exercise, such as slow walking, yoga or tai chi.
Get the details here:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/24/10-minutes-of-exercise-a-day-improves-memory
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: PHOTO-BOMBING COMET
by Hazed
NASA’s TESS – that stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite – is
a new space-based telescope designed to search for exo-planets.
During its testing phase, it managed to snap something unexpected: a
comet which suddenly moved into its field of vision. The images it
snapped of the comet have been stitched into a video, which shows the
comet moving across TESS’s field of vision from right to left.
Watch the photo-bombing comet video here:
https://gizmodo.com/comet-photobombs-nasa-s-new-planet-hunting-satellite-1828161708
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: INFRA-RED TITAN
by Hazed
Titan is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that makes seeing the surface
really hard. But using infrared it is possible to see through the haze
to the moon beneath. The Cassini spacecraft did just that, and over the
course of 13 years used its Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometre to
take infrared views of the surface.
You can see six pictures from the processed data, alongside a visible
light view, here: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180818.html
NO WINDING DOWN THIS WEEK
by Hazed
With the closing of Fed on Monday, as well as other real life issues
going on this weekend, Alan won’t be able to write an issue of Winding
Down. It will be back next weekend.
Earthdate September 30, 2018
[This is a subscription mailing list. Details about how to stop
receiving it are at the foot of the email.]
For a fancy formatted version go the Fed2 Star website:
http://www.ibgames.net/fednews/current/index.html
In this week’s final Fed2 Star: your last warning that the game is
closing down. the Fed2 Star is ending too, join us in Fed on Saturday
and Sunday to party and say goodbye, some more things to do in Fed
before it dies, a final farewell, real life news about the mission to
Ryugu asteroid, a short walk will improve your memory, a comet that
photo-bombed an astronomer’s pic, and Titan seen in infra-red. No
Winding Down this week.
Official News
REMINDER: FED WILL CLOSE FOREVER ON MONDAY MORNING
by Hazed
So this is it. The final weekend for Fed before the game closes for
good, after thirty years of continuous running.
For the reasons behind the closure you can read our announcement from an
earlier edition of the news, here:
http://www.ibgames.net/fednews/2018/180902/official01.html
When the reset happens on Monday morning, the game won’t fire up again.
Fed DataSpace will be no more.
THIS IS THE FINAL FED2 STAR
by Hazed
With the end of Fed, comes the end of the Fed2 Star. This is the last
ever issue of the Galaxy’s best news. I am sending it out early so you
all receive it before the party starts on Saturday night (see the next
story).
I have been writing about Fed for almost as long as the game has been
running: from Line Noise on Compunet, a weekly news bulletin on Genie,
the news on AOL, the Federation Chronicle when we first moved to the web
and then the Fed2 Star for the revamped game. You can read past
bulletins in the Fed archives, here:
http://www.ibgames.net/archives/fed/index.html
The end of the Star doesn’t mean I will stop writing. I’m not quite sure
what form my future writing will take but once I figure it out I’ll use
the Fed2 Star mailing list to tell you what’s happening.
Alan will be continuing with Winding Down (although there is no issue
this weekend), and you can continue to receive it in your inbox every
week by subscribing to the mailing list – just send an email to:
winding-dow...@googlegroups.com
or read it each week on the website:
http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/index.html
PARTY ALL NIGHT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
by Hazed
As it’s Fed’s final weekend we’ll be doing our best to go out with a
bang by partying on Saturday and Sunday nights. I hope as many old
players as possible can join us to celebrate the game we have loved and
to raise a glass of Diesel’s Old Peculiar in toast.
If you have left it to the last minute to realise you have forgotten
your password, then you can still email feed...@ibgames.com to ask me
to reset it for you.
Then put on your party hat and your dancing trousers and we’ll see you
in Chez Diesel.
A FEW MORE FED2 BUCKET LIST IDEAS
by Hazed
Did you know there is an ATM behind the sun?
That used to be one of the running jokes on AOL, which led many people
to die a fiery death trying to find it. So when I was writing the
locations for the revamp of Fed2, I actually put the machine in there.
You can get to it by very carefully navigating around the sun.
Of course, in order to get any money out of it, you need to know the PIN…
One more thing to do as you drink to Fed’s farewell. Before she finally
turns out the lights in her bar, have a chat to Diesel. I wrote a whole
lot of dialog for her which probably nobody has ever seen! Here’s just
some of the words she will respond to:
Hello
Bye
Diesel
Chez Diesel
Mars
Earth
Martians
Alien Protection League
Ruins
Ale
Recipe
Pizza
Ming
Galactic Administration
Clothes
Bat
Speaking of Diesel’s bat, you can try to take the bat or if you really
want to live dangerously, kiss or grope diesel…
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
by Hazed
With the sounds of the great rock classic by Europe ringing in our ears
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw), Fed DataSpace comes to an
end.
Ming has finally got his revenge, and will be able to laugh as he
watches the galaxy that rejected him close down. For of course, he’s not
dead – he’s been in hiding on an obscure asteroid, hatching plots for a
comeback to power.
The Martians, too, can celebrate as with the end of the universe they
can claim that they won. Safe inside their time-loop they will continue
when everything else is destroyed.
Bella, who created the universe, will be the one to flip the switch that
makes the stars go out, one by one. I, the demi-goddess Hazed, together
with my fellow demi-goddess Freya, will watch as the green goddess
destroys her creation.
All that is left is to say… Goodbye!
REAL LIFE NEWS: PROBES LAND ON ASTEROID AND SEND BACK PICTURES
by Hazed
And now for the last few real life news stories… starting with a brief
note that the Hayabusa 2 has landed two rovers (called Rover 1A and
Rover 1B, which are very boring names) on the surface of the Ryugu
asteroid, and they have sent back their first images.
See the pictures, and read all about this mission, here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45667350
REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU EXERCISE WAS GOOD FOR YOU!
by Hazed
Just ten minutes of light physical exercise can boost the brain’s
ability to store memories, researchers have found.
Scientists at the University of California who were studying brain
activity discovered that the parts of the brain responsible for memory
formation and storage increased their connectivity after a brief session
of light exercise, such as slow walking, yoga or tai chi.
Get the details here:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/24/10-minutes-of-exercise-a-day-improves-memory
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: PHOTO-BOMBING COMET
by Hazed
NASA’s TESS – that stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite – is
a new space-based telescope designed to search for exo-planets.
During its testing phase, it managed to snap something unexpected: a
comet which suddenly moved into its field of vision. The images it
snapped of the comet have been stitched into a video, which shows the
comet moving across TESS’s field of vision from right to left.
Watch the photo-bombing comet video here:
https://gizmodo.com/comet-photobombs-nasa-s-new-planet-hunting-satellite-1828161708
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: INFRA-RED TITAN
by Hazed
Titan is shrouded in a thick atmosphere that makes seeing the surface
really hard. But using infrared it is possible to see through the haze
to the moon beneath. The Cassini spacecraft did just that, and over the
course of 13 years used its Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometre to
take infrared views of the surface.
You can see six pictures from the processed data, alongside a visible
light view, here: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180818.html
NO WINDING DOWN THIS WEEK
by Hazed
With the closing of Fed on Monday, as well as other real life issues
going on this weekend, Alan won’t be able to write an issue of Winding
Down. It will be back next weekend.
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