Space Town Hall
21 June 2008 – 6:08 pm
The seats were a little past three-quarters full last night at the Planetary Society’s Town Hall meeting in Palo Alto. The mix of people was amazing; everyone from scientists to students to enthusiasts were in the audience. My friend Jeff usually tips me off to these events and this time my friend Emily joined us as well.
The meeting started off with some brief intros and the jumped right into Q&A with Bill Nye as the host/audience handler and Chris McKay, Sandra Bodley, and Kevin Stube as the expert panelists.
There were a couple heated questions, but Bill Nye did a great job fielding and provoking the audience to explore the ideas brought up (I was definitely impressed by both his and Chris McKay’s range of knowledge).
While I’ve been to a few of the society’s presentations in the past, this was the first time that it was so audience centric and it was great to see the mix of ideas and opinions being tossed around the room.
