Star Trek: The Tour

[JadziaKathryn]

Star Trek: The Tour
Ooooh, this looks like fun. And it's coming close to me!

[Linda]

I will be watching for it to come near me, probably to Chicago. Thanks for the heads up on this!

[TPoptarts]

I wanna go!!!!!

[JadziaKathryn]

I wanna go!!!!!

There are 4 California cities on the list. (And Vancouver, which if I recall isn't too far from ekayak. Sorry for you Europeans, though; it's just US and Canada.)

I'm super excited that a city in northern New England is on the list! They better not be here when I'm in Australia, though...

[Linda]

Well maybe Australia will get on the tour list? And some European cities? Heck, Trek is now a planet-wide phenomenon. And who knows, there may even be alien fans! How far have those television waves gotten out into space since 1966?

[Asso]

Well maybe Australia will get on the tour list? And some European cities? Heck, Trek is now a planet-wide phenomenon. And who knows, there may even be alien fans! How far have those television waves gotten out into space since 1966?

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

And who knows, there may even be alien fans! How far have those television waves gotten out into space since 1966?

41 light-years. And within that radius there are plenty of sun-like stars (including 40 Eridani A, which is Vulcan's star, and at a distance of 16 light-years).

[JadziaKathryn]

Huh. I wonder what aliens (provided sentient ones exist, of course) would think about Trek?

Anyway, here are the tentative cities listed on startrek.com, besides the initial stop in Long Beach, CA:

Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
Atlanta, GA
Boston, MA
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, IL
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Houston, TX
Indianapolis, IN
Kansas City, KS
Memphis, TN
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
Montgomery, AL
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nashville, TN
New York, NY
Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA
Omaha, NE
Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix, AZ
Pittsburgh, PA
Portland, ME
Providence-New Bedford, RI
Raleigh-Durham, NC
Rochester, NY
Sacramento, CA
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Santa Fe, NM
Seattle-Tacoma, WA
St. Louis, MO
Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL
Toronto, Ontario
Tucson, AZ
Tulsa, OK
Vancouver, British Columbia
Washington, DC

[Linda]

Thanks KTR! Didn't realize Mr. Ed, I Love Lucy, and The Three Stooges were that far out into the universe (further than Star Trek). No wonder the CETI project has not come up with any signals...they are hiding from us!

JK, thanks for the list. I kinda suspected Chicago would be on it. Wish they would give us dates, though.

[Linda]

Uh, I meant the SETI project?

[CX]

There is an edit button for your own posts, you know.

[Linda]

Edit button? Where? I had no idea about this feature. And I can't find it!

[Linda]

Ok, I found the button. But these GUI interfaces and lack of written explanations online are so frustrating. I long for a return to the days of white characters on a black screen and miles and miles of code. When you have to hunt all over the screen for links and buttons, to people with old eyes it is extremely frustrating. I have a legally blind programmer friend who lost his job because of GUI. He was used to strings of data but having to hunt visually for things placed here and there randomly on a visually busy screen, drove him out of a job. Sometimes what seems like progress is actually a barrier to some people. Especially those of us who "used to ride dinosaurs to school as kids", as my daughter puts it!

[evcake]

Ok, I found the button. But these GUI interfaces and lack of written explanations online are so frustrating. I long for a return to the days of white characters on a black screen and miles and miles of code. When you have to hunt all over the screen for links and buttons, to people with old eyes it is extremely frustrating. I have a legally blind programmer friend who lost his job because of GUI. He was used to strings of data but having to hunt visually for things placed here and there randomly on a visually busy screen, drove him out of a job. Sometimes what seems like progress is actually a barrier to some people. Especially those of us who "used to ride dinosaurs to school as kids", as my daughter puts it!

Heavens, I routinely edit my posts 3 or 4 times. My typing sucks.
I think my most-edited was lost in a crash, which is probably for the best.
GUI- gotta look that up...