Gaming convention: Festival Draconis October 14-16

Draconis October 14-16

This year’s event features 103 game sessions, 55 different role-playing game systems which includes 13 made in Quebec. https://festivaldraconis.ca/home/

From the Draconis website:

 Draconis Festival is the biggest role-playing game event of Quebec. It offers more than a hundred role-playing game sessions for beginners or advanced players. Offered games go from classics like Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu to the latest independent local role-playing game. The festival is held two times a year. Online on Discord in Winter and in person at the CÉGEP du Vieux-Montréal in Fall. In any case, the event is totally free and open to all the diversity.

The organization team is made entirely of volunteers and the role-playing games are offered by members of our excellent community.

Le festival Draconis est le plus gros événement de jeux de rôle au Québec. Il offre une centaine de parties de jeux de rôle autant pour les personnes débutantes que les plus aguerries. Les jeux de rôles offerts vont des classiques comme Donjons et Dragons et Call of Cthulhu jusqu’aux dernières sorties de jeux de rôle indépendants incluant plusieurs jeux créés par des gens d’ici. L’événement revient deux fois par année. Il a lieu en ligne sur Discord en hiver et en personne au cégep du Vieux-Montréal en automne. Dans tous les cas, l’événement est 100% gratuit et ouvert à toute la diversité.

L’équipe d’organisation est entièrement composée de bénévoles et les parties de jeux de rôles sont offertes par les membres de notre excellente communauté de rôlistes.

ToyCon Montreal scheduled for November 5-6

The next Montreal ToyCon will be happening on Saturday/Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2022 from 10am to 4pm at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Ville St Laurent.

If you’ve enjoyed the previous conventions and are looking for the best and brightest toys for your collection, be sure to check it out! There will be comic book and toy dealers selling GI-Joe, DC, Marvel, Transformers, Star Wars, Funko Pop, Lego and tons more. We’d love to see you there. For more details, visit our website. https://www.cmdstore.ca/pages/montreal-toycon

Courtyard Marriott Hotel
7000 Place Robert-Joncas
St Laurent, QC H4M-2Z5
(Near Mega-Plex Speheretech 14 – Cinema Guzzo)

Date and Time: Saturday/Sunday, November 5-6/2022 from 10am to 4pm
Admission: FREE
Parking: 2hr / $5

ToyCon de Montréal 5 – 6 novembre

Le prochain ToyCon de Montréal se tiendra le samedi/dimanche, 5 et 6 novembre, 2022 de 10h00 à 16h00 au Courtyard Marriott, à Ville St. Laurent.

Si vous avez aimé les conventions précédentes et cherchez de nouveaux jouets pour votre collection, venez nous voir ! Il y aura des vendeurs de bande dessinées, des jouets de GI-Joe, DC, Marvel, Transformers, Star Wars, Lego, Funko Pop et beaucoup d’autres. Nous comptons sur votre présence ! Pour de plus amples détails, veuillez visiter notre site web!

Lieu / adresse de l’évènement:

Hôtel Courtyard Marriott
7000 Place Robert-Joncas
Ville St-Laurent, QC H4M 2Z5
(Près du Mega-Plex Speheretech 14 – Cinema Guzzo)

Dates & heures de l’évènement: le samedi/dimanche 5 et 6 novembre 2022, de 10:00 à 16:00 heures
Admission: GRATUIT
Stationnement: 2h / $5

NASA STRIKES ASTEROID DEAD-CENTER

DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact.
Sep 26, 2022
RELEASE 22-100

NASA’s DART Mission Hits Asteroid in First-Ever Planetary Defense Test

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the successful impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT.

As a part of NASA’s overall planetary defense strategy, DART’s impact with the asteroid Dimorphos demonstrates a viable mitigation technique for protecting the planet from an Earth-bound asteroid or comet, if one were discovered.

“At its core, DART represents an unprecedented success for planetary defense, but it is also a mission of unity with a real benefit for all humanity,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “As NASA studies the cosmos and our home planet, we’re also working to protect that home, and this international collaboration turned science fiction into science fact, demonstrating one way to protect Earth.”

DART targeted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a small body just 530 feet (160 meters) in diameter. It orbits a larger, 2,560-foot (780-meter) asteroid called Didymos. Neither asteroid poses a threat to Earth.

The mission’s one-way trip confirmed NASA can successfully navigate a spacecraft to intentionally collide with an asteroid to deflect it, a technique known as kinetic impact.

The investigation team will now observe Dimorphos using ground-based telescopes to confirm that DART’s impact altered the asteroid’s orbit around Didymos. Researchers expect the impact to shorten Dimorphos’ orbit by about 1%, or roughly 10 minutes; precisely measuring how much the asteroid was deflected is one of the primary purposes of the full-scale test. READ MORE FROM NASA’s PRESS RELEASE

https://spaceweather.com/ BULLSEYE! NASA STRIKES ASTEROID DEAD-CENTER: NASA’s DART spacecraft hit asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26th–an incredible, dramatic bullseye 11 million kilometers from Earth. DART took this picture of Dimorphos only 11 seconds before impact, reveaing it to be a boulder-strewn rubble pile:


See more images from DART’s approach and impact

Mission scientsts say DART hit the asteroid less than 17 meters off center. Think about that: 17 meters off at a distance of 11 million kilometers.NASA still has the right stuff.

Now more hard work begins. Astronomers on Earth have begun monitoring Dimorphos’s orbit to find out whether or not it has changed in response to DART’s impact. If so, it proves that human tech can alter an asteroid’s trajectory–a possible strategy for future Planetary Defense. Stay tuned.

Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association