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Hello, Reagan:

The first time I tried Second Life, about 5 years ago, my avatar (the  
word for "character") got stuck at the bottom of a body of water and  
I just left him there.  I assume he's still there and extremely  
bored.  You have done everything correctly except you probably don't  
have a fast enough connection to the internet or a fast enough  
computer, or both.  It takes a lot of time for your 3D world to  
render so that it doesn't look bleak.  Or maybe you landed on bleak  
island (or are in bleak house? sorry...).  Anyway, try finding a  
faster connection/computer and you will be surprised how much more  
immersive it becomes.  I went from a g4 powerbook to one of the new  
dual core intel macbook pro and it made a world of difference, so to  
speak.

Eric Siegel
Director and Chief Content Officer
NY Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
718 699 0005 x 317
www.nyscience.org


On Aug 3, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Reagan Cole wrote:

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> Hello, I'd like to go sightseeing in second life but I'm completely
> clueless.
> I do have an "account" , a "password" and a "character" if that's what
> things are called in 2L.  I can jump, fall and move in different
> directions but the landscape is barren and bleak.  How do I find the
> museums in that world?
>
> Thanks,
> Reagan Cole, PhD
> Exhibits Engineer
> Museum of Life and Science
> 433 Murray Avenue
> Durham, NC 27704
> (919)220-5429 x371 (phone)
> (919)220-9639 (fax)
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