Off the long stretch of a Midwestern highway there's a barn beckoning just some hundred paces away. The place calls to mind farming life from a bygone era, and as it happens, the object inside was created to benefit a global non-profit which echoes that theme. Located in Wales Springs, the place is known as the Refuge and the Prospect, the work of metaverse environmental artist AM Radio.
Within the barn is a dusty turboprop which the hand-painted sign nearby says is circa 1912. It sells for L$700 (around two bucks and two bits, US legal tender), and it comes with spare parts. That money AM sends to Heifer International, which aims to end hunger by teaching sustainable farming. It's the lastet effort by AM Radio, who raised near $1500 for Heifer by selling plots of virtual wheat, and hundreds of dollars to fight malaria by selling an all-terrain vehicle.
To buy a plane for yourself and an investment against world hunger, click this direct teleport SLURL link outside AM Radio's barn.
Known to SL colleagues as "Professor Panda" (you'll glimpse him in his own machinima as the bear with the clipboard), Xingjian began building his Helios in mid-September, painstakingly aligning the parts and matching the textures. When he was done, the entire complex was comprised of 1300-1500 prims, "almost to real life size of the Atlas dector, with its own little computer lab and airlock and elevator rooms and everything." 
In Silicon Valley and the wider tech industry, the economic downtown has created a palpable air of simmering panic; 
Peak concurrency was just 