On Halley's Comet that is:P
Last Sunday I went to the American Museum of Natural History. I have wanted to do this since I watched "Night at the Museum" with Ben Stiller. Now it was a little disappointing to see that the there was no T-Rex like in the movie.
I decided to go all out and buy a ticket that covers everything (including an IMAX show on the Mars rovers, a planetarium show called Cosmic Collisions, a trip through the butterfly exhibit and access to the gold exhibit). If you go there, I recommend this as the rest of the museum reminds me of those dusty old 1960's science magazines you found in a bookshelf as a kid... the kind I used to cut pictures out of for school projects before Grolier and Encarta encyclopedias made it onto CD.
After buying my ticket, I had about 5 minutes to make it to the IMAX show... which was quite a good show. I learned things about the rover missions that I had no clue about (stuff that moonflake would laugh at me for not knowing:P), like the fact that they sent two rovers three weeks apart, and that the rovers are still working now!
The Planetarium was the highlight for sure. Not just the show, but the whole room around the sphere. Below the sphere, the room winds down a spiral ramp to some interesting exhibits.
The butterfly exhibit was ok. It was basically a big room with a lot of plants butterflies. They pack the people in like sardines though:/
As for the gold exhibit, I know a few people (girlfriend included) that would go ballistic with that amount of gold around.
Well, without further ado... here are the pics:P
Last Sunday I went to the American Museum of Natural History. I have wanted to do this since I watched "Night at the Museum" with Ben Stiller. Now it was a little disappointing to see that the there was no T-Rex like in the movie.
I decided to go all out and buy a ticket that covers everything (including an IMAX show on the Mars rovers, a planetarium show called Cosmic Collisions, a trip through the butterfly exhibit and access to the gold exhibit). If you go there, I recommend this as the rest of the museum reminds me of those dusty old 1960's science magazines you found in a bookshelf as a kid... the kind I used to cut pictures out of for school projects before Grolier and Encarta encyclopedias made it onto CD.
After buying my ticket, I had about 5 minutes to make it to the IMAX show... which was quite a good show. I learned things about the rover missions that I had no clue about (stuff that moonflake would laugh at me for not knowing:P), like the fact that they sent two rovers three weeks apart, and that the rovers are still working now!
The Planetarium was the highlight for sure. Not just the show, but the whole room around the sphere. Below the sphere, the room winds down a spiral ramp to some interesting exhibits.
The butterfly exhibit was ok. It was basically a big room with a lot of plants butterflies. They pack the people in like sardines though:/
As for the gold exhibit, I know a few people (girlfriend included) that would go ballistic with that amount of gold around.
Well, without further ado... here are the pics:P
This will give you an idea of the size of the planetarium sphere.
This was pretty kewl, realtime earthquake info.
Here's a full size model of the Mars rovers
OMW - I have GOT to get one of these for hte next office casual day!
--Vodka
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