London, Sept. 16th
Yesterday we finally got to the science! We went to the Natural History Museum, which turned out to be huge..we spent almost four hours there and didn’t see everything we wanted to. It had some of the most innovative layouts I’ve seen in a museum, especially of natural history. The dinousaur exhibit was two-layered, with a walkway over the exhibit with complete skeletons suspended from the ceiling, level with the walkway. There were even animatronic dromaeosaurs (like Deinonychus, Velociraptor) on top of some of the exhibit cases, threatening people on the walkway. There was also a special exhibit on predators, with more animatronics..a great white shark, a chameleon, and a type of funnel web spider. The latter two were actually interactive! They had a video camera in each eye of the chameleon, and controls for the eyes along with monitors displaying what the cameras saw… so you could control where the eyes looked on the actual exhibit, and see what they were looking at on the monitors…and if you made them both look at a target in front of the chameleon, it would shoot out its tongue and act like it caught a fly! The funnel web spider had little cables running to where you stand..Theresa and I spent a while trying to get the spider’s attention by tapping on the cable..finally this dude gave a gable a good hard pluck, and the huge animatronic spider turned towards him, and reared up to attack. It would attack in the direction of whatever cable got its attention…
Today we’re going to do the Science Museum, which has an Imax, and hopefully we’ll be done there by 4:30 so we can go back to the Natural History Museum (admission is free after 4:30) and finish looking around..
There’s some other unrelated news that I can’t quite talk about yet ’cause it’s still too unlikely to work out…
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