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>[reprinted from e-mail message] > >I was just over at the CSS a week or so ago to see the >wonderful new >IMAX movie space Station 3D. I wasn't aware that they >completely >removed the old CMSI and when I finally realized it I >was a little sad. >That was one of my favorite school field trips. I've >always been a >science geek. > >I always loved the model railroad in the >transportation section. It was >the most elaborate model railroad I ever saw. Talking >about this makes >me want to go down to the model railroading museum at >Balboa Park in San Diego. > >The other thing I loved was downstairs in the >basement. It was part of >the Agriculture section and it was where they created >the little >woodland section with the rocky stream filled with >trout. >The new CSS is very hightech and it has a lot of open >space but it >doesn't seem to have a lot of heart. > >Remember downstairs in Agriculture where they had the >incubator hatching >baby chickens? Or remember Mathematica upstairs where >they had the >visual multiplier where you could multiply 3 integers >from 1 to 10 and >it would display that as a 3 dimensional matrix of >lightbulbs. Or the >display on topology using soap bubbles. Or the >gigantic Moebius Strip >with the motorized arrow that illustrated how a strip >has only one side. > >Later on they had the display from the Gas Company. >One of the booths >was called something like the Methane Astrorider. Two >silly aliens >talked up the virtues of gas. Well, you wouldn't know >it from their >make-up, but I met the aliens when I worked at a >recording studio. They >were two members of Firesign Theater. Kewl. >I make the old museum sound like heaven. But a lot of >times that stuff >didn't work. Just plain broke. And the same is true >for some of the new >exhibits at the CSS.

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