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Date Posted: 01:38:13 07/11/02 Thu
Author: Roy B.
Subject: Model train & Agriculture exhibit

[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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