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Cathy sent her voice over to me the other morning using technology
to make a ringing noise in my room. I was still asleep, but I
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Eli, Cathy and Jessy's first kid, was floating around in a bubble of
explorataculappiness the whole time we were there. We helped
him build a pvc fort, which only could have been better if dad could
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The museum lady, you know the old lady reading a book at a rarely
visited museum that seems surprised to see anyone, donated some
pennies to us so that we could donate some pennies to the gravity
vortex.
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I am totally lost trying to understand how this
demonstration works. They have some pvc pipes painted silver
and some other colors, but there's no metal. The pipes are
different lengths and are straight except an elbow at one end where
you're supposed to put your ear and listen to the "sounds of the
sun." It's just supposed to work on resonance and the longer
the pipe the lower the pitch of the hum you hear when you put your
ear to it. But last time I listened to a pvc pipe, I didn't
hear any humming. So what kind of voodoo magic is this?
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Next to the Solar Corner was the Gravity Racer. The gravity
racer let you race tennis balls down a hilly path vs. down a
straight path (the hilly path wins, I don't get this one either, the
science museum makes me feel stupid!). When Eli wasn't taking
tennis balls from the gravity racer and sticking them in the pipes
at the solar corner, he was running around the science museum like a
crazed lunatic, or like an interested one and a half year old,
depending on your perspective.
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A lot was learned that day and all before nap time. How about some explanations of how the exhibits work? Next time we hope there is a big boat building strike so that Jessy can come with us.
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