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Pedo'd in the boobies; this thread stands no chance

Burn Her!

/very small rocks don't float in water.

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According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, she was born on 15 April 1990, and is therefore of legal age. Pedo-bear has lost interest.

In other news, Draco Malfoy has just been appointed as the new Senator from Illinois.

jshine: According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, she was born on 15 April 1990, and is therefore of legal age. Pedo-bear has lost interest.

9/10 pictures in here will be her underage, mark my words.

ninjakirby:9/10 pictures in here will be her underage, mark my words.

No doubt.

Oh yeah, lots of science in the Harry Potter books.

In other science news, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia is holding a four-month exhibit on the "science of Narnia". Um. Science, right.

jshine: PC LOAD LETTER:Pedo'd in the boobies; this thread stands no chance

According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, she was born on 15 April 1990, and is therefore of legal age. Pedo-bear has lost interest.

18 or not she still looks 14.

Religious outrage and calls of scientific hypocrisy in 3.. 2.. 1..

/marshmallows any one?

Sue D. Nymme: Oh yeah, lots of science in the Harry Potter books.

In other science news, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia is holding a four-month exhibit on the "science of Narnia". Um. Science, right.

Sand. Vagina. You has it.

Is this a thread about the science of pedobear? Teach the controversy!

pedobear is teaching the controversy?

luthia: /very small rocks don't float in water.

But what about apples?
Gravy?
Churches?
Lead?

/so confused

RTFA, there is no science here. It's a movie memorabilia exhibit Basically a Planet Hollywood without the food. At least you get a burger for your $25 at Planet Hollywood though.

Thats a good point. Kids should be taught witchcraft and sorcery as an alternative to Christianity. Not to push one set of beliefs on them, but to "teach the controversy".

Hey, if that's what it takes to get kids into a real museum, I'm fine

This is an exhibit that belongs at Universal Studios or some other entertainment venue, not a real museum. There's no science involved.

A couple years ago I went to this museum and couldn't believe how bad it was. There were rooms and halls taken up with broken and senseless semi-science toys. Like a kids science fair. The most interesting exhibit was chicken hatching. A huge amount of space was taken up with a farking train diorama. I was so disappointed.

I take it you missed going on the U-boat tour?

Nope. Thought the U-boat tour was stupid too. What was that doing in a science museum? Or the coal mine?

Give me a real science museum any day. Where kids can interact and actually learn something. Like the Exploratorium.

fred_chan:This is an exhibit that belongs at Universal Studios or some other entertainment venue, not a real museum. There's no science involved.

Sure there is -- those special effects don't create themselves.

WAX ON maybe if you paid attention to the full name of the Musuem, you would understand it's not just a science museum but also deals with Industry...hence thinks such as trains, subs, and even coal mines.

The Musuem of Science and Industry has also had a Star Wars exhibit in the past...

jshine: fred_chan:This is an exhibit that belongs at Universal Studios or some other entertainment venue, not a real museum. There's no science involved.

Sure there is -- those special effects don't create themselves.

If they do it right they could cover a lot of interesting issues. It is all a function of how they execute.

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According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, she was born on 15 April 1990, and is therefore of legal age. Pedo-bear has lost interest.

When was the pic taken?

skinink: they have two space craft from Star Wars including this one which I'm not sure what it is.

Anakin's ship from Ep1?

skinink: On the other hand, maybe I shouldn't say anything about Harry Potter. In Boston's Science Museum, they have two space craft from Star Wars including this one which I'm not sure what it is.

It's a Naboo Fighter^.

God, I'm a nerd.

PC LOAD LETTER: skinink: they have two space craft from Star Wars including this one which I'm not sure what it is.

Anakin's ship from Ep1?

Yes, that's the ship the kid flew up from Naboo to blow up the droid control ship. (scary what a wealth of useless information I have. . .)

Regarding the Museum of Science and Industry, my kids really enjoyed it when we went last spring, especially the U boat. Unfortunately we've moved south so we won't be able to see the HP exhibit - my kids are big fans (ok, so am I) and we're bummed.

jackmalice:
In other news, Draco Malfoy has just been appointed as the new Senator from Illinois.

LOL - I thought that Snape was also in the running.

Chicago?

You mean the "Second-Rate City"?

Not interested.

Grumpynuts jackmalice:
In other news, Draco Malfoy has just been appointed as the new Senator from Illinois.

LOL - I thought that Snape was also in the running.


Either way, they're both Death Eaters Republicans.

clubob: The Musuem of Science and Industry has also had a Star Wars exhibit in the past...

We were there about a year and a half ago and saw that one.
To their credit, they did a good job of contrasting Star Wars tech to real life tech, showing how some of it had a basis in reality, but was still impossible to do as shown. A lot of hands-on displays for the kids to play with, that involved real science, and was marginally related to the display.

I just thought it was neat seeing the actual ship models used in the movies.

wax_on: Nope. Thought the U-boat tour was stupid too. What was that doing in a science museum? Or the coal mine?

Give me a real science museum any day. Where kids can interact and actually learn something. Like the Exploratorium.

It's almost like it's a museum of science and industry or something. That's really strange and they should definitely fix that error.

In seriousness I enjoyed the coal mine and the u-boat. Not so much the giant train set. Lots of those broken exhibits are actually rather interesting if you can get to them before the hordes of children smash them into oblivion (which is a real problem and makes the museum kinda grody). Of course my main interaction there was going to the omnimax theater every year as a student. The Field Museum remains my number one museum in town however.

Kids should be taught witchcraft and sorcery as an alternative to Christianity. Not to push one set of beliefs on them, but to "teach the controversy".

Absolutely.
And show, equally:
The Inquisition burning hundreds of thousands of Calvinists, Lutherans, Wycliffites, Jews, Hussites, Muslims, Presbyterians, Huguenots and Anglicans for 598 years (1228-1826).

Wa'habbis, Sunnis and Shi'ites killing tens of millions of Christians, B'hai, Coptics, Hindus, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Buddhists and Jews for 1192 years (616-2008).

Jews... Jews...

Wait: does "Zionist, racist suppression of the natural human right of the Palestinians to strap explosives to their small children" qualify?

No.

An 18+ Emma

What. the. fark. This is really sad.

/next will be the "Ow, My Balls" exhibit.

I worked for the Boston Science museum and I'm really getting a kick...

Seriously. I did.

I got to work on the Star Wars exhibit AND the Lord of the Rings exhibit when they started in Boston, and they both suffered the same criticisms. The science content is very carefully crafted into these exhibits, and people spend years making it an educational exercise, not just a excuse to hock toys and tee-shirts. The Star Wars exhibit (still on tour) was about how close current technology has come, in robotics, medical science and space travel, to what you see in the movies. LotR was about the science of special effects - motion capture to create Gollum, using technology to create realistic virtual armies on screen without hiring 200,000 extras, and how to make Elijah Wood three feet tall when standing next to Liv Tyler. The movie hype is a great way to pull people in to the museum. Harry Potter will be the same.

/I've not only steered Luke's landspeeder, I've held the Palantir and lived, biatches.

eggrolls, that rocks!

as a student at the Grey School of Wizardry, I say good on them for using wizardry to help hook the kids on real science. (the GSW is why I'm no longer TF - that's where my $5 a month is going instead.)

Well Harry Potter certainly has as much science as creationism.

Though Harry is much better written.

eggrolls: I worked for the Boston Science museum and I'm really getting a kick...

I see how the Star Wars exhibit could be valuable in the robotics/medicine/space travel aspects because they have direct applications in the physical world. However, I don't buy the 'science of movie special effects' as being a valuable science museum exhibit. It just doesn't have any use outside of movies.

clubob: WAX ON maybe if you paid attention to the full name of the Musuem, you would understand it's not just a science museum but also deals with Industry...hence thinks such as trains, subs, and even coal mines.

Yup. Writing fiction and translating books into film is an industry.

/"yup" is the new "this"

why wont harry potter just farking die!?!
I hate that crap

/have read the books
//was to prove a point and know your enemy kinda thing

BlippityBleep: eggrolls: I worked for the Boston Science museum and I'm really getting a kick...

I see how the Star Wars exhibit could be valuable in the robotics/medicine/space travel aspects because they have direct applications in the physical world. However, I don't buy the 'science of movie special effects' as being a valuable science museum exhibit. It just doesn't have any use outside of movies.

Because computers are never used to model or simulate physics, industrial prototypes, weather, etc. Just because they are showing how you can model orcs doesn't mean it is useless. There is actually rather sophisticated artificial intelligence in Massive (the software used). Special effects (computer games, movies, etc.) are a huge market. It sounds reasonable for a museum of science and industry.

Remember that these places also serve the purpose of getting kids interested in science. The US lags behind many countries in educating scientists. If these exhibits encourage interest in science I think it is a win. Show that science can be fun.

BlippityBleep: It just doesn't have any use outside of movies.

Wow. Did you really just say that? No use outside of movies? Dear lord!

Come on guys the museums have to do something to get kids to come! Maybe young boys like trains and airplanes but what about teenage girls?

Isn't part of science being creative and inventing things people never thought were possible?

Besides, Chicago already had the field museum with the biology, mummies, etc.

/Shed Aquarium is best!

Helios1182: Because computers are never used to model or simulate physics, industrial prototypes, weather, etc. Just because they are showing how you can model orcs doesn't mean it is useless. There is actually rather sophisticated artificial intelligence in Massive (the software used). Special effects (computer games, movies, etc.) are a huge market. It sounds reasonable for a museum of science and industry.

I don't really think that movies are interested in a realistic precipitation pattern. They are just interested in the illusion of realism. As for industry, I always thought that it should be used as a term for manufactured goods and I don't place movies in that category even though I guess it is technically a good. I may be splitting hairs about semantics here but I truly do not see how making Harry Potter invisible in a film is a valuable learning experience. I don't think kids will gain an interest in software engineering because of this type of exhibit. Also, 3d modeling and animation is used in a wide array of research, but again the movie special effects type is only to convey information instead of researching or creating programs for climatic models and the like. I may look into this exhibit further but I really don't see how it will spur a child's interest in science or anything more useful than cinema. The Harry Potter series failed at getting kids interested in reading (they only read the series which aren't very good anyway) and I do not see how this will have different results.

BlippityBleep: I don't really think that movies are interested in a realistic precipitation pattern. They are just interested in the illusion of realism. As for industry, I always thought that it should be used as a term for manufactured goods and I don't place movies in that category even though I guess it is technically a good. I may be splitting hairs about semantics here but I truly do not see how making Harry Potter invisible in a film is a valuable learning experience. I don't think kids will gain an interest in software engineering because of this type of exhibit. Also, 3d modeling and animation is used in a wide array of research, but again the movie special effects type is only to convey information instead of researching or creating programs for climatic models and the like. I may look into this exhibit further but I really don't see how it will spur a child's interest in science or anything more useful than cinema. The Harry Potter series failed at getting kids interested in reading (they only read the series which aren't very good anyway) and I do not see how this will have different results.

Asperger's?

tonesskin: Asperger's?

Naw, I just tire of seeing the intellect of America turning into the equivalent of watered-down orange juice.