Who knew Plinko had science behind it?
Thursday, November 29, 2007
חמשושלים Finale
For the third and final weekend of חמשושלים, we decided to spend our Thursday evening at the Bloomfield Science Museum, which is near to the Israel Museum and Gan Soccer. The museum is laid out like most other kid-friendly museums (haphazardly) and is full of whirring, spinning, falling, and flying colourful items, as well as enough levers, cranks, buttons and magnets to make NASA jealous. While there we ran into half-a-dozen friends, and enjoyed making the rounds with them. We even got to participate in one demonstration, by being tied together and told to extricate ourselves. We failed miserably, to everyone's delight. That same demonstration utilized a jar of liquid nitrogen, whose coolness more than made up for the embarrassment. Toward the end of the night (12ish) we waited in a stinky line with many impatient patrons to watch a light show, basically a man dressed in black wowing us with optical tricks, then explaining the science behind them. Who knew nerdiness was so popular and so much fun?
Who knew Plinko had science behind it?
Who knew Plinko had science behind it?
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"who knew that nerdiness was... so much fun," you ask? To that, I'd remind you that many of your friends back home most DEFINITELY know that nerdiness can be fun, though we may not all openly admit it!
I'll admit that many of us belonged to the -ahem- "glasses prone" segments of the population in our youth, but come on! There were probably 200 people, Israeli people, pushing to get into a 50-seat museum auditorium in the middle of night, just to see a man wave flashlights and dress up in discarded Tron costumes. And the audience participation? StarWars reenactments. I'm surprised we didn't have to snort, hike up our pants, and break out in acne as the price for admission.
That's awesome. Did they do that thing where they trick expensive scientific equipment into playing the Super Mario Bros theme with electric discharges?
I would stare blankly at your comment, but being as nerdy as I've already claimed not to be, I have to admit that I watched that video online. Twice. This week. For those who don't get it, get it on Youtube (search for Tesla coils and Mario brothers).
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