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CA -- Los Angeles -- Exposition Park -- California Science Center:

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Description of Pictures: This is a hands-on museum with lots of interactive displays. I only got to see part of it after being told it closed at 9pm when in fact it closed at 5pm. The smoke dish and some of the exhibits were very neat and the kids seemed to enjoy it a lot which was nice.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SCICEN_041030_005.JPG: Interesting exhibit showing how a fulcrum determines your ability to lift heavy objects (a car in this case). The farther out the people are, the more easily the truck lifts.
2. SCICEN_041030_027.JPG: It was near Halloween so they had Mexican performers doing "day of the dead" things.
3. SCICEN_041030_073.JPG: Showing how a bicycle can be made to balance without ever being able to fall over.
4. SCICEN_041030_177.JPG: Hypar (hyperbolic paraboloid) See the Hypar operate every 30 minutes on the hour and half hour. The Hypar is a kinetic sculpture that changes size while keeping its shape. Its name comes from the shape used to make it: a hyperbolic paraboloid. Hypar inventor Chuck Hoberman designed and built it with computers. He figured out how strong each of the hundreds of different pieces needed to be. Then he and a machinist fed the directions for making each piece into a computer-aided manufacturing program. From concept to finished work, the process took about three years. Nearly a ton of stainless steel cables, rod, and other hardware supports the 5,000-pound aluminum Hypar. As the Hypar swells from 16 feet to 50 feet and back again, a computerized motor controls the pauses and the pace of its cycle.
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Wikipedia Description: California Science Center
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The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State and the California Science Center Foundation.

Formerly known as the California Museum of Science and Industry, the Museum was remodelled in 1998 as the California Science Center. Currently it consists of the IMAX Theater, the Sketch Foundation Gallery - Air and Space Exhibits (formerly Aerospace Hall) and the Science Center itself.

Vehicles on Display:

Vehicles on display at the California Science Center as of July 2007 include:
- Lockheed A-12 Oxcart Serial Number 60-6927
- Capsule for Gemini 11
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Command Module
- Capsule for Mercury-Redstone 2 which carried Ham the Chimp into space
- Replica Bell X-1 (movie prop from The Right Stuff)
- Engineering prototype for Viking Lander

Transformation:

In 1997, the Museum decided on a long-term renovation and transformation of its role from a science museum to a science education facility. This new facility would be known as the California Science Center. The master plan for this facility would be executed in three phases:

Phase I:

* Redesign of the main building (Howard F. Ahmanson building).
* Science Plaza - Exhibits outside the main entrance.
o World of Life - Explores the science of life in five galleries.
o Creative World - Highlights technology in transportation, communications and structures. Features include a virtual reality exhibit where you can play sports using virtual reality, an earthquake simulator and other exhibits.
o Special Exhibits gallery - Exhibits in this room have included a Titanic exhibit, a magic exhibit, a toy exhibit, and the widely known human body ...More...
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2004 photos: Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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