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Live a Month At the Museum of Science and Industry
theodp writes "Even usually snarky Gawker loves the idea of living in a science museum for a month. Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is 'looking for someone to take on a once-in-a-lifetime assignment: spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person's mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.' Oh, and if you're The Chosen One, you'll also walk away with $10,000, a package of tech gadgets, and an honorary lifetime membership to MSI. Visit the Month at the Museum site for details and to apply — the deadline is August 11th."
Sounds like my phd program only without the chain to the desk and with more money.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. " -Voltaire
spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person's mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.'
Touched a dinosaur: man! those things are delicate!
The U-Boat was awesome!
Farm equipment was pretty good. Drove the tractor around a little bit before it ran out of gas.
At the baby chick hatchery. They're so cute! Awe shit! I left the door open! brb...
Went to Jim Hensen's Fantastic World and had a threesome with Kermit and Miss Piggy.
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
Didn't Pauly Shore do this in BioDome?
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do this, but since we've been taking our kids to the museum (their favorite as well as mine), I've noticed that a lot of the exhibits I loved have been replaced by dumbed-down equivalents. Take the original computer exhibit that used to be there; yes it was sponsored by IBM (who provided all the equipment), but that exhibit taught the actual nitty-gritty about how computers work; I can still remember "getting" how binary worked standing there and to a 10 year old geek-wannabe, that was awesome. Now they've got a half-hearted "net" exhibit that is more on "wow" than the specifics of how it works. Did they feel that really trying to explain things would turn people off?
I'm also disappointed that they removed so many of the planes; I *loved* walking in and seeing that F-104 right above my head, now there's just empty space. Why? The whole place was stuffed with ... stuff ... to look at and be excited by, and somewhere along the way they decided to rip so much of it out; they turned many an exhibit area into offices or "swing" spaces that are just empty.
On the plus side, they ripped out the ancient model train layout and replaced it with a sweet HO gauge one that is a lot cooler (Chicago to Seattle), and they have more than one or two trains running now..
All in all, I'd sign up and stay for a month. Wouldn't think twice. It's just that great a museum, even if, IMHO, it just isn't as great as it was.
Sigh...now get off my lawn!
The _original_, however, probably contains enough stuff to keep any geek busy for a month. And the beer is better, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum
Could I be chased by an old Commodore 64?
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
When I was a kid growing up in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood, my Dad would take me to one of the Chicago museums every Sunday morning after I discharged my duties as an altar boy (no dirty jokes, please).
I'm sure your discharge was very clean.
From the rules:
- Agree to very limited contact with the outside, and limited and/or prohibited personal use of cell phone, texting, e-mail, Facebook, etc., during the residence period.
- Reside exclusively in the Museum during the residence period. Occasionally, the candidate will leave the Museum to see science where it happens or appear at events on the Museum's behalf.
- You must be available to live in the Museum for 30 days with no outside personal or work responsibilities.
They should have called it "Prisoner at the Museum".
Binary for two year olds? YES, and NO.
Do they understand YES? Probably.
Do they understand NO? Not likely, though it's possible.
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MSI Diary......
Day 1 - today went ok, Got bored by 11:00pm spent the night in the Submarine pretending to shoot boats on the lake... .... .... .... ....
Day 10 - Tired of people looking at me, Museum officials told me that I cant flip everyone off.. I am sick of the coffee at the cafeteria... Tonight I'm going to see if I can get the solar challenge car out of it's exibit and try to run laps around the damned train.
Day 20 - Police arrived for the 15th time tonight... They are getting angry when I set off the alarm and ask the dispatch lady that calls for them to bring me doughnuts or pizza. I was yelled at for putting celebrity names on all the fetuses, I guess some little girl lost it when she saw "Hanna Montana's aborted baby Sally", stuck on the 14 week old.
Day 30 - Been hiding in the ductwork for 5 days now... they cant find me but I can hear them looking......
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.