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- iJessicaRabbit, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9That's a beautiful museum; I hope to visit it one day
- protogenxl, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7Dr. Venture: So… it’s a cocoon… that flies.
The Monarch: Obviously!
Dr. Venture: I just realized, that makes no sense.
The Monarch: Uhhh, Monarch, butterfly, butterfly cocoon. It’s a theme thing.
Dr. Venture: Yeah, I get it. But why didn’t you just make it shaped like a butterfly?
The Monarch: Because that’s gay. - dsmx, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6It's free to go to as well since all national museums in the UK are free to enter.
- BaudiIROCZ, on 09/03/2008, -1/+7London builds a Darwin Centre while the US builds a "Creation Museum." Something is terribly wrong. Can we please get these keep this AIG ***** out of our country.
NO MORE CREATIONISM!!!! - hasslinthehoff, on 09/03/2008, -1/+7Beautiful, but banned by the Republican Party for mentioning the word "Darwin."
- craighoxton, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6All the best museums are in Europe because we're better educated
- Gismo575, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5We need more Darwin!!!
- Angostura, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4I visit several times a year. It is indeed beautiful. The main building was designed by the Victorians to be a cathedral to science, it is magificent.
- highwebl, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3It's about time that movie got its own museum.
Brimley FTW! - craighoxton, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Steve Guttenberg can't wait!
- dsmx, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Thank god it's over 1500 miles from republicans then.
- gambl0r, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Looks similar to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's EMPAC building which is scheduled to open next month. It has a similar cocoon-within-glass-structure design, although RPI's building has a wood 'cocoon' which looks a lot cooler: http://empac.rpi.edu/building/
- gothicform, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3I can't be alone in thinking that the bulbous high-tech look of the extension, although great on its own, does not fit with the gothic revivalist facade of Waterhouse?
- Sornos, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Odd that Schizodactylusm only appears on the BBC site when I google it.
Anyways, there are plenty of other crickets of similar size and structure.
Like the weta:
http://img6.travelblog.org/Photos/36984/266251/f/2 ...
Or more closer to home,
The Jerusalem cricket:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e ...
These guys are found in the south and west US. - JustinHopewell, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Wow, this sounds amazing. I have to say, though-- if I were a researcher, I might have a little trouble concentrating on my work with people constantly looking at me through those glass windows.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2It's a cool-looking museum.
- Discopopstar, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Welcome to a world outside the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey
Stop being an idiot. - moblin7, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Story. Not storey.
- DarkDot, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Anyone else a little freaked out by that picture of the Schizodactylusm?
1)Luckily its in the dry collection
2)Hopefully they're extinct, or don't live anywhere near me! - vili89, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Oh it sounds interesting.
I haven't seen something like this, and I hope to visit this museum - freshyill, on 09/03/2008, -3/+2Museums these days SUCK. I grew up loving natural history museums. Big halls, full of dioramas, skeletons, mounted specimens and various other cool things. These days, it's all sorts of loud, in-your-face interactive *****. I was first in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in 8th grade, in 1993. It was awesome. I went there again earlier this year, and I was really disappionted. There was huge, mounted Siberian tiger in a fantastic leaping pose. This year, I managed to find it again. It's 20 feet up in the air barely noticeable, and hardly able to be closely examined. It's a common theme all over the museum.
I'm sure this London museum will be a fantastic architectural gem, full of dumbed-down crap.
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