Body Worlds and Air Show
I spent the day before laybor day out in the warm Cleveland sun (never thought I'd say that) walking around and peering at the azure sky. Stokes Laura and myself took the rapid to Tower City mall, and walked to the Great Lakes Science Center to see the air show and Body Worlds. We spent a good hour and a half looking at the actual bodies of plastinated dead people. A Dutch (corrected by Nicole Sharp) artist by the name of Gunther von Hagens invented the technique whereby the actual organic structures are replaced by polymers much in the way fossils are organic material replaced by minerals. It was quite an interesting exibhit traveling the world (stopped in Cleveland at the moment obviously) and I hightly reccomend it if you have the means. Unfortunately the only portion of the exhibit we were permitted to photograph was a frenched (as in the way it was sliced) camel. Check it out in my Flickr Photostream
The second part of the day consisted of watching the Thunderbirds and a tricksy biplane perform aerial stunts of death defying magnitude over lake Erie for our enjoyment. Ah the joys of an F-16 screaming by in formation. I love watching engineering in motion, especially when it's Aerospace engineering, and even more so if that motion happens to be just below the speed of sound (at sea level).
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The man responsible for Body Worlds is actually Dutch, not German ;)
And my suitemates have been making fun of my squeals every time the air show flies by. Stupid comp scis.