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Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 3:36 pm CST
There's a new creationism museum and a new theme-park in Kentucky. How embarrasing.
If a bunch of hillybilly inbreds can organize and rally (and get state funding) for such an abomination, then surely a bunch of educated folk like us could come up with something better.
Theme parks are basically celebrations of science as it is, we just cover it all up with tacky fibreglass decorations.
I mean, you're a science-blogger right - one who communicates science to the public - isn't a theme-park the reductio ad absurdum? It certainly fucking is when you claim that Noah took dinosaurs on the Ark, and then you actually plan to build the damn thing...
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 3:42 pm CST
I know about the museums and the new theme park (HT Pharyngula) and the douchemoney creationist Goc of Kentucky promising millions of tax-payer dollars for it. However, I'm not the entire blogging collective of Lab Spaces lambasting them is a good idea because it will likely be endlessly repetitive. You, Evie & Kelly & JCW might have novel ideas, the rest of us are basically biomedical of rank or another. If everyone joins in that's an engineer, a psychologist, a phycisist, a medic and 22 biologists...
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 3:50 pm CST
Fuck it, I say January we do a day in the life or just a simple free for all. Slagging off on a theme park doesn't seem interesting to me or possibly our readers if we all do it.
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 4:56 pm CST
I didn't intend the theme to be one of criticism. Let me express the sentiment in a different way. 'Your Science as Art' - Your science expressed in a non-literal way. Perhaps the bio folk have some amazing close-up pictures that inspire them, and Astronomy folk has some recordings of radiowaves from Aurora's on Saturn, etc.
Thoughts?
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 5:06 pm CST
That is actually a really cool idea.
I'd have to really think about this, cause in engineering you are taught to keep on the strict structural/math side of things and somewhat discouraged to have anything to do w 'art'.
And by 'somewhat' I mean 'totally'.
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 5:19 pm CST
I totally get where Rift is coming from on this. I didn't think of it as a literal but as an abstract. Something like this, Tiddles. Might not be a great idea for everyone, but I think some of us could have a lot of fun with it. It's a great exercise in creativity if nothing else. Rift, maybe you, Evie, and I can do this on a different day since these other guys aren't enthusiastic about it?
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 5:30 pm CST
I think it could work if it's expanded from just our own science specialty to the related topics we blog on. Perhaps JadeEd could do one on industry, or a few of us postdocs could blog about a job market themed "amusement" park. It would require a bit more planning and creativity, but could also result in some fun posts. Of course, I haven't even begun to figure out how to see these ideas through - just brainstorming on the idea.
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 5:33 pm CST
I see where you're coming from. I thought you meant a lampoon of the Creation "museum" or theme park from the PoV of the bloggers. This idea is certainly different. I'm not being a dick, but I'll pass on this because it really would look like a lab or the inside of a hospital if you left it to me. In fact I know I'll end writing something horrid and snarky (for a change) about how science based "theme parks" are around us all the time but no one ever bother to look.
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 5:51 pm CST
Actually, that might even be a nice take on it, Tiddles. Talk about how there's really science all around and people just don't think about it? Or you could just pull an SfN and lambast all of our theme parks and rank them on stupidity :P
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 7:32 pm CST
Evie - surely you've got to do some pretty creative problem solving in your field? Math/structures are just tools, surely?
Fri, Dec 03, 2010, 7:52 pm CST
It's pretty rigid.. but I do have some vids of N2O clouds.. those are kinda cool to watch :)
There is creativity when it comes to design, but it's not exactly eye candy kind of stuff, unless you're really into it.
Tue, Dec 14, 2010, 5:34 am CST
I like this idea (not exactly sure what I would come up with at the moment, but there's a while to think about it yet!).
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