(SNES) All in a day.

[Timetrav2@webtv.net (Andy and Barry)]

Becuase my kids are on winter vacation this week we were able to do a
couple of interesting things yesterday.  Our first adventure was a
guided tour of the Hasbro Toy Company in Pawtucket, RI. This was a great
experience in learning how toys are designed from the drawing board to
prototypes and finally to production.

After our Hasbro visit we  headed to Providence and to be exact to Brown
University to meet Dr. Peter Schultz a world famous scientist who
studies meteor impacts at the Brown/Nasa Planetary Data Center. Dr
Schultz has been seen on many tv documentaries such as Nova and the
Discovery Channel where he has be shown traveling the world studying
impact craters. 

The Planetary Center is open to the public and is a major source  of
Nasa space images. Dr. Schultz showed us wonderful images of the Moon's
surface as well as the surfaces of Mars and Venus. He also tried to
explain some of his research that he does in studying how craters are
formed. His research often sends him to the west coast where Nasa (JPL)
has what is the equivalent of a massive gun that shoots metal balls into
sheets of aluminum forming craters much like the ones we see on the
Moon. 

He showed us several slabs of metal with tiny craters in them that this
machine has produced. It is amazing how much like the real thing these
man-made craters look.
Interesting stuff for young and old minds to ponder.
 
We had a chance to see and handle meteorites and dinosaur bones and
after about a two hour visit we walked away with  some great new
information and some fantastic Nasa space posters to take home.
 
Needless to say by the time we got home the three of us were exhausted.
What a day. Funny thing is that if I didn' t have kids most likely I
would have never done any of this. Children sure push the learning
experience into old age. 

Stars in your eyes,
Barry 

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