The Nerd in Me

23/02/2008

The Nerd In Me: very very happy :D

and so's the kid in me:p

I did see the dinosaurs....I did see the dinosaurs...I did see the dinosaurs...

:D :p :D :p

Was pretty cool seeing the dinosaur exhibition at the Natural History Museum... TOO MANY PEOPLE! TOO MANY KIDS! I was informed - and came to the realisation afterwards - it's halfterm... hence the excessive amount of children! SO the wrong time to actually see exhibitions properly at both the Science and Natural History Museums... Kids everywhere! All busy at the interactive displays so...a trip back again... ;)

Finished up at the NHM and then went off to the Science Museum.... spent hours in the place and could've spent longer... if it wasn't for the fact that I was tired, and my feet were aching with all the walking and standing in awe at everything I saw in the science museum...

It was so amazing...seeing exhibitions on space travel, the history of computers, history of mathematics, exhibitions on energy, ships, clocks, weather, history of medicine, materials, you name it - it is in the science museum!

Seeing the space travel displays and reading comments made by astronauts on how they felt being in space and being able to blot out earth with a thumb left me goose pimpled! *blush* It just once again re-inforced that we're so small and insignificant and what we've achieved is so minuscule...

Looking at the history of computers and mathematics - what we have today is as a result of the leg work and brain work by people from way back when...

With centuries of experimentation we now have the technology we have available that we take for granted. We don't really realise what has gone into something as simple as a calculator or a laptop...

These initial scientists have made things for todays scientists a whole lot easier... and scientists today continue to improve things resulting in even greater advancements!

Wandering around the Science museum also made me realise that I know so little about so much! There is so much out there that I feel so ignorant about...that may be because I am.

It really was an information overload and I was again left in awe...but this time a different kind. In awe at how things developed in a time when they had to invent the things we now take for granted.

In awe that we as humans really are such selfish, ignorant creatures. When looking at the exhibitions on ships and clocks and aircraft - the western world wasn't the only world that developed these. There were the egyptions and chinese, and polynesians and and and...

I think that growing up in a very westernised society you don't really realise that inventions etc happened the world over.

Yes, I'm sure we are all aware of some things e.g the abacus from the chinese - one of the earliest types of calculators...but the Incas also had a counting device...

Maybe I'm just coming to this realisation now...maybe other's have already...

But it's suffice to say that I am loving this acquisition of knowledge...and although it really was too much to take in all at once... a trip back, especially to the Science Museum, is due.