Talk about recycling, look what was made out of 5,000 plastic bottles - a giant chandelier for our Mad Scientist Ball
January 13, 2009
Construction Reaches Milestone 50-foot Planetarium Dome Lifted And Placed
Opening in late fall 2009, the new, state-of-the-art Noble Planetarium will be unequaled in the Southwest. It will feature the first Zeiss-manufactured hybrid planetarium system – immersive all-dome video combined with fiber optic dual-hemisphere star balls to see more than 8,000 stars. An exhibit area that will provide large screens with up-to-the-minute views of the Sun, as well as downlinks offering the latest information from the Hubble Telescope.
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Construction Time Lapse through July 2008
Construction of the new Fort Worth Museum of Science and History began November 2007, with the demolition of its existing 50-year-old building. The new campus will open in fall 2009 and will feature innovative architecture by internationally renowned architects, Legorreta + Legorreta, including an iconic, 77-foot-tall "Urban Lantern" at its entrance.
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Music
Bob Segar,
anything by Bob Marley,
Bob Dylan or
The Turtles :)
Melissa Etheridge
Movies
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
All About Bob,
Bob the Builder
Television
SpongeBob SquarePants,
Home Again with Bob Vila,
The Bob Newhart Show,
The Price is Right,
Newhart
Books
Yertle the Turtle by Dr Seuss
Aesop's Fable - The Tortoise and the Hare
About me: So I’ve been cooped up underground for, like, five or six months thinking about NOTHING except what my myspace page is going to look like when i get out...
So...I was still trying to figure out what was going on as I was crossing the Museum's construction zone yesterday when a construction worker must have seen me out of the corner of his eye -- and he rescued me. They tell me I've been missing since September, when we moved out of the old Museum building.
I had been living in a pond within the Museum's outdoor courtyard with my other buds at the Museum (see a pic of my OLD home in My Pics), but when everyone else moved out of the building, I must have been incognito and they were unable to find me. So...I decided to take a long nap...a REALLY long five-month nap, hibernating under the mud.
You can imagine my surprise when I woke up in the heart of our intense construction zone, where massive construction vehicles have been criss-crossing the site and installing piers for months! They tell me that the entire construction site had been excavated and then backfilled to prepare the soil for the new Museum's foundation and that I was actually moved by backhoes to a huge pile of dirt and then moved back to where they found me.
Now I'm livin' it up, MySpace style! Come back and check out my blogs...
This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My
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Who I'd like to meet: The guys who are building my new home, Ricardo and Victor Legorreta!
Hello my friend! I have redesigned my profile. My new theme is anything that I find to be beautiful and pleasant, while at the same time causing me fear and/or sadness! (an example is the woman below in the mask) So come by and see, and I hope you like it. Much Luv, Ami ~
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