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OMSI, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, is offering free admission for the next couple of days. I stopped by to check out the exhibits and take some photos. There’s some pretty awesome stuff …
This is Samson, the tyrannosaurus rex in residence. It’s amazing to see in person, and hard to overstate how understated this guy’s arms are. Puny!
There are a bunch of other fossils, including a fossil lab where you can talk to people who are working on recovering a triceratops skeleton.
Here’s a couple of really big teeth: from a mastodon and a mammoth, respectively!
OMSI’s Turbine Hall has some pretty sweet electrical exhibits, including a Jacobs Ladder (here’s a closeup of the plasma arc):
… some pretty nimble robots:
… and a 20 foot tall Rocketdyne rocket motor:
That said, the most awesome thing I found was the first known instance of Einstein’s famous E=MC^2 equation, in his own handwriting:
Very, very cool.
It took me an hour to put this together — I can’t wait to see what I could do with an entire month!
