Museum of Science and Industry

Friday was the day for the "guys" (and me!) to visit the Museum of Science and Industry...

Front of the museum -- we got there just before it opened and were able to find great parking in the garage underneath.

Grandson Thatcher particularly wanted to go to the tsunami exhibit/experiment -- Scott and the boys had come to visit on a free day a few weeks ago and they didn't have a lot of time, so there were things they wanted to re-visit.

We started in the Science Storms room...

Selfie!

Son Steve working on creating a tornado!

Grandson Blaise examining an exhibit/experiment on string motion.

Scott, Blaise, Thatcher, and Roman experimenting with different wave lengths and heights in the tsunami experiment zone.

Grandson Roman, son Steve, and Carl working on an experiment to focus light to heat water.

Passing through the rotunda heading to the Transportation Gallery

Trains, planes, and other forms of transportation!

Son Scott and grandsons Thatcher and Blaise examining the *big* toy train set!

One of the draws to visit the museum at this time was to see the 007 (James Bond) Science special exhibit.

All the guys at the entrance to the 007 special exhibit!

The exhibit highlighted the real and pretend science that has been used in Bond movies...

Case for holding plutonium for a bomb

Aston Martin DBS V12 that was wrecked in Casino Royale. The "Science behind the stunt" explained that the original plan for the stunt was that the car would drive, at a high rate of speed, up a ramp on the passenger side and that would cause the car to flip. They had tried it with another vehicle and it worked, but when the Aston Martin DBS was delivered, they found that it was too heavy and would not flip, even with a ramp at 18". They instead exploded a charge under the car and the result was a 7-time rollover -- the most ever in a movie production. The neat thing was that there was a video beside the car showing the shooting of the scene (in which you could see the explosion) and then the video showed the scene as it ended up in the movie. Very interesting!

Another movie vehicle -- you can see the boat as it appears in the movie showing on the screen behind.

Classic type of saying by Q, this one to James Bond in Spectre

Goldeneye

Car that became a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me

Jaguar XKR, Die Another Day

One of my favorites -- downhill sledding in the cello case (the "Lady Rose") in The Living Daylights. (I looked up the film clip and the still picture that they had behind the case has them on opposite sides from the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QZuOQZ1HC4)

Dog robot in A View to a Kill

After enjoying the 007 special exhibit, we visited a few more areas in the museum... we went inside the Boeing 727 that was in the Transportation Gallery and saw a video about how it was brought to the museum. We visited the Chemistry area...

... there was an area with scents to identify...and this interesting sign about the composition of the different branches of science!

As we were on our way out, we went down a stairwell where there were all sorts of machines that could be made to work with push buttons...

Carl working a machine. He had told me before we came that his dad would bring him and his brother, Steve, to this museum on the day after Thanksgiving -- his dad had that day off from work, and not many other people did. He and his brother just enjoyed pushing the buttons and moving on to the next exhibit -- they asked to return to "the museum with the push buttons".

All of the guys were at different points in the display enjoying pushing buttons to work various different machines!

By this point, it was well after noon, and we were all hungry and a bit tired...

... we headed over to Portillo's for Italian Beef sandwiches.

What a nice day!