California Academy of Sciences on 9/27

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Still over 40 days away from a big re-opening, but I just read about this place and it looks positively awesome.

Features two huge domes (one a planetarium with a digital projection system, the other a 90’ bubble rain forest), a 2.5 acre “living” roof that just happens to be the largest patch of native vegetation in all of San Francisco, an aquarium with a coral reef, an Amazonian “flooded” forest, a Foucault Pendulum (for all you Umberto Eco fans), and lots more. I’d love to see this place.

— Alan

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It’s shit like this that makes me want to visit the states. That looks amazing.

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I’ll definitely be checking that out when it opens even though the living roof kind of freaks me out, with its resemblance to the place where the Teletubbies live.

4

Awesome.

This almost entirely makes up for G.W. Bush.

5

Fucking A - I’m dragging my wife and kids (kicking and screaming) through there, when we go on our planned US vacation.

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Cal Academy was and is one of my very favorite places to go, as a little kid and as an adult. I can’t wait to go to visit the new one when I come home for Xmas. Most of my best childhood memories come from that place, and the Exploratorium.

Make sure you visit there too when you’re in town! :D

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That kicks so much ass. I’ll have to go there if I ever visit the states again.