British creationism museum with pics

geni said:
Okey this diorama was trying to attack our current models of abiogensis. They go after the Miller-Urey experiment but I thought that had already been largely abandoned.
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No, it hasn't been abandoned. It got useful results. Since then we've learned more about the chemical makeup of the early earth, and also learned what organic chemicals are found on asteroids and comets.
 
They also had a polystyrine grave for evolution with a bunch of anti evolution quotes underneith it. A kinda diorama version of saying "I won this debate".
 

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That "T-Rex" is embarassingly poor. I don't have words to describe my thoughts on the "gravestone".
 
For those who are upset by this place in Portsmouth, let me reassure you with this picture, taken of a statue that looks out onto the thronging crowds in the main hall of the Natural History Museum, London:

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mazyloron said:
What, exactly, is a "megachip"?
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Considering the state of technology at the time that adding "mega" to anything still sounded impressive -- and someone already mentioned 1994 -- I am going to guess: a memory chip for 1 megabyte or more. I guess they should update the caption to read "gigachip".

The human genome apparently contains about 750 million bytes, which is indeed a fairly substantial amount. But if you stack up 1MiB SIMMs all on top of each other until you have enough capacity to store it, according to my calculations (correct me if I am wrong, I'm no maths whiz) you reach a height of:
still a long way away from the moon.


Another way to guess what they might mean with the term "megachip" is by comparing calculating how much it would store for it to be 45 million million times less efficient as information carrier. The human genome is about 750 million bytes, so the megachip is 750 million / 45 million million =
Not a whole lot of information. About a thousand times less than
half a folded, bent, spindled and mutilated IBM punchcard (I guesstimate).
 
Undesired Walrus said:
For those who are upset by this place in Portsmouth, let me reassure you with this picture, taken of a statue that looks out onto the thronging crowds in the main hall of the Natural History Museum, London:

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I have a similar photo of me standing there, too!

However, I was deeply jetlagged and had just recovered from a bout of gastro / food poisoning (and guess what a winning combination THAT is!) - so I won't be posting it.
 
I laugh at see your barometer museum and raise you a Cheese museum!



You do realise this will be split off to AAH very soon?
 
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I have a Norwegian friend ... actually, I have several, but I am thinking of one in particular.

She comes from a town not far from the Swedish border.

In her town, there is a peat museum.

Apparently, it is so interesting, and so successful that the locals... cross the border to buy cheap booze.
 
Near me (just outside Aylesbury) is 'Goat World', it doesn't even have a website. However to get there I would have to pass the Chiltern Brewery so sadly I've never made it that far!

As a born and bred Pompeyite, although I nolonger live there, I'm really saddened that my home city has this particular distinction.
 
geni:

I may well agree with your arguments, but they would be rather more convincing if you actually learned to write coherent and accurately spelled English. It's not difficult: use a spell and grammar checker.
 
geni said:
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The museum shop was fairly well stocked mind.

I tend to speculate that the museum exists more so that people can claim there is a creationism museum in the UK rather than for being a museum in it’s own right.
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I tend to speculate further that the museum itself is just a form of advertising to get people into the shop. That way, in this free museum, whether you are a believer, curious, or science-based visitor, you pay them something, if for nothing else, the memory.
 
Oh, enjoyable thread, lots of pics,info and banter. (except for the grammar police bit)
I'd love to see the ship, but the museum wont be on my list of places to visit if we get that far down South :D
 
Paul W said:
geni:

I may well agree with your arguments, but they would be rather more convincing if you actually learned to write coherent and accurately spelled English. It's not difficult: use a spell and grammar checker.
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You forgot to add a smiley. You wouldn't want people thinking this was a serious criticism, now would you?
 
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