Evening Reading

Making my way to the California Academy of Sciences tonight to have some fun at the Morrison Planetarium, the largest digital planetarium in the world. EA held a Spore event at the place last year, three weeks before it opened to the public. Will Wright and Frank Drake (of Drake Equation fame) were in attendance. It was pretty amazing.

What's nice about the Morrison is they've incorporated a ton of NASA data and images from beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The software can push in on Earth, and pull all the way back to the outer-reaches of the known universe. I can't imagine what kind of impact that would have had on me as a child. The Moon is crazy enough.

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From The Chatty
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    September 10, 2009 6:02 PM

    That Turtles game for the PS3 looks fun... played the first level of the demo now, but I don't know if it's worth the $10...

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      September 10, 2009 6:05 PM

      What game is it?

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      September 10, 2009 6:05 PM

      Is it the remake of the turtles arcade game? I bought that one on XBLA and it's super fun to play with my 5 year old daughter, but it's very short.

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        September 10, 2009 6:18 PM

        Yeah, I suppose it's the same one of the XBLA.

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      September 10, 2009 6:15 PM

      It's a shoddy and joyless remake, I'd pass.

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        September 10, 2009 6:19 PM

        That's what I'm on the fence about it... I don't know, it feels "lifeless", as they've drained all the style and colorful stuff of it. I don't know - maybe I wanted to like it but got disappointed :(

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        September 10, 2009 6:23 PM

        Yea I got it for xbla, would rather play the snes version anyday.

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      September 10, 2009 6:39 PM

      don't do it, its awful.

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