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It's half term! This wouldn't really feature on my radar, but we've been trying to do funstuff with A in her week-and-a-bit off school.

We took her to the National Space Centre today, which was fun fun fun. Well, sort off, apart from it was really hot and full of small children who weren't as good at queuing up as A! However, despite the noise and stuffiness it was still good to take her somewhere which was fun as well as vaguely educational.

There was this amaaazing competitive-Dad type bloke queuing behind us at one point. He was trying to get his (very young children) to recite back to him what LHC stood for in this film we'd watched (then messed up saying large hadron collider himself)... if that's even the correct spelling. The children just looked a bit bewildered.

I liked all the films and interactive-y stuff about the gas giants and kuiper belt, as they're things I like reading about - so it was good to chat to A about them too. Sadly I don't think the others found that bit as interesting as me. I made them sit through this film about the Voyager probes too (if probe is the right term??) but got the distinct feeling it was only really interesting for me... possibly due to nostalgia value, as I remember a documentary about it when I was little that was really brilliant, it was the first time I found out much about Uranus and Neptune and it just all seemed so new I suppose.

It's weird typing that, I know loads of people who've done science degrees and I sort of feel like a gigantic child who's spent the day running round a museum getting excited about things a lot of people probably think are kind of basic or boring... but on the other hand I've read a lot of stuff in various philosophies of science about how certain planets were discovered/understandings of the universe were developed... it's like I've got these two takes on it that are poles apart, with a massive gap in the middle where the actual 'real scientific knowledge' bit should probably go.

Saying that, I like being excited about things, so don't really mind - even though I probably should do :S

I need to update more often, I like lj looooads more than facebook and want to keep reading - but it's a bit hypocritical if I don't do it myself.

If you're still reading and want to answer a space themed question: what's your favourite moon in the solar system? Mine's Io!

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