I love that scene

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I love that scene

Fox — 6/20/2007 1:23:27 AM (archived)

I think of it every time I go to a real museum... and I know a real example of a 'case within a case', so to speak. The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago retained their decades-old, badly-informed Neanderthal diorama after building a new one based on modern theory. According to the new plaque affixed next to the original, they kept it specifically to illustrate the change in interpretation.

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Extreme temperatures are taking their tolls on the MERS. - REB - 6/19/2007 12:55:29 PM
- What big fight? - TheSheepLookUp - 6/19/2007 2:07:05 PM
  - re: What big fight? - REB - 6/19/2007 6:17:35 PM
    - I give you points for thinking ahead - TheSheepLookUp - 6/19/2007 6:33:09 PM
      - Remember the Museum in Niven's "Mote in God's Eye" - nick hoffman - 6/19/2007 10:49:31 PM
        
        I love that scene - Fox - 6/20/2007 1:23:27 AM
      - re: I give you points for thinking ahead - REB - 6/19/2007 6:45:47 PM
        
        Armstrong's first footstep is certainly no longer there... - Raoul - 6/19/2007 7:00:34 PM
        
        Perhaps. Some of it might have survived. - REB - 6/19/2007 7:37:47 PM
        
        Yes, the last one! - Raoul - 6/19/2007 8:03:01 PM
        
        re: Yes, the last one! - But, there are more. - Marcia - 6/20/2007 12:31:41 AM
        
        That mission was on "From the Earth to the Moon" last night. - REB - 6/20/2007 12:54:45 PM
        
        Online article from Archaeology magazine talks about preserving space objects and areas - TheSheepLookUp - 6/20/2007 1:48:07 PM
        
        "Archaeological" sites - Fox - 6/21/2007 12:12:51 AM
        
        I thought a country own the land surrounding a lander. - REB - 6/20/2007 3:24:33 PM

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