ca _Castlégar News May 10, 1989 Science World ready for visitors VANCOUVER (CP) — Perched like a giant chrome spider at the edge of the water, Scienge World is ready to receive visitors The glittering silver dome, ted by thin insect-like legs, merly known at the Expo Centre one of the few remaining relics of Expo 86. It still houses the Omnimax theatre but, thanks to a $17 now is home to much more. The gigantic geodesic playpen offers the chance to tussle with a tornado, shrink your friends’ faces, create your own symphonic masterpieces or even suppor was for million face.ift, makea movie And you don’t have to be a science nuttohave fun Anyone who saw the movie Big with Tom Hanks will remember the scence where he plays chopsticks by prancing around on massive floorboard piano keys. It’s just like thesei at Science World “These are all interactive exhibits,” said Gerald Moss, a nuclear physicist who gave up a 20-year career at. the University of Alberta to become direc tor of science and education at Seience World Moss, then associate dean of the faculty of science, was on sabbatical in The Ministry of Social Services May 10, 1989 May 14, 1989 cs © HITAC Hil SCIENCE FOR THE SENSES HITACHI VM-3100 You're The Star With Hitachil Features include * Auto focus S-speed * Date recording « Full VHS functions * Up to 120 minutes recording time. * And more! 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The centre offers an array of interactive exhibits. Foster Care You can make a difference OPENING FREE LEVI T-SHIRT J)’s IN CASTLEGAR CELEBRATES THE GRAND OF THEIR DOWNTOWN TRAIL STORE! WITH PURCHASE! 365-7589 359 Columbia Ave., Castlogar Vancouver when he saw the job ad in the paper “Pve got a 20-year career at the University of Alberta. table as I need to be and here's a brass ring,” explained Mos bobbing over square-rimmed glasses. “Now, this merry-go-round goes There's only one shot at I'm as comfor his curly hair around once the brass ring SAVORS SWITCH Moss says he’s never looked back in the year since the switch It’s unbelievably exciting,”’ Moss said, a sparkle in his steady eyes. ‘I can see here an incredible future for this centre in this environment — the entire province of British Columbia. We've got outreach programs to develop, in- house classroom programs to develop, a vista of the future to be opened.” The Vancouver centre, which covers approximately 9,000 square metres on the edge of False Creek, is now one of about 200 in the world. Its philosophy is paralleled most closely in Canada by the Ontario Science Centre in Toron- to Quakes recent, study suggests SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Studies of hearths and discarded seashells at old Indian dwelling sites suggest huge earthquakes struck what is now the northwestern United States in the last 300 to 400 years, far more recently than previously believed, geologists said Rick Minor and Wendy Grant, geologists working along the Oregon coast, presented papers to a Geological Society of America cor correlating sudden, dramat ention hanges _in land levels to disruptions in Indian _| “communities Evidence suggests the last major quake was 300 to 400 years ago, said Minor and Grant. It was previgusly thought the last major quake was 3,000 or more years ago Grant said the research is the first to © study the possible effect of severe land movement on human populations She said carbon dating of hearth sites and layers of shellfish eaten by people living near the ocean periods where habitation abruptly en ded These periods can be correlated to evidence of dramatic drops in land levels followed by a tsunami, a giant wave associated with large ear thquakes, Grant said EVIDENCE INTRIGUING Scientists cautioned carbon dating is imprecise and the evidence, triguing, is circumstantial **Clearly, much more work nteds to be done on why people would be for ced to move, or change their subsisten: ce patterns,’ cautioned Minor show while in. ‘The only explanation is that it was. a large carthquake,"’ said Brian At water of the Geological Survey. ‘But to really naitit down, more research is needed Other Canadian centres include Science North in Sudbury, Ont., the Space Science Centre in Edmonton and the Regional Children’s Museum in London, Ont Like those, Moss says Science World attempts to “‘meld the two E's education and entertainment," without losing quality on either side. Operated by the non-profit Science World Society, the centre was built with the help of about $11 million in grants from the three levels of gover nment, but will rely on memberships and visitors for its annual operating budget of about $4.6 million The interaction at Science World begins the moment you walk past the front desk, The wavy pastel walls con. tain panels that respond witli lights when touched. Other walls simply light upas you walk by The first gallery is full of optical illusions, many developed by a retired telephone lineman from Oregon. CHANGING FACE Another exhibit features a spinning spiral that you stare at for about 15 seconds. When you look away at someone's face, it “wows” in and out as though shrinking or expanding To get a creepier effect, look at your hand instead “it looks like you have. worms crawling through your hand. because various parts of your hand will fluc- tuate up and down,”” Moss explained “It’s avery interesting effect."* Indeed One of the centre's more innovative exhibits is a tornado tank, which Moss jokingly refers to as his pet from Ed- monton In a blue plexiglass chamber, the wispy white twister appears on cue with the push of a button. The cham ber is open and Moss says people love to try and grab the mini-twister, which looks like a pixie undulating before a photograph of Edmonton's grandad- dy tornado That twister sliced through Edmon- ton on July 31, 1987, killing 27 people and causing millions of dollars of damage. Another exhibit lets you walk inside a room-sized camera where you can focus the lens to see the upside-down image projected by friends on the out- side. You can also create movies the original way — by painting pictures rolling drums, then peering through slits in the drum while it spins. Science World officials say they ex- pect more than one million visitors a year. There will be laser light shows, science demonstrations and travelling exhibits to keep the curious coming. The centre will be staffed by six full time teachers, 25 summer students and 150 volunteers to teach or discuss the exhibits The Omnimax theatre, which featuresa screen 27 metres in diameter, is also reopening Saturday with a film called Beavers — an underwater look at the life of a beaver family. The film is the firs{ shown at the theatre since Expo 86 Rates range from $5 for children for combined Science World-Omnimax tickets to $10 for adults, Tickets for one or the other facility are from $3.50 10 $6.00, onto VWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwDw rwWwy Selected Sports Wear 90 FABRIC DEPARTMENT ASSORTED SPRING FABRICS 20° 505: UPTO 2 bss TABLE LINENS JACQUARD TOWEL ENSEMBLES 2 tir See your Home Hardware Flyer for Great Gift Ideas at special prices for Mother's Day 3rd St., Castlegar — 365-7782 VWWWV L_HIFI VCR Panasonic 338905 Prism 33 A lot more than just another TV! By MIMIMANN GIZA PLATEAU, Egypt (AP) scientific debate, Jo keep the Sphinx from falling apart But the expert chairman of the Organization treasure-house of the past porate ——— jure him. This is Why we have archeologists still can’t figure out how It’s been more than a year since workers made emergency repairs and replaced a stone that fell Feb. 7 1988, from the crouching lion's right shoulder an’t decide what do do next “Scholars from Egypt and around the world have given us good advice, but not one has been able to come up with a sure way to save our wonderful Sphinx, Sayed Fawtik, Eeypt'stop archeotogicat official Egyptian Tawfik is caretaker of Egypt's enormous “‘Inallthe world there" sonly one pe SppRbAx like this,” We him and don’t want to do anything to in. an international panel Tawfik said he bélieves the Afterayear of knew the Sphinx pyramids of Giza, horizon archeology ‘said decoration Antiquities 3,4000 years ago wouldn't which form a backdrop Sphinx couldn't survive any longer, professor. “I of Giza Plateau, a monument for eternity as were other monuments. 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Tawfik was appointed to replace him in December ‘Such sensitivity illustrates the Sphinx’s monumen tal importance to the Egyptians. Ancient Egypt was a cat-worshipping country, and the Sphinx remains a very personal and popular cat AST UNKNOWN At times mostly buried in desert sand, at times not the Sphinx has survived into the late 20th century as one of the world’s best-known relics, although bruised and battered. Nobody knows how or why or when it lost its nose and pharaoh’s-beard, but they-are the Wrest ODIs reminders of the unseen stresses at work ce to usurp the throne of Egypt Fourteen centuries later, formed emergency pyramids and the Sphinx already were drawing tourists from around the Mediterranean. In mgdern times, fore’ Roman technicians per restorations at a time when the n and Egyptian teams have had a go at stoppirig the decay. Applying mudpacks to remove salt clusters and injecting glue down its throat didn’t work. More drastic suggestions like reburying the monument in sand or encasing it in glass arise from time totime In the year since the most recent major stone fell, experts from Egypt, Germany, Italy, France, the United States and other-countries have given advice on how to proceed ANSWERS NEEDED Egyptian geologists are studying rock samples Specialists are monitoring desert winds that blast the Sphinx. Pollution experts are studying the effects of dir ty air, Water apd! soil technicians are testing the water table level on and near Giza Pkateau, checking whether subterranean limestone Even so, water is caQsing salt to weaken the the Giza Plateau’s Zahi Hawass, remains optimistic antiquities director, “*L believe for the first time in its history we are able to save the Sphinx,”’ Hawass said, explaining that ad vanced sciermitic Tinetings irr many Tends are Being aps plied to archeological work JUNEBERRY Clematis 1 gal. pot $750 Tomato & Veg. 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