Wednesday, April 20, 2011

ride the slide

i'm currently in garching, germany (near munich) visiting the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the offices of the european southern observatory (ESO). across the road from these intricately-designed buildings is the local university's school of Mathematik, Physik und Informatik.


inside of this building lives a wonderful set of slides, which provide an excellent escape from the office and bit of adrenaline-inducing fun when i feel sleepy in the afternoon!



you can pick up quite a bit of speed sliding down these slick tubes, and they provide a convenient measurement system beyond the end of the slide to tell you just how far you go! the best part is that the markings along the white line say 1, then the square root of 2, then 2, etc... nerdilicious.


every building should have a slide. weeeee!

4 comments:

Eesti said...

Moving and powerful! You’ve certainly got a way of reaching people that I haven’t seen very often. If most people wrote about this subject with the eloquence that you just did, I’m sure people would do much more than just read they act. Great stuff. Please keep it up.

heroineworshipper said...

German buildings tend to have large indoor spaces. Must be a benefit of having limitless nuclear power.

Unsui said...

Aah if only I knew study of physics, would have resulted working in fun place some time, I wouldn't have left Physics for Information Technology :D
Ah Well....

Martin Emmerich said...

Don't drink and slide!