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at lunch, a balloon artist, Bubblz Ainslie, asked maggie philbin to challenge her. she responded: make a radio telescope!
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very impressive! near the end of the conference, we all electronically voted on what other astronomical tool we wanted to see as a balloon model, and the international space station won!
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shenanigans ensued.
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here she is, the artist hard at work, trying to create a balloon spiral galaxy... bubblz the math clown!
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this one isnt astronomically related, but too cute not to highlight!
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7 comments:
Very cool blog!
I enjoyed your pictures and your blog. Are you a teacher? How did you come to be at this conference?
WO! Looks almost impossible to do!
Lol. Great um.. ballooning?
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And I think the 'Mother of Invention' is Dissatisfaction. :p
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That's kind of amazing! I love the space station construction! So neat.
reyjr - dissatisfaction.. thats great!
ipickup - i'm not teaching right now, i'm doing research in astronomy as a postdoc. i went to the conference because i thought it sounded interesting!!
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