Science and Music

This morning we headed off to the Carnarvon Space Museum.  We walked inside the dark building and first looked at a few facts about the Solar System.  Here are some of the most interesting facts:  The size of the sun could fit one million Earths inside it, the temperature of the sun is 5,538 degrees celsius, Venus spins in the opposite direction to most planets, Mars is covered in volcanoes, Jupiter can hold enough space for 1,000 Earths and Neptune is the coldest planet in the solar system. Then we tested ourselves on a skill tester which is like a game of Operation.  It is a wonky bit of wire and a looped handle and you try to get the loop handle all the way to the end without hitting the loop on the wire, to be an astronaut you need to have good hand eye coordination and

that is an example of one.  Then we went into a space shuttle flight simulator which showed us how it would feel to be in a rocket when it blasted off.  We had to lie down on our backs with our legs on a bench and we watched the T.V and looked out the fake windows and we could see the sky then the earth beneath us after we took off.  We walked around the museum learning about the astronauts and the satellite trackers because there were two large satellite dishes right next to the museum, they used to be used by NASA.  Then after we watched a few videos, we went outside to look at the giant satellite dishes, I climbed up a section of one and realised how large they really are.  Then we did a bit of shopping and then went back home for lunch. 

After dinner we headed down to the beach to watch the last part of the TropiCOOL Festival.  When we arrived at the beach we listened to James Abberley playing his guitar, followed by 2 fantastic girls/acrobats doing dancing and tricks on a trapeze and a rope.  Then there was 4 people on stilts doing and act, one had a flamethrower throwing flames at a person holding a ship which underneath a bird which was being held by a guy and next to the bird was someone holding a lantern.  Then one of the acrobat ladies came out again and did some more dangerous stunts.  Then a big group of girls came out and did a dramatic dance followed by a different lady on a trapeze who was then followed by a man doing tricks on a rope.  Just before we left to go home James Abberley came back out and sang a few more songs, including ‘Talk Is Cheap’ by Chet Faker, while playing his guitar.