Date of Visit: 28 August 2011 (We did not vote in the Presidential Elections!)
The London Natural History Museum. It's the Science Center, Discovery Center, and all the scientific places in Singapore added up together and multiply by a billion. It's so, so, so good and informative. We should just make a replica in Singapore and replace those crappy places we have in Singapore.
(Left: A giant ancient sloth | Right: A modern sloth, just tiny compared to it's ancestors)
(Skeletons of marine dinosaurs)
(A giant armadillo)
(Notice how the tail of the top fish looked weird, it's really short)
(Beautiful corals that looked like raintree)
And the most exciting room of all: the Dinosaur room. In case you are wondering what are Dinosaurs, here's the explanation:
So anyway, there are many versions to how the dinosaurs become extinct. Personally, I think it's this reason:
There is also a section dedicated to the human species. They explained a lot of things about our brain, vision, perception etc. For e.g. they have such posters:
This is also something interesting. It is a cross section of a tree that was about 2000+ years old which died about 100 years ago. They had markings on the rings to display human history along the way.
The museum also had a vault, which houses all the precious stones in the world. I guess the favorite of all ladies would be diamonds. The picture below is an exhibition of 296 different property diamonds collected by this person. They glow differently under UV light. I wonder that's the value of this exhibit itself...
The London Natural History Museum. It's the Science Center, Discovery Center, and all the scientific places in Singapore added up together and multiply by a billion. It's so, so, so good and informative. We should just make a replica in Singapore and replace those crappy places we have in Singapore.
(Left: A giant ancient sloth | Right: A modern sloth, just tiny compared to it's ancestors)
(Skeletons of marine dinosaurs)
(A giant armadillo)
(Notice how the tail of the top fish looked weird, it's really short)
(Beautiful corals that looked like raintree)
This is the exhibit with the giant blue whale, which is very big. It is so long, it filled the entire room.
And the most exciting room of all: the Dinosaur room. In case you are wondering what are Dinosaurs, here's the explanation:
So here are some bones, I can't remember any of their names, so didn't bother labeling them :(
The major anti-climax! Everyone was queuing for this exhibit, and it is all covered up. So we thought it might be very good, must be the real bones of a T-Tex. But... after waiting for so long, all we saw was a robot making some noises, rawrrrr... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! :(
So anyway, there are many versions to how the dinosaurs become extinct. Personally, I think it's this reason:
There is also a section dedicated to the human species. They explained a lot of things about our brain, vision, perception etc. For e.g. they have such posters:
This is also something interesting. It is a cross section of a tree that was about 2000+ years old which died about 100 years ago. They had markings on the rings to display human history along the way.
The museum also had a vault, which houses all the precious stones in the world. I guess the favorite of all ladies would be diamonds. The picture below is an exhibition of 296 different property diamonds collected by this person. They glow differently under UV light. I wonder that's the value of this exhibit itself...
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