Imagine Pitbull’s Calle Ocho blasting throughout a 400,000 square foot building in the middle of Golden Gate park, on a normal Thursday night in San Francisco. Alcohol, low lighting and otter skull dissections. It’s NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences. Here, Science is Cool. Super Cool.
We learned about baleen and grizzly bear teeth, traveled 100,000 light years from earth, and got drunk off whiskey and coke – all in one night’s outing in the world’s largest green certified building to date (I love hippie SF!). There’s a living roof and a Philippine reef tank. A tidal petting pool and a 15 year-old albino alligator named Claude. And of course, the planetarium – a time machine into the future, where we learned about our galaxy and the millions of others out there. Did you know that earth is the 3rd rock from the sun? And that it’s in the “comfortable zone” for life to form? My mind stretched so much that my head still hurts (or maybe that was the whiskey?).
Last night banks 3 day’s worth of new things learnt. =)
