EARLY ACCESS: THROWN OUT OF THE SCIENCE MUSEUM
Added 2022-10-10 20:21:39 +0000 UTCNew Digi! On a Monday! And I think you're going to like this one.
On a visit to London's Science Museum, to visit the new Science Fiction exhibit, and see props from Doctor Who, Star Wars, Aliens - and more - we have the best day out ever... by getting themselves thrown out. Also: I accidentally learn stuff.
Coming later this week for the relevant tiers... outtakes, Writer's Club and Bonus BYAMPOD. There'll be a Biffo's Brain next week, but most likely to be Friday rather than Thursday.
Anyway... enjoy our science nonsense.
Comments
I used to practically live in the Science Museum as a kid, it was my #1 request every time we went into London until discovering the pit of seediness that was SegaWorld at the Trocadero. Surprised you managed to find one of the old handle-turning machines, I thought they'd all long gone! They used to have one with an old car speedometer on it to show how it worked, as a car-mad kid I spent ages trying to get it to go as high as possible, think my record was 70mph with some furious arm-flailing. I'm sure at one point they had a massive model of a combine harvester or grain elevator type thing where you could run the conveyor belt, turn an Archimedes screw and other such stuff, and there was some sort of grain in it that moved around the machine in response. Naturally it was constantly mobbed by an absolute anthill of children, desperately awaiting a turn at one of the controls so they could furiously crank it for 2 minutes before stumbling away exhausted. No idea where it went or indeed whether it's still there and I've just never been able to locate it in the rather labrynthine building.
Matt Kimber (Timberwolf)
2022-10-11 12:49:57 +0000 UTCAs a kid i was regularly dragged around the science museum.....though more regularly the one in Birmingham than the fancy London one. Aside from the cool lighthouse fresnel lens thing they had going on, my overriding memory was of the audioguides, which, being the 70s, involved plugging a pair of headphones in at designated points - the headphone 'cable' being a pair of air tubes that piped the sound from tiny speakers directly to your ears....except of course when your annoying older brother would sneak up and yank the tube from the connection point and blow down it as hard as possible, directing a painful and precisely targeted jet of air into your eardrum.
Pete Pyjamas
2022-10-11 00:49:33 +0000 UTCWell, but of course.
Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)
2022-10-10 21:19:39 +0000 UTCIn all honesty, I love the Science Museum. Genuinely. I'm just being a miserable git in the video for comic effect. I'm a sucker for a good museum. Natural History next!
Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)
2022-10-10 21:19:25 +0000 UTCHave to say that when I visited, they had this giant van de graf generator rigged up. There was a show promised every couple of ours. We waited to see the show and it was dreadful. One of those people who talks to children in that stupid patronising tone of voice proceeded to bombard them with dull facts and lost the room within about 30 seconds. Kids were beginning to writhe about with boredom. Some did what I would do as a kid and just wander off with a dismissive sneer at the boring person (teachers loved me). Eventually the demonstrator turned on the machine and let it dish out one spark. Then show over. Crap. Utter crap. I wrote that on a feedback form. Learning should be fun, instead you're created a temple of tedium. Shoot the sparks off loads of times with manic energy and you'll be a God. I've got a horrible impression that management are the usual dull people who can afford to take low paid jobs in heritage because of daddy's money or their spouse is a banker...so they bring their dull academic tone to the museum and ruin it.
Dave Graves
2022-10-10 21:17:34 +0000 UTCSome delightful additions to the "walking up stairs with a nice coat on" oeuvre.
Treacle Truffle
2022-10-10 20:49:27 +0000 UTCBrilliant, was just looking for something stupid to watch while I smoke one off. Thank you! xx
Leyton Jay
2022-10-10 20:23:56 +0000 UTCI'll be the judge of that!
Lino
2022-10-10 20:22:29 +0000 UTC
