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[guga31bb]

Separate lanes for bikes and pedestrians is really nice…

[Subby]

Meanwhile in DC…

Don’t worry about those potholes in the 15th Street cycletrack next to Treasury. They have converted the whole lane in to a pedestrian and strollertrack.

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[PotomacCyclist]

@cyclingfool 82939 wrote:

Just in time for my son (just shy of two years old) to get even more interested in dinosaurs than he already is.

There will be a T Rex room open, at least for a while. I don’t remember if it’s just until October or throughout the entire 5-year period. It’s located off to the side of the Mammals Hall. They won’t work on the T. Rex there, because it’s not large enough, although it is a fairly large space. It was closed when I walked by, but I could see a set of fossil skulls along one wall, including a T. Rex skull. There were unopened crates at the other end of the hall, Indiana Jones-esque. And a small model of a woolly mammoth. One sign in the Fossil Hall said that scientists create smaller-scale models to study how dinosaurs may have moved and how their anatomy worked. It’s easier to move the models than the full-size fossils.

The existing FossiLab will be moved to a temporary space on the 2nd floor, where you can watch technicians and scientists work on fossils.

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[PotomacCyclist]

Apparently this meteorite fragment is 4.6 billion years old:

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[peterw_diy]

@Subby 83048 wrote:

Meanwhile in DC…

Nice pic for an Airzound ad..

[cyclingfool]

@mstone 82966 wrote:

Well, some of the exhibits haven’t been touched since the 1930s. When it’s finished, it should be very nice. And–t-rex!

@PotomacCyclist 83082 wrote:

There will be a T Rex room open, at least for a while. I don’t remember if it’s just until October or throughout the entire 5-year period. It’s located off to the side of the Mammals Hall. They won’t work on the T. Rex there, because it’s not large enough, although it is a fairly large space. It was closed when I walked by, but I could see a set of fossil skulls along one wall, including a T. Rex skull. There were unopened crates at the other end of the hall, Indiana Jones-esque. And a small model of a woolly mammoth. One sign in the Fossil Hall said that scientists create smaller-scale models to study how dinosaurs may have moved and how their anatomy worked. It’s easier to move the models than the full-size fossils.

The existing FossiLab will be moved to a temporary space on the 2nd floor, where you can watch technicians and scientists work on fossils.

I’m sure the update will be nice. Hopefully the new exhibit space will be designed to really aid the flow of people through. Given its popularity, it could really become a clusterf$%k when the crowds are big.

Some temporary, smaller exhibits during the closure might help to ease the pain of loss and serve the purpose for cyclingfool, jr.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Since we were talking about spinning out and fixed gears in another thread, I decided to see what it looks like on video. Strava says speed was 33.6, Garmin showed 34+, so this is about 158rpm according to bikecalc.com. The camera can’t really even capture it right except in slo-mo, which is about 1/4 speed.

[video=youtube_share;apk1YKa3zLI]http://youtu.be/apk1YKa3zLI[/video]

[bobco85]

I did this ride on Saturday. The plan is to bike all 6 of the Metro lines (my order will be: Orange, Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, Silver) by visiting each station from end to end. First up was the Orange line with 26 stations from New Carrollton, MD, to Vienna, VA.

I found it to be easier making the route go from east to west than vice versa, especially for the stations in DC on the one-way I Street. The route is 34 miles if you go from station to station, but I ended up doing about 68 miles because I biked to the start and from the finish. The good thing with a route like this is that should anything go wrong, you can just hop on the train to get home!

Here is the Strava route I took: http://www.strava.com/activities/131988406

[video=youtube_share;XWFC1bbHXhg]http://youtu.be/XWFC1bbHXhg[/video]

Happy Earth Day!

[Dirt]

Had some sinus problems this morning. Then I realized that I had an Airbus A320 up my nose. I feel better now.

[ebubar]

@PotomacCyclist 83083 wrote:

Apparently this meteorite fragment is 4.6 billion years old:

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I can’t get my astronomy students to take the 5 mile trip from campus down to the museum to see this. Perhaps i’ll just start referring them to this forum!

[PotomacCyclist]

@ebubar 83226 wrote:

I can’t get my astronomy students to take the 5 mile trip from campus down to the museum to see this. Perhaps i’ll just start referring them to this forum!

That was from the Natural History Museum. Odd that the students aren’t motivated to go to the Air and Space Museum, downtown or the one out in Dulles. They have a lot of interesting lectures there. Over the past couple years, I’ve seen John Glenn twice, Buzz Aldrin twice (and also at the National Book Festival a few years ago) and Thomas Stafford: Commander of the Apollo 10 mission (2nd manned Moon mission and 1st to fly a lunar module there) and Commander of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

[drevil]

Mural Along the Met Branch Trail by bundokbiker, on Flickr

[culimerc]

@drevil 83243 wrote:

Mural Along the Met Branch Trail by bundokbiker, on Flickr

Is it wrong that I think the bike is every bit as much of a work of art as the mural?

[Steve]

@culimerc 83295 wrote:

Is it wrong that I think the bike is every bit as much of a work of art as the mural?

Nope.

[dasgeh]

@culimerc 83295 wrote:

Is it wrong that I think the bike is every bit as much of a work of art as the mural?

Agreed. Deets?

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