IMAX: Hubble 3D was pretty darn amazing.
3D glasses fill your eye balls with gigantic-multiple-stories-tall images of rockets launching, tadpole solar systems, a curved horizon of the Earth, stars coming at your face, swooping into a galactic valley spanning unfathomable distances, swimming through the universe at the rate of millions of lightyears per second on the grace of Leonardo DiCaprio's wonderful wonderful voice... oh so very super-mega-ultra-really-really-really... amazing.
We all met up at the California Science center after our day at JPL on Wednesday, January 19th. No big deal-- I just saw Tron in IMAX 3D (also another amazing movie), and so there was no way some NASA film was about to top that...right?
Wrong. They say that it will "change your view of our universe." I don't mean to speak for the entire class, but for me personally, I think I can whole heartedly say that it did. Just to see the Earth from a grand vantage point and to see solar systems at such a towering perspective--even if it was all an illusion--things clicked: just the beginning of untangling my brains to stretch and wrap my head around these obscure ideas of scale and proportion that scientists express whenever they point to those tiny, dim dots in the sky. It's refreshing and humbling to escape the Earth as we physically know it and to feel the greater picture, and to feel so terribly small...even if it's for only an hour or so.
Moral of this blog-story: Amazing. It's basically a $10 instant trip into space, and you'll be back in time for dinner (or in our case, in time for some Baja Fresh.) See it, and untangle your brains! At the very least, walk away with your eye balls filled to the brim with visually arresting images. It's a win-win.
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