What's Inside The Griffith Observatory ? Los Angeles Famous Landmark
A look inside and around the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles California . Checking out the exhibits and interactive experiences .
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welcome everyone Adam isn't here coming
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to you from Los Angeles California
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behind me is a familiar la landmark the
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Griffith Observatory you have no doubt
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seen it and countless postcards
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television shows and plenty of feature
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films but I'm here to ask the question
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what's inside the Griffith Observatory
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now I've been on this property before
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I've wandered around the premises but I
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have never dug deep into the nooks and
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crannies of what's behind the walls
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today I want to do that join me shalyah
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this has to be the most popular place in
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the city to get a good photo of the
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Hollywood sign now there are plenty of
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places around town where you can get a
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good zoomed in shot all the tourists
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flock up here stand on this little ledge
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and get their selfies and/or photos you
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can see there is quite the congregation
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of people waiting to go in the doors
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have not officially opened yet very
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popular place we're about to find out
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why one of my favorite pieces out here
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on site definitely has to be this bust
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of James Dean there are two of these in
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existence one of them in Fairmount
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Indiana where he grew up his hometown
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and the other one perched up here on the
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side of the mountain overlooking that
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iconic sign
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James Dean immortalised doesn't look too
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busy quite yet everyone's waiting to go
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inside we kind of have the Overlook all
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to ourselves if you look off to the
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right there it is downtown Los Angeles
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slightly smoggy today
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you can still see silhouette the
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buildings
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I'm up here you can really tell the
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vastness of Greater LA and how far it
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stretches off to the left and way off to
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the right what's going on down there
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currently looking at Hollywood proper
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all the hustle and bustle happening just
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down there and as we veer this way we
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get into the Hollywood Hills continuing
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on a section called Hollywood land
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designated that because the sign used to
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spell out that word Hollywood land of
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course the land the wording of land not
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the actual property the land is still
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there but the word has been removed now
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it's just Hollywood one thing a lot of
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people fail to notice is on the ground
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there are these markings designating not
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only planets but sections of the solar
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system and it goes all the way across
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the property way over there perfect
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example is right here in front of the
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entryway door States our Sun followed by
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the orbit of mercury and venus I know
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this place the orbit of Earth I'm
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standing right there and then of course
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Mars and it goes on and on and on
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general overview
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of what's inside two levels and ours are
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as follows weekends they open at 10 a.m.
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closed on Mondays and then Tuesday
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through Fridays they don't open till
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noon you don't have to get up too early
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to come visit the observatory
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cost of admission absolutely free now
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you will have to pay four dollars an
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hour to park unless you take public
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transportation and uber a lift or get
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dropped off but to enter in the doors
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doesn't cost a die this is always
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fascinating to me
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you look down in the pits will see a
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pendulum swinging
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you look closely where the pendulum
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the projected path that knocks over
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these little teeny tiny metal pillars
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so as it goes back and forth depending
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on the
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rejection and axis of the earth
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it tells us what time it is
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it's an old-school way telling time
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before wristwatches before cellphones
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is connected to a large
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that'll wire
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that stretches all the way up to the
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ceiling in ancient times people use
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myths to understand what they saw in the
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sky
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the mural overhead is made by 1930s
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painter Hugo Balan illustrating those
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early stories used with a parade of
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classical figures
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so cool right up there is Griffith J
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Griffith who we have to thank
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for the area that this now sits on there
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is a memorial here placed in granite
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Griffith J Griffith donor of Griffith
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Park the Greek Theatre and the Griffith
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Observatory I highly recommend going
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inside the camera obscura room it's an
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old-school way of looking at the horizon
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look down there you'll see some vehicles
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you can see some vehicles down here
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driving on the road the way it works is
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up here are mirrors to the mirrors shoot
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down the image from the top of the
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building
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down onto this we can see outside we can
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see what's going on outside it may seem
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like it depends on magic but it's really
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simple
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a piece of octopus oh wait something's
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going on out here
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in the late 19th century by Nicholas
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there's one thing he did it man all on
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his own
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that is not talked about enough is a
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remote-controlled robot in 89 a female
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Defoe was able to control it remotely
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and was thought of as have given in
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those days but never we're opening our
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garage doors with on and Logan's
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controlling two Rovers on that
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okay back to a little more detail on the
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camera obscura it projects an image of
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the outside world into a dark room
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through a pinhole and here is a example
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of how it works
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goes through here shoots down onto there
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so there's the outside and that's what
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they are looking at endorsed if you
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stand in a certain spot right here and
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look up you can see oh yeah
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there's me look at my face it's like
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it's showing all the heat I'm look I'm
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thinking I could use some hydration my
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temperature is completely boiling in a
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scale model what we're currently inside
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if you press and press these buttons it
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lights up to certain sections this is
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called a triple beam Cola stat I'm
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pressing it down so it's lighting it up
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then we have the folk cults pendulum hit
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that okay nothing's lighting up the folk
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call that it is right down in there okay
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that was that big ball that swings
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around and tells time the co calls
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the changing direction of the pendulum
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swings reveals Earth's spin on its axis
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by using the control pad at the base
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this exhibit you can turn and move the
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direction of the telescope right down
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here you can point it and move the dome
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so let's do a right ascension east there
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it goes it's completely tilting there
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goes it's going eastward now I can close
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the dome let's go
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clockwise
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and you have to get to be very patient
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but you can see it you can see it
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turning
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they just made an announcement they're
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gonna do a presentation that only
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happens once a day and it is taking
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place down on this little march like
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thing so the first part is this line
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here is called the Prime Meridian that
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is the line that points exactly north
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and south and and so what we have here
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and we have this model up here kind of
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like a five thousand one and a very
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high-tech device up there called the
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hole with the lens what that does that's
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every day that was called buffle noon
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the Sun hits its highest point by
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crossing your local Meridian this also
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relates to the term AM and PM or good
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that all the time oh I got to get at
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work
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well a.m. and p.m. actually stand for
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something and it stands for it has to do
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with the Meridian so cam stands for anti
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meridian which means it has a 54 it is
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yet p.m. stands for post meridian once
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it passes there there you go there it is
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this only happens once a day so I can't
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make this happen again I could we do
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it'd be a disgusting display of power
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son right now is at its highest point of
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the day it doesn't get any higher than
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that during the equinoxes it rises and
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sets in the west so there you go there
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you have it that is the local moon and
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you got to see it if you came a few
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minutes later speaking of the Sun this
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is a spectro hylia scope it's a special
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telescope that can observe any
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wavelength of sunlight this one is tuned
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to let you see only the red light from
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hydrogen atoms and you can see the beam
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is going down into that hole and they
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have it set up if you look down in there
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you can see like some sort of tin foil
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mechanism and that over here is like a
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microscope if you look down in here you
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can see they're actually looking
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directly you're looking directly at the
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Sun without hurting your eyes right
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there this time-lapse shows a turning
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bright and dark areas of the Sun reflect
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differences in the temperature as the
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Sun turns you can see eruptions pretty
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fascinating thing okay you can just see
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like bubbling and bursting all in there
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that's what illuminates us every single
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day so we can see as we go about our
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daily business this list shows other
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stars powers is right here that's our
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Sun you can see there there are others
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that are much larger including this one
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called a supergiant and look closely at
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the specific name of it
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beetle guys it's actually called beetle
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guys if you say that Suns name three
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times you will be destroy a few
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different elements we got Krypton here
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by pushing it and lights it up then we
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have helium that also lights up and the
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periodic table and you can press
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different buttons down here they give
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you the formation and distribution like
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shows you which of the periodic tables
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do certain things our bodies are made up
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of two dozen elements made of the same
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material that created stars as press
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that there's the element C it
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illuminates what we're made of
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everything that's darkened is not part
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of our body now my let go with a button
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and they all light back up changing of
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the seasons designated in this little
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section at the March equinox at the
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December solstice the leaves are falling
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the snow is starting to set in and look
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up here look how quickly earth is
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spinning around it's just like rapidly
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moving time is going at a very rapid
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speed
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time time time see what's become of me
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showing how eclipses work there we are
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up they are the moon spinning around us
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also a little more rapid than in real
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time and that's the Sun in the middle so
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there's earth the middle shaped circular
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sphere the small circular sphere is the
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moon another one in the middle is the
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Sun wheel in the sky keeps on time
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autumn equinox happens around September
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23rd approximately every year this is
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what happens during the day if you just
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wait a moment it's gonna kick back into
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nightfall wonder what constellation
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we're gonna see place your bets
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Pegasus
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there goes way up there way overhead
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there goes Pegasus
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goodbye pegasus heading downstairs now
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there are two levels two floors to the
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structure it's going to see what's down
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down here now there you go there's an
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artistic rendering the more I look at it
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it might actually be a photograph that's
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blown up I think it I think it's a photo
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not a painting I don't know it's hard to
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tell really is hard to tell down this
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hallway the right side is a as a marble
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wall the left side is a glass window
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adorned with jewelry the jewelry
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consists of moons and stars and planets
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and stretches all the way down to you
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reach the bottom floor if you've ever
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wanted to know about meteorites this is
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the place to be starting off with the
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California versions look at these things
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that one's huge the Bruce Ville
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meteorite things massive here's some
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smaller ones from Mars these these came
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down from Mars and this map shows all
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the different locations where they found
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impact all in the state this 269 pound
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chunk of iron was found out in Arizona
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at the huge meteor crater I've been
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there I've stood at the top of that and
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looked down in it and they drug this
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thing out of the bottom of it
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the thing is
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oh yeah heavy-duty it's allowed to touch
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a piece of Mars and the moon this is a
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piece of the moon right here I'm rubbing
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I'm rubbing the moon and now I'm rubbing
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a piece of Mars and if you look down in
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here check this out you can get a turn
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this knob I'm turning a knob and you're
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getting like a a more detailed version
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of what the exterior of a meteorite
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looks like under a microscope cosmic
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rays are not raised at all but they're
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high-energy particles from space dozens
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of these rays pass through our bodies
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every second and this mechanism is
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showing us what's oh it's sparking wait
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for us
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oh that's happening inside my body right
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now
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oh the cloud chamber when a star
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explodes or the Sun erupts and a flare
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protons and electrons are blasted as
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cosmic rays that's what's happening down
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in here
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what the heck's going on down in there
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the cloud chamber oh just something just
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bubbled up it's so weird
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oh okay
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it's just it turned on it's like it's
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like heating up or something I hear like
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an engine roaring
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moderate roar it's like bubbling up to
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the surface
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the clown chamber has just been
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experienced against the far-off wall you
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see a bunch of galaxies and stars it's
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not real it's just an interpretation but
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they do have all these different
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telescopes different types of telescopes
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that you could look basically just stare
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you fall in love with the wall or
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something
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I'm gonna pan out and I'm gonna utilize
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this piece of machinery and see if you
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can see yeah look there it is
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there's a couple of them in there yeah
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there's two different ones one on the
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left and one on the right
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not bad our closest neighbor and space
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the moon there it is in all its glory
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look for these features on look for
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these features on the moon model we got
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Copernicus crater Yeah right there I see
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it it just is passing by and there's a
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chunk from the surface right there
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that's from the real moon not from a
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model if that's a model right there
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that's that's the real moon that's no
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moon it's a it's a matter if you do show
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up out here definitely make sure you go
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down to the bottom level it is an easy
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mistake to avoid this not knowing it
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exists there's a lot down here on the
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bottom floor so don't miss a concluding
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selfie taking Einstein everytime I see
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this guy the way he's holding his finger
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I know he's not doing it but I'm just
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assuming you could put a smartphone in
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his hand and he would basically be
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taking a selfie buddy got a buddy
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nailed it posting that on Instagram in
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this room not only do they have a globe
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that's spinning around but also a
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seismograph which is used for
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researching tracking and letting us know
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about earthquake potential look down in
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there you can see how the line it's not
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it's not really moving because there's
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no seismic activity now if I was to jump
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on the ground that would change so let
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me jump in here there goes look look
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look
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it just moved a little bit I created a
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teeny-tiny
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earthquake this was used up until 2002
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it's a planetarium projector the zeiss
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mark for a pair of a thousand watt lamps
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and star balls of this planetarium
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instrument projected light onto 32
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plates each was perforated with one hole
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for every stars position it's no longer
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in use but it is still here on display
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zooming in now going into the solar
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system the planets spinning around the
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Sun this animated diagram really kind of
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puts things in perspective it helps you
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understand how it all works out there in
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space
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okay it's always zooming out zooming way
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out so in the galaxy our galaxy our
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solar system I should say also shows the
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comparison of size starting down there
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with Mercury see how teeny and tiny it
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is and then Venus Earth Mars Jupiter
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which is huge in comparison the ringed
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planet of Saturn Uranus Neptune and
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Pluto and beyond look at the teeny tiny
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Pluto you can't even see it
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next to Neptune on that little pillar
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you can barely even see Pluto there look
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at that little guy
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so it's so small and compares sympathy
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it's almost like it's hard to even get
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the depth it's hard to even get the
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depth of how how tiny it is compared to
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his larger counterparts
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sampling of Los Angeles lifestyle in
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1976 not to be opened until 2000 76 this
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time capsule it's not underground is
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just sitting here on this little podium
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it's like a circular sphere wonder what
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the heck's in there I never heard of
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that planet cat ern definitely has to be
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the the cutest planet of them all this
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is Jupiter in stuffed animal form and
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there we are even though the majority
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well pretty much everything I've showed
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up to now has been included in the free
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admission for $7 a couple times a day
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you can enter inside the planetarium of
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course you're not allowed to film in
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there and it's an extra charge but it's
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a pretty cool experience if you ever get
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the chance to do it that's gonna do it
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for today from Los Angeles California
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the Griffith Observatory a little bit of
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an in-depth look on what's inside both
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levels through the doors of this
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fantastic iconic la attraction slash
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exhibit hall
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I will return here in the future because
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at night they open up the telescopes on
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the roof in certain times of the year
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they do different stargazing event so we
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will be here again rest assured if you
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