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At the Liberty Science Center

We went to the Liberty Science Center today:

Here Mechel is drilling for oil using an exploratory rig.  It’s designed to show how much work it takes to find oil, but he never did find it, so maybe it’s just broken:

They had a special exhibit on skyscrapers, and they had this beam from the world trade center.  Seeing it bent this way was quite sobering: