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Originally Posted by Wavytone
The original London planetarium has been relegated to showing Marvel superheroes (the poms are losing their sense of what Really Matters IMHO)
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Don't stop there Wavytone - Greenwich itself has been taken over by SteamPunk, with Flamsteed House subtitled "Longitude Punk'd" (groan) and housing a display of intricate, fake, imaginary time-associated machinery & gadgets created by the SteamPunk movement. The real things are in a dingy box of a room downstairs, if you get that far. This is what happens when the Arts takes over Science, where style and display is more important than content. It's a problem in museums all over the world, Australia included.
Greenwich has within it one of the greatest stories of all - time itself - but there is no coherent experience of it at the observatory. And there are many untold stories. For instance, the 2nd Astronomer Royal, Edmond Halley, gets one little signboard that essentially says he did a lot of measurements but some were a bit suss. That's it?!
Cheers -