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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Nov 19, 2009
Description:
The old Richmond, Virginia, main railroad station was converted into The Science Museum of Virginia about 30 years ago. About ten years ago the museum installed in its front yard The Grand Kugel and the Lesser Kugel, granite spheres that are scale models of Earth and Moon, and at a scale distance from each other. Here you can see the Grand Kugel.
It's about eight feet in diameter, and it floats on a circular pedestal, supported by water under pressure, so that one person can--with perseverance--make it turn on any axis one wishes.
It can be seen in Google Earth.
Date Taken:
Nov 19, 2009
Place Taken:
Richmond, VA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
GrandKugel_0121_k.jpg - Photo HTML
Full size - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZRFB0000h">
Medium - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZRFB0000m">
Thumbnail - <img src="/show.php?splash=SZRFB0000s">
Category:
23, Max Pix
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Don Maxwell - Nov 19,2009
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Here's a wider, but jigglier, shot showing the entire station-museum and some of the surrounding area:
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Eric Batterman - Nov 19,2009
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Don Maxwell - Nov 19,2009
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Hmph. When google starts affecting my g-meter, I'll consider agreeing.
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Don Maxwell - Nov 20,2009
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Who needs Google with YouTube? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZdCDZCat8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZdCDZCat8</a>
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Nov 20,2009
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Nice Don, except....it's moon, not mooon....... 
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Don Maxwell - Nov 21,2009
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Aw, crap. Thanks, Mark. I've fixed it--new link is above. For some reason, YouTube didn't like the video format of the second upload and presents it with black borders all the way around. (The first version with the wrong spellling was fine.) But it isn't worth screwing with it any further.
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