Comments on: Port Discover Science Center Needs Your Enthusiasm http://ideonexus.com/2009/05/14/port-discover-science-center-needs-your-enthusiasm/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ideonexus http://ideonexus.com/2009/05/14/port-discover-science-center-needs-your-enthusiasm/comment-page-1/#comment-11031 ideonexus Fri, 15 May 2009 00:53:44 +0000 http://ideonexus.com/?p=3831#comment-11031 Well said. My sentiments exactly. Well said. My sentiments exactly.

]]> By: Dave http://ideonexus.com/2009/05/14/port-discover-science-center-needs-your-enthusiasm/comment-page-1/#comment-11028 Dave Thu, 14 May 2009 18:43:28 +0000 http://ideonexus.com/?p=3831#comment-11028 "I have a fantasy–that someday science will be as pervasive as sports in our society" A similar feeling overtakes me when I drive around Roanoke and surrounding areas. I see our humble science museum downtown, a modest little place that manages to squeak by with funding from a few generous people. But that's it. One science museum. I drive away from it, and the surrounding areas are littered with thousands of churches. It just doesn't seem right that two institutions that attempt to understand the universe and our role in it are so disproportional in their constituents. “I have a fantasy–that someday science will be as pervasive as sports in our society”

A similar feeling overtakes me when I drive around Roanoke and surrounding areas. I see our humble science museum downtown, a modest little place that manages to squeak by with funding from a few generous people. But that’s it. One science museum. I drive away from it, and the surrounding areas are littered with thousands of churches. It just doesn’t seem right that two institutions that attempt to understand the universe and our role in it are so disproportional in their constituents.

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