Aliens At The Montreal Science Centre

May 5, 2008

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The Montréal Science Centre currently has a cool-sounding exhibition on the science of aliens. According to an article in , the exhibition focuses on what the plant and animal life might be like on two possible planet types:

There are two fictional planets in the exhibition. “Blue Moon” has a very dense atmosphere, which allows a great variety of flying critters. “Aurelia” closely orbits a star much cooler than our own sun:

Assumptions were made when the planetary flora and fauna were being designed: there is oxygen in the atmosphere, and alien evolution proceeds similarly to evolution here on Earth. The idea was to make the life forms plausible based on what we know about biology.

In addition to the fictional planets, a section of the exhibition looks at aliens in science fiction movies and books.

If you are thinking of going, you might want to wait until Sunday, May 25th, which is Montréal Museum Day and all the exhibits are free. If I were in Quebec, I’d definitely go check it out. The exhibit runs through September 1.

(This is a exhibit created by “the science of . . .” that has already exhibited in London and Miami. It is also currently showing at the The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan through June 16. )