# Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

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**Created:** [May 23, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-where-science-meets-imagination/357883 "2006-05-23T12:30:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-where-science-meets-imagination/357883/1 "2006-05-23T12:30:26Z")

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So I just preordered our tickets for SW: WSMI. It’s appearing for the summer at the Science Museum (COSI) in Columbus. We’ll be there first day (though not the midnight show).

Anyone else seen this? They say they’ve got 10000 square feet of stuff.

Here a [link.](http://www.cosi.org/starwars/)

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-where-science-meets-imagination/357883/2 "2006-05-23T12:36:23Z")

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It just finished its run in Boston. It’s a fun show, but get there early in its run, before the robots in the hands-on section break down, and the cards used in computer simulations get lost.

They make efforts at science (and the hovercraft is cool to ride), but this is mostly a display of Star Wars costumes and props. Fun, but its connection to science is , in my opinion, pretty tortured. You’re trying to spin the glamour of the series out into science interest, which is a bit of a reach – Star Wars was science fantasy with the trappings of science fiction, but not a lot of interest in the actual science.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-where-science-meets-imagination/357883/3 "2006-05-23T13:42:51Z")

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Well, that’s largely what I figured. Not entirely unlike the Star Trek touring show that we saw at the Smithsonian ten or so years ago. But it should be fun.

COSI is generally a good science museum and the kids love it. And when they did the Titanic touring show last year it was well done. So I figure this is a winner.