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A traveling alien exhibit makes its way to the Miraikan, a science museum in Tokyo, in March. It may not be first time that the children of Asia will get to interact with extraterrestrial life, but it's probably the first time they've done it in a museum. The best part? The exhibition teaches kids that aliens exist and suggests ways of communicating with them. Hooray for cross-cultural understanding.
The exhibit consists of four zones:
Zone 1: Aliens as imagination. This includes everything from movies in aliens, the movie Alien, and interactive games wher eyou get to stomp on animated monsters.
Zone 2: The science of aliens. Space exploration. Do aliens exist? If they do, where and how? This zone will tell ya.
Zone 3: A giant interactive display that shows you the world of aliens.
Zone 4: Communicating with aliens. How to send and receive signals to other planets. Images by Miraikan
Miraikan main page (Japanese)
Comments
Well, when the aliens do finally come, I guess we know which country is going to get to talk to them first.
Seriously, how come we don't have anything like this in the states? I hate how close minded we are.
The pic looks like Jar-Jar's evolutionary cousin.
KILL IT! KILL IT NOW!
I think maybe you meant "aliens in movies" rather than "movies in aliens", unless the aliens happen to have televisions in them. Oh crap. The aliens are the Teletubbies aren't they?
@braak: Yup! Agreed.
The Japanese will be the ones to benefit from the six-legged slug-amanders advanced technology. Not America. This time.
@urukhaifive: yes, contrary to what this article would lead you to believe, the british have advanced well beyond the abilities of the japanese to communicate with aliens. the crown is currently working out a treaty with the extra terrestrials to import their advanced, sentient, self propelled vacumn cleaner technology.
This bodes evil, last month the japanese were announcing powered exoskeletons and now they want us to talk to the aliens. Seems the invasion can't be repelled as planned.
It would make a great videogame... an alien encounter, and your game character has to figure out how to communicate by squeaking or making fake tentacles and waving them around.
Zone 5: my neighborhood.
Finally, schoolchildren learn something useful. See, this is why America's public schools are failing!
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