Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Giant Colon Comes to Calgary
Just a brief news item from Calgary - we have a giant colon visiting us from South America!
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The colon (large bowel to you and me) is made of inflatable plastic and comes from Brazil. It's sort of a big bouncy castle bowel thing, I suppose. And it's big enough to stand up in and walk through:
Projected to be about 31 m long, 31/2 m wide and 3 m high, and to weigh more than 1,000 kg, the walk-through exhibit turned out bigger than expected, to the dismay of organizers who had to hunt out new venues large enough to mount the display and change dates to accommodate longer set-up times.
Luckily, it's not the full 'being in the colon' experience, as it lacks Smello-vision and the floor is not covered in slippery stuff!
More later,
J
Click here for more info.
The colon (large bowel to you and me) is made of inflatable plastic and comes from Brazil. It's sort of a big bouncy castle bowel thing, I suppose. And it's big enough to stand up in and walk through:
Projected to be about 31 m long, 31/2 m wide and 3 m high, and to weigh more than 1,000 kg, the walk-through exhibit turned out bigger than expected, to the dismay of organizers who had to hunt out new venues large enough to mount the display and change dates to accommodate longer set-up times.
Luckily, it's not the full 'being in the colon' experience, as it lacks Smello-vision and the floor is not covered in slippery stuff!
More later,
J
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