While in San Diego I attended Balboa Park in order to visit the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center where I saw many different exhibits and scientific achievements. I am from San Diego, so I have been to the RHF Center many times when I was a kid, but this was the first time I have returned in many years. I now can look at the exhibits with a sense of art and science background instead of just being amazed and questioning how everything worked.
My favorite exhibit that I observed was titled ON THE FLY: Technology Takes Off, which relates to our class in the manner of science as art. In this exhibition I witnessed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) fly in the air and hover above the ground. This was a very interesting performance, and I even attempted to build my own UAV, but it did not quite work as well as the professional ones. The UAV that I built was my own form of art, and I even tried to fly it in a wind tunnel, but my art form needed a little more science, because it did not work that well.
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center is one of the most interesting, diverse mixtures of science and art that I have ever been to in my life. I would absolutely recommend the RHF Center to anyone who is in San Diego. I am bummed that I forgot to take a picture of my UAV, but it did not look like the real ones, although I thought it was pretty cool. So if you get the chance go to the RHF Science Center and let your knowledge of art and science take over and you will have a blast.
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