Blamblog - Brett Lamb's Blog

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

A Request ... for Science!

Baldwin Street

I was having lunch with Eva ...

BLAMB: Fall is here!

EVA: And the leaves are changing. Do you know why the leaves change colour?

BLAMB: You and your science, always explaining the ways and whys of the world. It's so useful. It's too bad science isn't for everybody.

EVA: Science is for everybody.

BLAMB: What?

EVA: Science is for everybody. Why do you think I have a science blog?

BLAMB: Can I read your science blog?

EVA: Of course. You need to pay more attention to science.

BLAMB: I'm going to watch the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica.

EVA: Not science fiction. Real science!

BLAMB: I used to follow science. When I was a kid, I had a subscription to Science Digest. And Star Wars action figures.

EVA: But what have you done for science lately?

BLAMB: I link to Space.com. And I watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind last week.

EVA: That's science fiction!

BLAMB: It's science future!

EVA: That doesn't mean anything!

BLAMB: It's prescient.

EVA: It's pop culture fluff.

BLAMB: Your science is always judging my science!

EVA: Star Wars is not science!

BLAMB: Well, I'll admit that the prequels aren't.

EVA: Listen, you need to help educate people. What do your readers know about the Canadian contributions to science?

BLAMB: Terry Fox.

EVA: Uh ... okay. What did he do?

BLAMB: He refined the bio-mechanical artificial leg interface.

EVA: I don't think that's true.

BLAMB: If that's not true, what is? I don't think Canadians have science.

EVA: Sure they do. You need a good yarn to spin ... something big, something amazing.

BLAMB: Ok, here's my pitch. We open up with a shot of a famous Canadian scientist and he's driving! He's driving furiously towards some destination.

EVA: Ok, that's a start.

BLAMB: And, and ... and then he keeps driving.

EVA: It's got to have something besides driving.

BLAMB: He's on his ways towards making a great discovery!

EVA: Keep going.

BLAMB: And then we learn something ... something amazing ...

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