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The Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Hubble Space Telescope backup mirror.
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A full-size model of the Apollo Lunar Lander.
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Being a computer geek, I could not resist ending my tour of the National Air and Space Museum with a picture of the Cray-1 computer, once the most powerful super-computer in the world. It was built in a circular design to reduce the path lengths of the wires to improve speed.
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I now enter the National Museum of Natural History to be greeted by this huge pachyderm.
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A view of the main rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History from the second floor.
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A view of the ocean exhibit from the second floor.
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A North American Right whale in the ocean exhibit.
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A prehistoric fossil of a fish who wasn't told to chew at least 32 times before swallowing.
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An overall view of the dinosaur exhibit.
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A fossilized skull of a Diceratops (a two-horned dinosaur).
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A fossilized skull of a Triceratops (a three-horned dinosaur).
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An anorexic Triceratops.
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A view of the other side of the anorexic Triceratops.
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The full fossil skeleton of a baby Triceratops.
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A Stegosaurus skeleton.
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An Allosaurus fragilis from my home state of Colorado.
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A view of the Tyranosaurus rex from the second floor.
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Some blurry people in the dinosaur exhibit.
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The fossilized foot of a T-rex.
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The fossilized skull of a T-rex.
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