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Clinton News-Record, 1971-12-16, Page 19These young visitors to the Ontario Science Centre are taking a preview look at some of the strange cacti in the desert exhibit, part of the Centre's new Spaceship Earth Gallery. Although the cacti, live snakes and lizards that fill this exhibit were brought to Toronto from all over the world, they can only survive in desert conditions. Visit Science Centre during the holidays •mtirmovAnzips owsr:ArtgirwPAggizioggIememamtgimogrroggillsixagisouwasolgozwagircaalso saYilkowvalmsammogilcomoomogammicusigimilimilimal Merry Christmas to all mote4wintiotsmamirammmtmttcsvpsielmtwawmtiowtsmafizziosoicotzmoumnsimszymottgAmtgzi9tpsytai simismegretkOMMAtliiMifealliMOSii1ttaltarOMMISMIVZSIMWSWAVAMMIORilariirttaiSYSiAllIgllail)111EVIii: FOR HIM OR.HER A lasting gift that will be remembered. Three series in all colors and sizes to choose, Flite 747, Grand Prix and Flite 88. 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The earth as a spaceship has, n the other hand, all the ntegral.,parts needed to supply—• ife indefinitely — or until the alance of supplies is ccidentally or foolishly upset. This, precise balance of life is he underlying theme of the new xhibit gallery, and Spaceship 'arth is its name. The title is ken from Buckminster Fuller, ho has been talking and writing bout Spaceship Earth for years. Survival is a keynote of the paceship Earth gallery. Part of is a desert exhibit which lustrates how certain forms of fe can survive only in a articular environment. Live nakes and lizards living in a ngle of strange cacti would rish without the heat and ryness of the desert. Another area of exhibits lerhonstrates how certain pecies not only survive when aken to a new environment — hey can become ecological lisasters. The introduction into kustralia of a few pairs of European rabbits seemed larmless. But the rabbits found to natural enemies in Australia. Within a few years they had multiplied to somewhere between one and three billion. It took a disease fatal only to rabbits to bring them under control and stop their destruction of farm land. What does a blade of grass have in common with man? Both are part of the Land Food Web, a large exhibit showing who eats what to survive. An Ocean Food Web is also depicted with tank after tank of live, exotic sea life. A highlight of Spaceship Earth will be the water re-cycling unit. This intricate series of glass tubing gulps polluted water and swishes it through a series of strange filters until it emerges as pure drinkable water. Some of the filtration processes simulated are ones that occur in nature, while others are processes developed ,by>man... • BUckminster Fuller has developed a special Spaceship Earth map which eliminates most of the distortion found on regular maps. The Science Centre received permission to use the map and it can be seen in the area of Spaceship Earth dealing with populations and their various densities, generic foods and natural controls. Visitor participation has always been stressed in the Science Centre. And, along with exhibits to operate, Spaceship Earth boasts a new feature — push-agains. Want to learn something about nitrogen? Push the Button and a short audio-visual show takes place. Want to know more? Push again and the presentation continues. The Centre's scientists and designers have been working on Spaceship Earth for more than a year and plan to open the area in stages. Half the exhibits will be in operation by mid-December, with the remainder being completed in the following few weeks. 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