We've got 29 hours left in the campaign and have raised 74% of our goal! I am so proud of everyone at the Museum who helped us get this project off the ground, and immensely grateful to the more than 1,500+ people who have donated over the last month. This has been a humbling and enriching experience and I am so thankful to you all.
The dioramas were my favorite part of the museum when I visited a few months ago! It was awesome to travel the world through them. It is so neat to get up close and look at the hair or the nails of an animal that used to walk the earth that I might otherwise never see. But it was sad to notice that some of the specimens were obviously VERY old and in need of repair.
It's so cool that the hyenas will have the spotlight they deserve! I remember when I visited the Field Museum last summer how out of place they looked. Also, I have a new found appreciation for people who work in specimen preservation as I recently began volunteering in the Southeastern Louisiana University Vertebrate Museum ichthyology department. :) Someone I work with used to work with you Emily! Keep being awesome!
Not gonna lie, hyenas are pretty much the only animal that creeps me out for some reason. Though I guess it'd be fair to say it's the laughing hyenas that draw most of my shivers. All those videos of the shiny eyes in the night surrounding their downed pray as they laugh creepily. *shivers* That being said, I still love supporting museums and science!!
I grew up with the Museum of Natural History in LA, and the dioramas were one of my favorite parts! I wish we could get new ones as well, best of luck Brain Scoop crew!
87 years ago, it was April 1928, the market crash that initiated the depression was still about 18 months in the future (Sept-Oct 1929). Still happy to contribute.
Speaking of permanency, I'd love a video on the Field Museum's emergency preparedness. What sort of protections does it have in place in case of fire, flood, earthquake, zombie apocalypse, or whatever?
Comments in order of appearance in my brain: 1. cool! your dress matches the background. 2. Is this true? it's true? that's much awesomer than I expected the secret thing to be.. I thought it would be like "an awesome thing is happening, but its mostly just awesome for the people who are actually doing it." but this is like significantly more awesome than that. it radiates awesome to all who bask in its glory. 3. 5:37 Michael Aranda better up his game, cause that is one fine looking blonde stripe. 4. awesooome!
I'm going to Chicago this month for the first time and our plan is to go to the Shedd Aquarium but I just realized that the Shedd and Field Museum are neighbors...Me thinks I need to work on my travel partners to see if we can jaunt over to the Field Museum as well! Are you doing anything at the museum on the 19th Emily? lol
That thought crossed our mind :) We know not everyone can give, but any amount counts and it's just as important to help us spread the message! #ProjectHyenaDiorama !
Being a kid is nice and all in the sense that you don't have to do taxes. Not so great in the sense that you can't donate to make hyena dioramas, or even persuade your mom to, even though she's a scientist herself. *sigh* Is there any other way I can contribute?
Taking a look at the pie chart makes me wonder, do they really need 40,000 to work on the diorama shell? if one can buy a condo with double that money I don't see how it costs that much to modify a small room? also 20,000 for the mural? who knew murals cost that much.
What's your thoughts on providing a 3d model of each exhibit and a digital DNA copy? You could even use something like a raspberry pi to send a torrent link with a NFC to a phone. So people would physically have to show up to get the data. "you provide the data, we make the beast"
***** You could always use Near field communication (NFC)(1) to write a tag that would be an embedded torrent(2) link. With torrents, everybody is able to share the data, rather than just downloading from a single location. If you download the data, you would also be providing the data to someone else. The other part of a torrent file is tracer(3). What this does, is let people who are sharing the file know what parts to distribute. A small computer could be used to host a private tracker(5); I’d suggest a Raspberry Pi(4). Public trackers are generally free. The Data Personally, I feel that 3D modeling is an up and coming desirable asset. You could easily, and for free, use 123D Catch(6) to take photos of any collection and upload it to the 123D Catch Cloud Service, and you get back a 3D color rendered file. I also feel that people in the future will want more than just to see a collection, but to also to analyze it as well. Therefore DNA sequencing would be a great way for this. Also the people who would be using the DNA would be advancing knowledge. So in my book that’s a win, win. With that I bet you are thinking cost for getting DNA sequencing preformed, hosting of the Gigabytes of DNA information and network bandwidth. Two out of three of these by using torrent files can help. To share the data, you would only need the one copy, however you should always use the Computer Backup Rule of Three(7), the other would be bandwidth. When people share, they distribute the data as well as the bandwidth utilization. So the biggest issue is the price of sequencing of the DNA. 1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication 2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file 3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker 4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi 5. www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=10451 6. www.123dapp.com/howto/catch 7. www.hanselman.com/blog/TheComputerBackupRuleOfThree.aspx
Hiandbye95 A diorama is a 3d model of something. In this case, it's the taxidermied hyenas in a display case, with the display case made to look like thenatural habitat of the hyenas.
So let me get this straight: The Field Museum, who charges $31 a ticket, can't afford to move 4 hyenas to a new diorama. What to do? Trot out their newest pet, that they bought to make themselves relevant again (you know, the youth vote and all), with the express task of raising money for them? Geez.
interestedmeow Move and restore, and pay all the people involved, and build an entire new diorama. The Field Museum also does a lot of other work, which explains the high cost of the ticket, and a lot of that work is both (1) delicate and (2) specialized, leading to high salaries for the people involved. Also, they may have to shut down parts of the museum for construction, so the museum will get less money, so they need to cover that too.
Lavien Premraj Hank Green is credited at the end of every video as "creator" of the brain scoop. You could say that this is a permanent "collaboration" (much like ViHeart).
Just for some perspective... Just to walk in the door of the Field Museum is going to run you $15 if you're a student (much of TBS's demo) and $18 if you're an adult. If you want to see the good stuff, an All-Access ticket tops out at $31. The Field Museum has a $70 million budget and a $300 million endowment. Asking kids to fund $170,000 out of their allowance/pocket change is criminal.
stormbob The key word is *asking*. It is not necessary, it is a voluntary donation to a great institution. Also, lots of people who watch this are adults, with their own income to use however they wish.
They are asking as both a form of promotion and to get community involvement, which in turn creates a sense of pride and further promotes interest. So, basically, they gain something and we gain something. I don't see how that's criminal.
I hate to say it, but the reason museums are going extinct is because of costy and boring hyena dioramas. Thats never going to move people thru the doors. Maybe would have been a hit in the 1850's, but that shit doesn't fly today.
What would you rather have? Dinosaurs everywhere, and dyed dog furs in all the colors of the rainbows with free iPads? I feel as if you want to make the field museum like a strange animal museum with oddities everywhere rather than an educational museum. Education isn't "cool", this has been established since school was a thing, but I'd rather have a reliable field museum than whatever sells. Sex sells, drugs sell, and oddities sell.
Yes, but $10k+ of it was from one backer. Which is silly, especially this early, and suggests to me it wasn't an audience member. That's just my guess though.
seigeengine I'm not so sure about that. After all, someone donated half that (the highest-priced perk) for a painting Miss Emily had not yet painted during the 2012 Project for Awesome.
Visit the campaign page for sure but just to save peoples lives... ...A diorama is a three-dimensional replica of a landscape, typically featuring habitat scenes. Good luck... he wrestle a tiger and strangled it eh? Hmmmm.
I don't know if I buy the research aspect. The hyenas aren't on display for researchers, they could be placed in storage/specimen drawers and accessed by scientists that would want them. Historically important? Maybe. But I don't think the hyenas are exciting enough to draw much attention. And we can make those connections to nature without the hyenas. I just don't think THAT much money can be justified by honoring some guy we've never heard of to keep around some old stripy hyena caucuses. Do you know what that sort of money would do for a research lab at a university? Goodness, that could fund 5 different projects to learn new exciting, cutting edge things.
What were you expecting? A call to arms? Yea, and Emily did lead an army that didst scoop the brains of their foes, vanquishing all ne'er-do'ells and enacting great striped hyena dioramas in her honour.
Lily Woodruff Me too, I guess I was expecting a really amazing episode with lots of people or pieces or follow-up, or something along those lines, not like "This is why you should give the Field Museum money." It's an exciting project, but still... it's a diorama.
seigeengine I should rephrase: it is exciting. It is very exciting. I mean, this is a huge thing and _we're doing it._ However, my brain can't get past the fact that instead of *creating* something of our own, we're restoring someone else's creation to its glory. Again, that's exciting in its own right, but my priorities (that's a bad word, but I can't find a better one) still place this behind the creation of something new. Does that make sense? (Also, I think this is the only video I have been disappointed by from this whole channel... reconsidering my viewership over this would be kind of strange!)
Waris Amir Mohammad Really? I've got an econ PhD and work for a famous bank so I'm pretty sure I'm good with money and you don't need $170.000 to make a diorama. Go to a country with $5k GDP and tell them you'll spend $170.000 for a window with a dead animal and a painting behind and get stoned to death.
You realize that money is going not just for the physical diorama props and animals, but its also the salary for each of these scientists and curators, its going to the construction crews paychecks, its going to the OTHER dioramas in the museum since that part of the museum will probably be closed for construction, thus possibly decreasing their revenue... Fo someone who supposedly has a PhD in economics and supposedly works for a MULTIBILLION dollar banking corporation, you seemed to have forgotten a lot. Plus, if youre so worried about the poorer countries, why are you working for a company that is known for screwing over poor people?!
Jéssica Bonomo A diorama is a 3d model of something. In this case, it's the taxidermied hyenas in a display case, with the display case made to look like thenatural habitat of the hyenas.
Jéssica Bonomo They're really cool. A lot of hobbyists create miniature dioramas in their free time. One UA-camr I watch makes medieval castle scenes and battles.
I like how they repainted the whole museum to match Emily's dress!
That's really where all of the cost is coming from #loljk
I knew it! ;3
@Cesar Zavier I got a couple similar replies on ancient comments, obviously a scam of some sort, not sure what can be done about it :/
We've got 29 hours left in the campaign and have raised 74% of our goal! I am so proud of everyone at the Museum who helped us get this project off the ground, and immensely grateful to the more than 1,500+ people who have donated over the last month. This has been a humbling and enriching experience and I am so thankful to you all.
Thank you all for your interest and enthusiasm! We are beyond thrilled to be going ahead with this! $23k in 9 hours isn't a bad start. :D
I will donate when I get my next paycheck!!
Karley Spriggs Aww, thanks!
+thebrainscoop omg I'm so happy you commented back! Love the show Emily!!
I really loved seeing how many people it is going to take to put this diorama together.
There are so many more who aren't in the video. This is really a museum-wide effort!
I think Simba exiled the Hyenas to the reptile exhibit.
The dioramas were my favorite part of the museum when I visited a few months ago! It was awesome to travel the world through them. It is so neat to get up close and look at the hair or the nails of an animal that used to walk the earth that I might otherwise never see. But it was sad to notice that some of the specimens were obviously VERY old and in need of repair.
I remember wandering through these dioramas as a kid. They had a profound and lasting effect. I am so on board with this.
It's so cool that the hyenas will have the spotlight they deserve! I remember when I visited the Field Museum last summer how out of place they looked. Also, I have a new found appreciation for people who work in specimen preservation as I recently began volunteering in the Southeastern Louisiana University Vertebrate Museum ichthyology department. :) Someone I work with used to work with you Emily! Keep being awesome!
So much effort for 1 exhibit. Makes me wonder how much effort went into the entire museum.
I've been spreading the love for this campaign. The Field Museum is a great place. I've been an on and off docent for the past 5 years. Best wishes.
I could honestly listen to Sarah Crawford talk all day, her voice is so soothing.
Not gonna lie, hyenas are pretty much the only animal that creeps me out for some reason. Though I guess it'd be fair to say it's the laughing hyenas that draw most of my shivers. All those videos of the shiny eyes in the night surrounding their downed pray as they laugh creepily. *shivers*
That being said, I still love supporting museums and science!!
This is a wonderful idea! Kudos to The Field Museum for coming up with this idea and acting on it! you guys are almost 10% funded already! Woohoo!
I grew up with the Museum of Natural History in LA, and the dioramas were one of my favorite parts! I wish we could get new ones as well, best of luck Brain Scoop crew!
87 years ago, it was April 1928, the market crash that initiated the depression was still about 18 months in the future (Sept-Oct 1929).
Still happy to contribute.
I visited the Field Museum just last week and saw the hyena diorama. It looks great!
Can the field museum campaign PLEASE make more money than a pizza place?
2:41 xD
Sorry if I might seem a bit immature, but "Endangered African Wild Ass" cracked me up.
I swear I saw her when I was at the Field Museum last week! I was so excited!
The Moonlight Kingdom reference was brilliant.
this is so cool! i like seeing the people behind this project and the rest of the museum, i'd love to be one of them in the future.
WHY DID I FIND THIS TOO LATE?! Striped hyenas are my favorite animals D:
Speaking of permanency, I'd love a video on the Field Museum's emergency preparedness. What sort of protections does it have in place in case of fire, flood, earthquake, zombie apocalypse, or whatever?
Comments in order of appearance in my brain:
1. cool! your dress matches the background.
2. Is this true? it's true? that's much awesomer than I expected the secret thing to be.. I thought it would be like "an awesome thing is happening, but its mostly just awesome for the people who are actually doing it." but this is like significantly more awesome than that. it radiates awesome to all who bask in its glory.
3. 5:37 Michael Aranda better up his game, cause that is one fine looking blonde stripe.
4. awesooome!
What a great campaign! Got my donation in. :)
Gadzooks is my favorite word omg. You're the best.
Omg you made it look like a Wes Anderson film. Awesome you used the same music.
I'm going to Chicago this month for the first time and our plan is to go to the Shedd Aquarium but I just realized that the Shedd and Field Museum are neighbors...Me thinks I need to work on my travel partners to see if we can jaunt over to the Field Museum as well! Are you doing anything at the museum on the 19th Emily? lol
I'm definitely gonna check it out.
Oh! and Emily, your outfit in this video is really nice! ;-)
If every subscriber gave 50c then they would get just enough money
That thought crossed our mind :) We know not everyone can give, but any amount counts and it's just as important to help us spread the message! #ProjectHyenaDiorama !
***** Not all can give, but maybe half of us can give a dollar?
i love the way you presented this!! great video emily :)
I'm literally shaking with excitement.
The Wes Anderson/Brain Scoop dual fanbase is losing its shit right now. God these videos are so good.
I would fund the heck out of of a project diorama coffee mug.
Shelley Paine has amazing Michael Aranda-worthy hair!
RIP Bill Stanley :'(
I only hope when they found the wild ass that "I FOUND YOU, MS NEW BOOTY" eerily blew in on the wind
Being a kid is nice and all in the sense that you don't have to do taxes. Not so great in the sense that you can't donate to make hyena dioramas, or even persuade your mom to, even though she's a scientist herself. *sigh*
Is there any other way I can contribute?
You certainly can, spread the word and promote the campaign. You'll certainly reach some people with the desire and the means to donate. :)
I feel like this channel is directed by Wes Anderson.
So cool! :) I hope to donate eventually... not sure at what pledge level of course. Was wondering how many postcards would be in the postcard pack.
This is so fun and well done!
Lovely to see Soon again! ..and to find out what the secret was! Aaaah good luck Emily, I'm sure the Brain Scoop viewers will get it funded! >w
It's been 84 years....
We really enjoy The Brainscoop - just donated $10. Good luck!
...Reason No. 6: Finishing what was started, even if it has taken 87 years.
Well looks like I have to go to Chicago now
i like the wes anderson style references!! hahaha
unprecedented is my favorite word
I had no idea there was a hyena in Asia. I only ever think of the spotted hyena, I guess.
Put Wes Anderson in the diorama
I'm going to start using the word "diorama" in place of "cool".
Di-o-ramaaaaa.
Can someone please tell me the names of the classical music pieces used? It's driving me insane here. Gaaaaah!!
I feel like persevering life, is more than just making things of the past. We need to combat the humans.
I wish I would work at the field museum! I'm going to school to be a curator so maybe one day :) haha
Taking a look at the pie chart makes me wonder, do they really need 40,000 to work on the diorama shell? if one can buy a condo with double that money I don't see how it costs that much to modify a small room? also 20,000 for the mural? who knew murals cost that much.
This was so dumb in the best of ways. I want more.
OK striped hyenas are cool and all but . . . is it my imagination or is that the Presto from Bach's Partita #1 played all pizzicato?
Very cool. I'm pretty well broke but I'll make it the first link in the description for anyone checking out the True Facts video.
Thanks, Josh. That would mean a lot to us. :)
170K? I think you might wanna get another bid.
What's your thoughts on providing a 3d model of each exhibit and a digital DNA copy? You could even use something like a raspberry pi to send a torrent link with a NFC to a phone. So people would physically have to show up to get the data.
"you provide the data, we make the beast"
Nick Farrow If... I had any idea how to do this or what you were even referring to I'd be all about it because it sounds awesome. Enlighten me?
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You could always use Near field communication (NFC)(1) to write a tag that would be an embedded torrent(2) link. With torrents, everybody is able to share the data, rather than just downloading from a single location. If you download the data, you would also be providing the data to someone else. The other part of a torrent file is tracer(3). What this does, is let people who are sharing the file know what parts to distribute. A small computer could be used to host a private tracker(5); I’d suggest a Raspberry Pi(4). Public trackers are generally free.
The Data
Personally, I feel that 3D modeling is an up and coming desirable asset. You could easily, and for free, use 123D Catch(6) to take photos of any collection and upload it to the 123D Catch Cloud Service, and you get back a 3D color rendered file. I also feel that people in the future will want more than just to see a collection, but to also to analyze it as well. Therefore DNA sequencing would be a great way for this. Also the people who would be using the DNA would be advancing knowledge. So in my book that’s a win, win. With that I bet you are thinking cost for getting DNA sequencing preformed, hosting of the Gigabytes of DNA information and network bandwidth. Two out of three of these by using torrent files can help. To share the data, you would only need the one copy, however you should always use the Computer Backup Rule of Three(7), the other would be bandwidth. When people share, they distribute the data as well as the bandwidth utilization. So the biggest issue is the price of sequencing of the DNA.
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_field_communication
2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file
3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker
4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
5. www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=10451
6. www.123dapp.com/howto/catch
7. www.hanselman.com/blog/TheComputerBackupRuleOfThree.aspx
You know this sounds great and all... I just have one question.
What's a Diorama?
Hiandbye95 Dial yo mama
They're glass boxes in museums, if you've ever been to one. They (usually) have animals in them, and they're really realistic.
Hiandbye95 A diorama is a 3d model of something. In this case, it's the taxidermied hyenas in a display case, with the display case made to look like thenatural habitat of the hyenas.
culwin oh my freaking god PREACH
0:45 a camera operator was trapped inside!
Where's the famed leopard?
So let me get this straight:
The Field Museum, who charges $31 a ticket, can't afford to move 4 hyenas to a new diorama. What to do? Trot out their newest pet, that they bought to make themselves relevant again (you know, the youth vote and all), with the express task of raising money for them? Geez.
interestedmeow Move and restore, and pay all the people involved, and build an entire new diorama. The Field Museum also does a lot of other work, which explains the high cost of the ticket, and a lot of that work is both (1) delicate and (2) specialized, leading to high salaries for the people involved. Also, they may have to shut down parts of the museum for construction, so the museum will get less money, so they need to cover that too.
Why so dressed up? (looks more formal than usual + broach)
You should do a collabration with Hank Green,
you've probably done that haven't you
Lavien Premraj Hank Green is credited at the end of every video as "creator" of the brain scoop. You could say that this is a permanent "collaboration" (much like ViHeart).
are we going to be seeing an episode with aaron any time soon?
If this project gets funded you will!
Technically the giant tadpoles shouldn't be in a "reptile" department as well :P
Phoenix Do they have an amphibian department? I don't know since I've never been.
Just for some perspective...
Just to walk in the door of the Field Museum is going to run you $15 if you're a student (much of TBS's demo) and $18 if you're an adult. If you want to see the good stuff, an All-Access ticket tops out at $31. The Field Museum has a $70 million budget and a $300 million endowment.
Asking kids to fund $170,000 out of their allowance/pocket change is criminal.
stormbob The key word is *asking*. It is not necessary, it is a voluntary donation to a great institution. Also, lots of people who watch this are adults, with their own income to use however they wish.
They are asking as both a form of promotion and to get community involvement, which in turn creates a sense of pride and further promotes interest. So, basically, they gain something and we gain something. I don't see how that's criminal.
There's a World Taxidermy Championship?!
Yaassss and it's less than a month away: www.taxidermy.net/wtc/
Wowowowoowowowow this is so cool :D
I feel like this video should have had more symmetry and at least two different binoculars. And someone writing a letter with some voiceover.
remember "exhibit director" not "exhibitionist" that's something else...
hi amber
I hate to say it, but the reason museums are going extinct is because of costy and boring hyena dioramas. Thats never going to move people thru the doors. Maybe would have been a hit in the 1850's, but that shit doesn't fly today.
***** Rift support confirmed for hyena diorama.
What would you rather have? Dinosaurs everywhere, and dyed dog furs in all the colors of the rainbows with free iPads? I feel as if you want to make the field museum like a strange animal museum with oddities everywhere rather than an educational museum. Education isn't "cool", this has been established since school was a thing, but I'd rather have a reliable field museum than whatever sells. Sex sells, drugs sell, and oddities sell.
Since when were museums going extinct?
And this is exactly why I go to museums. I can see things like striped hyenas.
And why do YOU go to museums? When I was little, I spent HOURS wandering the dioramas in the Museum of Natural History in New York.
DelightfulMusic Wait wait wait.
Education isn't cool?
God damnit, I'm a nerd aren't I?
Actually, Akely *DID* die as well.
Hmm...the total is skewed by the Field Museum CEO's donation, and clearly the Hangout premia were overpriced.
OMG, they've raised 10K USD in ONE hour!
Yes, but $10k+ of it was from one backer. Which is silly, especially this early, and suggests to me it wasn't an audience member. That's just my guess though.
seigeengine I'm not so sure about that. After all, someone donated half that (the highest-priced perk) for a painting Miss Emily had not yet painted during the 2012 Project for Awesome.
It's nice to see more women in this line of work. :)
Can I get a t shirt with Soon Raccoon on it?
Nice dress
Under 301 club?
Visit the campaign page for sure but just to save peoples lives...
...A diorama is a three-dimensional replica of a landscape, typically featuring habitat scenes.
Good luck... he wrestle a tiger and strangled it eh? Hmmmm.
a leopard.
Ur the Best!
HYENAS!!!! YES!!!! TAKE MY MONEY :D
lots of pplz involved... no wonder its so expensive ! i'm not against it at all though... We need these ppls and every penny is worth it
Gadzooks!!!!!!!
Emily is so funnily cheesy:) in this one
Why didn't Wes Anderson just donate the 160K after helping you film this?
JPerry2006 I just donated 25 dollars btw. Still wondering why Wes did help out.
Wild Ass!
I don't know if I buy the research aspect. The hyenas aren't on display for researchers, they could be placed in storage/specimen drawers and accessed by scientists that would want them. Historically important? Maybe. But I don't think the hyenas are exciting enough to draw much attention. And we can make those connections to nature without the hyenas. I just don't think THAT much money can be justified by honoring some guy we've never heard of to keep around some old stripy hyena caucuses.
Do you know what that sort of money would do for a research lab at a university? Goodness, that could fund 5 different projects to learn new exciting, cutting edge things.
Disappointing that after all of Emily's hype, this was just a fundraising campaign.
What were you expecting? A call to arms?
Yea, and Emily did lead an army that didst scoop the brains of their foes, vanquishing all ne'er-do'ells and enacting great striped hyena dioramas in her honour.
Did you not read the title of the video? What did you think it was going to be... ?
Lily Woodruff Me too, I guess I was expecting a really amazing episode with lots of people or pieces or follow-up, or something along those lines, not like "This is why you should give the Field Museum money." It's an exciting project, but still... it's a diorama.
Learning FTW I feel as if this isn't something that excites you, you might find value in reconsidering your viewership of this channel.
seigeengine
I should rephrase: it is exciting. It is very exciting. I mean, this is a huge thing and _we're doing it._ However, my brain can't get past the fact that instead of *creating* something of our own, we're restoring someone else's creation to its glory. Again, that's exciting in its own right, but my priorities (that's a bad word, but I can't find a better one) still place this behind the creation of something new. Does that make sense?
(Also, I think this is the only video I have been disappointed by from this whole channel... reconsidering my viewership over this would be kind of strange!)
$170.000.
You could feed a city for a month with that money, what kind of ruse is this? Gaffsters.
zidus67 Filed under "people who don't know how much things actually cost"
Waris Amir Mohammad
Really? I've got an econ PhD and work for a famous bank so I'm pretty sure I'm good with money and you don't need $170.000 to make a diorama. Go to a country with $5k GDP and tell them you'll spend $170.000 for a window with a dead animal and a painting behind and get stoned to death.
zidus67 csb. being a banker doesn't magically make you the authority on values of stuff you know.
Well, have you actually tried making a full-blown diorama? Once you have, get back to me.
You realize that money is going not just for the physical diorama props and animals, but its also the salary for each of these scientists and curators, its going to the construction crews paychecks, its going to the OTHER dioramas in the museum since that part of the museum will probably be closed for construction, thus possibly decreasing their revenue... Fo someone who supposedly has a PhD in economics and supposedly works for a MULTIBILLION dollar banking corporation, you seemed to have forgotten a lot. Plus, if youre so worried about the poorer countries, why are you working for a company that is known for screwing over poor people?!
WTH is a diorama? D:
Jéssica Bonomo A diorama is a 3d model of something. In this case, it's the taxidermied hyenas in a display case, with the display case made to look like thenatural habitat of the hyenas.
Thanks! :B
Jéssica Bonomo They're really cool. A lot of hobbyists create miniature dioramas in their free time. One UA-camr I watch makes medieval castle scenes and battles.