OMSI's planetarium

This Saturday Gabe and I went to the planetarium at OMSI and watched "Passport to the Universe" narrated by Tom Hanks and made by the American Museum of Natural History. It cost $5.50 to get into, and the show was only a half hour. The show itself was actually really good, and very informative and sparked quite the discussion between Gabe and I afterwards, but we both wished that it would have gone on longer than a half hour. They definitely could have expanded on much more.
It was nice and cool in the planetarium and it was a great activity for a Saturday afternoon when it's over 100 degrees outside. We both really liked how they zoomed out from earth and gave you more of a 3-D perspective on the stars and how far they are away. I really enjoyed when they got so far zoomed out that they showed our entire galaxy as just a speck, the size of the stars that we see at night. Considering our galaxy holds billions of stars, it's crazy to think about our entire galaxy being that tiny. Not to mention there are billions of other galaxies outside of ours. It definitely brings the concept of religion into question and the role of God in creation of these galaxies and in our own lives. We also learned about how stars are formed and that they are created of the same elements that lie within us-oxygen, carbon etc. I guess Carl Sagen said "we are starstuff" and that is very true when you realize how intimately linked with the universe we are. Needless to say, we really enjoyed ourselves, and our only complaint was the shortness of the movie.