We woke early to join the Cleveland Rush hour on our way to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. We set up in their observatory for an interview with Dr. Lawrence Krauss, Director, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics, at Case Western University. The staff of the Museum was very accommodating, and we pulled off a quick and fabulous interview that I wish could have been longer. Dr. Krauss is brilliant yet humble, funny and insightful and he’ll definitely score points with the viewers. We packed up, and rushed off to the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C.
Six hours later, we drove up to the Naval Observatory, and met with Geoff Chester, the Public Relations Officer. He informed us of the unique nature of the unique nature of the U.S. Naval Observatory, both in history and in time. See, the original and still primary goal of the observatory is to track time. Time itself is a complex subject, but Chester made it easy to understand. A quick run-up to the Washington Beltway toward Baltimore left us hungry and exhausted. Tomorrow we face 2 more airports, a new time-zone, and a chance to visit our friends at Adler.