Life was missing its mystique, my squeaky toys had lost their squeak! And then, out of the blue, I saw the phone and BAM! My destiny is calling me! Pitched my vision for a show. They loved it! Thought I was a pro! They got my contract back to find, to their alarm a dog had signed! *Fetch!* Oh, I like that name! *With Ruff Ruffman!* I didn't wait to renovate, found six contestants, all were great! And now, I’m on the road to fame, I've got a gameshow and its name is! *Fetch!* It's very catchy! *With Ruff Ruffman!* It rolls off the tongue! Can someone tell me why cats are singing? *FETCH!* Looks like you're gonna have to go back to that Mars model at the Galleria to put taped signs over all the ones that are not available so it's updated. Also yeah, the Best Buy closed in June 2022, which makes TJ Maxx (which replaced Borders) as currently the only anchor there.
This seems like a great opportunity for some tactical urbanism. Make up some replica planets (3D printing?) or planetary gravestones…or even just stickers and deploy them where the planets used to be! It seems really disappointing that the sites dedicated to education (e.g. libraries) didn't preserve the memory somehow.
I got to attend a wedding in Ithaca back in July 2021 and while there, I had the opportunity to do the Sagan Planet Walk which follows a straightish route between Ithaca Commons and ends at the Sciencenter. The Sun is at Ithaca Commons (which bonus points for being pedestrianized!), Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are all right next to each other on N Tioga Street (also pedestrianized as part of Ithaca Commons), Asteroids and Jupiter are both next to each other on E Seneca St between N Tioga and N Cayuga Streets, Saturn is next to Dewitt Park on N Cayuga St, Uranus is by Thompson Park, Neptune is by Conley Park (the part between Uranus and Neptune gets bonus points for being by a creek; and has a bridge that goes across it specifically for the walk to get to Neptune), and finally Pluto is at the Sciencenter entrance! Each stop of the walk has a big marker that lists LOTS of neat facts about each part of the solar system. While them being in a straight line makes things easier, I prefer the way Boston did it because it puts things into perspective more by making you travel more. Plus, we wouldn't have this crazy adventure across Boston in a Miles in Transit video nor Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman
The Boston Solar System was one of the area's cooler hidden gems. I "discovered " it randomly about 20-some years ago while visiting the Science Museum. Uranus disappeared during the renos to the JP branch of the BPL which I sometimes frequented -- when I asked for its whereabouts when the place re-opened, some of the staff were unaware it had ever been there in the first place! lol I got to most of the Inner Planets while they were still there, but confess I wasn't enough of a space-farer to have ever made it to Saugus. Really enjoyed this one!
Having them not be in a line is arguably more accurate, since the planets rarely line up in real life. Like, yeah Neptune is capable of being close-ish to Uranus, but just as often they are on opposite sides of the solar system
For a city often associated with PBS, I shouldn't be surprised that Boston had a citywide Solar System exhibit - possibly the subject of many a grade-school adventure.
Always so wild to see you back in Boston and in my neck of the woods! I know about the planet walk mostly from Pokemon Go, several of the ones that still existed ca 2016 are now pokestops or gyms. But I can say the Pluto one in Newton was definitely gone in early 2020 when I was there - still a pokestop, but station staff said it had been removed. I love to stop by Mars when I'm in the Galleria, though!
Jupiter’s gone? When I was at BU from 2011-15 I took an Amtrak trip to NY around 2014 and then it was in a waiting lounge at South Station upstairs from the main floor. I found Mars at the Galleria when buying Halloween stuff back in October. I’d love to do this trip by bike and T when I’m back in Boston this summer even though so many of the models sadly aren’t there anymore (even the ones in the museum itself?!?!) I already biked “from the Sun to Pluto” at the Smithsonian solar system model on the National Mall.
Sequel idea: the Sweden Solar System Model. Starting from the Globe in Stockholm 300 km to Plutoin Delsbo. Everything is close to transit the whole way (though I haven't checked schedules) and there's a nice railroad surprise in Delsbo.
UGH this is so cool!!!! im from boston and im a huge fan of your channel, and its so awesome to see you take the 1 bus to symphony, super close to where I live!!
Whaaa...?! Back in the early 2000s, when I visited my mom in Waltham, I would take the green line from Riverside to the Science Museum. Pluto was there then. Did it get taken down when Pluto was demoted? Bummer!
I used to take the D-line out to Riverside all the time my Freshman year of college. I'd stare at Pluto while I waited for the shuttle to Regis to visit my gf
There is something like this in Sweden, where in Stockholm the spherical Globen arena is used as a representation of the sun and the planets are all placed in a line north at a scale accurate distance and planet size
As someone who had a guinea pig as a pet thanks for including he/her in the video! Also, this is great showing the various metro lines should I ever go to visit Bowston
For what it's worth, there's a guinea pig sanctuary in Salisbury, MA that's accessible on the MVRTA 54 bus - WELL worth the visit if you like guinea pigs!!
Take a look at the wiki page called Solar System model, and maybe you could update the intro section about Boston. There are two in Ohio I know of that aren't listed, so its not a comprehensive list.
I have to agree on MIT's campus being depressing. It was my dream school for a while and then I finally visited the campus (not even officially, just walked through it) and wow its just...bleh.
Hot take: Northeastern's got the best urban campus in Boston. TWO rail lines, underground pedestrian tunnels, on the southwest corridor, right next to affordable housing in Roxbury (for now... 😢) and they've spent the last 30 years pivoting from being a commuter college with HUGE parking lots. Those lots are almost all gone now, replaced by tall buildings. It feels like every 3 years they break ground on another project to build on a former parking lot.
Shoutouts to the WORST urban campus in Boston: the linear, car infested, highway hugging Boston University. They're trying, but it's a lot more expensive to fix all that mess than it is to build on a parking lot.
Check out the Stata Center on Vassar Street. From the hand of no less than Frank Gehry , it's controversial but certainly never anything like ...bleh. The building also occupies the footprint of what's usually described as the "infamous": Building 20 where a huge amount of research on the atomic bomb took place and where, no doubt, the ghosts of Oppenheimer, Ulam and Kistiakowski are still be be encountered. Oh -- and don't fail to tke a look at the equally "infamous" and arcane runes on the "Smoot Bridge" across the Charles!
@@metagoat I agree. Northeastern's campus is a big part of why I loved it so much when I went! Great access to orange and green lines or buses. Or you can walk to Back Bay / South End. Plus NEU did a good job making the campus feel like a campus, even though it's in a city!
laughing at your guys' discussion of CRLS's pretentious name... it is pretty highfalutin now that you mention it. love the video, seeing you walk around places I go every day is always fun!
I ran across Mars by accident while getting lunch in the mall last month. I also had the same struggles with Lechmere. I stepped in the same puddle crossing the street and almost missed a train because of fare validation being a pain in the neck. Here, in Maine, we have a larger scale version in a straight line along Route 1 between Houlton & Presque Isle. Do you think you’ll try to do a first ride video on the “Coastliner,” if it actually opens this summer?
For once Miles didn't interrupt a video! I was actually waiting for this. It's kinda of sad some of the planters are gone, makes FETCH historical at least, the city should of left it like the freedom trail, are you going to do anymore of the FETCH stuff? And I think the one at south station is still there, only because it's there in Pokemon go. Edit: no it's gone, I was thinking the "Links sculpture" was the planet. None the less, the city should of kept them for historical/ science purposes.
RE: Cambridge Rindge & Latin's "pretentious" name; it's not the only public high school in MA with a pretentious name. Lynn (Lynn, City of Sin) has 2 public high schools, called Lynn Classical and Lynn English. A close friend of mine is an alumnus of Lynn English, and a couple days ago I asked him what the difference was and he literally said the only difference is what part of the city it serves (English serves the east side and Classical serves the west). There's also Westford Academy in Westford, and aside from those handful, literally every other public high school in the state outside of Boston are literally just "XYZ High School", just substitute XYZ for the city, school district, or in the case of Oliver Ames High School (Easton Public Schools), a historical figure important to the municipality
I did this challenge about 7-8 years ago and Mercury Venus Jupiter and Pluto were all there! Didn’t even bother going to Saugus though. It’s a shame MOS basically destroyed the solar system.
Probably wouldn’t fit the scale at all, especially considering the size of the room, but the massive spherical “Mapparium” at that Christian Science Center would be a great “Earth” (well Earth from 1935 since the maps have never been updated).
I want to see how far in NY you can using LCL, LTD., +SBS, EXP starting in Greenport, Suffolk County, and end somewhere where it’s impossible to transfer outside a 1/3 hour walk. This excludes Amtrak & Greyhound as that’s considered cheating and invalidates this ideological challenge.
As a planetary scientist, I am here to reassure you that Pluto is indeed a real planet. So called "Dwarf planets" are still planets per the IAU definition. But also the IAU definition was written by a bunch of astronomers who didn't consult any geoscientists, & so a whole bunch of us in the field just ignore them & call everything a planet if we or our colleagues study it.
Also, only American scientists say "urine us" instead of "yer anus" because we're pretentious & don't want to bother with "oo-RAHN-us" like everyone else on Earth.
@@jmchristoph Cambridge dictionary says British uses the same middle syllable as US. The vowel shift in Middle English is what made English vowel pronunciation so unusual. Spelling wasn’t standardized but soon was.
Itsumo doori no aru hi no koto Kimi wa totsuzen tachiagari itta Konya hoshi wo mi ni yukou Tama ni wa ii koto iunda ne Nante minna shite itta waratta Akari mo nai michi wo Baka mitai ni hashaide aruita Kakaekonda kodoku ya fuan ni Oshitsubusarenai you ni Makkura na sekai kara miageta Yozora wa hoshi ga furu you de Itsukara darou kimi no koto wo Oikakeru watashi ga ita Dou ka onegai Odorokanai de kiite yo Watashi no kono omoi wo Are ga DENEBU, ARUTAIRU, BEGA Kimi wa yubisasu natsu no daisankaku Oboete sora wo miru Yatto mitsuketa orihimesama Dakedo doko darou hikoboshisama Kore ja hitoribocchi Tanoshigena hitotsu tonari no kimi Watashi wa nani mo ienakute Hontou wa zutto kimi no koto wo Doko ka de wakatteita Mitsukattatte todoki wa shinai Dame da yo nakanai de Sou iikikaseta Tsuyogaru watashi wa okubyou de Kyoumi ga nai youna furi wo shiteita Dakedo Mune wo sasu itami wa mashiteku Aa sou ka suki ni narutte Kouiu koto nanda ne Doushitai ? Itte goran Kokoro no koe ga suru Kimi no tonari ga ii Shinjitsu wa zankoku da Iwanakatta Ienakatta Nidoto modorenai Ano natsu no hi Kirameku hoshi Ima demo omoidaseru yo Waratta kao mo Okotta kao mo Daisuki deshita Okashii yo ne Wakatteta no ni Kimi no shiranai Watashi dake no himitsu Yoru wo koete Tooi omoide no kimi ga Yubi wo sasu Mujakina koe de
Feels like they could've made the sun a bit smaller and gained a much more enjoyable sight seeing experience as a result. You both made the most out of the journey, but "underwhelming" does feel like an appropriate description.
So about 5 years ago Gagosian Gallery installed Chris Burden's Scale Model of the Universe at the Seattle Art Fair. The sun was 13 inches in diameter so the system covered a much smaller amount of space. Pluto was at the Seattle Art Museum and the sun was at Gagosian's booth about a mile south. I walked it and burst out laughing when i got to the sun because I was elated and maybe a little overheated from the actual sun and Gagosian's gallery reps just looked so sullen and miserable.
So just so I understand, you have to tap your charlie card on a ticket machine to get a paper proof of payment receipt? Why can't authorized officers validate your charlie card directly?
@@MilesinTransit I live in Toronto and have never been to Boston. In Toronto, you tap your farecard or debit/credit card on the reader on board the streetcar. Fare inspectors can ask you to tap on their handheld reader, which will verify that you have paid your fare.
@@MilesinTransit I visited Sydney NSW< which does the same thing on their light rail, except the payment readers are on poles at the stops and no onboard the trams. Even better their authorized officers just wear a uniform like a train driver, no bulletproof vests or police-eque uniforms.
This was a fun video to watch, but so disappointing for me on a couple of levels. First of all, when I was a kid and this exhibit was new, it totally captured my imagination. I envisioned the planets being in a straight line and seeing that they were scattered around was a bummer. Secondly, I’ve always thought I would someday visit them all and finding out most of them are long gone really sucks.
Dang... I remember watching reruns of that Fetch episode on PBS back in early elementary school. Brought back some memories. It sucks that almost all of the planets are gone now. btw how far back was that Fetch episode filmed?
