1159!

Don't you hate it when you buy something, and it doesn't exactly work as advertised? Like, buying a car which "seats 6" but is completely full with just four?

Well... thankfully sometimes things can be different too. We purchased an incredible inflatable planetarium from our friends in Houston called "e-planetarium", and it was advertised as being capable of seating about 30 adults or 45 kids. But of course, that is the advertised capacity. So, we have been testing this, and up to Saturday, the results were promising. We had at one point 27 adults in the dome, and it still felt very roomy, but what I had NOT expected was what happened this Saturday.

In a nutshell: we were at Scoutjam and 30,000 people showed up. WOW!

The first show we put 22 people in the dome, and from then on there was a continuous line, so the second show we put in 35, then 37, 40! And this was mixed adults and kids, so 40 was a really good number. We had shows every 10 minutes, but still the lines continued... As we got more experienced in seating folks, we cranked it up to 45, 50, 56... and then the last show (10 minutes after closing) so we really made an attempt to seat everyone, we managed to seat 61!!

The total count of the day was a stunning 1159 people through the planetarium, about 2/3 were kids and 1/3 adults. 1159 in one day!

Below we have pasted a video of the line in front of the dome. Apologies for the poor quality, but the lighting was very unfortunate, and it was also very dusty. Our next public event should be a hit too! We'll be at the Science and Engineering festival at the convention center. You can read more about that free event here.