 A million people have walked past it, but have you ever taken a close look exploring the six-foot globe at the Museum of Science and Technology in this edition of Science Alive? And it's David Padoloni, he's a curator here at the Museum of Science and Technology. David, welcome. And what are we standing in front of? The big six-foot Rand McNally Globe from 1967. And where did this used to be at the museum? Well, for years it was the entrance to the museum and the original museum in 1967. And for a long time it was also in the Canada and space exhibition. So when you first walked into the museum, this is the first thing you would see? Yeah, it was the big dramatic entrance point. It was the focus. It was kind of situating the visitors in 1967 in their world. Right. And what is unique, what's special about this globe? Well, what's great about it is it's from Rand McNally and there were several of these around in the 1960s in libraries, institutions, around North America. It was kind of the space age and it was a way of everyone situating themselves in the space age. It was part of the imagination at that time. And is there a feature too on this that you really, really like? Well, I love the prominent 3D physical features of the world like here. You have the rocky mountains, the painting itself, all the different colors. It took weeks and weeks for a whole team at Rand McNally and you can see the different colors here, the different shades for the different features. They even carved some of these features with dental tools. Now, David, on this globe, there are some cities and there are some cities that are missing. What do you see when you look at it? Well, it's interesting where there are a lot of cities like Europe here, the capitals, and then on Africa here there's only three, Cairo, Tunis, Algiers. The rest all totally blank. And because there was nothing in there in Africa? Well, it just shows the preoccupations or what they're not interested in at the time. Right. Or what the visitors weren't interested in or what Rand McNally thought wasn't interesting. Here, here we have Ottawa. So this was made for an Ottawa audience. It's in light red there and then Washington is in black. So you have two cities in North America here, well, in Mexico City. In Mexico City. And what is interesting too is I see there's provinces in Canada but no states. Yeah, so it was probably because it was made for the Canadian audience. So you'll see all the little very faint borders there of the Canadian provinces. David Petoloni, a curator here at the Museum of Science and Technology. Thank you for joining us. Thank you.