Houston

I have been following the real time activities of a NOAA research vessel off the Massachusetts coast.  See link

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream.html

You get to experience the data, views, and conditions experienced by this research expedition in real time...in your PJS, with a beverage...and with expert color commentary.  No duct taping the bunk sheets to the mattress on a R/V reality needed.  No guessing what the strange albino thing is.  An expert tells you!!!  Watch the different views and data feeds and experience what it must be like to be in the control room in Houston ( a tiny bit perhaps?)

So completely interesting and inspiring and yikes how can there still be so much to learn?  Yes.  Please use my taxes for this.  Excuse me while I go grab a beverage and play desktop scientist.