Alberta and the Mythbusters. Eh?

I got back from the Alberta Science Festival in Fort McMurray, Alberta (Canada) last night pretty late. I was exhausted, but it was so worth it. I had a blast. Stick with this blog post; there are good pictures below! Fort McMurray is a smallish town basically in the middle of nowhere, central Alberta. The area is entirely beautiful boreal forest. Oil was found a few hundred kilometers northeast of Edmonton, so the companies swooped in, and a town blossomed. This year, those companies sponsored the Alberta Science Foundation's Science Festival, where they get lots of folks to come in and talk science. I was invited, and didn't even hesitate. First, they sounded like a good group trying to do good things. Second, they accepted my fee without even hesitating. :-) When I got there, it didn't take me long to realize I was a lot farther north than I'm used to. This sight greeted me: