Attention Stoners: A Giant Rubik's Cube is Coming to Pacific Science Center

This is the Groovik's Cube at Burning Man. You can tell because everyone is standing around with a bicycle, the preferred method of transit in the desert. Image courtesy of GroovLabs

If you've never made it to Burning Man (because you know never to follow a hippie to a second location, or possibly because the idea of spending a weekend trapped in a sweltering expanse of badlands dressed in fake fur and feathers just isn't you bag), you may have missed the 26-foot Rubik's Cube by local artists' collective GroovLabs (who do make some pretty awesome stuff), which they installed at the event in 2009, presumably to confuse the dehydrated, peyote-eating masses. But don't worry--it's coming to the Pacific Science Center, just for you.

The Pacific Science Center is currently closed for maintenance, and will open again next week. Part of the closure is to help the museum get ready for all the sweet new stuff it's going to be getting, as a result of the giant 5-year grant they received in August. But, before they get their all-new, super-expensive exhibition under way, they're bringing the works of GroovLabs to delight and frustrate.

Built on a steel frame and featuring high-powered LEDS, GroovLabs' "Groovik's Cube" was a big hit at that hippiefest out in the desert--but then, anything with lights and colors probably is--but, we think, will be more educational and awesome in the safe, confined, indoor space that the Pacific Science Center provides.

The Cube will be part of an art, engineering, and (of course), science-heavy exhibit they're they're calling Puzzle Palooza, which will include all kinds of other quizzical creations and structures, making the Science Center the prime destination for nerds across the city, as they seek shelter from the impending rainy season. Its engagement at the museum is slated from October until July of 2012.