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Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World?
An anonymous reader asks: "Is there anyone besides me who likes to travel and look at engineering projects? When I first read Neal Stephenson's Wired article on his trip around the world to watch an intercontinental fiber cable being built from England to Japan (still available at HotWired) I knew this was what I wanted to do with my vacation days. Space launch sites, high-speed rail lines, container ports, technology museums - I've tried them all. Does Slashdot have suggestions for destinations, or for web sites where people share their experiences."
which i find useful, is gud.us!
See details here: A solar eclipse will be seen from Africa! To celebrate, the local Muslims will set a hundred random people on fire and hack the arms off a hundred more, in protest against the sun's implied insult to the prophet Muhammad. They will thereby prove that Islam is the religion of peace and that it's the infidels who are fucked up, not them.
In other news, Muslims in Iran still intend to execute a college professor for advocating freedom of conscience, Muslims in India have murdered another dozen or two civilians at random, Muslims in Saudi Arabia have executed fifteen random gays and women for being gay or female, Muslims in Pakistan murdered each other for no reason at all, and Muslims in Chechnya are still refusing to face the fact that they're at war because they VOLUNTARILY CHOSE TO INVADE DAGESTAN for God's fucking sake.
Other random killings and insanity from the religion of peace are expected shortly. Meanwhile, the only Muslims on Earth who are free to vote and speak their minds are living outside of the Islamic world. They're voting for swine and talking complete shit, but that's their right. Of course, they'd move back to an Islamic nation in a minute, if there were a single Islamic nation on Earth that had a functioning economy. But there isn't, so they're all in the West, hating their benefactors, supporting their local terrorist cell, and sending money home.
Unfortunately, in the USA at least, a person going around looking at engineering projects is going to be suspected of being a terrorist.
Hopefully you're not of Middle-Eastern descent--and by that I mean (since the vast majority of Americans are rather stupid) anything from an Indian to Russian. If you are, you're screwed. Even if you manage not to have some overreacting cop throw you in jail you'll quickly tire of the endless stream of security guards, cops, FBI, etc, asking why you're interested in this dam, bridge, sub-station, or whatever. Logic and reasoning will do no good.
Railfans have been dealing with this recently, and I'd think the reaction to someone shooting airliners with a 600mm-lens-equiped camera wouldn't be too good either.
Yes, it sucks. No, it's not going to get better anytime soon (probably at least another 2 years, and maybe 6, I'd say).