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Indoor Tropical Island
fons writes "The huge construction dome of the now bankrupt zeppelin maker CargoLifter, has been turned into an indoor tropical island. For about 20euro a day you can swim in the sea, take a walk in the rainforest or go to a beachparty. While it is snowing outside, it's a always a pleasant 25C on the island. And there are no tsunami's. It's bigger than Biosphere2 (it fits the Eiffeltower) but there's less sunlight. Would you spend your vacation in there? The Germans don't seem to be very eager."
Site is already really slow.. save them some bandwidth
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http://www.my-tropical-islands.com.nyud.net:8090/
If you don't mind the German descriptions you can get the same (and a few more) picturesh tm
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on the German site (has a different IP, so should work as a mirror):
http://www.thetropical-islands.com/fotos-opening.
(English version (with less pics) is also available:
http://www.my-tropical-islands.com/engl/fotos-ope
Here is a better link about this Japanese Ocean Dome: http://www.seagaia.co.jp/english/odr/index.html
since octopus become octopi
That isn't the issue the parent was complaining about, it was the use of an apostrophe to indicate a plural. "'s" indicates possession, not multiplicity. It's one of my pet-peeves, too. How often do I want to strangle a store owner for having a sign that says "Thank's!". Ugh!
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it was months before anyone felt comfortable enough to to discuss anything but the horror
Really? I seem to remember a couple of shockwave games where you shoot planes before they have a chance to fly into sky scrapers, and a whole slew of tasteless (but amusing to the desensitized) animations, visuals, and games.
I have a pretty high threshold, but that makes me ill
I think you have overestimated your threshold
what the hell is a 'junk character', anyway?
How long have you been in Germany exactly? Have you ever tried the beaches in the north? Sure, it is not exactly the Caribbean here, but then you cannot really expect that here, or in Denmark, or Great Britain, or other northern european countries with access to the sea. We do have beaches almost along our entire coastline and a lot of tourism in that region.
You fail to realize that not everybody wants tropical heat for a vacation, sometimes, just having a beach (you know, sand, the ocean) is sufficient. I rather go on vacation in the north, if only to escape the unwashed masses on the beaches of the "in"-locations.
They were sort of stuck with what they had. They had a ~10 year-old zeppelin hangar, which was set up to be climate controlled, a large foundation that they didn't want to screw with too much. They've been looking at starting to replace the current canopy with one that's transparent, or at least translucent. However, it takes time and not a small amount of effort to fix up a building which is 1000' long and 300' high for something it wasn't really meant for. I mean, it's an engineering feat which would border on the ludicrous even 50 years ago, which nowadays is so ho-hum. You could fit six of the seven wonders of the ancient world in the thing and still have room to squeeze the Hagia Sophia and the Brooklyn Bridge in. By any measure, it's pretty damn impressive.
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What in the fires of hell are you talking about? German's North Sea shoreline has some truly beautiful beaches, especially the islands. Admittedly, the weather is usually a tad chilly there, but in August the water temperatures sometimes approach 20 deg Celsius. And what's even better - you don't need a big towel, since the wind will blow you dry when you get out of the water ;-)
Sorry if I offended you.
:-)
I really didn't mean to be insensitive.
I thought my reference was pretty neutral. It certainly wasn't meant to be a "fun little tsunami reference". I was trying to by cynical about the Indoor Island. But obviously that didn't work
Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I can assure you that I take this disaster in Asia very seriously.
You my friend obviously do not know history. At that time, Poland was divided between among three invaders: Prussia, Austria, and Russia. Saying that it belonged to those countries is either ignorant or insensitive. It was one of the darkest times in Poland's history.
Map: Partition of Poland