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."

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Dammit

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

25 Degrees is too cold!!! Now if it was 77 Degrees, then we could talk turkey.

The Weasel

[govtcheez]

Quick, someone call Pauly Shore!

Drang nach Osten!

[orthogonal]

Would you spend your vacation in there? The Germans don't seem to be very eager.

Everybody knows that a real German's idea of a vacation is invading Poland.

Sorry to be a downer, but it's important.

[Sialagogue]

. . .and there are no tsunami's.

I think what really gets me is how flip people are feeling they can be about this in the West. Yes, Slashdot is global, yada yada, but it's readership is, for the most part, centered outside the affected area and in the United States in particular, so I blame us.

I live in New York, and what struck me was the global outpouring of sympathy after September 11, which killed 3,000 people, and it was months before anyone felt comfortable enough to to discuss anything but the horror.

But now, just a week after 118,000 parents and children and brothers and sisters have been drowned in a single moment, we start making fun little tsnumai references to set off an article on an indoor beach. That, and going to our climate-controlled indoor beaches are all part of our healing process, I suppose.

Sorry, I have a pretty high threshold, but that makes me ill.

Re:How long..

[t_allardyce]

Thats an absolutely brilliant idea but with just one slight change.. we put the anti-nudists (in most of Europe thats pretty few) inside the tin can and black out all the windows, then let everyone else run wild...

Different server with pics

[henni16]

If you don't mind the German descriptions you can get the same (and a few more) pictures
on the German site (has a different IP, so should work as a mirror):
http://www.thetropical-islands.com/fotos-opening.h tm

(English version (with less pics) is also available:
http://www.my-tropical-islands.com/engl/fotos-open ing-e.htm

Distinct lack of nubile native girls

[Timesprout]

therefore this is definitely not within the male definition of tropical island.

I live in Germany.

[torpor]

Germans ain't got no beach. So what if they've now 'got one' in a bubble, it still ain't no beach. That said, its still frickin' cool .. tho' its far from me, I may one day take a day trip just to go experience it, though ..

And .. as an Australian who just got back from Australia, and our glorious, glorious, oh so *sob* glorious *sob* beaches .. let me just say that this 'bubble-sphere' thingy is Very Welcome in the dismal reality that is the German countryside. What am I doing living here?!!

[If it weren't for my perfect German job, I'd be back home on the beaches tomorrow, sheesh..]