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Darwin's Voyage Done Over, Live

Posted by timothy on from the it-was-live-the-first-time-too dept.

thrill12 writes "Almost 178 years ago, Charles Darwin set sail in the HMS Beagle, to do the now famous explorations that formed the basis for Darwin's On The Origin Of Species. Now, a group of British and Dutch scientists, journalists and artists set sail again to redo the voyage of the Beagle. This time, they are taking modern equipment with them and they have live connections through Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and Flickr. As they re-explore, and (re)discover, we can join that 8-month-long trip, live over the internet."

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  1. Almost... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Almost 178 years ago, this piece of news was released to the world. Now, Slashdot reports."

  2. Re:This is 2009. by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    By now the finches will have evolved to feed on natural historians, and other assorted crew.

  3. BORING. by cffrost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see a live re-creation of RMS Titanic's maiden voyage. Now that would be good television.

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  4. Re:Waste of time? by houghi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell, if I were single and had the opportunity this would be a really interesting experience.

    I am sure that a lot of married people would be interested as well to get away for 8 months.

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  5. Re:This is 2009. by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    By now the finches will have evolved to feed on natural historians, and other assorted crew.

    "If you watch closely the lower left corner of the picture, you'll be able to see an impressive specimen of Dr. Johansson's newly discovered Devoratrix Historiator; or, as the team liked to call them, a 'skullfucker'"

    "On the next picture you can see a closer image, slightly darkened by some of Dr. Johansson's blood and brain pieces on the camera."