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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. Re:Waste of time? by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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.

    If you feel like you want to be away (without keeping in touch) from your wife and/or family for 8 months a divorce would be the logical option. Most people in a reasonably well functioning relationship and/or family would not like the idea of spending 8 months away from their spouse and/or children.

    Then again, my kids are still rather small (3 and 5), so missing 8 months would be huge. I suspect the situation would be much different for teenagers, who can use email and stuff. :)

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    .: Max Romantschuk :: http://max.romantschuk.fi/
  2. o rly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can i cum in your ass?

  3. Xshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:Waste of time? by Chrisje · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Income taxes are a bad idea? Jeez buddy, you sounded logical in the first half of that post, but then you lost it in a hurry.