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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. Waste of time? by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whoever thinks this should be tagged waste of time is just silly. Hell, if I were single and had the opportunity this would be a really interesting experience. If the media attention helps to remind people even a little of the fragility of the ecological balance on the planet all the better, and surely not a waste of time.

    (Disclaimer: I don't believe that an "ecological balance" equals no changes, but we can't honestly claim not to be raping the planet in several aspects at the moment. IMHO anyway...)

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  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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