Author Topic: What's On Your Top 10 Bucket List? (Read 168532 times)

MosheD · « **Reply #280 on:** September 17, 2015, 11:46:52 PM »

Quote from: Something Fishy on September 17, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Weeeeell...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster

Disturbing.
This is someone's life achievement. Sad

grodnoking · « **Reply #281 on:** September 17, 2015, 11:52:04 PM »

Quote from: jj1000 on September 17, 2015, 11:35:27 PM

Well that's the scariest thing I read on the internet today.

+1. I belive in germany its legal to terminate a very sick persons life with their consent. Or at least there was a petition to be able to. This would be a way to send them.off with a bang.

AJK · « **Reply #282 on:** September 18, 2015, 12:01:41 AM »

Quote from: Something Fishy on September 17, 2015, 11:17:38 PM

Weeeeell...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster

I can't help but lol

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Subsequent inversions would serve as insurance against unintentional survival of particularly robust passengers.

Hershelsdeals · « **Reply #283 on:** September 18, 2015, 12:12:56 AM »

Quote from: Something Fishy on September 17, 2015, 07:55:20 AM

Want want want want WANT!

http://www.flymigsokol.com/

This was #1 on my adventure bucket list for a long long time.

Yehoshua · « **Reply #284 on:** September 20, 2015, 10:21:24 PM »

Wow, that coaster idea is nuts! God thing it'll never happen.

Emkay · « **Reply #285 on:** September 21, 2015, 01:55:26 AM »

Quote from: Yehoshua on September 20, 2015, 10:21:24 PM

Good thing it'll never happen.

Don't be so sure

henche · « **Reply #286 on:** September 21, 2015, 09:24:00 AM »

Quote from: grodnoking on September 17, 2015, 11:52:04 PM

+1. I belive in germany its legal to terminate a very sick persons life with their consent. Or at least there was a petition to be able to. This would be a way to send them.off with a bang.

Germany has never exactly been into the human life thing.

Yehoshua · « **Reply #287 on:** September 21, 2015, 10:15:21 PM »

Quote from: Emkay on September 21, 2015, 01:55:26 AM

Don't be so sure

If it did become a reality, which country do you think will allow it to be used first?

TimT · « **Reply #288 on:** September 21, 2015, 11:18:38 PM »

Quote from: Yehoshua on September 21, 2015, 10:15:21 PM

If it did become a reality, which country do you think will allow it to be used first?

San Fran

Yehoshua · « **Reply #289 on:** September 21, 2015, 11:27:05 PM »

Quote from: TimT on September 21, 2015, 11:18:38 PM

San Fran

USA? I wouldn't think so.

Something Fishy · « **Reply #290 on:** September 22, 2015, 12:37:40 AM »

Bringing this thread back on topic

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Apparently there are a few places in the world where you could snorkel with fully-grown blue whales. Tonga, the Dominican Republic, and according to one commenter, the island of Niue (which I never heard about till today).

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6219330535/art-wolfe-swimming-with-the-humpbacks-tonga-2013

Sounds like a bucket list experience to me.

whYME · « **Reply #291 on:** September 22, 2015, 02:36:35 AM »

Quote from: Something Fishy on September 22, 2015, 12:37:40 AM

Apparently there are a few places in the world where you could snorkel with fully-grown blue whales.
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http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6219330535/art-wolfe-swimming-with-the-humpbacks-tonga-2013

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Yehoshua · « **Reply #292 on:** September 22, 2015, 10:49:44 AM »

Quote from: Something Fishy on September 22, 2015, 12:37:40 AM

Bringing this thread back on topic ...

Apparently there are a few places in the world where you could snorkel with fully-grown blue whales. Tonga, the Dominican Republic, and according to one commenter, the island of Niue (which I never heard about till today).

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6219330535/art-wolfe-swimming-with-the-humpbacks-tonga-2013

Sounds like a bucket list experience to me.

Good thing both humpback and blue whales are baleen whales, so it seems safe enough. Unless you just get sucked in by accident.

MosheD · « **Reply #293 on:** September 22, 2015, 11:29:26 AM »

Quote from: Yehoshua on September 22, 2015, 10:49:44 AM

Good thing both humpback and blue whales are baleen whales, so it seems safe enough. Unless you just get sucked in by accident.

The real yonah experience

AJK · « **Reply #294 on:** September 22, 2015, 12:09:35 PM »

Quote from: Something Fishy on September 22, 2015, 12:37:40 AM

Bringing this thread back on topic ...

Apparently there are a few places in the world where you could snorkel with fully-grown blue whales. Tonga, the Dominican Republic, and according to one commenter, the island of Niue (which I never heard about till today).

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6219330535/art-wolfe-swimming-with-the-humpbacks-tonga-2013

Sounds like a bucket list experience to me.

Mrs. AJK has been bothering me about Tonga for as long as we've had our diving licenses. Hope she doesn't lurk 'round here.

Something Fishy · « **Reply #295 on:** September 22, 2015, 12:14:44 PM »

Quote from: whYME on September 22, 2015, 02:36:35 AM

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That'll teach me to post when I'm half asleep

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Quote from: Yehoshua on September 22, 2015, 10:49:44 AM

Good thing both humpback and blue whales are baleen whales, so it seems safe enough. Unless you just get sucked in by accident.

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We were only using snorkeling gear, no SCUBA tanks, so as not to be mistaken for a bubble net buffet. Humpback whales often use bubble netting for feeding. They will blow bubbles around a school of fish to confuse and trap them and then rise up through the column with their mouths agape catching as many fish as possible as they break the surface in a very impressive breach. That said, southern humpbacks do very little feeding while in the warmer waters - a mother may lose 25% of her body weight before returning to the Antarctic waters to feed again - but it's still best to err on safe side when working with these leviathans of the deep.

3yummyboys · « **Reply #296 on:** September 22, 2015, 12:22:51 PM »

Quote from: Yehoshua on September 20, 2015, 10:21:24 PM

Wow, that coaster idea is nuts! God thing it'll never happen.

Don't underestimate the crazy world we live in

Emkay · « **Reply #297 on:** November 25, 2015, 05:34:10 AM »

TimT · « **Reply #298 on:** November 25, 2015, 07:36:22 AM »

Quote from: Emkay on November 25, 2015, 05:34:10 AM

Looks awesome

AJK · « **Reply #299 on:** November 25, 2015, 09:41:14 AM »

In BOB, we actually met one of the engineers who works on the engines for the main rocket which you saw in the video. He was on his honeymoon. Very nice and interesting guy.

FYI, Blue Origin is actually a company completely owned and funded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame. Not sure what it is, but these billionaires are all about the space exploration.