I have several "world wonders" I need to see: Great Wall, Ankar Wat, Babylon, the Pyramids at Giza, Chichinitza, Manchu Pichu, The 'rock' in Australia, the Forbidden Palace, <and the list goes on and on>
Sage said:Mars One and Alpha Centari are my two main choices
Sage said:you might be surprised. remember, 125 years ago the idea of generating enough heat to create power to power an electical ship for years using only one solid piece of fuel smaller than an automobile engine, 100 years ago the notion of simply flying in anything more than an air baloon was proposterous. 75 years ago the whole concept of a solid electronic switch was unthinkable, not to mention the idea of hundreds of millions of them being contained in a device that could fit in the palm of your hand. 200 years ago if you got a bacterial infection and it was not quickly amputated then people would start digging your grave.
the ability to shield gravity is already possible, we have what could be real visitors from the future among us, and intelligent forces beyond our understanding observing us. Time travel experiments are really happening, albeit with single neutrons, which can lead to interdimensional travel as well as the ability to travel to points our own dimension without actually tracersing the space in between the destination and origin.
K.I.L.E.R said:I want to go into space and locate a black hole the size (not mass) of a tennis ball and step on it.
That wouldn't be very natural then, would it?pcchen said:By the way, I heard there are some "triple islands." (island inside a lake inside an island inside a lake inside an island) Is there any concrete example?
It might certainly be a total change afterwards given muscle wastage and the weakening of bones!DeanoC said:Or long-term Zero-G would be different (not sure fun would be the right word, I might hate it but it would be a real holiday in the sense of total change in life style).