TheLostGlobe

Goings on around the world

Still no contact from Eric. Everything seems to suggest that our attempts to contact him are being ignored rather than them not reaching him. As far as I am concerned Eric has abandoned the project without so much as a single word of his intention to do so. Personally I feel that some of the [...]

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It seems the protests in Burma are over for now. It’s really frustrating to see the “Coalition of the willing” sit by and do nothing when a country’s people scream for democracy, while they invade others which are at best reluctant. It’s even harder to see China sticking with it’s “non interference” policy, although they [...]

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Back in June a landslide occurred in Kamchatka a mountainous region of Russia, the slide effected a valley known as Geyser Valley or Valley of Geysers. Reports indicated that this little known and sparsely visited part of the world had been destroyed by the landslide.
A month after the fact a group of scientists were sent [...]

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The results are in and since it’s been the talk of the town for the last day or so I’m not going to bore you by regurgitating them here. However how an anyone let this go by without taking out their soapbox.
I’m hearing there were 100 million votes or was it 100 thousand, either way [...]

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The journal Science has published an report on the domestication of the planet. It was reported that as of 1995 only 17% of the world land area was still “truly wild” ie; no human populations, crops, road access or night-time light detectable by satellite. The Discovery Channel’s article on the report described some disturbing details.

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The season for summiting Everest is almost here, in fact there are already some expeditions waiting for good weather to take their shot at the worlds highest mountain. For those interested www.mounteverest.net is the best place for up to date news this climbing season. Last year was one of Everest’s worst with 11 deaths and [...]

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This is a bit of a Community Service Announcement, there have been a few reports in the news lately about the misuse of EPIRBs in Tasmania. Two notable occasions were a Swiss couple who activated their EPIRB after getting their 4WD bogged just 7Km’s from a main road and a group of South Australian’s walking [...]

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Quite possibly one of the ugliest tourist developments I have ever seen the Grand Canyon Skywalk opens to the public in 2 days. At $75US it’s not a cheap way to see the canyon eigther, in fact personally I don’t even think the whole development looks like it is worth $75. Still in a couple [...]

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[tag]National Geographic[/tag] has rated almost 100 of the [tag]UNESCO[/tag] [tag]World Heritage[/tag] Sites and it seems many of my fears are not unfounded. The Tibetan culture of Lhasa is described as being all but destroyed by the Chinese and it is obviously no accident. Kathmandu is critisized for it’s appaling air pollution and the Galapagos are [...]

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