Amaz!ng Adventure 5

Just a reminder: the James Randi Educational Foundation is holding its FIFTH Amaz!ng Adventure, this time a cruise to the Caribbean. The ship (which looks very nice!) will be visiting St. Thomas, San Juan, and Grand Turk Island, Bahamas. This will be a truly lovely vacation for you, and you can hang with other skeptics!

The cruise will be from March 6 – 14, 2010, and I hear cabins are going rapidly. Hurry and book!

October 20th, 2009 4:00 PM Tags: cruise
by Phil Plait in JREF | 11 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

11 Responses to “Amaz!ng Adventure 5”

1. RichV Says:
October 20th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

So Phil. Are you going on the trip?
2. Zucchi Says:
October 20th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

My God, that’s an ugly ship. An oblong hotel that happens to float; guess we won’t see elegant ocean liners again.
3. Sharkweek Says:
October 20th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

While the exclamation mark looks like an upside-down “i,” it is not a letter and should not be used as such.
4. mikekoz68 Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 12:11 am

While the letters S,h,a,r,k,w,e,e,k when put together looks like a word, it’s not a real name and should not be used as such.
5. Jim Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 6:20 am

Gosh, Phil, I sure hope the ship stays out of the Bermuda Triangle. I hear spooky things can happen there!
6. Michael Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 6:21 am

I suggest that the word police show a badge before attempting to issue a corrective citation…

I’m dead-set against mangled communications, but geez…an attack on an exclamation mark used as a sort of logo?
7. Christian Treczoks Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 6:40 am

In the carribean? Be careful! Aliens are regularly abducting people in the bermuda triangle!

SCNR…
8. Tom Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 7:24 am

I’m disappointed that you are giving tacit support to the cruise ship industry.
9. James Randi Says:
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:08 am

Holy cow! Word police! (Do I lose points for “Holy cow”?)

As for the cruise ship, once you’re at sea, you don’t have to look at the profile…

Randi!
10. CR Says:
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:40 am

Zucchi beat me to it; most ships nowadays are big hotels that happen to float, and ugly to boot. They look top-heavy, too, though I know that they aren’t. Still, yikes!
BUT as James Randi points out, you wouldn’t really notice once your aboard. (Reminds me of an anecdote I read about a young passenger aboard the Normandie, the famous Atlantic liner from the 1930′s… it was so much like being inside a posh hotel, that the young lad commented something to the effect of “yes, it’s nice, but where’s the ship?”)
11. Diego Says:
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 am

From my experiences I have found that there seems to be a high level of woo endemic to the islands so that should make for some interesting interactions with skeptics.

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