First, welcome StereoMike!
Second, If you've ever been to Cape Hatteras in November, you will know what that feels like.

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Right next to the real beach, but... uh... better?
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It DOES appear that the ..uh.. indoor beach has more sand.

The beach without actually being at the beach. This could work for me.

This is really important to know before I sign up: do they have a heating element underneath the sand to make sure that it's kept at unbearable temperatures?

And false sand which doesn't itch in/between every part of my body...

Indoor beaches, indoor islands - why doesn't someone get a dozen of these big hangars together and construct an indoor Palestinian homeland? With waterslides!

:thumb2: Excellent idea, milkfish.

you mean an indoor isrealy homeland so the palestinians get theirs back? :D

Is it salt water or fresh water?

In a similar vein, we could imagine evacuating the Green Zone in Baghdad, convert it to one huge amusement park, and give every resident under the age of thirty free a day pass provided that they surrender an improvised explosive device or a weapons cache or something on that order. In half a year they will be so soft and decadent that they will pose no trouble at all. In fact they will be begging to become the 51st state.

For areas in country distant from the capital, we'll just air-drop pallets full of game consoles and the like.

I think this might be less expensive than the current military operations, especially if we get Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to underwrite part of the cost of the air-drops.

Well, sure, there's lots of better things. But people aren't going to pass that, either (although we are now building a shiny new arena that was badly needed). But - it is a definite facet of a first-line city that you have professional sports, and preferably not just Arena Football, Team Tennis or Minor League Hockey. I don't make the rules, I just note them.:D Society is funny that way. No major league sports franchises build their own stadia anymore, anywhere. The business of pro sports is conducted in venues paid for by public funds. Sometimes the teams will pay for lavish window dressing and excess that the public just won't spring for, but the basic stadia, arenas and ballparks are virtually always public edifices.

Besides...I think pro sports fill the niche left empty by the collapse of the Roman Empire, taking gladiatorial contests with it. Football is ritualized combat, complete with everything but swords and shields. I think society needs that sort of thing. However, because it is inherently anti-intellectual and pretty much stupid to pay gazillions of dollars for it, a city/county/state has to pretty much all agree that it is worth *something*...on whatever basis...to have it. That' why we're voting - to find out if people think it is worth it.

I, for one, will miss it when it is gone. Hell, I just had season tickets. Sniff.

Well, I guess the public should kick in for the facilities, seeing how the owners spend hundreds of millions to bring us teams we can be proud of..... like the Eagles and Yankees. :rolleyes:

Are you suggesting Bush's war is a Mickey Mouse operation?:lol:

It's a dolphin.

it's a robot carp.
http://cellar.org/2006/robotcarp2.jpg