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:D Sounds like a thread for the science area on this forum at the very least. Ecology. It ties into that, another one of my favorites. It's great how all the sciences are connected, just like skeptics.
 
Eos of the Eons said:
:D Sounds like a thread for the science area on this forum at the very least. Ecology. It ties into that, another one of my favorites. It's great how all the sciences are connected, just like skeptics.
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EXACTLY! Inquiring minds want to know. Though my start was in the hard sciences (Astronomy/Physics) my heart is in the "soft-sciences> -- pyschology, anthropology, archaeology (although archaeology includes many of the hard sciences!)
 
Well, there are. There are the agave roasting pits at Red Rocks, some petroglyphs..ghost towns not too far away.

If you're willing to drive three hours, you can climb the enormous sand dunes in Death Valley.

Vegas still has a lot of unexplored stuff in it for us.
 
Toronto strikes me as a very bad idea. I imagine the vast majority of the people at the conference are Americans. We all know how Americans feel about international travel. These days, you have to have a passport to get to Canada.

I'd like to keep the attendance numbers as high as possible.

Now that I think about it, has anyone got any reason why Orlando is not a good idea? There are lots of big hotels down here, it's a great climate in January/Feb. , the airport is easy to get to... The hotels might be more expensive, but I don't imagine they'd be any worse than staying on the strip in Vegas. It would be lots easier on the JREF people, who wouldn't have to travel much at all.

So we're far from Pen and Teller. Any other big disadvantages?
 
Works for me. Hopefully the numbers cooperate when they estimate costs. Orlando should be an easy airport to find low priced fares. I’m pretty flexible in the travel dept.
 
Folks, folks, let's not fight.

Come to the cradle of democracy. A sleepy Southern town that thinks it's in the North. Washington, DC!
Cheap, fully flyable, great food (EXCEPT ITALIAN!), quick and easy to get around in, and we'd get a TON of news exposure too. We could take our (drunken or not) skepticism to Capitol Hill and the National Mall.
3 airports to choose your cheapest flight into PLUS I could be your tour guide. After all, Karen Russell did say on the panel that there should be more skeptics in the Chocolate City!
 
sistathinker said:
Folks, folks, let's not fight.

Come to the cradle of democracy. A sleepy Southern town that thinks it's in the North. Washington, DC!
Cheap, fully flyable, great food (EXCEPT ITALIAN!), quick and easy to get around in, and we'd get a TON of news exposure too. We could take our (drunken or not) skepticism to Capitol Hill and the National Mall.
3 airports to choose your cheapest flight into PLUS I could be your tour guide. After all, Karen Russell did say on the panel that there should be more skeptics in the Chocolate City!
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There's the crap weather factor again...
 
Orlando is also 45 minutes or so from the Kennedy Space Center.

ETA and beaches.
 
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sistathinker said:
Folks, folks, let's not fight.

Come to the cradle of democracy. A sleepy Southern town that thinks it's in the North. Washington, DC!
Cheap, fully flyable, great food (EXCEPT ITALIAN!), quick and easy to get around in, and we'd get a TON of news exposure too. We could take our (drunken or not) skepticism to Capitol Hill and the National Mall.
3 airports to choose your cheapest flight into PLUS I could be your tour guide. After all, Karen Russell did say on the panel that there should be more skeptics in the Chocolate City!
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Washington, DC might be a really good idea :)
 
sistathinker said:
Folks, folks, let's not fight.

Come to the cradle of democracy. A sleepy Southern town that thinks it's in the North. Washington, DC!
Cheap, fully flyable, great food (EXCEPT ITALIAN!), quick and easy to get around in, and we'd get a TON of news exposure too. We could take our (drunken or not) skepticism to Capitol Hill and the National Mall.
3 airports to choose your cheapest flight into PLUS I could be your tour guide. After all, Karen Russell did say on the panel that there should be more skeptics in the Chocolate City!
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I could get into D.C.! Wonderful museums. And I'd ponder a guess that Jamy Ian Swiss is from there? (Hey he's got my undying gratitude since the Saturday night show at TAM4.) I've got no problem with D.C. -- lots of great museums, lots of great universities, etc.
 
delphi_ote said:
Toronto strikes me as a very bad idea. I imagine the vast majority of the people at the conference are Americans. We all know how Americans feel about international travel. These days, you have to have a passport to get to Canada.

I'd like to keep the attendance numbers as high as possible.

Now that I think about it, has anyone got any reason why Orlando is not a good idea? There are lots of big hotels down here, it's a great climate in January/Feb. , the airport is easy to get to... The hotels might be more expensive, but I don't imagine they'd be any worse than staying on the strip in Vegas. It would be lots easier on the JREF people, who wouldn't have to travel much at all.

So we're far from Pen and Teller. Any other big disadvantages?
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No, Americans do not need passports to enter Canada. That was supposed become the rule but it was suspended.
 
Doubt said:
No, Americans do not need passports to enter Canada. That was supposed become the rule but it was suspended.
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Wow. I guess you're right. Good to see how fast the DoS is responding to terrorism. :rolleyes:

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 requires that by January 1, 2008, travelers to and from the Caribbean, Bermuda, Panama, Mexico and Canada have a passport or other secure, accepted document to enter or re-enter the United States. In order to facilitate the implementation of this requirement, the Administration is proposing to complete it in phases following a proposed timeline, which will be published in the Federal Register in the near future.
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html

I guess 6 years is fast by their time table. This is all such a joke.
 
I say we go to Branson, Missouri, and see how the other half lives.
 
Nashville anyone? Freedom Forum and the First Amendment Center. Good music, good food. The chance of NOT eating chicken from buckets during entertainment events.
 
I've seen Nashville mentioned twice. I'm all for anything that's within driving distance for me.
 
Spidey13 said:
I've seen Nashville mentioned twice. I'm all for anything that's within driving distance for me.
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Not much going on in Nashville, but it is centrally located and cheap. There are some beautiful national parks in the area (my aunt basically runs a hotel at one of them, though it's probably not big enough for TAM itself.) I might be able to get some of my relatives from Crossville to join us if it were there...

But I must say Orlando sounds best to me. Great climate. Beaches. Cheap very nice hotels (especially in January,) close to JREF, near all the tourist crap and the Kennedy Space Center (might be able to pull some extra NASA people in.)

Having an excuse to hit Vegas is great, but the more I think about it, the more practical Orlando seems.
 
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