Category: Travel
Emirates flight EK751.
Airline allows the first authorized use of cell phone calls on a commercial flight.
Post date: Friday, March 21st, 2008.
Plasma magnet.
Device that will create a plasma cloud around spacecraft and shield astronauts from cosmic rays.
Post date: Monday, July 17th, 2006.
To boldly go.
Two men are trying to travel from Alaska to Miami by personal watercraft. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 19th, 2006.
Northern Lights.
Virgin Galactic plans to operate tourists flights into the Aurora Borealis.
Post date: Friday, June 9th, 2006.
Flexible solar panel technology.
Scientist has created a solar-electric membrane designed to act like a flying carpet and carry a payload into space. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 27th, 2006.
Ostfriesland Hotel.
German hotel is charging guests by how much they weigh.
Post date: Tuesday, March 21st, 2006.
Say WA.
Slogan created to encourage tourism for Washington state.
Post date: Thursday, March 16th, 2006.
Where the bloody hell are you?
Australian ad campaign seeks to attract more tourists by swearing at them. (via)
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
Brincos.
Shoes designed to help illegal immigrants cross the U.S.-Mexican border. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006.
Baggage claim.
U.S. air carriers lost 10,000 bags a day last year. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 21st, 2006.
Beer-for-your-horses bill.
South Dakota legalizes drunken horse riding and bike riding.
Post date: Friday, February 17th, 2006.
Gravitational field equation.
Physicist to prove that travelling at the speed of light is possible and safe.
Post date: Sunday, February 12th, 2006.
DS4G.
New ion propulsion engine produces thrust rate of 130 miles per second.
Post date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2006.
NGC1097.
Astronomers say one-way trip into black hole takes 200,000 years.
Post date: Monday, January 9th, 2006.
Dumpster diving.
People are digging through dumpsters to get free airfare. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Now boarding everyone.
Unassigned seating gets passengers on planes faster. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
Mos Eisley.
New Mexico city to be spaceport hub for space travel company Virgin Galactic.
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
Virgin Galactic.
Fly frequently here on Earth and earn points for trips to outer space.
Post date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
SpaceShot.
Texas corporation will have online gaming competitions with trips to space as winning prizes. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005.
His bad.
God officially blamed for a 2003 ferry disaster. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
Bogus Air.
Airliner fakes emergency so that passengers can watch a soccer game.
Post date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2005.
Covering your tracks.
How leaving your electronic hotel room key behind when you check out could leave you open to identity theft. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.
Hot Eagle.
The Air Force and DARPA are studying options for a reusable space vehicle that could place a squad of Marines halfway across the globe within 2 hours. (via)
Post date: Monday, September 19th, 2005.
Human cannonball.
Man enters the United States after being shot out of a cannon from Tijuana. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
10 MPH.
A man rides from Seattle to Boston on a Segway and a filmmaker will be capturing it all. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 16th, 2005.
Honey, I forgot you.
Man forgets, leaves wife at gas station for six hours.
Post date: Monday, August 8th, 2005.
Frequent subscriber.
United to begin offering ‘subscriptions‘ to customers for upgrades in seating, WiFi.
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
And the winner is?
Free airfare prize actually ends up being more expensive than if the winner had just purchased the tickets themselves. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, July 6th, 2005.
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