Things to do before you die?

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A friend of mine is currently in India, should be walking around the Taj Mahal in a few hours.

I've walked bare foot around that majestic white tomb and it was most certainly one of the things I wanted to do before I die.

Also on the list is walking the Kokoda Track, was humbling to stand near some of the great battle's of Australia's WWII.

I know that I'll need to trek the Inca Trail and see Machu Picchu as well as the Statue Heads at Easter Island.

So, things to do before you die?
 
Go down into the tunnels of Cu Chi in vietnam. Those were part of the tunnel system the
vietnamese used during the war. ****ing incredible.

Also I haven't seen snow since I was like 6 or 7. I really want to see snow again.
 
have grandchildren
see the pyramids
take a trip on the vomit comet or something similiar in space
kill whitey
 
Tour the western Highlands of Scotland. Nobody understands just how humbling and awe-inspiring this place is until they've been there. I suppose that's a good thing as it's kind of a secret so it's not full of tourists. Best enjoyed by motorbike, or through hiking. Or both.

Sloth, as you're in Oz, surely crossing the Outback has to feature in there somewhere?

Visit Antarctica. I will definitely be doing this one at some point.

Visit North Korea.
 
Musk said:
Ohh awesome. We had to do an essay on the Kokoda track in English. Sounds really great but incredibly hard emotionally and physically. Good work.
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Was one of those things that you know will stay with you forever - the amount that you sweat by the end of the day, while in hiking boots and good gear makes you wonder how bloody hard it would have been for the diggers.

Edity: As not to double post - As much as I know I'd enjoy going through the Outback, I feel a much larger connection with the bush along Eastern Aust. I've just spent so much time there. Some day in the near enough future I'll go on a road trip up the Nullarbor dodging Red 'Roos as I go.
 
Sloth said:
Edity: As not to double post - As much as I know I'd enjoy going through the Outback, I feel a much larger connection with the bush along Eastern Aust. I've just spent so much time there. Some day in the near enough future I'll go on a road trip up the Nullarbor dodging Red 'Roos as I go.
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It just looks like such an incredible wilderness. It probably doesn't seem so amazing to you, but on a small island nation that's 850 miles from north to south where no major towns for 30 or 40 miles is considered remote, the sheer scale of the place is difficult to comprehend.

Alice Springs sounds fascinating. A small town absolutely in the middle of nowhere serving as the only point of civilisation for thousands of miles. :)

I'm going to be staying with family (well, they are family to me if not blood) near Sydney for a month over Christmas so I'm looking forward to seeing the place but it's hardly long enough to go exploring such a vast place.
 
Maybe you'll be able to take a ride up a space elevator before you die.
 
There are only really two things I want to do before I die. Visit space, and punch out a shark.
 
Punching out a shark in space will be the last thing you will ever do.
 
Get a million dollars so that I can do 2 chicks at the same time, man.

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I'd do something AMAZING.




oh wait... my heart would beat once.
 
Visit Chernobyl, travel America, go to Japan, Vietnam, South Korea/North Korea border/DMZ in some form of order.

Make, record and release music, get illustration/graphic work out on a number of different vinyl and CD covers for bands I believe in, self-publish a comic and graphic novel, exhibit work in a exhibition and curate exhibitions of like-minded artists/friends.

See ISIS live.

Cycle Lands End to John O'Groats with my dad.

No particular order, loads more things as well that are either quite personal or I've forgot.
 
skydive
fly a jet
travel the world for 1 year
cross the united states via motorcycle
2 chicks at the same time
 
Fight over a parachute in mid air with a guy.
 
stand on the Moon and take snapshots of the Earth, but this may not happen in my lifetime.

Also just being in suborbital space would be amazing as well. Hopefully the price comes down one day. Also I think saving a life would be amazing too. Like taking a bullet for someone, its probably the best thing you can do these days
 
Warped said:
Also just being in suborbital space would be amazing as well. Hopefully the price comes down one day.
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Nah. Space tourism as it is today and go **** itself. If I'm gonna pay a buttload of money for a space trip, I wanna go up in space! See the Earth! Be weightless for an hour or so, see stars and shit!
 
I'm not sure why, but the prospect of being in space doesn't interest me in the slightest. I'm not diggin' on it or anything, I just have no enthusiasm for the subject whatsoever.

I would, however, really like to take a submarine voyage across the bottom of the ocean. Or just travel to the bottom of the ocean in a diving bell or bathysphere or something.
 
TheAntipop said:
I'm not sure why, but the prospect of being in space doesn't interest me in the slightest. I'm not diggin' on it or anything, I just have no enthusiasm for the subject whatsoever.

I would, however, really like to take a submarine voyage across the bottom of the ocean. Or just travel to the bottom of the ocean in a diving bell or bathysphere or something.
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space > ocean :p
 
more like wishful thinking...but come on...it's space! Although I would like to know what the hell is at the bottom of the ocean. I'm pretty sure the movie "The Abyss" sums it up.
 
I wouldn't mind if they strapped me into a rocket and sent to Mars, just to tell everyone whats its like, even knowing I'll die in 10 weeks. Why the hell doesn't NASA at least attempt something great. I'm sure people would die just to report back important info.
 
Warped said:
I wouldn't mind if they strapped me into a rocket and sent to Mars, just to tell everyone whats its like, even knowing I'll die in 10 weeks. Why the hell doesn't NASA at least attempt something great. I'm sure people would die just to report back important info.
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Why the hell do we need to spend billions of dollars on sending a human to mars? What does a human in a space suit have that a robot doesnt?
 
In no particular order:

Fall in love with and marry a beautiful and intelligent woman, have kids.
Travel all over the world and meet people. (like some of you!)
Learn guitar
Become decently wealthy and well known in what I do.
Help pay for my parent's retirement(s)
Provide for the world in the humanitarian sense, be in through charity or organizing.
Get a PhD or equivalent level degree (this is more short term)
Become more proficient at French (at least semi-fluent)

There's lots more, but it would start to bore you immensely. Lotta' shit I wanna do before I kick the bucket.
 
No Limit said:
Why the hell do we need to spend billions of dollars on sending a human to mars? What does a human in a space suit have that a robot doesnt?
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footprint. no really that one step for man etc inspired generations. seeing it through the lens of a robot's eye doesnt have the same umph.although I agree with your opinion that a robot is better suited for a mission to mars
 
Going to space would be the ultimate dream, but that's not a likely reality.

The best alternative is to ride in a fighter jet to the edge of space. You can actually spend a long weekend in Moscow including a ride in a Mig 31 to the upper reaches of the atmosphere for £7000, so that's not beyond the realms of possibility by any means.

If we're talking personal ambitions then there are plenty of those. I'd love to travel across the world by motorbike, camping along the way. Not so interested in going across the US or crap like that, I'd rather head into Eastern Europe and across Asia. Then there's this lunatic who rode across northern(ish) Canada in January, that would be interesting to say the least.

Compete in the Manx GP (the amateur version of the Isle of Man TT). Don't think I have the balls/insanity for that one, but it's a nice idea all the same.

Do some sort of lengthy hiking/camping trip. Walk from Lands End to John O' Groats...yeah, that could be a right hoot.

Live abroad in some interesting countries. Nearly went to teach English in Shanghai for a year, didn't do it, regretted it ever since. Must revisit that one in the next year or two.

Learn to skydive.

Learn to scuba dive.

Travel the Sahara desert or Australian outback in the summer and across the far north of Canada in the winter.

Then after that I think I would deserve some time chilling out on a Caribbean island of some description. Oh, and I'd like to eat in that underwater restaurant in the Maldives.
 
CptStern said:
although I agree with your opinion that a robot is better suited for a mission to mars
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We need a person on Mars just to say we put a person on mars. I wan't to be alive at the same time we have an individual walking on a celestial body besides earth.

Eventually humans won't be needed but unless there are radical increases in the artificial intelligence of the current rovers (or those on the drawing boards) it won't be for a while. I think we still have 2 working rovers on mars right now, i may be wrong.
 
3 chicks at the same time, and possibly getting raped in my sleep by the woman of my dreams
 
TheAntipop said:
I'm not sure why, but the prospect of being in space doesn't interest me in the slightest. I'm not diggin' on it or anything, I just have no enthusiasm for the subject whatsoever.

I would, however, really like to take a submarine voyage across the bottom of the ocean. Or just travel to the bottom of the ocean in a diving bell or bathysphere or something.
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Dude, how can you not be enthusiastic about strapping yourself to a massive, powerful ROCKET and blasting through the damn atmosphere AGAINST GRAVITY'S WILL to be mostly free of our planet and all of a sudden you can say "Dude, Earth is cool, but I checked out some other shit, and it was awesome too".

For me:
- go to ****ing space
- visit every continent (so far I have NA and Europe, adding South America in December)
- visit most parts of the world
- see weed legalized in the US
- find an absolutely beautiful (in and out) woman to spend my life with without marrying her... maybe kids?
- live in the woods with minimal supplies for at least a year, learn survival skills (hunting, making snares, foraging, growing food, generally making the most of my environment)
- write a book
- see more Mayan ruins
- see the Pyramids / Egyptian ruins

there's more but those are some of the big ones
 
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