Waterpark in German Blimp Hanger
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Hey Deskthoritarians! I'm wondering if any of you Germans or Europeans have ever visited the Tropical Islands Resort outside of Berlin. Seems like a fun place. I have a thing for water parks. Perhaps if I ever visit Europe, I might go here.
https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/tropical-world/
https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/tropical-world/
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I know someone here who visited and they liked it. I have not personally been there.
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The next Europe based keyboard gathering should take place here. Can anybody figure if there are cabana rentals? The site is hard to navigate on mobile.
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I think that might be a little unpractical. Could be fun though.vivalarevolución wrote: ↑The next Europe based keyboard gathering should take place here. Can anybody figure if there are cabana rentals? The site is hard to navigate on mobile.
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Been there a couple of years ago. Food was pretty expensive, we managed to smuggle in a lot of our own stuff and saved quite a bit.
A lot of people there. I recommend going off season.
A lot of people there. I recommend going off season.
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- vivalarevolución
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What's off season for an indoor waterpark?wlhlm wrote: ↑Been there a couple of years ago. Food was pretty expensive, we managed to smuggle in a lot of our own stuff and saved quite a bit.
A lot of people there. I recommend going off season.
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I meant outside of school holidays in Germany.
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Watched that video. I thought the blimp hanger was World War II era, but I guess that I'm wrong. Just the airfield is World War II era.andrewjoy wrote: ↑a video of it, not me i am wayyyy fatter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sz55gmNUaI
Anyways, I'm a bit of an adult child, so I'm even more intrigued now. Going for an indoor hot air balloon sounds fun.
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Pretty much all of Germany was completely flattened by 1945. Certainly anything the size of a Zeppelin hangar. Picture the devastation of 911, now imagine ground zero was a country. That's total war.
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This is quite exaggerated:Muirium wrote: ↑Pretty much all of Germany was completely flattened by 1945. Certainly anything the size of a Zeppelin hangar. Picture the devastation of 911, now imagine ground zero was a country. That's total war.
http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/unverseh ... -weltkrieg
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Not that much…
Factories and military installations were systematically destroyed by several years of heavy bombing, day and night. And once those were obliterated, the allies turned to the cities. There are of course ancient castles and the like which still stand in Germany, but the Americans and British wanted Berlin off the map.
If the Manhattan Project hadn't ran late compared to Stalin's troops, we would say names like Nuremberg and Munich instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb was meant for Germany.
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If the Manhattan Project hadn't ran late compared to Stalin's troops, we would say names like Nuremberg and Munich instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb was meant for Germany.
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The photo you post in the spoiler does not show a German city, but Tokyo (I would have thought Hiroshima or Nagasaki):
Source: http://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachri ... /141556154
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Bugger. That's what I get for Googling! I'm sure I've seen documentary footage of the Red Army rolling around through a complete wasteland of Berlin though.
And we were going to anihilate you guys. (Well, our ancestors!) The Americans had something like 100 Nagasaki type (Fat Man) bombs in production at the end of the war. The resources they threw into that project were not just for show.
And we were going to anihilate you guys. (Well, our ancestors!) The Americans had something like 100 Nagasaki type (Fat Man) bombs in production at the end of the war. The resources they threw into that project were not just for show.
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Of course I wouldn't say most German towns were anything near intact at the end of the war.
But I think we went quite off topic
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Come on, we're keyboard nerds. Just the kind of guys who'd go to an amusement park for a symposium on historic warfare! So long as there's keyboards sooner or later…
No splashing!
No splashing!
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It is a bit south-southwest from the city centre, almost a third of the way to Dresden. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any direct trains from Dresden to Brand.
I had planned on stopping over in Berlin on the 21st of September on my way from Prague back north to Sweden.
I might just choose to spend the night in the Zeppelin hangar instead of at a cheap hotel near the train station in Berlin.
With me being ridiculously afraid of flying, this might be the closest thing I'll ever get to a tropical vacation ....
The 70th anniversary of the nuking of Hiroshima was yesterday, and I saw a couple of TV documentaries. Hiroshima looked pretty much the same, yes.
I had planned on stopping over in Berlin on the 21st of September on my way from Prague back north to Sweden.
I might just choose to spend the night in the Zeppelin hangar instead of at a cheap hotel near the train station in Berlin.
With me being ridiculously afraid of flying, this might be the closest thing I'll ever get to a tropical vacation ....
Huh? I get a mobile site when I visit it from a desktop.vivalarevolución wrote: ↑The site is hard to navigate on mobile.
That explains the lack of rubble. Tokyo was fire-bombed, and most houses were made of wood and the fires were fierce.kbdfr wrote: ↑The photo you post in the spoiler does not show a German city, but Tokyo (I would have thought Hiroshima or Nagasaki):
The 70th anniversary of the nuking of Hiroshima was yesterday, and I saw a couple of TV documentaries. Hiroshima looked pretty much the same, yes.
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Why can't we all just get along? Why must we bomb each other? Sigh. I want my mommy.