[ExI] virtual travel

[William Flynn Wallace]

There is a copy of David in a gay bar in Las Vegas.  Has a fig leaf.  Once
an hour the fig leaf is raised to wild applause.  Just some of my trivia.
bill w

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:58 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
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> >…Diseases evolve.  International travelers carry it across the globe to
> every country they visit.  There isn’t much we can do about that, or rather
> not much we will do: every economy needs tourism.  Tourists spend a lotta
> money everywhere they go.  So… find other ways to have fun besides
> travelling abroad, compensate by looking into virtual travel where a camera
> bot walks around the big tourist attractors and lets you see what is
> there…spike
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> I am not an international traveler.  Been to Canada on road trips twice,
> had a good time, never anywhere else.  I would like to go traipse about
> Europe at some point, perhaps do the Sound of Music tour, genealogy, that
> kinda thing, so I listen carefully to my friends who mostly have done some
> international travel, see if I can improve on their experience.
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> I have no wealthy friends, but all are doing well enough that it was
> typical for them to tour Europe for the first time in their mid fifties,
> after their children were in college.  Mine is in grade 8, so I have time.
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> A persistent message I have heard from those who do package-deal tours is
> that they are always too crowded and too hurried.  They go see that Angelo
> feller’s marble statue or the Mona Lisa, but a million others want to see
> that too, so it is shoulder to shoulder, like being in a cattle chute, not
> enough time, too many others.  The travel brochure showed one person
> standing there admiring it.  They paid, they went, joined a stampede eager
> to glance over, check off a box, OK been there saw it let’s go watch
> football.  My friends wanted to see the art works.
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> OK so now we can see that it isn’t a good idea to join a tourist stampede
> and won’t be again in the easily foreseeable.  So how can we compensate for
> that?  I can imagine a form of virtual tourism which not only mimics the
> experience, in some ways it exceeds it.  For instance, take the famous
> marble statue Michael created.  Wait until all the touristas go away, then
> set up a kind of controllable camera where a prole can see everywhere on
> that art work, in places you can’t see if you are there in person and can’t
> see even if a stampede of football fans isn’t herding you along.  What does
> the top of David’s head look like?  To what level of detail did the artist
> find it necessary to carve hair?  A virtual tour could answer that.  Being
> there would merely give you practice mooing.
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