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Digg - The Explorers Club: Travel’s Most Secret Society Revealed
Is this like the club on Southpark that traveled the world for little boys bums?
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National Geographic for rich people.
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Interesting stuff.
I wonder what they do when someone does something totally kick-ass and worthy of inclusion in the club, but they can't afford the fees?
It has to have happened.
I mean, back in the day these people wouldn't have been able to get a best-seller ghost-written for them and get paid a million bucks to go on Oprah, or whatever.
There must have been some hardcore penniless adventurers - probably still are, for that matter...
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These cats are cool.
They also fund a number of travel projects through scholarships and grants.
Good group to hit up if you're looking for some cash to fund your next adventure.
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Dammit, now i have to kill everyone that read this article....
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So secret they have a website.
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When searching for a traveling club, by no means join the Super Adventure Club
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Sir Edmund Hillary was a badass.
I bet Richard Francis Burton would have been a part of that had he been born a few decades later (his best-known achievements include traveling in disguise to Mecca and *almost* discovering the source of the Nile).
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Tenzing Norgay sounds like an interesting guy -- illiterate and has no idea where he was born.
That's pretty crazy.
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Some definite badasses in this club (read: Tenzing Norgay) for sure, but damn--the trophy room?
The "buffet of epic proportions" serving permafrosted woolly mammoth meat.
Come on. what kind of music do you play to go along with that?
Something obviously dead and long permafrosted.
I'm thinking the Temptations.
good job on the writer calling that out though.
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So how do you find out what the "goals of the club" ARE?
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Not so secret anymore.
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Chuck Yeager, well I'll be damned.
I had his flight sim, many years ago.
That
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Send me the papers, that
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Not being written about by the NYT since 1909....
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0 ...
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First rule guys...
His name was Tenzing Norgay.
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"After climbing Everest, Hillary made expeditions to both poles, rode a boat up the Ganges and flew to Antarctica."
"Mrs.
Clinton, I'm sorry to inform you, but you've been out of the race for some time now."
"Quiet!
My correspondent is busy relaying my experience!"
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Lol, before I even clicked this headline I KNEW a Southpark reference was going be the most dugg comment.
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The article is wrong in at least one detail.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, not Sally Ride.
Twenty years before the Challenger, Vostok 6 made 48 orbits of Earth.
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I built a wooden ladder, can i join?
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With the price of gas so high I'm creating a new club...
The Staycation Explorers.
Oh wait. Secret club...
We'll all hang out around the house and travel to places as far away as the Starbucks around the corner.
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"The Explorer’s Club headquarters is a gigantic rowhouse in New York City, with bizarre rooms filled with elephant tusks and stuffed wildlife (check out the virtual tour).
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"bizarre rooms"????
The name of the club is the explorers club.
Why would it be bizarre to have elephant tusks and stuffed wildlife?
If they were called the 'dildo club' would it be weird to see dildos all over the clubhouse?
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Much (though not all) of the world has been explored by now.
What feat would someone have to do to join nowadays -- find Emilia Earhart's plane, Shambala, Atlantis, or the fountain of youth?
Maybe bag a sasquatch, or Nessie, or the Mokele-mbembe?
Perhaps find the island from Lost, now that it has moved?
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I have travel the lands of Azeroth, can I join the club now?
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Sally Ride was not the first woman to be in space.
God, what do the American teachers teach kids these days?
Oh wait, that's right sadly the American school system and the no child left behind policy is what's wrong with American system.
American science classes focus way too much on rocks, and not enough on the real history of the world space program.
We do not need smart people.
We only need smart shoppers and consumers.
No wonder the NWO might be coming.
Anyway I am not bashing you guys, just stating the obvious fact that you know so very little.
Not your fault but now you can read and know whatever you want.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova - was the first Russian woman to be in space.
Before, them it was the dogs and chimps.
Dogs, named Belka and Strelka : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belka_(dog) were first for suborbital flights, with the chimps.
Then people.
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*Emelia Earhart. Might as well get it right if I'm going to post.
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Everyone's favorite crazy cult guru, L Ron Hubbard, was a member.
From "Bare Faced Messiah":
"He could be the most charming and sociable of men when he so desired and he worked hard to make the right connections.
On 12 December 1939, he was formally proposed for membership of the Explorers Club on the basis of what appeared to be an impressive application, citing the valuable data he had obtained for the Hydrographic Office and the University of Michigan during his expedition to the Caribbean, his pioneering mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico and his survey flights in the United States, undertaken to 'aid adjustment of field and facility data'.
The club's membership committee did not, it seems, require any of these claims to be checked and on 19 February 1940, L.
Ron Hubbard was duly elected, to his enormous and undisguised pleasure.
Thereafter, he would rarely forgo the satisfaction of giving his address as 'Explorers Club, New York.' "
http://www.xenu.net/archive/books/bfm/bfm05.htm
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