View Full Version : GTC 190: Guess The Attraction


Marcanadian
February 16th, 2006, 11:10 PM
Rules
Don't answer if you live there and/or know the answer. It spoils the fun.
No continent guesses. On some GTC's I lift the rule ;)
No editing your posts to the right answer
3 Guesses a post

Points
Country 2 points
City 3 points

Mattsal - 93 points
FJP - 66 points
Azn_chi_boi - 61 points
Forza Raalte - 61 points
Kuesel - 60 points
Barragon - 54 points
DvW - 51 points
Effer - 36 points
dmg1mn - 32 points
forvine - 29 points
JohnnyMass - 29 points
Phobos - 24 points
Zarkon - 23 points
go mid east - 19 points
GreyX - 19 points
CPN - 18 points
DJOEZ - 17 points
samba_man - 17 points
szasza - 16 points
Toadman - 15 points
Samsonyuen - 14 points
Anymodal - 13 points
LesterKao- 11 points
Nouvellecosse - 9 points
boom - 8 points
Cobucci- 8 points
momochan- 8 points
Atl Col - 7 points
mtyksl - 7 points
Qazaq - 6 points
joaquin-6 points
Vanstripp - 6 points
Lembit - 6 points
mr_storms - 6 points
dizflip - 5 points
hudkina - 5 points
Siopao - 5 points
Xäntårx - 5 points
ZOHAR - 5 points
Fusionist - 4 points
Northgermany - 4 points
Proud_Melburnian - 4 points
Wallbanger - 4 points
Calvin W - 3 points
Cape Town Guy - 3 points
ch1le-3 points
Estboy - 3 points
Falubaz - 3 points
mij2 - 3 points
Rodrigo - 3 points
AAS - 2 points
CanadianCentaur - 2 points
E=mc² - 2 points
Heather - 2 points
ian_dejesus - 2 points
kucksi - 2 points
lmcm1990 - 2 points
micro - 2 points
New York Yankee - 2 points
persian - 2 points
saigon_monsooner - 2 points
Skyscraperama-2 points
Taller, Better - 2 points
Chibcha2k - 1 point
Muyangguniang - 1 point
nathanh6686 - 1 point
paroara - 1 point
Storeman - 1 point

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DvW
February 16th, 2006, 11:15 PM
Israel? Jordan? Ukraine? :D

FJP
February 16th, 2006, 11:23 PM
Syria, Turkey, Greece

CPN
February 16th, 2006, 11:24 PM
Kazakhstan

Marcanadian
February 16th, 2006, 11:32 PM
^^ Nope

CPN
February 16th, 2006, 11:36 PM
Tunisia, Algeria, Libya

Küsel
February 16th, 2006, 11:36 PM
Namibia? The Skelleton Beach or how it is called?

DvW
February 17th, 2006, 12:01 AM
US? Australia? Mexico?

FJP
February 17th, 2006, 12:07 AM
Yemen, Oman, Egypt

Marcanadian
February 17th, 2006, 02:24 AM
:no:

Saigoneseguy
February 17th, 2006, 02:30 AM
Uzbekictan? Turkmenistan? Russia?

go mid east
February 17th, 2006, 02:35 AM
spain, italy, france

Marcanadian
February 17th, 2006, 02:40 AM
Uzbekictan? Turkmenistan? Russia?

It is in Uzbekistan!
Now the attraction name!

Malt
February 17th, 2006, 02:45 AM
the crappy land-boat

LesterKao
February 17th, 2006, 03:22 AM
the Aral Sea

samba_man
February 17th, 2006, 03:23 AM
Aral Sea in Uzbekistan

LesterKao
February 17th, 2006, 03:27 AM
is the city Moynaq?

go mid east
February 17th, 2006, 06:01 AM
Amu Darya River near Nukus

Küsel
February 17th, 2006, 07:49 AM
I thought so first and would have been my next guess yesterday, too late. But anyway - it's really one of the saddest chapters in how human distroys the environment...
http://www.msu.edu/~almardan/Uzbekistan/2/orol.jpg
:ohno: :(

The evaporation of the Aral Sea is one of the worst ecological disasters in the world. The Aral has shrunk so much that it now holds only about one-fifth the volume of water it held in 1960. The shrinkage is due to irrigation withdrawals from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a practice that began on a massive scale in the early 1960s as part of the Soviet Union’s ill-conceived drive to increase cotton yields in Central Asia. Growing cotton in the naturally arid and saline soil in Central Asia requires excessive irrigation—cotton is a highly water-dependent crop. More than half of the Aral Sea basin is now a dry, salt-encrusted wasteland. The region’s ecosystem was severely degraded as the lake rapidly evaporated and the water flow became scant and intermittent in the two river deltas. Wildlife habitat has been destroyed on a catastrophic scale, and many animal and plant species have become extinct in the area. Windstorms pick up massive amounts of salt and sand from the exposed lake bed and deposit them elsewhere in the vicinity, mainly along the Aral shores, but sometimes as far as 400 km (250 mi) away. This has contributed to desertification, a process that transforms previously arable or habitable land into desert. The salt-laden dust storms, which also contain chemicals such as pesticides, have adversely affected human health: The toxic dust has been linked to respiratory illnesses and certain types of cancer.

Marcanadian
February 17th, 2006, 05:44 PM
samba man and Lesterkao both get points for the Aral sea boat (Moynaq). ^^ It is a sad story indeed

empersouf
February 17th, 2006, 05:50 PM
Terrible for nature, but it gives great pics.