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Courtesty of Rubicon Group Holding
The Red Sea Astrarium, a planned 184-acre themed entertainment resort located in Aqaba, Jordan, is scheduled to open in 2014. Among its atttractions will be "Star Trek"-themed entertainment.
“Scotty, beam us to Jordan.”
Sometime in 2014, a theme park in the coastal town of Aqaba will open its doors to Trekkies everywhere − at least to those who can afford the cost of 21st century travel.
It turns out that King Abdullah II of Jordan is a huge “Star Trek” fan. (When he was prince, he had a nonspeaking role in “Star Trek: Voyager.”)
The king, through his King Abdullah II Fund for Development, is the main local investor of the $1.5 billion project, according to The National, an Abu Dhabi-based newspaper.
The Red Sea Astrarium, the planned 184-acre entertainment resort, will feature a “'Star Trek'-themed center that will deliver a variety of multi-sensory futuristic experiences, culminating with a state-of-the art space-flight adventure that takes real-time immersive entertainment experiences to bold new heights,” according to the developer, Rubicon Group Holding.
But the theme park isn’t betting its future on science fiction. The site will also highlight the region’s rich history, and host a pavilion where businesses, students and others can learn about green energy, such as solar, wind and graywater harvesting. And to be all things to all tourists, the Middle East resort will also offer five-star accommodations, theater, fine dining, shopping and other non-futuristic amenities.
CBS Consumer Products, which is licensing Star Trek to the park, also continues to feed the Trekkie appetite this year with clothing, board games, character busts and collectables, and − cue the show’s theme music − the first “Star Trek”-themed Mr. Potato Head!
Um, just point us to the holodeck.
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We can't afford Jordan or 5-star anything, but I sure would like to try out a real holodeck. If holodecks existed, we wouldn't need this theme park...
Bet they also forgot that no one uses money in the Star Trek future... So much for the admittance fee! ~_o
I would imagine this is being built by US aid to Iraq money. Or money we are being overcharged to deliver stuff to Iraq over land through Jordan. It should be free for US Tax Payers.
Holodecks do exist. Atoms do not touch on planet Earth. If U made the atoms touch in the Statue of Liberty it would disappear. A BAR OF GOLD IS 99.998% Space...you are H2O...less dense than Gold...the atoms of your H2O do not touch you are 99.998% Space with Consciousness.
Your are an advanced 3-Dimensional ATOMIC HOLOGRAM living in God's Holodeck.
Your DNA is a Base-4 Digital SuperSoftware program. 2nm in width...RNA 1nm...Intel Corp brags about 32nm technology
Your cells are filled with an industry of molecular robots.
The core of the atom is the smallest computational unit in the universe known to man, but the matrix is smaller than even subatomic particle.
String Theory & SuperString Theory tell us that subatomic particles are SOUND WAVES like strings of a cord of music...SOUND...WAVE-LIKE...
Sound waves make up atoms...AND THE HOLY BIBLE TEACHES GOD "SAID"
hi eddie,
There is also dark matter and dark energy(which I suspect could just be conscientiousness itself) based on the mapped universe resembling active synopses of the brain.
Reminder...books are written by humans...all of whom have agendas.
The brickwork is the only thing that's gonna get laid in this particular theme park.
Hah!
Well that's one Middle East leader who isn't stuck in the past, at least. Let's hope his country's Islamists don't turn this rather flagrant expenditure into a reason to crucify him (perhaps literally) and install yet another Jyhadist tyrant who thinks women should dress in burlap sacks and wear chastity belts.
"Resistance Is Futile!"
I actually remember seeing the episode in which the prince was shown. It lasted about 5 seconds, but I'm sure he was thrilled to be a part of it.
I'd be thrilled to have been on any of the Star Trek shows as well. :)
sigh....I'd love to get to go here!! oh yes...just beam me there....
the hell with the middle east, i must go there!!!!!!!!!!!
Love the idea of a trek theme park, but i wouldn't go to Jordan for all the money in the World.
Jordan? May as well be Iran or Egypt.
How many people that like Star Trek does he think will go there? I am about 7 hours from Egypt, and would love to see the pyramids, but I like living more, so I won't go. I love Star Trek (I like the TV shows, but not so much I would dress up like it in real life), and could go, but never would.
He would have better luck building a gigantic floating ocean-liner made to look like something from Star Trek, and then sail (do you sail a ocean-liner?) it from port to port for cruises, for the money he's spending on the Theme Park, he could really afford to build that instead, and people would feel safer. Hell they could dress up and go on "Away Missions" to places like Fiji and NY.
Just about anyplace other than the middle-east, and it would have a chance, but I would go to Russia before I went to Jordan.
Honestly, how many people here that like Star Trek would go to Jordan for this?
If I could afford it, I'd definitely go.
Political upheavals, inequality for women, Islamic laws that are an affront to human and individual rights, and rich kings who "play" and build Star Trek theme parks and the worlds tallest building because they "can". Displays of wealth? Distractions from real problems? One day the oil and the money will run out. So will the patience of millions of average citizens there.
How come people can be teleported, but they cannot teleport a disease out of someone.
Teleport FAT away. Everyone should look HOT because teleporter machines could augment the body by tweeking the program profiles.
That was always my question. I think I heard an Star Trek explanation once, something about being too much data to sort through, and that the data isn't really being read, as much as just temporarily stored, and it would be like changing only 9 of the quadrillions of 1's and 0's in the data from 1 to 0, and the location of those 9 bits is different every time.
If you take down a building brick by brick and write down exact instructions on the dis-assembly movements, someone else can rebuild it without knowing anything about the inside or its shape if the move by move re-assembly instructions are detailed enough, I think that is how they explain what the transporter is doing. It just stores the data and the instructions.
But in the end, it's all just made up, so they can really just say, "Because we said so." and it's no less invalid.
it's not made up. just give it like 100 years or so and we'll see how technology will evolve.
I always thought that with the transporter on Star Trek nobody should ever age or die from an injury. The transporter would remember your pattern when you were 20 yrs old so when you are 50, just have you beamed back with the 20 yr old pattern. And if somebody was badly hurt or died on a planet they should just beam you back up with the pattern from when you when down and you're back together again healthy and whole.
How come people can be teleported, but they cannot teleport a disease out of someone.
Teleport FAT away. Everyone should look HOT because teleporter machines could augment the body by tweeking the program profiles.
If I could be teleported I would have my atoms configured to look like a young Jeri Ryans "7 of 9."
I tried looking-up hot episodes of Jeri Ryan on YouTube, but they were all weak.
Then to my pleasant surprise the HOTTEST I HAVE EVER SEEN jeri ryan was on an old episode of MATLOCK where the during the entire episode it featured Jeri Ryan in a bikini and the camera man perfectly framed her body and the other bikini clad woman with her to show all of their bodies, booty galore, shapely, curvations legs, lips, breasts...everything hot about a young incredible Jeri Ryan was shown in bikini detail from all angles the entire first episode of two parts...well I only saw the first episode where the two girlfriends would fake sexual assult and get the accused to pay up, and when one guy tried to organize to get his name cleared Jeri's character had him drown...
Jeri Ryan would seduce young college men on summer break back to her appartment and the episode showed a really hot makeout scene...lucky actor to make out with her. Then she became famous on Star Trek I wonder if that actor watched Star Trek thinkin Damn I made out with her
Ugh, when is school going to start again?
Gene Roddenbury would be rolling over in his grave if he were buried instead of having his ashes launched into space, knowing that a park based on his vision of equality tolerance diversity and the pursuit of scientific knowledge is being built in the land of religious oppression and intollerance, burkas, honor killings, laws against women driving, child brides, forced female genital mutilation, rampid homophobia, the list can go on.
Then again...maybe the theme park, if true to the Star Trek vision for our future, can teach these prehistoric barbarians a thing or two about living not so much in the 24th century, but at least in the 21st century!
Too far, too expensive, international airfare PLUS hotel? Forget it. Maybe they will decide to build a theme park in the U.S. in the future.
So he was a crew member on Voyager? How did his Royal Islamic Highness deal with being suboordinate to the female Captain Janeway? While a Star Trek theme park is very cool, why would you put it in such a regressive part of the world. I think Gene Roddenberry is rolling over in his grave given that the ideals for which he created the show are not practiced in Jordan.