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How to Get to the Top of a Forest (PIC)

deputy-dog.com — It's no surprise that scientists are eager to study as much of the planet's forest canopy as possible before the population does away with trees altogether. However the problem they face in their quest to sit at the top of these masses of greenery is that access to the uppermost layer isn't always easy to come by,

Who dugg this? Made popular Jun 27, 2009

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  • mreade, on 06/26/2009, -1/+48What a cool place to go camping!
  • Unknown021, on 06/26/2009, -1/+37How friggen' cool would it be to camp on top of tree?

    I posit that it would be pretty cool indeed.
  • Ragecloak, on 06/27/2009, -4/+31Protip: first letters of sentences are capitalized.
  • Stumpie2012, on 06/27/2009, -2/+18Apparently you get there on a gay pride parade balloon.
  • ksgant, on 06/27/2009, -1/+16The site's lack of capitalizing the first letter of sentences is...disturbing.

    Yeah, I'll go sit over here while you digg me down.
  • SenoraObscura, on 06/27/2009, -0/+6Why not just climb up the middle of a hollow strangler fig tree? http://tinyurl.com/lnxkbb
  • Kruse, on 06/27/2009, -0/+6I remember watching a Nova episode about that blimp thing in like 1990.
  • seanmc303, on 06/27/2009, -1/+6Marked as inaccurate because jet pack was not mentioned.
  • jakamahaka, on 06/27/2009, -2/+7thats some Jurassic Park type ***** right there.
  • Snottlebocket, on 06/27/2009, -0/+5It is, I haven't seen a picture of one in close to a decade though, I wonder if they still use those things. In more recent documentary material they usually seem to ascend from the forest floor using climbing gear and hoists.
  • Homerr, on 06/27/2009, -0/+4Carson canopy crane:
    http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8& ...
  • TR41NWR3CK, on 06/27/2009, -0/+3What about zip line? In Costa Rica we traveled from tree-top to tree-top via zip line and saw all sorts of wildlife, including howler monkeys and coati mundi (essentially central american raccoons).
  • salimmk, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3Jurassic Park
  • tomserito, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2One time I stayed at a really low-budget hostel that looked exactly like that when I was visiting Kashyyyk to see a man named Eli Gand about a debt he owed Czerka Corp.
  • Theuderic, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2And then the local tribesmen shoot them with darts and they fall to their deaths.
  • Vindexus, on 06/27/2009, -1/+3This article needs more capitalization.
  • Equinamin, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2Costa Rica Rocks4ever!
  • slashdotordigg, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2Dugg!! I just added this as one of top 10 things i want to do before i die.
    Keep bringing these cool articles digg! Imagine riding clouds with a balloon!
  • Banda7, on 06/27/2009, -1/+3Get to looks like Ghetto...
  • DarkKnight5590, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2I remember the Canopy rafts from a movie I saw called Who Am I starring Jackie Chan.

    I thought that was the coolest thing when I was little lol. I always thought it'd be nice to sleep on top of a forest like that.
  • teepss, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1Does anyone have links of films that can be seen online or rented? Medicine Man is a good start, but it's not about the experience, like what someone said about the Nova episode, TIA.
  • tnsimonson, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1They used one of the canopy rafts in the 1993 Sean Connery movie "Medicine Man" if I remember correctly. It was the only memorable thing about the movie.
  • silverchrysalis, on 06/27/2009, -1/+2Trebuchet.
  • renanrrinaldi, on 06/28/2009, -0/+1My thoughts exactly! I was hoping to see some Mercedes ML.
  • seandfeeney, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1Until you have a campfire...
  • Neoanarchist, on 06/27/2009, -1/+2That is ***** awesome!
  • nyxerebos, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1Yep, there was a feature in National Geographic in the mid-90s about these. This is the first I've heard of them since then...
  • ronjohnson, on 06/27/2009, -5/+6Is the canopy raft real?
  • XkenX87, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1Why walk when you can run.
  • Whackly, on 06/27/2009, -1/+2I'm gon' miss you, gay pride parade!
  • 343Guilty5park, on 06/27/2009, -2/+2Interesting how these are supposed to be "popular research techniques" and yet many of them are pictures from the 70's and earlier. Also, I somehow doubt aerial trams are a popular scientific method of rain forest study
  • womweasel, on 06/28/2009, -0/+0Tried it. Unfortunately, aliens came up after us and if it weren't for Lieutenant Gorman's sacrifice, we would never have made it.
  • MrBabyMan, on 06/28/2009, -2/+1...when a couple of guys who were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. Got in one little fight and my mom got scared, said you're moving with your Auntie and Uncle in Bel-air.
  • Brassbud, on 06/27/2009, -3/+2What is this?
  • PowderedToasty, on 06/27/2009, -2/+1Me either.
  • jsmith212600, on 06/27/2009, -3/+1didn't even notice.
  • jsmith212600, on 06/27/2009, -6/+4conformist.
  • duggtodeath, on 06/26/2009, -29/+4You should see the size of the load I dump on your mother's muggy bush.

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