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> Unlike most large-scale festivals, these events were not years in the making. According BBC, any open air party first session was ‘possible humanitarian disa
by app4soft 7y ago
> Unlike most large-scale festivals, these events were not years in the making.
According BBC, any open air party first session was ‘possible humanitarian disaster’.
- mhh__ 7y agoAre most impromptu festivals held in the middle of nowhere in a desert with no water?
- TrueDuality 7y agoBurning Man (though it's not impromptu)
- app4soft 7y agoYeah! None of more than 30 sessions of Burning Man[0] (since 1986) resulted as ‘humanitarian disaster’. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man
- coldtea 7y agoAs if Area 51 is some remote desert area that takes weeks for help to arrive? There are highways and roads, the desert itself is perfectly drivable with 4WD vehicles, you can land helicopters, planes, there are cities nearby, people have mobile phones to call for assistance easily, they would be altogether anyway, etc...
- partialrecall 7y agoI went to a desert once. I got thirsty and left. No big deal. Very beautiful though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_National_Monument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_National_Monument
- freewilly1040 7y agoGetting thousands in and out is a bit more challenging
- partialrecall 7y agoIs there any reason to think that would go down any worse than the many traffic jams caused by that solar eclipse a few years ago? People encounter traffic and either turn around, or wait it out. I wager no more than a few thousand turn up and the whole thing in retrospect seems massively overblown.
- coldtea 7y agoGetting water and snacks to thousands stuck, with helicopters if need be, on the other hand, is not very difficult...
- app4soft 7y agoBonneville Speedway[0] held since 1914, and none of its sessions ended as ‘humanitarian disaster’. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Speedway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Speedway
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- Iv 7y agoThese festival though are not organized by delusional people who think the government is behind everything bad that happens to them. IIRC, the pages that organize this event has a million followers. That could easily translate into a thousand clueless people driving all into the desert with zero preparation, fleeing when local authorities try to help them, and blaming the lizardmen in power when some of them die of thirst. If I were in a position of authority around there I would be far more concerned about the potential consequences than if there was a free drugs and sex open rave happening there.
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- dragonwriter 7y agoIf I were in a position of authority around there, I'd be working to fuel a conspiracy theory that Storm Area 51 was put together by the federal government to provide an excuse to field test Microwave Area Denial systems on actual crowds.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoOr to collect a large quantity of sacrificial subjects to placate the extraterrestrial alien conquerors.
- goodcanadian 7y agoAccording BBC, any open air party first session was ‘possible humanitarian disaster’. Most were tiny and not at all well known in their first season. Larger ones are generally put together by teams of people who know what they are doing.