Vote for the 7 new wonders of the world (sic)

[bhsup]

Hrm. You actually have me there. I cannot think of a valid retort to that.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Precedent, elsewise the Code of Hammurabi and the Code of Solon (both, unlike the Great Wall of China, known to the Greeks) would have been in the original seven.

not all wonderous things are structures. In fact, some wonderous things are intangible, like human sentience.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Acropolis
- Hagia Sophia
- The Kremlin/St. Basil's
- Colosseum
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- The Eiffel Tower
- Stonehenge
- The Alhambra
- The Great Wall of China
- Kiyomizy Temple
- The Sydney Opera House
- Angkor Wat
- Taj Mahal
- Timbuktu
- Petra
- The Pyramids of Giza
- The Statue of Christ Redeemer
- Machu Picchu
- Chichen Itzá
- The Statue of Liberty

Out of these, I would pick only four:
Pyramids at Giza
Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty
Taj Mahal

Three more deserve the be on here:

St. Peter's Basilica
Millenium Dome
Panama Canal

Some others that should go on a potential list:

Kennedy Space Center (more for significance than structural awe)
San Vitale
Pantheon
Forbidden City
Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
Versaillies Palace
Maginot Line or Seigfreid Line?
Aricebo(sp?) Antenna
Itiapu Dam

 

[JonnyB]

I think the International Space Station deserves to be on the list.
It's a feat of engineering, determination, vision. It symbolizes what humans can, have and will accomplish. It's a joint effort of cooperating nations, including some who did not get along only a few years ago.

And we've got people Living in Space!


I realize it's not actually on earth, but that's where it came from and it orbits the earth and thus needs the earth to exist.

 

[Elrohir]

Because it's the most known symbol of the best nation on Earth, a symbol of the smartest, kindest, most industrious, most talented and gifted people on Earth.

And they say European nationalism is dead.

Why isn't Mount Rushmore on that list? Seriously, I think it's a better wonder than the Eiffel Tower. The ET is just a bit iron thingy in the middle of Paris - cool looking, but still. Mount Rushmore is is a bunch of president's faces carved really large into a giant stone cliff! That beats out the ET any day of the week.

 

[ulsterman88]

Machu Picchu
Great Wall of China
Taj Mahal
The pyramids
Colosseum
Acropolis
Angor Wat

 

[Perfection]

If we want to go for real wonders I'd go with these:
The Internet
Wal-mart
Delta Works
Great Wall of China
Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project
CERN
NASA

 

[Sidhe]

The Internet
CERN
NASA

I'd agree with these choices, on the basis of technological advancement, inspiration and memorability for future generations, as simply modern marvels, and this is what we're looking for with modern wonders.

I'd like to add the genome project, which will have far reaching implications in this century and the next.

Above all of them the internet is king, a means to disseminate so much information and learning, that it's implications will resonate throughout modern and future history, and Kudos to CERN for setting up the WWW.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

If we want to go for real wonders I'd go with these:
The Internet
Wal-mart
Delta Works
Great Wall of China
Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project
CERN
NASA

Why Wal-Mart?

 

[Irish Caesar]

Why isn't Mount Rushmore on that list? Seriously, I think it's a better wonder than the Eiffel Tower. The ET is just a bit iron thingy in the middle of Paris - cool looking, but still. Mount Rushmore is is a bunch of president's faces carved really large into a giant stone cliff! That beats out the ET any day of the week.

Stone Mountain kicks Mount Rushmore's butt.

 

[Kozmos]

Lazytown..... *shudders and walks away*

 

[Theige]

I'm suprised nobody said the Hoover dam yet.

it is a wonder in civ

 

[Irish Caesar]

Come to think of it, Stonehenge and the Pyramids are the only things remotely "wonderful" on that list.

 

[warpus]

I'm suprised nobody said the Hoover dam yet.

it is a wonder in civ

3 Gorges Dam is far more impressive anyway.

 

[Theige]

3 Gorges Dam is far more impressive anyway.

Lets not forget that Hoover was built 70 years ago

That said, 3 gorges is much larger. But its important to have a historical context as well

 

[Kozmos]

Melted cheese. The best wonder since sliced bread.

 

[Perfection]

Why Wal-Mart?

Logistics man! Wal-Mart's logistics are simply amazing.

 

[sonorakitch]

3 Gorges Dam is far more impressive anyway.

I disagree. The Three Gorges Dam is very impressive indeed, and quite large, but also much easier to build, considering todays technology. The 3GD is very wide and the engineers were able to construct it in phases and divert the water around the areas not poured yet. The Hoover Dam is built in a 400 foot canyon of sandstone and granite and was built in the time of backbreaking labor, not machines. Much more impressive I think (and I've been to both).

Notch one more for the Hoover Dam, an impressive feat to say the least.

~Chris

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Logistics man! Wal-Mart's logistics are simply amazing.

World's largest retailer right?

 

[Perfection]

World's largest retailer right?

World's second largest company (only Exxon Mobil is bigger)