July 08, 2007

The 7 Wonders of the modern World have been chosen A private intitiative by the New7Wonders Foundation has encouraged the public to vote on the successors to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes. Next up, the New7Wonders of Nature!

UNESCO, the people normally in charge of this sort of thing, are sceptical of the validity of the vote: There is no comparison between Mr Weber’s mediatised campaign and the scientific and educational work resulting from the inscription of sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List*. The list of the “7 New Wonders of the World” will be the result of a private undertaking, reflecting only the opinions of those with access to the internet and not the entire world. This initiative cannot, in any significant and sustainable manner, contribute to the preservation of sites elected by this public. Previously on mofi: how many have you seen?

posted by mothninja 17 years ago
  • So this is like 7 Wonders of the World 2.0? Linkalicious moth! Thanks!
  • yep, Wonders of the World 2.0 would indeed have been a better title... :)
  • The Great Wall is crap! The Mongols just went round it.
  • I still think the Pyramids should have been given a bye into the final seven. As with any of these sorts of lists, I have my disagreements. Is there all that much wonder to Christ Redeemer as compared to Easter Island? *shrugs*
  • Top 7 wonders: 1. stuff, The 2. ful World, What a 3. Stevie 4. wall 5. Years, The 6. Bread 7. Woman
  • Y'know quid, sometimes I really wonder.
  • I'd nominate the entire city of Dubai. Dubai is nuts. Before and after satellite pics.
  • Where's the Mall of America???
  • No, I wouldn't call it a Wonder, unless you mean a WonderWhy. This whole Dubai thing is scary. You've got a million+ people who are either going hungry while they slave to build this cock-up, or they're so rich they have money to buy a government sockpuppet. It's for tourism they say. WHO are the tourists? Are there really enough rich people that can afford to keep this place running year after year as the oil keeps draining away and the environment collapses? It's not exactly a beauty spot, and once the flavor of the week wears off, the beautiful peeps will go elsewhere. Of course, property will be pretty cheap when the ocean rise starts flooding their cute little palm island. Am I evil to wish for a non-life-threatening tsunami? Quoting from the first link: WHAT IN MONKEY BALLS IS GOING ON OVER THERE? DISCUSS!!!
  • Yeah Dubai is scary. It's like the excesses of the Pharaohs all over again.
  • Much of these wonders of the world are ancient versions of small penis syndrome. If they had cherry red Corvettes in 500 BC we'd all be short a pyramid or two... A real wonder of the world would be for rich nations to feed the poor. Imagine if we were to put just a month of what we spend on the war in Iraq into feeding and educating the poor Muslim children in the region. We might just stop Islamic fundamentalism in it's tracks.
  • I'm still appealing to these folks on behalf of my leaning tower of dirty dishes.
  • 1 Amazon rainforest 2. Antarctica 3. The Arctic 3. The local park 4. Snow leopards 5. Red squirrels 6. Whales 7. Koko
  • Merow!!
  • They passed on the Acropolis?! Maybe if the Elgin Marbles were still there...
  • Medusa, I want to kiss him and love him and bring him home and let him bite my hands off!
  • For goodness' sake! All this free publicity for a Swiss-Canadian marketing company. (I hate the iPhone, too. And Paris fucking Hilton.)
  • My top five: The Daisy_May thread Nickdanger Pete's Pants The Monkey Sea (Monkey Do) Cockpunch!
  • I became skeptical of this whole business when they promoted here a 900 number and SMS address to call in for 'voting'. As if Chichén Itzá wasn't already a marvel, and a very busy tourist spot to begin with. In fact, that and many other archaeological sites are sporting strict restrictions to what areas visitors can have access to; some piramids are off-bounds to actually climb, in order to prevent tourist-caused damage.
  • 1. Crawling into fresh sheets after a shower 2. Garlic 3. Linda mujeres 4. Beer 5. Netflix 6. Wikipedia 7. Finishing a job well done FYI, all can change depending on my mood but these will work for now.
  • Chichen Itza beats Giza? That's a surprise. I've been to Chichen Itza, walked the ball court and climbed the pyramid there, and it was astonishing, but it doesn't come anywhere near the scale of Giza, does it?
  • I'm an Aussie but i hate the bloody Sydney Op' House. It's a blot. Ok, so dump as you will, fellow Aussies, it's an opinion not a judgement. Hah! What's with that Brazil C the R thing? Hardly a remarkable object, or am i missing something again? And Stonehenge, dammit! Petra gets my vote but Chichen Itza over Gaza? I'm with Middleclasstool on that one. Btw, how's your lawn M-c-t?
  • The whole selection of candidates was deeply flawed, imo. How t compare the Eiffel Tower against Petra? Alhambra vs. Sidney's Opera? Some sort of chronological range should have been established.
  • Com'on now guys, Chichen Itza is pretty awesome. Gaza's awesome for a different value of awesome, that's all. Gaza's a different scale, but it's easier for me to envision it being built. A magnificent undertaking, fer shure, but still very human. For some reason, the atmosphere at CI is very weird, even with the sun shining. The area around the cenote is creepy. I think it was all built by flesh-eating aliens.
  • I'm with he. Dubai started out exciting - even I wanted to go there and experience it but now, it's as the link says, it's a city on crack. I have a strong feeling something catastrophic will occur there.
  • 6. Wikipedia What? No, seriously, WHAT?!
  • I agree about Wonders of the World 2.0 These are mostly splendid things, but whether they actually cause wonder in the way the Pyramids (which are excluded because they were in the original 7, btw - in fact the only surviving member) did in your ordinary average ancient person seems moot. They're mostly rather old, in fact. What we need is some new stuff that makes folks jaws drop. Trouble is nothing does anymore.
  • Gaza's awesome for a different value of awesome, that's all. How very true, GranMa. Giza. Sorry.
  • Chichen Itza is indeed thirty-seven different kinds of awesome. I'd like everyone to see the sun set behind the pyramid before they die, peer down into that well where all those human skeletons were found, spend a few hours looking over the carvings along the ball court walls. But I wouldn't call Giza different on that score, and to me it's more impressive that something of that scale was built, even if the Egyptians were more technologically advanced. I can't conceive of how they built it at all.
  • As long as Andre the Giant is still the 8th Wonder of the World, I have no complaints.
  • The Statue of Liberty was a finalist? Seriously? Am I missing something?
  • 1. Am I just built that way 2. As I wander 3. If Heaven got a ghetto 4. Should I laugh or cry 5. Where she will stay, my little runaway 6. Who wrote the book of love 7. Who’s kissing her now
  • Where's Angelina Jolie's lips?
  • On the end of her snout. Wait, was this a trick question?
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