In case you’re unaware, voting is going on for a new list of seven wonders of the world, since most of the old seven wonders no longer exist. There are 21 finalists, so it’s too late to nominate Pamela Anderson or your neighborhood Ben & Jerry’s.
Just about anybody can vote, even if they don’t bother to look at the itty-bitty pictures on the official Website for an informed decision about whether the Taj Mahal is more wonderful than the Sydney Opera House. After all, who is better placed to choose the new wonders than millions of folks who may never have seen any of them?
Anyway, here’s what’s happening. China is so worried that its Great Wall will not be named one of the magnificent seven, it has actually launched a campaign to get Chinese people to vote for it. If you compare their population of 1.3 billion people with that of Easter Island, population 2,000, you can do the math and figure the chances we’ll be seeing those Moai statues among the final seven. Here’s the story:
A view of “Moai” statues in Ahu Akivi, in a 2003 photo. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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It’s amazing what natural wind erosion and salt air can produce.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksPaku Paku Hoki liked to call his creation, “Yep. Sure Looks Like the Ocean.”
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI didn’t check. Is lasagna a choice?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksOne of these figures
Is not like the others.
One of these figures
Doesn’t belong
Can you tell which figure
Is not like the others
Before the forest is gone?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksTwo words:
Zinc Oxide
- Posted by Shawn HendricksSo, that passage about Gommorrah in the bible should have said ‘pillars of basalt’ instead of ‘pillars of salt?’
- Posted by Shawn HendricksHow did Sanjaya make the list?
- Posted by John C AbellFreakin’ rubberneckers.
- Posted by KI would definitely recommend the Voyager missions - few modern day engineering feats have done so much to broaden the mind of humanity.
Unfortunately, appears to be sadly missing.
2c.
- Posted by Brian Turner