New Seven Wonders of the World

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » July 9th, 2007, 7:01

New Seven Wonders of the World
While not tech related, there have been a modern day Seven Wonders of the World selected.

The winners of a competition to name the modern wonders of the world have been announced in Lisbon. One of them is the ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico.

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Publish Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:07:00 CDT
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northwesten · Post by **northwesten** » July 9th, 2007, 9:51

is that site safe? every time i go there i get 3 files trying to download to my computer. Thank god i have firefoxs stoping it tho. Its SWF filesi belive

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 9th, 2007, 9:53

sounds like a settings fuckup, [H] is safe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6281540.stm is all it links to anyway

eion · Post by **eion** » July 9th, 2007, 9:55

northwesten wrote:is that site safe?

Yes.

Post by **FatherJack** » July 9th, 2007, 10:20

Seven big loads of old rubbish, more like. All but two of them are falling apart, and the Pyramids are still better than most of them.

Actually, they're all rather impressive, but shouldn't a "modern seven wonders" be modern things? Stuff like the Palm resort in Dubai, the RO-BO-Bank of Asia in Bangkok, that big Tesco on the M6, Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion and probably some other hotels and financial buildings and airports and stuff.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » July 9th, 2007, 11:07

[H] is syndicating BBC News, and we are syndicating [H].

northwesten · Post by **northwesten** » July 9th, 2007, 11:23

FatherJack wrote:Seven big loads of old rubbish, more like. All but two of them are falling apart, and the Pyramids are still better than most of them.

Actually, they're all rather impressive, but shouldn't a "modern seven wonders" be modern things? Stuff like the Palm resort in Dubai, the RO-BO-Bank of Asia in Bangkok, that big Tesco on the M6, Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion and probably some other hotels and financial buildings and airports and stuff.

yer Pyramids is the best! and we still wounder who build them too. Engineers say its too perfect!

eion · Post by **eion** » July 9th, 2007, 11:40

northwesten wrote:and we still wounder who build them too.

I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 9th, 2007, 11:41

eion wrote:I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

Yeah, I'd heard they may have been involved somewhere.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 9th, 2007, 11:42

eion wrote: I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

LIES! just ask Macgyver

Post by **fabyak** » July 9th, 2007, 11:43

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Yeah, I'd heard they may have been involved somewhere.

But they're forin! It must have been the English *plants a BNP flag in his skull*

eion · Post by **eion** » July 9th, 2007, 11:45

Don't sell England short... I mean, think of the Tricorn Centre.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » July 9th, 2007, 12:13

eion wrote: I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

Pfft, that's what ROBO wants you to believe!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 9th, 2007, 12:19

mrbobbins wrote:LIES! just ask Macgyver

Indeed.

eion wrote:I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

"That's what I wanted you to think"

Post by **FatherJack** » July 9th, 2007, 12:31

"This is how I eat my creme egg."

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 9th, 2007, 12:42

FatherJack wrote:This is how I eat my creme egg."

Post by **HereComesPete** » July 10th, 2007, 1:28

eion wrote:Don't sell England short... I mean, think of the Tricorn Centre.

Got to love the fact that this paticular architectural movement became known as brutalist! Great lumps of concrete, some of which are now protected as perfect examples of their type. For instance victory college at sandhurst, truly eye watering in its beauty.

eion · Post by **eion** » July 10th, 2007, 5:06

HereComesPete wrote: Got to love the fact that this particular architectural movement became known as brutalist!

Especially seeing how the origin of the term - surprisingly - has nothing to do with looking brutal and everything to do with the French term for unfinished concrete.

There were some truly appalling buildings of this type on my undergrad campus... they fit really nicely with the classical Victorian architecture and the two gleaming new Norman Foster buildings...

Post by **Joose** » July 10th, 2007, 6:34

FatherJack wrote:Actually, they're all rather impressive, but shouldn't a "modern seven wonders" be modern things?

Depends on what you mean by "seven modern wonders". Could be taken to mean seven wonders that are modern, or it could mean seven wonders that are in the modern world. Just because something is in the modern world doesnt mean it has to be new.

Besides, you would then have an even dafter argument about what "modern" means. Ok, something built 3 years ago can be thought of as a modern construction, but what about 20 years ago? or, come to that, 200 years ago: its modern compared to the pyramids.

There were some truly appalling buildings of this type on my undergrad campus... they fit really nicely with the classical Victorian architecture and the two gleaming new Norman Foster buildings...

Think yourself lucky, most of the Leicester Uni buildings were big blocks of concrete. The Attenborough Tower was particularly special, as it also had a Patternoster lift (Worst. Idea. Evar.) and "self cleaning windows" that dont. Of course, because the windows are supposed to clean themselves, there also isnt any way for a regular window cleaner to get to them, so most of them are filthy.

thewombleofdeath · Post by **thewombleofdeath** » July 10th, 2007, 18:08

HereComesPete wrote:Got to love the fact that this paticular architectural movement became known as brutalist! Great lumps of concrete, some of which are now protected as perfect examples of their type. For instance victory college at sandhurst, truly eye watering in its beauty.

also the tesco gateshead* carpark (the one of Get Carter)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... arpark.jpg

my dad went on a tv program called 'DEMOLITION' to ask tesco to demolish it

.....random...i know

*gateshead being over the river from Newcastle