We ought to reconstruct the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World

Oh, dear God, you're insane. You don't want to reconstruct the actual wonders of the world, you just want to make tacky replicas. You shouldn't do that here, either you go all the way or not at all. Either we make them completely accurate, in the right spots, or we leave things as they are. The debate was called "reconstructing the SEVEN wonders of the ancient world". Not just 4 of them. Nobody would just want to see four. They'd want to see all seven. And why the hell do you exclude the ones you did- the pyramids, colossus or statue of Zeus? I get excluding the pyramids, since they already exist, but the Colossus and the statue of Zeus are the coolest. They're big statue people. I mean, what could be cooler than that? There's no point in excluding them. I also think the ones you chose to reconstruct might present some problems. For one, the hanging gardens, as I said before, use technology we don't know about, and we certainly don't know their layout or which plants were used. There could be plants used in them that are now extinct, and since we can't get those plants, the model would be inaccurate. The lighthouse, again, uses light technology we're not sure about, and it would be a waste of time to build a lighthouse if it doesn't even guide ships to the coast. the temple of Diana, again, is meant to worship a god that is no longer worshiped, and as for the mausoleum, well, there would have to be dead people in there, or it would be inaccurate. You also seem to think that this would be easy. It would not be easy. The lighthouse, according to scholars, was 130 meters tall. That's about a third or so of the Empire State building. All the other ones were colossal too. they were built for grand purposes, so they were huge for their times. You'd have to get tons of marble, tons of cement, tons of whatever else went into them, and assemble them perfectly. I mean, there's almost nothing known about these things. Building them perfectly would be very hard. We'd really have to scan the books. And you say the Colossus of Rhodes can be built over Istanbul? Again, that's not where it was, it was at RHODES. I doubt the people of Istanbul will want a statue from a completely different place cluttering up their city. And why do you say that the ideal locations are Joplin or Atlanta? You act as if you've already talked to their city councils. And why are they more ideal than other places? Explain this to me. I mean, if I live in, say, Chicago, and I can't afford to go to Atlanta, then what's the point of building them there? I mean, they're the coolest things ever, so if people can't afford to travel, they'll really miss out. People in foreign countries, like, say, GREECE, WHERE THE FREAKING THINGS WERE BUILT IN THE FIRST PLACE, won't be able to look at this great history. That would suck. You say that people can read history books or watch documentaries but "he best way to learn about history is to visit the actual ruins or relics". OK, but you're not talking about the actual ruins or relics here, you're talking about building them AS THEY WERE BACK THEN. I mean, what's better, reading about the real 7 wonders of the world, or visiting some fake ones? The real ruins, the genuine article, are all gone by now, and only daring adventurers would go into a remaining crawl space or something that's left. These would not be the real 7 wonders, they just couldn't be. You're trying to repair something that just isn't worth repairing. You say it'll fix unemployment. This is just one tacky theme park, it won't save the million American homeless people from starving. Aren't there better ways to fix unemployment? If we could build them back, piece by piece, with exact accuracy, in the exact places where they were built, and have them perform the exact same functions, then it would be worth it. Otherwise, it would be like trying to revitalize an old candy bar but putting different ingredients in it, or rebooting a TV show but having a worse plot. It ruins the nostalgia, the intrigue, and the wonder that came from these things a long time ago. Better to let them rest.