A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Kelly Sedinger

What human-made object would you really like to someday see in person?

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7 Responses to A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

  1. Call me Paul says:
    May 16, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    Stone'enge

  2. M. D. Jackson says:
    May 16, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

  3. Michael May says:
    May 16, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    Notre Dame de Paris

  4. Roger Owen Green says:
    May 16, 2012 at 4:36 pm

    Great Wall of China

  5. Jason says:
    May 16, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    The obvious ones, of course: the pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower, Macchu Picchu, Petra… but there's also something called the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, a rotating boat lift that connects two canals that are at different heights. Amazing piece of engineering… details here: http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/falkirk/falkirkwheel/

    Oh, and if we're letting our imaginations off the leash, I'd love to take a tourist flight to the moon, suit up at the Tranquility Base Visitor's Center, and walk out to the Eagle's landing stage and the carefully cordoned-off footprints where human beings first stepped onto another planetary body…

  6. New York Erratic says:
    May 16, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Jason wins, imho. The footprints would be the coolest. Petra is also a particularly good one.

    Two that I would love to see are the cave paintings in Lascaux, France and the Incan masonry in Peru (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_architecture ) We still don't know how the Incas did that; I'd love to see it just to try and figure it out.

    Transcending time, I would love to see the Colossus at Rhodes, to see if it really was taller than the Statue of Liberty. Many modern scholars say that can't be true, but we don't know how obelisks or Easter Island stone heads or the Incan masonry were done, either.

    Would love to see any of the above being built, just to know how it was done.

  7. teflonjedi says:
    May 18, 2012 at 1:31 am

    The Pyramids. I have been lucky to see many things in Europe and in China, but I am not sure Egypt will ever leave me feeling comfortable enough to go.

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