New Seven Wonders immortality in space
The organizer of the global survey chose the New Seven Wonders of the World is now expected to immortalize the monuments by taking photographs of a third dimension to send into space.
The New Seven Wonders, including three in Latin America, Chichén Itzá in Mexico, Machu Picchu in Peru and the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, were announced on July 7 after a vote by the organization New7Wonders, nonprofit .
"I think that would preserve this valuable report at the beginning of the third millennium in the best possible way, and ensure that even if the world is destroyed, this will be retained somewhere," said Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber, who announced the campaign in 1999.
Weber said it plans to send three-dimensional pictures stored on a CD, an iPod or other device for data storage, into space. He added that the disc could be placed in a rocket, but gave no details on how or when it will. The idea is that the material ends floating in space so that it can be found some day, but ceased to exist on Earth.
"As a first step, we plan to take three-dimensional photographs (of the Seven Wonders) so that we can preserve them," Weber said in a telephone interview. "Of course, the idea is a little crazy, but I think it will inspire people."
More than 100 million people around the world voted by Internet and text messages over mobile phones, in order to choose the New Seven Wonders, from a list of 20 candidates late.
The others elected were the Taj Mahal in India, the Great Wall of China, the Roman Colosseum and the ancient city of Petra in Jordan.
The pyramids of Egypt, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World original still standing, retain their status after officials in Cairo, indignant, felt that they should not compete in the survey.
Weber said the campaign will now continue with the nomination of the seven natural wonders of the world and the seven wonders of technology. Some examples include the first of the Grand Canyon, Mount Kilimanyaro in Tanzania or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Among the technological marvels could be the Brooklyn Bridge or the internet.
Weber Foundation, based in Switzerland, aims to promote cultural diversity by supporting, preserving and restoring monuments. Depends on private donations and raised money by selling broadcasting rights for the ceremony where they announced the New Seven Wonders, in Lisbon.
The foundation also helped establish a project to rebuild the giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, by donating funds to create a three-dimensional model of the work, destroyed by the fundamentalist Taliban regime in 2001, Weber said.
The Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which has listed the sites considered World Heritage Site _in which contains 851 monumentos_ helped determine the criteria for nomination of candidates for New Seven Wonders in the early stages of the project.
But Weber said the agency distanced itself after the project, because the statutes of the UNESCO campaign to prevent him or express preference for any particular monument.
Via El Universal
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