ENTER: MIsc Av Contest: New Wonders
 

Thanks to everyone who voted for me in the last one. I was thinking of what would make a good topic for a contest, and then it dawned on me.

We're all aware of the Wonders of the World, and there have been several campaigns over the years for a new set of modern wonders, and those can be seen on Wikipedia. But what do you think should be listed as a modern wonder? It can either be man-made, or something seen in nature that simply takes your breath away and makes you awestruck. As a twist, I'll even accept things seen in TV and Movies, but restrict it to things that appear in the real world, rather than Sci-Fi and Fantasy in order to keep it grounded in reality.

So, in other words, let's have fun making our own list :)


As an example, in 2000, a cave full of giant gypsum crystals was discovered. This cave almost looks like the setting for Superman's Fortress of Solitude. And that's my entry:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps22ea658a.jpg

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Great theme, and I have just the thing:

http://home.comcast.net/~RJDiogenes/Avatar_Apollo11.jpg

The greatest achievement in history. :mallory:

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This should be interesting...and since I completely missed out on voting the last time, I hope you will link the voting thread to this one; so I don't miss voting here.

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http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...RSTRUCTURE.jpg

this is the largest object in the known universe ... 4 billion light-years across.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...iverse/267161/

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Venice.
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1212/4577873702.jpg

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my favourite planctic organism: a Pediastrum duplex
http://sdg3.com/z/mypics/thisandthat/pediastrum.jpg
these pretty algae live in sweetwater ponds, streams, rivers, cisterns, puddles and rain barrels all over the world. You've propably swallowed a few of them last time you were swimming :)

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Brilliant theme :bolian:

I think I even know what to do and how to do it :p

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Five entries. Really? :confused:

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Gimme a couple more days...

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Yeah, we'll leave it open until Monday at least.

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Done.

I've decided to dedicate my New Wonders avatar to the tiniest of things without which the world as we know it would not exist: the humble transistor:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...storavatar.gif

The 'slideshow' contains images depicting the symbol for an NPN-transistor, the very first transistor mock-up, the first transistor radio, an integrated circuit, the very first hand-held calculator, the Apollo Program, the first micro-processor, a personal computer, the Internet protocol suite, the LHC, the very first cell-phone, the very first smartphone, the ISS, a tablet, and a flashing internet-map.


I hope it's not disqualified for that one media-frame... ;)

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Nah, I'll let it pass since you're using it to encompass an idea as a whole.

Nicely done :)

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Thanks!

and

Thanks!

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Anyone else? I'd like to close this and get the voting started by Monday, Tuesday at the very latest.