Next Stop for the New Seven Wonders: Space
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.23.07 | 1:19 PM ET
Photo by hotos of the seven wonders, that is. Bernard Weber, who launched the much hyped, recently completed campaign to name the new seven wonders of the world, says he plans to store 3-D images of the honored monuments on a “golden disk” and then shoot it into space to preserve the monuments “forever.” He told the AP: “I think it would be worthwhile to conserve this memory at the beginning of the third millennium in the best possible way and make sure that even if the world gets destroyed, it will be retained somewhere.”
Nice stunt, but probably not necessary to preserve images of our planet in the case of a global calamity. Television broadcasts from Earth may already be leaking into space, which means Anthony Bourdain, Rick Steves, the crew from Globe Trekker and their fellow TV travelers just might be preserving the sites and sounds of the planet already—and with a little more style to entice the space creatures who might be watching.