Comments on: Seven Wonders of America

By: ChinaMatt

ChinaMatt — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:14:34 +0000

I like that Peter backed me up on that one. Those bastards in NY have stolen our statue for far too long. Besides, she’s showing her back to our state! To hell with it, let NY keep it…just send the money across the state line.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:15:15 +0000

Why has Google lied to me? I will never trust again. :(

By: Bietz's Friend Pete

Bietz's Friend Pete — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:35:50 +0000

The House of ChampionsTM, if for no other reason, it has magical powers.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:52:16 +0000

Do not doubt me on such things. Liberty Island is in the State of New York. There is a good argument that it should have been in the state of New Jersey, but it is in fact in New York.

From Wikipedia:

Liberty Island is 2000 feet (600 m) from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. By comparison it is 1-5/8 statute miles (2.6 kilometers) from Battery Park in Manhattan; this makes Liberty Island much closer to Jersey City, New Jersey than to the rest of New York City, of which it is a part.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:59:51 +0000

Actually, Garry, ChinaMatt is right. To wit:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=statue+of+liberty&ie=UTF8&ll=40.692353,-74.039698&spn=0.046857,0.057592&z=14

It’s on the left side of that dashed line, which is clearly Jersey. Bastards.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:49:28 +0000

While it would be the best thing in New Jersey if it were in New Jersey, alas, it is not in New Jersey.

By: ChinaMatt

ChinaMatt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:47:03 +0000

Seeing as I haven’t been everywhere in the states, I’ll stick to what I know. Personally, I’d put up Garden of the Gods in CO. I’d also go along with the redwoods in CA. If you took NYC as a whole off the list, I might go with McSorley’s or possibly Crif Dogs.

Just a side note: The Statue of Liberty is in Jersey, damn it.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:28:06 +0000

John Doe, I disagree.

The moon holds a much larger place is human imagination than “low earth orbit”. The photos taken of the Earth from the moon and the photos of a human on the moon (FYI, all the Apollo 11 photos are of Buzz Aldrin, not Neil Armstrong) have had far more cultural impact than Yuri Gagarin’s flight.

The Apollo 11 moon landing was an event watched live and shared simultaneously by a larger percentage of humanity than any other event.

That, and whatever Chinese guy steps on Mars, will be what people remember in 1000 years.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:11:01 +0000

As regards the Saturn V, there are three left. One is at Johnson Space Center and another is at Kennedy Space Center. They probably chose to mention the one in Huntsville because it was actually designed at Marshall Space Flight Center. The Apollo program isn’t a tangible thing at all, so I can understand them using the Saturn V to represent the space program. 1000 years from now I think the first time man left low earth orbit will be far more historically significant than anything else you might pick from America.

By: Nathan D

Nathan D — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:32:26 +0000

Shatner.

By: Erik Smith

Erik Smith — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:19:46 +0000

No Yellowstone?!?!?!?!?

How does this happen??

I think Olympic National Park would have been a good choice. It’s home to the only rainforest in the US, as well as some great mountain scenery and a significant amount of coastline.

Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is home to an outstanding collection of old Indian Pueblos.

The Everglades, while disappearing more and more each day, is a unique natural habitat.

Living in Michigan, I am partial to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the Northwest tip of the lower peninsula.