Utopia Talk / Politics / Seven Modern wonders of the world

habebe Member	Mon May 31 09:24:39 Well, what do you think should be included in this list?
The Guardian Member	Mon May 31 09:33:45 The Space Station Super Tankers Stealth Bomber Boeing 787 Dreamliner The Internet Mars Rover The Interstate Highway System
adelaide Member	Mon May 31 09:38:59 "Boeing 787 Dreamliner" This POS is the nightmare of the Boeng engeneers, no one knows when the first plane will be delivered to a customer. The Airbus A380 on the other hand is an existing wonder of the world!
Renzo Marquez Member	Mon May 31 09:40:57 Lil Davey's Asshole
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:04:41 Lmao each one of these classify as a ancient wonder to modern age wonder because lets face it, after all these hundreds of years, nothing comes even close to these. Nothing has yet even managed to rival these let alone surpass it. Thats how static and stale the past 1000 years has been. The Great Wall of China The Forbidden City The giant buddha statue Leshan The Terracotta army The Hanging Monasteries Wudang Mountain Shia Bao Temple but if one is talking about "wonders" created in this century or the last century only. It would have to be these: - The Three Gorgeous - The "Egg" - Beijing - The "Birds nest" - Beijing - Beijing airport - Shanghai (the city) Everything else simply pales in comparison.
saiko Member	Mon May 31 10:08:03 "- The Three Gorgeous" I went there once. Service and reception were pretty poor, but you can't expect much for $3 a pop.
habebe Member	Mon May 31 10:08:22 TC, Modern...I would have figured you'd say the three gorges dam.
habebe Member	Mon May 31 10:09:12 Oh you did, sort of, nm.
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:10:05 "I went there once. Service and reception were pretty poor, but you can't expect much for $3 a pop. " >> services lmao does it look like an attraction park to you, you stupid vlamish redneck. Its a DAM. Whether or not they are charging you to walk there, is irrelevant. ITS A DAMN. "service" lmao The only thing to do there, is watch the scenery and take some pictures, fool
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:11:27 And besides, the Three Gorgeous Dam is simply the biggest and most stunning dam in terms of technology, architecture and engineering. Nothing short of "wonder" will fit this bill.
habebe Member	Mon May 31 10:12:40 Why do you keep spelling it like that?
The Guardian Member	Mon May 31 10:13:05 I thought he was talking about George HW, George W. and George Costanza.
saiko Member	Mon May 31 10:14:17 Stuff going over TC's head would be funnier if it weren't cliché.
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:14:22 Dam, damm whatever. You know what I mean. Lmao just because you have to pay a toll to use a highway, does not mean that the highway is a attraction park...
saiko Member	Mon May 31 10:17:36 Didn't your mom work at the Three Gorgeous when she was younger? A bouncer, I think.
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:20:02 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_coffins Hanging monastery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xuankongsi.jpg Summer palace Ming Tombs Summer palace Luoyan Longmen grotto cave China is THE wonder of the ancient world.
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:21:50 I met your mom once too. I ordered genuine Belgian fries from her. Along with the burger and the milkshake. She didnt look too happy. hahaha
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:25:04 White pagoda mountain Turpan city The Five Great Mountains The Four sacred mountains of Buddism
habebe Member	Mon May 31 10:27:39 ROFLMAO, TC has again proved why he is my favorite poster, I really needed that LOL.
The Children Member	Mon May 31 10:28:19 And of course I have not even began to talk about the Chinese pyramids or the holy scenery of its epic landscapes.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Mon May 31 10:30:46 why are you talking about 3 pretties, tc?
Assclown Vega Member	Mon May 31 12:47:25 The three gorgeous, lol. Is that the gay bar where TC was raised and trained?
murder Member	Tue Jun 01 01:35:11 the Hubble space telescope
Sam Adams Member	Tue Jun 01 01:58:03 The Space Shuttle* Atlanta-Hartsfield Airport Computers and the internet Fusion bombs
Sam Adams Member	Tue Jun 01 02:03:02 Probably gotta throw in a supertanker, CERN, and a A380 to round out the list.
Cloud Strife Member	Tue Jun 01 02:06:47 Internet, sunblock, and the fast fourier transform are obviously top 3.
CrownRoyal Member	Tue Jun 01 02:30:24 Plants vs Zombies for ipad.
CrownRoyal Member	Tue Jun 01 02:33:21 and KFC Double Down.
KreeL Member	Tue Jun 01 03:16:17 The Kreme Puffs That is all.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Tue Jun 01 03:28:40 I'd agree with hubble, cern, the internet.
The Guardian Member	Tue Jun 01 06:40:44 >-Internet, sunblock, and the fast fourier transform are obviously top 3. The latest study shows that some sunblocks cause cancer.
Camaban Moderator	Tue Jun 01 06:59:14 >>The latest study shows that some sunblocks cause cancer.<< As an Australian living about an hours drive from the worlds skin cancer capital I can assure you that sunscreen is far better than no sunscreen.
The Guardian Member	Tue Jun 01 07:25:08 Sun Protection News: Traditional Sunscreens May Not Be Enough Research shows infrared radiation could be causing more damage than UV rays. Find out how to protect yourself By Maggie Bullock | May 28, 2010 9:00 a.m. Sun Protection Photo: Jan Welters Itâ??s winter in Sydney, but the foamy breaks at Bondi Beachâ??a small yet legendary crescent of sand minutes from the cityâ??s urban bustleâ??are studded with surfers. Sleek and shiny in uniform black wet suits, they paddle out, pivot, and ride back to shore, on repeat: a smooth, mesmerizing loop. The Australian sunlight is brilliant, strong enough to necessitate sunglasses indoors. Yet somehow, the most famous Australian beautiesâ??Nicole, Cate, Naomiâ??stay resolutely untouched by the sun. â??I donâ??t have a single friend who goes to the beach to tan. Not one,â?? declares Jo Horgan, the owner of Mecca Cosmetica, a string of culty beauty boutiques in Australia and New Zealand. Horgan has a zero-tolerance sunburn policy for her employees. If youâ??re pink and peeling, donâ??t even bother showing upâ??it sends the wrong message to her sun-smart clientele. Horganâ??s attitude embodies a seismic cultural shift in the way in which Australians think about the sun. Prompted by startling statistics (for instance: Two out of three Aussies will be diagnosed with skin cancer before age 70), the countryâ??s government has attacked the issue of sun safety aggressively, with an approach that ranges from cutesyâ??the â??80s slogan â??Slip! Slop! Slap!â?? (slip on a shirt, slop on some sunscreen, slap on a hat) was set to a catchy tune any schoolchild could trillâ??to the stomach-churning: In a TV spot from 2008, a pretty 26-year-old tearfully expresses her desire to live. Moments later, we learn she has already died of melanoma, and a tagline rolls: â??No tan is worth dying for.â?? The same year, Cancer Council Australia announced that teen tanning had declined by 45 percent over three years. Think such extreme measures are uncalled for in the United States? More than a million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in this country every yearâ??higher than breast, prostate, lung, and colon cancers combined. And up to 90 percent of the visible signs of agingâ??thatâ??s 90 percent of all spots, wrinkles, saggingâ??are caused by the sun. Yet 60 percent of Americans report that they rarely or never apply sunscreen, and only 27 percent apply the one-ounce, full-body dose necessary for the level of SPF offered on the bottle. Now comes news that the sunscreens we are using may not be doing enough. Previously, skin-care scientists focused exclusively on ultraviolet rays (UVA and UVB), devising chemical blockers such as avobenzone, octocrylene, and ecamsule to absorb them and physical blockers (zinc oxide, titanium dioxide) to deflect and scatter them. (â??Broad spectrumâ?? indicates that a sunscreen contains a mixture of both.) But a German study published last year suggested that the spectrum of sun damage is wider than previously suspected: Infrared radiation may also release free radicals and accelerates aging. While UV rays account for only 6.8 percent of solar light, infrared, which we mainly experience as the heat of the sun, makes up 54.3 percent (the rest, called â??visible light,â?? is what we see as the colors of the rainbow). How much skin damage infrared does remains to be seenâ??some estimates indicate that the combination of infrared and visible causes some 10 to 20 percent of sun damageâ??but, according to Michael Southall, PhD, a senior researcher at Johnson & Johnson, â??traditional sunscreens, which only block UV, donâ??t protect us from the sunâ??s total oxidative toll.â?? Our best defense may be the same family of ingredients that likely already fortify your day cream but that are relatively new to mass-market sunscreens: antioxidants. When skin absorbs solar energy (whether UV or infrared), renegade photons cause a burst of free radicalsâ??short-lived atoms or molecules that have lost an electron, making them unstable and bound to damage any proteins or genes that get in their way. Antioxidantsâ??including vitamins A, C, and E, green tea, and pomegranateâ??have the unique ability to donate an electron to a free radical, stabilizing it without destabilizing themselves. Neutrogena recently boosted its high-octane sunscreen with the antioxidants feverfew, soy, and vitamin E; they say the new blend reduces 70 percent of oxidative damage. A study funded by Coppertone illustrates just how much such an addition could help: The brandâ??s basic SPF 30 sunscreen reduced free-radical formation by only 39 percent, but when an antioxidant cocktail was added, free-radical production decreased by 73 percentâ??almost double the protection of sunscreen alone. For those who wish to protect from the inside out, antioxidant-packed beauty pills appear to provide some level of sunscreen backup. Perhaps the most well-studied version is Muradâ??s pomegranate-based Pomphenol Sunguard supplements; test subjects who popped one tablet per day for seven days and wore SPF 8 experienced 22.7 percent less burning or redness than those who only wore sunscreen. Still, the smartest sun-safety plan is one thatâ??s truly broad-spectrum: a multiprong defense involving certified, SPF-treated clothing (news flash: Your basic T-shirt provides the SPF equivalent of only about 6.5); UV-coated sunglasses (which can block between 95 and 99 percent of rays); and an antioxidant-rich sunscreen, applied liberally to all the vulnerable spots derms know to check for skin cancer: ears, scalp, and the backs of knees. Think of it this way: It costs $400 and up to laser off one unwelcome freckle; a $12 bottle of SPF and a $50 surferâ??s rash guardâ??all the rage on Bondiâ??could save you the trouble in the first place. http://www...l-Sunscreens-May-Not-Be-Enough
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