Oh, shiite. More of our taxpayer money being pissed away. Other than Homer and others from 2000-3000 years ago, is there any real proof this thing actually existed? If so, what happened to the origianal? Muzzies got it? OOPS, long before the Muzzies.
Muzzies did get it. Just from memory, the ruins were in place for many hundred of years. Muzzies bought it for scrap and carted it away on something like 800 camels.
the ancient one did not bestride the water from what I have read.
Go ahead, rebuild the Colossus. We have already rebuilt another of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient world- the Great Library of Alexandria, in the form of the Internet.
You could argue that the Lighthouse of Alexandria also, is rebuilt in the form of GPS and GLONASS infrastructure, as well.