Thanks for the suggestion.
I think it would be easier to just start one of those doomsday cults around this restoration, since like those cults there is always supposed to be some end coming that all the members wish and hope for, but never actually does arrive.
I'm hoping I can get this done in time for the Mayan calendar-based apocalypse in 2012 but I guess I have to wait for the next Mayan calendar after that one.