World's New Tallest Building
 

Holy Shit 2,670+ feet tall. That is almost TWICE the height of the WTC. Unbelieveable.

It isn't finished in this pic...
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/wor...ai.tallest.cnn

http://www.burjdubai.com/

Could you imagine what it would feel like on the top floor?!

There is a second one going up too that is in competition with this one. Both their final heights are top secret. Dubai is crazy. My parents use to live there. First 6 star hotel, that crazy indoor ski slope, biggest mall, biggest theme park, man made islands like palm trees and the world. This place is running out of oil fast and they are trying to become the tourist destination of the world to keep the economy going.

wow.
it's amazing what they're building over there.

Wavy and expensive.

Seen a show about them building it on TV a while back. Same with the islands.

Damn!!!

James

Now let's see how much of it will actually get occupied.

It really is amazing. That area being developed, including the tower, is supposed to cost around $20 billion. That is more than the channel tunnel. At least they are spending the oil money the rest of the world pays them on something to try and sustain themselves. It seems the rest of that region would rather blow it on palaces, yachts, cars, and planes for the royalty.

Meh, I got two of those my my back yard.

"The World" failed, there's only a handful of people living on it, they couldn't sell the rest.

all of them are really failing and costing a huge amount of money, they have a huge erosion problem with them.

yep, what can you expect with something like this

it doesnt matter if they are a success or not, they are paid for by the prince of dubai. On a side note, the corwn prince has been overcompensating recently for his small penis

That's almost twice the Sears tower CRAZY!! Wonder if they have a sky ledge at the top :lol: j/k

edit: tigger you dumbass, I don't want the FBI on my site... Okay sweetie, obviously I'm just kidding... yeesh!

is that the elevator on the OUTside section for the highest portion or some kind of pipeline?

Um yeah, eff that... high winds = swaying like a freakin' ship at sea

fuck can you imagine being a crane operator?! no thanks

Could be an innovative way to duct the outside air from the recovery units and not take up interior sq footage :idk:

For the money those guys make I would do it. Couple of the higher up guys at these jobsites are making close to 250k a year.

Tom

I'm not sure what to feel about that place(all of Dubai).

There's so much money there, it's almost unfathomable. There's just something about that whole area that kind of makes me uncomfortable.

you mean like in a "they're going to own our ass one of these days" way?

think about it, how much money do they have?
what would Americans not sell for the right amount of money?

That place is really different from the last time I was there(1993). I don't even recognize the skyline. It's a cool city and they are very "western" tolerant so jokes about crashing planes into their buildings is really not funny. They do have a ton of money, their police cars are Mercedes Benz. They are also one of the very few places in the middle east you can drink alcohol.

Yo particle - It's a temporary service elevator for the construction guys to use prior to the internal building elevators being put in. You see them all the time on the sky scapers that are being built in NYC.

"Higher Up"

You made a funny.

:lol: that's what I thought... yeah, not setting foot on anything "temporary" 1/2 a mile into the sky :lmao:

Very cool UNLESS you see a jetliner heading your way !!

I am sitting near the top of a tall building as I post this and it's a little over 800 feet tall so that building has to be a trip !!

nice now we've got mega scrapers so the posleen invasion cant be too far behind right?

That crossed my mind. Not how MUCH we as a country will be sold for, or sell out for, but WHEN.

I have no fear of heights so I'd do it! Those guys make BANK!!!

So do crack dealers, and it's not any less hazardous.

Okay, I totally apologize about my very inappropriate joke... Besides, "we" don't have to do anything to them, I'm sure that the Muslim extremists have them squarely in their sights as traitors, infidels and blasphemers! Heck, they probably hate them more than they hate us!

Aw come on, when was the last time you heard of a crane operator dying on the job? If you want to worry about someone, worry about the monkeys that have to stand on the steel and "catch/attach" the new girders. Now THAT'S man's work there buddy!!!:panic:

Hey I'm just saying they are not like other Islamic countries. Most people don't know how "westernized" they have become. Just trying to educate Tigs, not laying the smack down on you or anything.

When was the last time you heard of a crack dealer dying on the job? Not because it doesn't happen, it's because it's not news worthy, but that's an entirely different subject..

Oh I'm not taking it that way at all! Now that I can sleep regular and ain't sick all the time, my demeanor is 100% better!!!:lol: I'm actually fully versed in the Middle East and am always trying to learn more, know your enemy I always say. Heck, I took Russian back when I was stationed in Europe during the Cold War!:lol:

Um just this week... I'll see if I can find the story. Our local news covers it every time someone is shot/killed. Apparently, loss of life is more "news worthy" here than it is there...:lol:

They are actually pretty two faced about that, tourists don't really see it because that's their new oil, but it's there. My parents got a more accurate view living there for a few years. They have strange laws, most accidents are always a tourists fault because you were there in their country, they have eased up on this one more. My parents had their house broken into by locals and basically were told tough shit. If the robbers wouldn't have left when the alarm went off and my dad would of confronted them and hit them with the baseball bat he had to protect them, he would of went to jail because he is a foreigner and they are locals. The locals break into the houses where my dad and mom lived a lot during christmas because it was a compound for the oil company and everyone (foreigners because the locals pretty much don't work and contract all that shit out) usually went home for christmas holidays, but my dad and mom were home that season when it happened. It's a weird place, they allow the tourists a little more freedom because they are greedy sons a bitches. The Russians really fuck with them there. The russian women basically wear nothing and it drives em fucking crazy.

With around 800 homicides a year the city picks and chooses which are reported. Most of the crack dealer shootings arent news worthy unless theres some collateral damage. hell most of the shootings/murders that come through our ER or kings county arent newsorthy unless its a cop.

Tom

Damn

They're just above reporting the general obits every night here :idk:

gonna be shitty when they fall!

Most Russian women are hawt though so its ok:rockwoot:

Tom

Oh yeah !! :dribble:

You haven't met Sweatlana have you?:panic:

I worked in a no fault clinic in a russian community in brooklyn, granted there were a few busted looking women come in but it was like each one was hotter than the last one.

Most of them were all mobbed up too. Seems many were either unemployed or worked as home health aides yet all drove 5 and 7 series BMW's:?:

Tom

I'm no expert but I'm willing the bet the "cream of the crop" get out of Russia first.:lol:

mail order brides FTW :lol:

Tom

I saw a special on NGC about some crazy ass hotel they are building with a race track running through it and a cage around it that is being built at the same time with every peice very different and all kinds of crazy shit. Building it in a stupid short amount of time too.

Pretty fucking cool though.

never said it was bad, I think its awesome, but it pisses them off.

Personally for me the funniest thing over there is the strip clubs. These people act all high and mighty about their women, but they will let the infidels come in and set up a strip club with foreign nonislamic women and those clubs are fucking full of the muslim men wanting to get a dance and acting mr. big with all their fucking oil money.

Now you just wait a cotton picking minute there slim!!! Are you implying that some religious types are hypocrites? I'm sure that the Islamic men in attendance are merely there to ensure that us western dog infidels don't defile those women!!! You've got a lot of nerve insinuating otherwise mister!!!:lol: