ricola
Posts: 855
Jan 7, 2010 10:54pm
I was talking about how the fireworks looked like explosions/the tower being blown up, but it sure is a huge target at that height. Tho in an Arab locale one would think the likelihood of a terrorist strike would be minimal.Al Capone wrote:Should make an interesting target.ricola wrote: what a shame. takes six years to biuld, then gets blown up in about 2 minutes.
krambman
Posts: 3,606
Jan 7, 2010 11:01pm
Dubai is an extremely safe city, and one of the coolest new cities in the world. Yes, they have been hit quite hard by the global economy, but so has everyone. Honestly, it's in my top 5 of cities I'd like to visit.
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raiderbuck
Posts: 1,623
Jan 7, 2010 11:02pm
TW is probably playing golf on his course there. No wonder no one can find him!
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Jan 8, 2010 3:37am
That place is almost twice as tall as the Sears tower. The top floor is probably over 700 feet higher than the Sears Tower.
Just think about the foundation you'd need for that thing. Insane.
Just think about the foundation you'd need for that thing. Insane.
darbypitcher22
Posts: 8,000
Jan 8, 2010 9:42am
Wow, that is really high... wish the dude could have kept the camera steady, you weren't kidding about induced vertigo
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Jan 8, 2010 12:16pm
I've seen bigger.
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Nashley25
Posts: 82
Jan 8, 2010 12:38pm
^^^whatever d-bag
gerb131
Posts: 9,932
Jan 8, 2010 12:49pm
If I didn't have business on the first 5 floors no way in hell I would set foot in it. If a fire broke out in the middle you would be cooked.
I heard it was virtually empty as well that can't be good.
I heard it was virtually empty as well that can't be good.
4cards
Posts: 2,551
Jan 8, 2010 1:00pm
...I guess these guys who built this building never saw the "Towering Inferno"
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gerb131
Posts: 9,932
Jan 8, 2010 2:06pm
Exactly, those people would be crispy.
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adamy35
Posts: 6
Jan 8, 2010 4:58pm
Websurfinbird
Posts: 656
Jan 8, 2010 5:06pm
This.2quik4u wrote:Don't let the glitz and glamour of the Dubai blind you they are not well off, the emirate is in a lot debt and they just recently had to borrow $10 billion from its much richer and less extravagant neighbor Abu Dubai.O-Trap wrote: 2quick4u, it's a pretty well-off city. I'm betting someone will.
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Jan 8, 2010 6:02pm
Wow, for a while there I thought, "well, this is the Middle East, perhaps they simply threw him off without a shoot"adamy35 wrote: Some of you said you'd like to base jump off it, someone beat you to it.
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NOL fan
Posts: 376
Jan 8, 2010 7:36pm
2quik4u wrote: Don't let the glitz and glamour of the Dubai blind you they are not well off, the emirate is in a lot debt and they just recently had to borrow $10 billion from its much richer and less extravagant neighbor Abu Dubai.
