Your Oil Dollars at work?
They better hope no one flies a plane into it.
The landscaping is even more breath-taking than the skyscraper. /sarc.
Cool. Yes this is where some of our oil money goes, but I’d rather Dubai invest in stuff like this than, say, terrorism.
On the downside though, this is a major target for Iran....
The oil revenues have to go someplace. Too bad the building will outlive the oil by only a few years. They will be back to tents and camels eventually.
I sure hope some loony American religious group like Praise The Lord Club aided by the outlaw government of Dick Cheney and George W Bush doesnt send people to Dubai dressed as normal Arabians and fly fully loaded passenger planes into that building in a desparate suicidal attempt to show the Mid East that it is evil and corrupt in the eyes of Jesus Christ.
I had thought this was a rather progressive Islamic nation until recently. I need to look into it further, but it sounds like there may be some pretty unsavory things going on in that nation.
Meanwhile, still no Freedom Tower.
What’s taking so long in New York??
Chump Tower?
Looks like a target for some crazed Southern Baptist who has stolen a jet to fly in to.
What a target for some future wacko.. Perverted meglomanical dreams are made of stuff like this..
More money than brains.
It looks like science fiction special effects.
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Just in case some Christians fly a few planes into it.
I read stuff like this and I can't even comprehend the engineering and stuff that goes into its making. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to clean my deck and am spending countless hours on the internet...........
You are familiar with the idea of a blimp and tether line to the ground, yes? With twin blimps at about 1000’ intervals, flat platform between, you could build a tension tower up to 10 miles high; the tropopause. The tether line would be power cable, lightning ground rod, and elevator cable. The blimps, with 4 or more propellers, would fly into the wind maintaining a fixed position over the ground tether point.
Best place to tether it : the equatorial doldrums with usually mild weather, although it could be tethered almost anywhere, the 50+ twin blimps are individual units that fly to grade with an on-coming violent storm.
Compression towers like this burj pebble sway side to side in the ambient wind, this puppy would tend to move up-down with stretching tether lines. Icing and lightning(50V/m electropotential gradient)issues are the main concerns. This tension tower would be a test bed for the proposed space elevator concept.
As one FR person opined, these arabs have more money than brains, a 1/2 mile high tower is a pebble between the toes of a tension tower. And it would be far cheaper to build. How would you like a 1/2 hour elevator ride to the edge of space?