World's Tallest Building Opens in Dubai

• ricola

  

  Al Capone wrote:

  ricola wrote: what a shame. takes six years to biuld, then gets blown up in about 2 minutes.

  Should make an interesting target.

  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.
• krambman

  

  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.
• raiderbuck

  TW is probably playing golf on his course there. No wonder no one can find him!
• gut

  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.
• darbypitcher22

  

  Wow, that is really high... wish the dude could have kept the camera steady, you weren't kidding about induced vertigo
• j_crazy

  

  I've seen bigger.
• Nashley25

  ^^^whatever d-bag
• gerb131

  

  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.
• 4cards

  

  ...I guess these guys who built this building never saw the "Towering Inferno"
  
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• gerb131

  

  Exactly, those people would be crispy.
• adamy35

  Some of you said you'd like to base jump off it, someone beat you to it.
  
  Base Jumpers
• Websurfinbird

  

  2quik4u wrote:

  O-Trap wrote: 2quick4u, it's a pretty well-off city. I'm betting someone will.

  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.

  This.
• gut

  adamy35 wrote: Some of you said you'd like to base jump off it, someone beat you to it.
  
  Base Jumpers

  Wow, for a while there I thought, "well, this is the Middle East, perhaps they simply threw him off without a shoot"
• NOL fan

  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.