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- flyzipper, on 08/25/2008, -12/+219It's amazing what wealthy countries can do when they don't squander it all on military spending.
- DDION, on 08/25/2008, -0/+106SUMMON MORE ZIGGURATS!!!
- ashishnayyar, on 08/25/2008, -1/+79All the Oil in gulf will last only for 20 more years and Dubai's king is wise in making his country a travel destination before than that. Soon after all the oil is soaked up it will soak people interest too in Dubai. So nice move by the King.
- MikeChino, on 08/25/2008, -2/+75Dubai builds something insane; noone is surprised
- jeebodon, on 08/25/2008, -1/+56I wanted to visit Dubai until the Marijuana story a few months back.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-2343622 ... - pintomp3, on 08/25/2008, -0/+44the planet is carbon neutral.
- spepin, on 08/25/2008, -2/+38A million people?
Can anybody say SimCity 2000 archaeology? - AnotherCanadian, on 08/25/2008, -1/+36I wouldn't want to live in the middle
- Honeyblade, on 08/25/2008, -1/+32Dubai's main purpose on Earth: Create needlessly expensive buildings, It's awesome.
- DeathJux, on 08/25/2008, -1/+314 ***** years of prison for .001 gs of marijuana STUCK TO THE SOLE OF HIS SHOE?!
***** Dubai. - Mikeo4723, on 08/25/2008, -2/+30If you build it they will come
- gemmakicn, on 08/25/2008, -0/+28And why aren't we doing similarly incredible things?
- relic180, on 08/25/2008, -0/+27Actually there's a vast amount of Private American dollars there, and your statement still stands.
- thestrongrope, on 08/25/2008, -4/+31This thing is pretty nuts. Can something as monstrous as that really be carbon neutral though?
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 08/25/2008, -3/+29Why does a city with a population of 2 million need a single building that can house half of its residents?
- MrFrostyUK, on 08/25/2008, -3/+25Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -3/+25You might find it hard to believe, but those 'useless' endeavors managed to attract hundreds of thousands of tourists and billions of dollars in tourism revenue to enable even more investment.
- roodammy44, on 08/25/2008, -0/+20They're finally starting to build archologies.
From the day I played sim city 2000, I knew that this was coming. - jayhenry1211, on 08/25/2008, -5/+25We Require Additional Supply Depots.
- UltraDavid, on 08/25/2008, -8/+25It's easy to do incredible things when you're the fabulously wealthy absolute leader of a small but very wealthy but legally repressive state that uses near-slave labor to get those things done. Don't feel like you're missing out on much, I have a hunch not many of us would trade places with most of the people in Dubai.
- relic180, on 08/25/2008, -7/+23Because the U.S. is old news, nothing more than a pool of consumerism. (I'm just guessing that you're American)
The powers that be don't feel incredible things like this are a viable investment in America. - yerbestfrend12, on 08/25/2008, -1/+17Since when is Dubai all green and grassy?
- blacktriangle, on 08/25/2008, -1/+16Carbon neutral? What about the machines used in the construction process?
- ipek, on 08/25/2008, -1/+15Ziggurats were built by the Babylonians and not by the Mayans or Egyptians. Of course, this doesn't mean that the project isn't amazing.
- WiseWeasel, on 08/25/2008, -0/+14With meteorites and asteroids hitting us, we're a net carbon importer...
- Hindu_Wardrobe, on 08/25/2008, -0/+13You mean Arcology?
- Donwangugi, on 08/25/2008, -1/+14Really working on that vacancy rate. With a current pop of 2.2 million.....
- codyman, on 08/25/2008, -1/+13I have a hard enough time trying to find a parking spot at my small apartment complex.... can't imagine parking a place that has the population of Rhode Island....
- MOJIRA, on 08/26/2008, -0/+11I remember the Japanese wanting make one of these first since they're sort of pressed for horizontal space.
The UAE is doing one for ***** and giggles. +10 style points. - UltraDavid, on 08/25/2008, -1/+12Does it really make sense to have one person or group own a building that houses a million people? And does it really make sense to have the technology and design required to make such a building locked down as intellectual property?
- cynicalcheeto, on 08/25/2008, -0/+11I think you mean needlessly AWESOME buildings.
- bphicke, on 08/25/2008, -2/+13When was the last time you had to be directly involved in a war to profit from it again?
- snafflepaffle, on 08/25/2008, -0/+11.001 on the shoe. .003 grams in pocket fluff. They check the soles of your shoes and your pocket fluff with a microscope? Wow. That puts the TSA to shame.
- MOJIRA, on 08/26/2008, -0/+10Sector 7 slums.
- relic180, on 08/25/2008, -1/+11That's kind of the whole point of building things like this.
But thanks for playing. - UltraDavid, on 08/25/2008, -1/+11lol at people not knowing which game requires ziggurats and which requires pylons. work on it!
- Zaeboes, on 08/25/2008, -5/+14In a society where those workers can get by on $4 a day, I don't see a problem.
- Spire3660, on 08/25/2008, -1/+10No, says the man in the vatican, it belongs to god.
- leerayIG88, on 08/25/2008, -1/+10kekekekeke
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -2/+11No, says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor.
- xptoast, on 08/25/2008, -2/+11Use slaves as Egyptians did? Slavery is terrible but that is a carbon neutral method right?
- trogdor282, on 08/25/2008, -5/+14CORRECTION: It's amazing what countries can do when they pay their workers $4 a day.
- janitor151, on 08/25/2008, -1/+10No, says the man in Moscow, it belongs to the government.
- QsheiK, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9lol at the concept drawing....green hills...rivers....last I checked, anything that wasn't already aggregated is pure desert and sand.
If it is true, I bet there will be more money poured into turning the place surrounding the building into fertile land than the building itself. - aramova, on 08/25/2008, -3/+11Buy carbon credits from Al Gore....?
- ZackScott, on 08/25/2008, -1/+9I think this is a great idea for a video game. Please don't steal it until I determine that I do not want to make it:
Basically, you are a Mayan god, and you've traveled to the future and move to Dubai. You try to get people to worship you, but they won't. So you build a giant glass pyramid full of traps and puzzles. Jump to 50 years later. You are now trapped inside your own pyramid of traps and puzzles, but you've forgotten how they all work (the Dubaians have brain washed you). So you have to navigate. Each level gets harder because you start at the top. Then you go down a level, which has more floor space because of how a pyramid works! Get it? Basically the further down you go, each floorspace is wider, so there are more and more traps.
I think this would make for a great game. Has it been done before? - eebeelive, on 08/25/2008, -3/+11Amazing
- numberneal, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7the final frontier;
- hartley, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7Shhhh.
- jhnsnp, on 08/26/2008, -1/+8that's not grass, its money.
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