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- Humptydank, on 10/11/2007, -3/+119You look fine.
- xerus, on 10/11/2007, -7/+103Um, its ***** Dubai.
- benijuana, on 10/11/2007, -5/+80imagine coming to work hungover
- silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -4/+78can't you just see this thing getting stuck at some point in the near future? just about any rotating building i've ever seen has been shut down due to technical problems, mostly involving *gravity* and *friction*.
- turpenine, on 10/11/2007, -2/+73why wouldn't anyone want to live in one?
hate your window view? wait a while. - reddevil3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+55Are you guys nuts or what? The UAE is one of the safest places in the world...believe me, I grew up there. There have been no terrorist attacks there.
Jeez...is terrorism the first thing which pops into your minds whenever someone mentions the Middle East? - pseudojd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+52the resteraunt in the space needle in Seattle has been spinning since the 60's
- Satanael, on 10/11/2007, -3/+53@ joewashere
I don't think you quite grasp the conflict in the middle east... - abid786, on 10/11/2007, -1/+48"i smell a lawsuit and a lost limb."
It's only in the US where people sue for everything. - kavery, on 10/11/2007, -2/+48Still waiting for a skyscraper with a waterslide to the bottom.
- Tankslap, on 10/11/2007, -0/+43Most of them have one, but they are fairly vertical. Oh and you have to bring your own water.
- tekmonkey, on 10/11/2007, -2/+45Firstly, the stairs/elevators would be in the center, which does not rotate.
And the floors take a full 90 minutes to rotate, so you'd have to be holding yourself in the same place for a long time as you were slowly crushed. And I doubt the engineers will be creating any holes to stick your arms in, y'know? - kavery, on 10/11/2007, -5/+47Because it rotates? Does Al Qaeda have style points?
Those polesmokers just want to inflict as much damage as possible regardless how a building looks. - Murdats, on 10/11/2007, -4/+42you cant blame them reddevil, the giant propaganda machine has been instilling in them for years that all muslims are terrorists, or know terrorists, the middle east is full of the evil religion islam that preaches the beheading of everyone not from the middle east, and they have our oil (or was it wmd's? what were they calling it know?)
so who can blame them for the fact that most of them are brainwashed - Ninnux, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Dubai is unbelievable. One of the most amazing cities I've seen.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -4/+23That thing's gonna spin so hard it'll rip itself out of the foundation and turn into a giant ***** steamroller of death.
- stealth45, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19@kavery
http://www.mediabum.com/html/Indoor-Building-Slides.html
That's a start. - wes00mertes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17I think he was trying to point out the irony:
"Oh look how much power we can save by using solar panels... but that saved power is going straight into pointless building rotation so it looks cool." - Seidoger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17@ guitarh3ro ...
Emergency stairs and elevators are required to be in the center core of a building for safety reasons, which will probably won't be rotating.. - promovi, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19I love you Humptydank
- mightyarmenian, on 10/11/2007, -9/+25who the hell is digging wikiman up? what the ***** does "pixelspotlight" have to do with the article?
- nubbler, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18read the article and watch the video
- zzz@tkz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19New in Digg: You get dugg down if you actually read the article and disprove people!
- therealrico, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Can we make a rule to not even respond to retards who obviously didn't read the article, just digg it down
- MatchStick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14no, we get it, we're just not women
- AnotherBrian, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I'm sure only the outer ring (one apartment thick) rotates. They probably share the same circular hallway. That's how those restaurants work.
- anagoge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Anyone for some Jenga?
- Satanael, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Haha, I can imagine it moving as fast as it is in the video and throwing some couple "getting intimate" across the room.
- anidal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11@imperium & danarama ,
Revenues from oil and natural gas accounted for less than 3% of the emirate's revenues in 2006. Dubai (part of the UAE) was never a big oil producer. It relies on flashy buildings and minimal business barriers to encourage investments in its economy through tourism and business set-ups (see Haliburton).
Saudi Arabia on the other hand does make money.. alot of it.. from oil. Surplus of $265 billion last year I believe. But hey, their oil, their money. So what if the decide to construct cities. Its their right. - Satanael, on 10/11/2007, -9/+19You're right, the pointless spinning should be powered by coal-chugging, fume spitting power plants. I'm voting for YOU '08.
- CitizenNorth, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13I dare someone to basejump off this bad boy.
- dorshorst, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8You are probably thinking of the wind turbines on the building that are supposed to provide all of its power.
They don't actually 'generate wind.' I don't know what the point of that would be. - penguinofhonor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8@somedigger5
You obviously aren't american. Americans will buy water for pete's sake. - trashcat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9You're right. Stop the planet, whenever I look at the stars all the movement makes me sick.
- kevinmotel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Morbo: Morbo wishes these stalwart nomads peace among the Dutch tulips!
Linda: I’m sure those windmills will keep them cool.
Morbo: Windmills do not work that way! [He turns to the camera.] Goodnight! - zzz@tkz, on 10/11/2007, -7/+14Obviously it isn't.
- therealrico, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9@guitarh
Elavators stairs, there is this crazy thing called reading the article, where it tells you numnuts! - promovi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8If by "hack the controls" you mean re-gear the transmissions, you may be right. Or, you may be stuck in the digital world, not sure. A quick poke in the eye is a good check :)
- Pestilence, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Bling Bling!
The really COOL thing would be if there was an outer shell that made each floor APPEAR to keep spinning even when it wasn't - like at stoplights and stuff - myt29, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6"Occupants on the top five floors would control the direction and speed by voice activated remote control."
"Turn it faster please, HAL."
"No, that's too fast HAL."
"Slow it down, HAL."
"HAL!!!" - VelvetoneFusion, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6No.
- Sepeteus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Everything doesn't have to be useful. There's nothing wrong with pure fun.
- zephc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6This reminds me of something a rich madman in a Hellraiser movie would build to open the gates of hell.
- idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@martinnn
Very sarcastically. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Your gasoline SUV gas guzzling money at work.
- shinynew, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4My brain is pretty clean, They have been washing it for the last seven years.
- ahpro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Theres a rotating restaurant i went to in switzerland which is very high up. Was used in James bond once.
- kd1s, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Imagine being someone with extreme vertigo in one of those buildings. Yikes!
And btw, the ads on digg are getting annoying. And they've done something so that Adblock won't block the ads now. So I just find the various ad servers and put host entries for the servers as 0.0.0.0. - shaun1018, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5@maxg03 (#6776336) said: "It says it will be covered in solar panels, so it generates electricity, to power pointless spinning... how is that smart?"
Because bunch of yuppie tourists will want to stay in the pointless spinning building and those yuppie tourists have a lot of cash. - getouttamyfog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3We have more important concerns in our country. For example, the raping of our constitutional rights by our executive branch.
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