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Mile-High Tower

dailymail.co.uk — Saudi prince promises £5billion desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built.

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  • Baas, on 04/01/2008, -10/+14We keep buying oil in the Middle East, so they keep getting more money to buy those skyscrapers. Sick how high we can build these days.
    • tont0r, on 04/01/2008, -2/+21oh no. a country is selling its resources and using it to build things!
    • kickass911, on 04/01/2008, -1/+4its a April fools joke
      • 3tcp, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Do they have April fools in the UK?
      • feliks2, on 04/01/2008, -1/+2They have fools everywhere, even in April.
    • SpeedSteamBoat, on 04/01/2008, -4/+4I do wonder what Dubai will look like after the oil runs out and Saudi Arabia goes back to being just a desert.

      Talk about your economic bubble bursting.
      • Ravatar, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2Um, pay attention? Dubai is setting itself up to be the vacation destination of the future, for the ENTIRE WORLD. Skyscrapers, an underwater hotel, themeparks several times the size of ours in America, hundreds of manmade islands, the world's 3 tallest buldings, a ski resort, and tons of other stuff.
    • 6minuteabs, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1These skyscrapers are to Middle Easterners like rims are to Americans teens.
  • avengingturnip, on 04/01/2008, -3/+36Close enough to Babel, I suppose...
  • SgtBulldog, on 04/01/2008, -6/+61Talk about inferiority complex.. I wonder what this Saudi prince is compensating for..
    • olegk, on 04/01/2008, -0/+11Lack of imagination. If I had £5 billion, I'd build something that would put Egyptian pyramids to shame. Like a giant black cube. Nobody will go and see 1 mile tall skyscraper, but a ***** black cube would rock.
    • santaliqueur, on 04/01/2008, -1/+2Lack of a Ferrari collection? He only has 40 of them. Pussy.
  • seomike, on 04/01/2008, -7/+29Good to see my gas money going to work in the middle of no where.
    • m0tbaillie, on 04/01/2008, -4/+7Capitalism with a capital 'c' my good man. Why should you care where the money goes as long as you get what you want?
    • bdbr, on 04/01/2008, -2/+2Personally I'm quite happy to see rich men in other countries waste their on completely meaningless endeavors...less business competition for the rest of us!
      • 3tcp, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2They're building a 160 story office building and you take it as a sign of less competition?
  • Indyanna, on 04/01/2008, -7/+56Gee, I sure hope no airplanes fly into it.
    • dondara, on 04/01/2008, -3/+6Ya know, we should find some poor, uneducated believers who would do such a thing. Then they could go to UAE, take flight lessons and ...oh, wait, it's been done.
      • bosssmiley, on 04/01/2008, -6/+13Tell the Creationists that it's the headquarters of the vile Darwinist conspiracy...
        • cawpin, on 04/01/2008, -2/+7How about tell the Scientologists that Xenu is there.
      • m0tbaillie, on 04/01/2008, -1/+16Actually, most of the 9/11 hijackers were college-educated and the majority of them had engineering degrees (civil, urban, chemical, etc.) including bin Laden. You don't have to be poor an uneducated to be brainwashed.
        • dondara, on 04/04/2008, -0/+3"You don't have to be poor an uneducated to be brainwashed."

          Maybe it's more that a degree doesn't mean you aren't an idiot.
  • platypibri, on 04/01/2008, -4/+59In other news, God is reportedly mulling over the need for more languages in the region.
  • PimNL, on 04/01/2008, -2/+4Here the place where it will be build:
    http://www.geo-lookup.com/en/buildings/the-mile-hi ...
  • MacSuxWindozSux, on 04/01/2008, -9/+3Tower of Babel...
  • Ell3, on 04/01/2008, -24/+12Maybe if you American environmentalist extremists would allow some oil drilling and exploration on US soil, you Americans might reap some of those profits. ANWR comes to mind.
    • heliox, on 04/01/2008, -16/+8Talk to the libs...
      • m0tbaillie, on 04/01/2008, -5/+2What, is there some library I need to compile in with that statement to bring anymore truth to it? OH, you meant 'liberals'. Yes, because clearly we're the ones who pushed for and allowed drilling in ANWR.. Oh, what's that Lassie, it was President Bush, who happens to be a ***** republican, not a democrat? SAY IT AIN'T SO!
        • heliox, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1Read the OP...go ahead...you'll get it...
          Probably not, let me summarize. The LIBERALS won't allow us to drill in ANWAR, so we must send money to the Arabs...
          Get it?
    • davewashere, on 04/01/2008, -4/+5Maybe if you looked at the numbers and realized that drilling ANWR at full capacity would only supply 5% of our own oil needs...
      • joe122370, on 04/01/2008, -5/+5not sure where the 5% number comes from since it's 2nd largest oil find in history, but at least it would be 100's of billions of dollars that would be kept here and not sent to our enemies
        • davewashere, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1The number comes from research, particularly USGS. Even if it served 5% of U.S. oil needs, ANWR would only last about 12 years using the low estimate of the field and 30 years using the high estimate. Recent studies have indicated that the low estimate is far more likely than the high estimate. If it were possible for ANWR to supply 100% of U.S. oil needs, the field would last all of 215 days, or a little over 500 days using a far more optimistic estimate of the field's size. I hardly think 1 year is going to make a huge difference in our foreign oil problem. OPEC would increase quotas as soon as we start pumping most of our own oil to drive prices down and make up for the lost demand (from the U.S.) and then they'd put a stranglehold on oil output as soon as we run out of our own oil to force prices higher than ever and make up for their lost revenue (knowing that we no longer had our own oil reserves to fall back on).
          No matter what we do, ANWR is so small that OPEC can manipulate world oil prices so in the end we end up paying the same amount at the pump in the long run and nothing is done to decrease our dependence on foreign oil.
      • twomeyw23334, on 04/01/2008, -3/+1Good reasoning. On that note, since any new solar or wind turbine plant will only add a minuscule amount of energy to our existing system, lets ban any new ones from opening.
    • Wronghead, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Because there's no alternatives to oil.
    • al6667, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5Drilling in a wildlife reserve is hardly the same as drilling in a dessicated ***** desert.
    • ColorBlind, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2We are waiting until everyone is completely out of oil..then we'll drive and charge ONE MILLION dollars per barrel.
  • buhbyebot, on 04/01/2008, -7/+7I'm thinking of planes right now for some reason...

  • pcpimpster, on 04/01/2008, -3/+7Bullseye
  • Brian47126, on 04/01/2008, -2/+48Wow, I can join the Mile-High club and avoid my fear of airplanes.
    • protodon, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7I'm pretty sure this is how they are going to be financing this little operation.
    • KillerLettuce, on 04/01/2008, -2/+22More than likely you'll be executed on Arab television if you have sex in one of their buildings.
      • Brian47126, on 04/01/2008, -1/+8the possibility of successfully having sex in an Arab tower is approximately 3720 to 1.
        Never tell me the odds
      • dondara, on 04/01/2008, -2/+2Yeah, get your head sawed off ...slowly.
    • orblivion, on 04/01/2008, -1/+7What about your fear of experimental towers hastily built by jealous Saudi princes?
    • screensnot, on 04/01/2008, -1/+9Go to Denver.
  • protodon, on 04/01/2008, -3/+12Instead they should use all that oil money to build a space elevator. They'll be putting money into something really productive and they'll be diversifying their "portfolio" so they can still have the world by the balls all they way into 2100!
    • Timmmm, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Except that it is very very impossible with the technology we have now, and will probably remain so for at least a couple of hundred years.
  • sagat, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6Since this was filed yesterday I'm assuming this isn't an April fools joke?
    • NinjaBoy, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7The Daily Mail is a tabloid magazine
      • unicronband, on 04/01/2008, -0/+7When are diggers going to realize this? There are literally 3 DM articles on the front page right now and any time anyone points out what a POS, Nazi-sympathizing, xenophobic, muck-raking tabloid propaganda tool they are, they don't seem to give a *****. Funny when anytime a Fox News piece shows up on Digg, everyone is up in arms but nobody seems to realize the DM is the UK's Fox News. I've just started burying everything I see by the Daily Fail, accepting the fact I'll get dugg down for pointing out that they are clearly spamming Digg, and hoping that someday Diggers will wise up enough to not Digg their *****.
    • orblivion, on 04/01/2008, -0/+0See I was thinking that you could get away with making a fake story on April 1st and dating it March 31, because most people wouldn't follow a paper so closely as to notice that the article wasn't there the previous day.
    • pintomp3, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3it's always april fools at the daily hiel.
  • saturnx8, on 04/01/2008, -10/+3***** the middle east, thats all they do to the world with their oil. Better yet ban oil.
  • idontevencare, on 04/01/2008, -5/+3The roof...The roof
    The roof is on fire....!
    • Digger1218, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1We don't need no water,
      Let the ***** burn
  • benny786, on 04/01/2008, -2/+8I bet people in dubai are well p***ed off.
    • 3tcp, on 04/01/2008, -3/+1RTFA, this isn't in dubai.
      • fuckinhell, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1I think what he means is that in Dubai, they are building the worlds tallest buildings right now and now this will take the record from them. Hence, people in Dubai being pissed off.
  • INDOAZZ, on 04/01/2008, -1/+6Oil money sure has its advantages.
  • terajoule, on 04/01/2008, -6/+10The stupidity and arrogance of the human race never cease to amaze me.
  • SwedishNinja, on 04/01/2008, -1/+6How are they going to pump water all the way up there? Will they use reservoirs or some kind of high-powered JesusPump? It will be a feat of modern engineering if they can shoot water a mile skyward!
    • SwedishNinja, on 04/01/2008, -1/+14Actually, come to think of it, why the HELL are all these huge towers going up in the Middle East? It's mostly desert over there so it's not like land is scarce. Must just be a kind of "My Dick is Bigger Than Yours" one-upmanship.
      • atgmac, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1You mean smaller? The size of your skyscraper is inversely proportional to the size of your dick.
    • blandrys, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1if you can make a pump that shoots the water 100m up, you can just connect multiple pumps in a series, where each one fills the pool for the next.
    • noots, on 04/01/2008, -2/+5you really think pumping water to the top is going to be the most of their troubles?

      how about the fact that the oxygen will be so thin at the top it will probably need to be pressurized.
      • Digger1218, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2How about the fact that you clearly don't know anything about altitude or air pressure. One mile is only 5280 feet. You would hardly know the difference unless you tried to run a mile.
      • Prodigal19, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Since they pressurize all the skyscrapers in Denver.
      • tnoy, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1The mean altitude of Colorado is 6,800 feet.

        Think before you try to sound smart next time.
    • platypibri, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1First time some jerk teen hits all the buttons in THAT elevator, FATWA!
  • NYC10004, on 04/01/2008, -3/+22Damn, that type of mindset use to define America.
    Build it as high as humanly possible, just because we can... and now... were scared of everything. Architects don't even want to build here anymore because they can't get creative. They'd much rather build in Hong Kong or Singapore, inspiring projects, where people still think big.
    Even NYC's new Freedom Tower which was supposed to have hanging sky gardens and wind powered turbines has been downscaled into a fortress of fear that's nowhere near as grand as anything being built overseas.
  • DJREJECTED, on 04/01/2008, -4/+4April Fools!
  • lankyvaulter, on 04/01/2008, -0/+16best base jump ever....
  • KillerLettuce, on 04/01/2008, -3/+4I'm just wondering if UAE can support all these crazy Willy Wonka like buildings. All of it seems to be designed for millionaires, and while their may be quite a few millionaires on the planet, I doubt most want to go to the Middle-East for a vacation. They seem to be building simply because they can, not because they have a good use for it.
  • KillaJazzBass, on 04/01/2008, -0/+9Why doesent this Saudi Prince re-invest his ridiculous oil profits somewhere else so when were done with the Internal Combustion Engine his "royal subjects" can still have jobs in a few decades?

    Until the ground is broke I'm considering this a white elephant.
    • Hananda, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6Jobs doing what? It's Saudi Arabia, they've got oil and date trees and sand. Sure, they could move into heavy industry, but who's going to do business in a region where things are constantly exploding?
      • KillaJazzBass, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Exploit the information economy! U.A.E has NO OIL, its all banks and I.T!!!
  • mrferg, on 04/01/2008, -0/+32Would it be so hard to go another 30ft and actually reach a mile?
    • dkruta, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3television antenna maybe? thats the easy way to do it.
      • Coven, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Antennae don't count towards the official height of a building. It has to be a structural spire to count.
      • joe122370, on 04/01/2008, -5/+2plus they aren't allowed to watch anything except beheadings on Al Jazeera
  • kylere, on 04/01/2008, -4/+3Just think about what a better world we would live in if some of this money was spent on Malaria prevention, Alternative energy source research, even improving the lives of the average joes in oil producing countries. But they are just as dumb as the US was at the turn of the century, I hope they produce enough people with guilt over the next few decades that something positive is done with some of this wealth.,
  • guestaccount, on 04/01/2008, -1/+13Doesn't anyone find it odd that they are not using the metric system?
    This is a joke people.
  • jokeoftheday, on 04/01/2008, -5/+1Hahaha, this brings new meaning to the mile high club... I guess he might be afraid to fly, but still wants to be a member...
  • corneliusJones, on 04/01/2008, -1/+2It's hilarious how many people think this is real
    • usingpond, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Can you blame them? Look at Dubai.
  • FlyingPhotog, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Cant wait to see this one on 'Extreme Engineering'
  • usingpond, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1Good to know that the higher-ups in the Middle East have their priorities straight. If they keep this up, that place will still be the ***** of the world 20 years from now.
  • jull1234, on 04/01/2008, -2/+4They better have a 30 foot needle on top. Oh how I love the internets.
    • Bilabrin, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3I'm glad someone else noticed. 5280 is the magic #.
    • whoreable, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3damn i missed your comment. and said the same thing below. epic fail for me and the saudis.
  • omjeremy, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5Another Daily Mail pile of *****.
  • Plopfish, on 04/01/2008, -0/+6This seems to be a more reputable source and this first mention is from Feb 13th 2008, so hardly an April Fool's joke.

    http://www.meed.com/news/2008/02/hyder_designing_m ...

  • coffee200am, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Will the women be on the top or bottom?
  • kdogg73, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Better not be late for work, or pray they have a fast elevator.
  • Fella, on 04/01/2008, -0/+0Looks like the war for oil is going to become the war for MAKO energy
  • pervezalammzn, on 04/01/2008, -1/+0uuuuuufffffffff now the flight root will be changed :)
  • gthrank, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Seems like someone is compensating for a bit of inadequacy, no?
  • getatmedigg, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2The window cleaners better have insurance.
    • LloydBentsen, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1because falling from a mile in the sky is worse than falling from 500ft or 1000ft.
      • platypibri, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Well you have more time to consider the impact.
  • regeya, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2What could possibly go wrong?
  • DannyDriffs, on 08/25/2008, -0/+1The Burj Dubai developers are gonna be pissed.
  • oboredone, on 04/01/2008, -2/+4We give these assholes way to much money.
  • Masefield, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Any remember the "The Towering Inferno?"
    • LloydBentsen, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1I don't listen to hip-hop.
      • tnoy, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1What does "The Towering Inferno?" have to do with hip-hop?
  • over900000, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1It's funny how everyone is jealous here.
  • PolishLogic, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Ah, something that just screams "target".
  • tbenathan, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Isn't it great that the United States is paying for the defense of the Middle East nations? I'm glad our tax dollars are going to defend people who are so rich they can build ostentatious mile-high skyscrapers.
    • Danial, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1That explains Japan as well, doesn't it?
      • tbenathan, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1More or less, but the money is better distributed in Japan (the whole nation is fairly wealthy, as opposed to the people in positions of power like in the Middle East)
  • Digger1218, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Dugg for hilarious Phallic symbol
  • shdwsclan, on 04/01/2008, -0/+0With SA aweful human rights abuses, nobody in their right mind would wanna work there.........unless they were from SA and the SA workforce is dumber than a box of rocks due to islamization (poetic justice).....and thats why they hire foreigners.....

    The only way I would ever work theri is if they paid me 5 time my normal US salary....because then I will only be able to go between apartment and job......and i would get 2 passports, just in case my abusive employer wants to illegally hold onto one...
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