View the Top of the World

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[TekindusT 3,809]

Amazing and worrying sights...

[StanislavSoltys 47]

 Speechless

[ILL Tonkso 1,238]

You know your in a tall building when Skyscrapers and Supertalls look like low rises....

Still, looking around the tower, you can tell that Dubai can never compete with the likes of London, New York and Paris.

[josefmayor 8]

I can see my house from there!

just kidding

[big_nkrumah 2]

This may be (and probably is) a stupid question, but how exactly did he get up there? From the video it looked like where he was was nothing more than a crow's nest type thing. I just can't imagine climbing up anything that high with that much wind.

[chrissc94 1]

Wow, that's astounding. The city looks so artificial, though.

[katamariguy 6]

yust watching the video is enough to give me a heart attack

[Frankie_Cutz 0]

Originally posted by: ILL Tonkso

You know your in a tall building when Skyscrapers and Supertalls look like low rises....

Still, looking around the tower, you can tell that Dubai can never compete with the likes of London, New York and Paris.quote>

or Detroit.

[sneakeypete 16]

Yet...

There's an internal ladder in the spire to get up there i think.

[Nick9099 2]

You know your in a tall building when Skyscrapers and Supertalls look like low rises....

Still, looking around the tower, you can tell that Dubai can never compete with the likes of London, New York and Paris.quote>

or Detroit.

quote>

In my opinion the only truly world cities today are London, and New York.  If you include Paris and Detriot then you must include Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Montreal, Berlin, Osaka, etc, etc. and the list gets too long.

Why do people find this worrying? I don't.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: Nick9099

You know your in a tall building when Skyscrapers and Supertalls look like low rises....

Still, looking around the tower, you can tell that Dubai can never compete with the likes of London, New York and Paris.quote>

or Detroit.

quote>

In my opinion the only truly world cities today are London, and New York.  If you include Paris and Detriot then you must include Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Tokyo, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Montreal, Berlin, Osaka, etc, etc. and the list gets too long.quote>

I've always gone with New York, London, Paris, Rome, and Tokyo as "the big five", personally, just based on the level of clout associated with the name.

But that's entirely subjective, of course.

As for Detroit, somehow I don't think that was intended as a serious suggestion.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Originally posted by: Nick9099

Why do people find this worrying? I don't.quote>

They are worrying because this is not the idea of "sustainable development". Dubai and the other emirates are expanding their empires with concrete and steel, and this is not an absolutely good idea; just look to some European countries this days... And I prefer not going deep on workers' rights, this amazing building has been built with thousands of underpaid inmigrant workers (Wikipedia says labourers earned 2.84 GBP a day).

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: TekindusT

(Wikipedia says labourers earned 2.84 GBP a day).quote>

Whenever figures like this get thrown out, they are a lie, because they do not adjust for the local cost of living.

$4.62 a day seems absurdly low, but I'll bet that a lot of things are dirt cheap in Dubai. Because, you know, local oil means energy and fuel are cheap, and energy and fuel being cheap brings down the price of all other goods since it cuts a lot off of local shipping and manufacturing costs.

[Martin892 4]

amazing

[jseidell9999 0]

"$4.62 a day seems absurdly low, but I'll bet that a lot of things are dirt cheap in Dubai. Because, you know, local oil means energy and fuel are cheap, and energy and fuel being cheap brings down the price of all other goods since it cuts a lot off of local shipping and manufacturing costs."

In fact the exact opposite is true. Things cost very much in Dubai only the General Managers of resorts and other higher paid positions are the fortunate people who get to live in Dubai. Each day many of these workers are shipped in or commute from another nearby emirate called Sharjah which is about 45 minutes away with no congestion.This is where the cost of living is dirt cheap, not in the glitzy city of Dubai.

[Red1530 1]

I cannot believe how high he was. Initially I thought I was looking at a satellite image.

[gianthaiku 5]

OPEN! As i write this BBC are reporting live from dubai

it is now opening!

[Duke of York 23]

Anyone have a hang Glider to spare ?

-DOY-

[WillyGuy 0]

two words BASE JUMP

[willfish 0]

i have a hang glider but no way am i doing that

[Jeffmaster223 24]

Hey look! i can see my house from here! on the other side of the world!

[Martin892 4]

Cool stuff. It just looks like someone in a hot air balloon floating silently through the air (the other skyscrapers are not to be taken serious...) I wish I could ever have a lunch in some 120th floor restaurant over there...

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Reminds me of the time I went skydiving in NZ. Except theres less clouds.

I think what makes this more amazing is that it doesn't take the record by a little, its at least 100m taller than the Taipei 101.

[Motina 77]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: TekindusT

(Wikipedia says labourers earned 2.84 GBP a day).quote>

Whenever figures like this get thrown out, they are a lie, because they do not adjust for the local cost of living.

$4.62 a day seems absurdly low, but I'll bet that a lot of things are dirt cheap in Dubai. Because, you know, local oil means energy and fuel are cheap, and energy and fuel being cheap brings down the price of all other goods since it cuts a lot off of local shipping and manufacturing costs.

quote>

The Dark Side of Dubai

Oh, yeah, low cost of living.... living in concrete boxes in a desert, after having sold their possession to get to the UAE, have their passports taken from them and being bused into the work sites.

A city built from slavery and debt. A the modern Babal.

Life is great for the sovern nationals, who get free schooling health care, and home when they are married, etc. That won't last long if the debt problem can't be solved... and thats not going to happen.

[citiesxlfan42 27]

That video is amazing!!! But Dubai isn't the greatest place to be. It's all under construction. Like Moscow.

Dubai's funding is in the toilet, and in eight to ten years oil will be bye bye.

Very cool.

[Ephemeron 17]

Originally posted by: ROFLyoshi

Reminds me of the time I went skydiving in NZ. Except theres less clouds.

I think what makes this more amazing is that it doesn't take the record by a little, its at least 100m taller than the Taipei 101.quote>

100m? Try something a little more like 300m!

Taipei 101: 509m

Burj Khalifa: 828 m

[hamsterTK 93]

That thing is so tall the view looks more like that from a soon to land airplane than a building

[Ryaninsb5 0]

I wonder if he is scared of hieghts? Great place to be if your rich....otherwise dont go!!

[astronelson 339]

Ignoring visibility problems and assuming a perfectly spherical Earth with a radius of 6,378.1 km, you can see about 102.766 km (ground distance) from the top of the tower.