Dubai Is Nuts!!!!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Arcite
How can any of this be environmentally friendly??? Think of all the air conditioning they use!!!

That's just part of it.

All the water comes from desalination plants.

Heck, getting water, supplies and even people to the top of a 2800 building is a massive waste of energy.

[FrostyBoy]

Who cares? It will either be an awesome Future Utopia on a Desert Planet.

Or it will be a Futuristic City Wasteland

Either way, you have to admit, it's great.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Geronimo


you say vulgarity like it's a bad thing.

You're from the U.S.A. , yes ?


It could be you don't realize there are alternatives.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I imagine Dubai wants to become a haven for the world's ultra-rich, as they can get their main residence there. Unless another city competes for that title, it seems to be a fairly realistic business-plan.

Yep.
Good preparation for the times in the (not so) far future when their oil wells run dry.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by molly bloom



You're from the U.S.A. , yes ?


It could be you don't realize there are alternatives.

Since you proclaim expertise, what's the Brit excuse?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by notyoueither


Since you proclaim expertise, what's the Brit excuse?

I'm seeing more than a few differences between Camilla Parker-Bowles and Tammy Fay.

Tammy Fay appears to have the contents of several chemical factories badly and lavishly applied to the landscape of her head, and seems to be attempting to reach heaven via her hair.

She also has confused her fingernails with the talons of large predatory animals- I'm sure she doesn't need to catch and kill her meat on the hoof.


I don't see me having 'proclaimed expertise' in my post, but then perhaps you're confused- after all you live next door to the province that produced the delightful Mrs Vander Zalm- still bravely wearing Olivia Newton John- style headbands in the late 80s. Plucky soul.

As premier, Vander Zalm and his wife Lillian continued to live in a replica Dutch castle with a windmill on the Fantasy Gardens grounds.

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-73-1637-11307/politics_economy/british_columbia_elections/clip5

Mmm, that doesn't sound cheese-tastic at all, no sirree, bob!

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Arabs

Well there's something you don't see every.......well ever actually.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander


Well there's something you don't see every.......well ever actually.

Ah yes, Albert Speer, the poster who is convinced that the Arabs and/or Islam produced everything in the world of any significance whatsoever.


Reminds me of the character on the comedy show 'Goodness Gracious Me' who keeps insisting that all famous inventors, artists and writers were Indian:

Mr 'Everything Comes From India':

"The Royal Family? Indian! Have arranged marriages, live in the same house and all work for the family business. Indian!"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/g/goodnessgracious_66601650.shtml

[Sikander]

Originally posted by St Leo

Originally posted by molly bloom
Nothing quite says nouveau vulgarity like a suite of artificial islands shaped like the world's landmasses.

Predictive science fiction-wise, Larry Niven predicted such things in Ringworld Engineers. (He also predicted lots of interspecies sex.)

And true enough, all you have to do is follow the links for "farm girls" et voila.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Sn00py
Don't forget, Michael Jackson lives there. He's bound to bring in some fans.

But how much class A office space do pre-pubescent boys really need?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
spaceport

Don't laugh, it gives a 50% bonus to tax revenue, only costs one gigacredit to maintain, and becomes available for the sum of only 400 research points.

[Kuciwalker]

GalCiv2?

[Barnabas]

who is tammy fay?

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Arcite
ps. the wireless internet is very fast but they block all sites or searchs to sex.

I find this supremely ironic given Dubai's notorious prostitution industry.

[pchang]

Competition

If you can get it for free online, you won't pay for it in person.