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liamC
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4th Jan 10 at 15:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Got it on the TV at the minute. Fireworks, parties etc and shit about to start.

Looks fecking massive when you drive past it, mind.



Pictures taken from inside the top of the spire sticking up at the top





Fro
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4th Jan 10 at 15:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Saw it in the paper this morning, Approx half a mile tall

Screams hit me to terrorists though
Tom
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Crazyness, saw it in the paper too, outdoor swimming pool on the 80th floor aswell
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Over half a mile. 860m or something. 1km is 1000m, i think a mile is about 1600m?


Love that building. I stayed in that upside down Y building hotel (just at top of left shadow in below pic) when it had been built height wise, just nothing else around it.




Honestly, it makes our Canary Wharf and Gurkin look totally pathetic compared to this.

Anyone seen the video link of a passanger plane flying out of Dubai that goes past it, and its higher than the plane is

Its not just the building. I was only there a few years ago, the skytram had not been built, only some of the pillars. Also, that huge junction was just a wide roundabout, no junction or anything. Used to back up with traffic really bad, then you would find some plonker trying to cross the motorway and get accross to the KFC on the other side

I love it, pedestrians get out of the way, exactly the opposite to this country.
Matt L
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4th Jan 10 at 16:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
there was a vid of some bloke working at the top of that tower posted the other week wasnt there??

whats it actually for? (what goes on inside the tower?)
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
there was a vid of some bloke working at the top of that tower posted the other week wasnt there??

whats it actually for? (what goes on inside the tower?)


Mainly apartments i think? Very very very expensive ones at that

Its an incredible structure. Amazing engineering
liamC
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4th Jan 10 at 16:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Hotel/Apartments/Offices/Shops.

Just been announced that it has been renamed to Burj Khalifa.

Unreal.
Matt L
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sod being at the top if there's a fire wonder if they give out parachutes up there incase of fires
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4th Jan 10 at 16:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've been up the CN tower in Toronto, the empire state building and the world trade centre in NY
but that is absolutely ridicilous
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
sod being at the top if there's a fire wonder if they give out parachutes up there incase of fires


TBH you could probably jump off and still die of old age before you hit the ground
Fro
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4th Jan 10 at 16:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I wouldnt want an Apartment near the top if they didnt! And I'd be wearing it 24/7
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This pik makes me feel sick!

Id never be able to stand up outside at that height my legs would just go to jelly.
liamC
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quote:
Originally posted by JonnyJ
quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
sod being at the top if there's a fire wonder if they give out parachutes up there incase of fires


TBH you could probably jump off and still die of old age before you hit the ground


Cosmo
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4th Jan 10 at 16:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Pretty amazing tbh, whats the significance with the name change?
liamC
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Shaikh Khalifa is our (Abu Dhabi) ruler, and president of the UAE, and Abu Dhabi just happened to bail Dubai out a fortnight ago. Co-incidence?!
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quote:
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sod being at the top if there's a fire wonder if they give out parachutes up there incase of fires

how long do you think it will be till someone base jumps off it?
If they havent already
liamC
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4th Jan 10 at 16:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Already been done fella !
Budgie
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4th Jan 10 at 16:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
*shakey fist*
pics or it didnt happen
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just googled it.
http://current.com/items/89546563_world-record-base-jump.htm
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4th Jan 10 at 17:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Dubai is one crazy ass place
stubs
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4th Jan 10 at 17:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That is amazing! Im terrified of heights, but I would love to jump off that
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4th Jan 10 at 17:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I would be scared putting the camera out the window, just because there is that chance....micheal macintyre explained it better
Nath
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4th Jan 10 at 17:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Like to see that frog bloke climb that shit
Marc
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4th Jan 10 at 17:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That is just mental!

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