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Eeeek. Do they come with a safety ladder or parachute?
That building is scarily high as it is without having the cranes towering above. Hope they dont drop anything.
They have rather a lot of land - why the need for so many huge skyscrapers? I know its for show etc but surely its a bit of a waste.
Yeah it’s mental, can you imagine how much that building would sway in the wind, or the time it would take to get to the top!
Express lifts in the Burj run at 18m/s, so only about 45 seconds (maybe a minute with acceleration time) to get to the top!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_dubai
[Edited on 4/2/09 by matt_claydon]
Never mind that. Think of the poor scaffolders! 
Base jump every day after work !
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Base jump every day after work !
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Originally posted by mistergrumpy
Never mind that. Think of the poor scaffolders!
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Originally posted by rusty nuts
Base jump every day after work !
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Yeah it’s mental, can you imagine how much that building would sway in the wind, or the time it would take to get to the top!
I've driven past the thing, and it's just bloody wrong. I know it's probably perfectly safe, and the calcs have been double triple
checked blah blah, I don't know why but I just didn't feel safe within a mile of it
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Originally posted by martyn_16v
... I don't know why but I just didn't feel safe within a mile of it
The persons who are working on
the upper most Girders can see the
"ROTATION OF EARTH"
Ants crawling along the pavement could see the "ROTATION OF EARTH" if they somehow manage to use a fish-eye lens 
Just about to mention the fish eye lens ..... damn you martin thats twice in two days you've beaten me to a post 
I got a nosebleed just looking at it
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Originally posted by MikeR
Just about to mention the fish eye lens ..... damn you martin thats twice in two days you've beaten me to a post
That's nowhere near as disturbing as the giant Sink Plunger to the right of that shot!!!
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Originally posted by martyn_16v
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Originally posted by MikeR
Just about to mention the fish eye lens ..... damn you martin thats twice in two days you've beaten me to a post
I'm on fire!
...although it's just taken me nearly 24 hours to reply to that
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Originally posted by Hellfire
The Burj Dubai however will be dwarfed by the Mile High Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia which, if it ever gets constructed will be 1,600m high.
Phil
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Yeah it’s mental, can you imagine how much that building would sway in the wind, or the time it would take to get to the top!
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Originally posted by NigeEss
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Originally posted by Hellfire
The Burj Dubai however will be dwarfed by the Mile High Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia which, if it ever gets constructed will be 1,600m high.
Phil
Holy Crap..................a mile !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!