Dubai Hotel opening "Can be seen from space."
 

Now that looks sweet!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7740887.stm


InB4some1say"lookwhattheydowithourgasmoney".

Discuss.


EDIT. can someone edit the title for me... :lol:

I'd love to visit there someday. I hear it's awesome.

Only place in the world with a seven star hotel- that you have to take a boat to get to.

hmm, looks like we're beat on 4th of july fireworks. That was whoa. lol

"Hot Wings" from 105.7 the hawk had a good rant about this in the morning. not going to lie, i hate the place and i love it. its insane.

wow that was nuts

yup. def want to go...

Just goes to show you what they do with the "little" extra pocket change they make when selling crude oil to us! :moon:

"lookwhattheydowithourgasmoney" :lol:

pretty amazing i watched a show on disco channel showing them building that simply amazing!

Isn't the disco channel too new for you? Shoudn't you be watching the big band channel?

And what reason do you have to hate a whole country?

I'll bet he's never been there and doesn't know anybody who has, either.

Because....


:rofl:

Nice. Now all they need to do is finish the underwater hotel. Looks like a fun place to go, but I dunno, its looking more and more like an even more superficial version of Vegas.

oh wow they finshed it, i remeber watching it on tv a few years back saying it would be awsome, and they still making it and all.

dubai is an extremely nice place to visit. surprising to a lot of ignorants out there the people are very friendly, there is very low crime, and it is not all desert. one of the richest countries in the world.

the fact that they waste money on some of the most ridiculous things while people die every day for no reason other than ignorance. something you are rather familiar with.

it was directed towards the celebrities and how they want everyone to go green yet went to the party in dubai, where they took their private jets, and lived their insane lives.

go look in a mirror.

That was humorous :lol:

That was a sweet fireworks display. $20,000,000 is a lot of coin to drop on sparklers, but I am gonna say the results are wroth it.

That hotel looks insane.

As far as Dubai wasting money, ummmm, they have it to waste, so why not. If you look at the quality of life in some of the middle eastern countries, the average person lives better than in most of the US. I can't say I agree with a lot of what they do, but I know that most of the middle east it not nearly as backwards as they are often given credit for.

-Tim

why are you laughing?

dude don't. you don't know me, you don't know anything about me. this is a much larger scale.

What scale is it?

Fact is that we as Americans glorify the waste of expendable income on a scale that puts the rest of the world to shame. All the while millions of citizens live in absolute poverty or die from pointless violent crimes everyday.

I am as proud an American as you will ever find, but I am also an honest one. We have a lot of improving to do before we point out the flaws of the rest of the world.

-Tim

exactly, and we funded all of this. wasting millions of dollars on a party is insane! you could do soooo much more with soooo much less. its just a sickening thing.

We funded Dubai?

UAE is one of the richest and most developed nations in that region. What are they getting from us? Money for oil? That is commerce, I can't see blaming anyone for that.

It's their money, let them spend it how they want.

-Tim

Saying that they are wasting there money on this is absolutely ridiculous. They say most of their money comes in through oil..... Now what happens when they run out of oil? Boy o boy now they have a pretty sweet hotel that is drawing a ton of money through tourism. Make sense now?

Just to set the record straight-

Dubai is the financial center of the UAE. Their gas and oil revenue accounts for only 6% of the UAE's production. A lot of them got rich on things other than oil sales.