Aug 19 2008Eye Candy: The Burj Dubai Nears Completion

first looks like google got me naked in the back yard again

Amazing!

Do they not have to worry about terrorists targeting thier city?

^ they ARE terrorists

i know what you mean this thing reminds me of the game command and conquer i can just imagine all the little russian terrorists running at it..... but wait what is this, shops selling anything you have ever dreamed of, even this fancy captains chair.... there is no way, no way i tell you that any terrorist would ever attack that building... there just isnt anything in if for anyone plus they are not going to spend all that money on it and not have robots with lazers running around popping up out of side walks transforming out of nike shoes,, oohhh look there is a nike shoe just laying there Shiiekk kooo kooo koo transforms into t1000 and kills your anus for trying to steal a shoe laying there, on and dont forget the parkbench humper they hired him on to keep an eye out for any weirdos, that arent him

DIRKA DIRKA HALLA HALLA JIHAD!

UAE is going to be the new USA. Except with less ragheads.

I imagine that that is much what the main machine-force power supply will look like once they take over and destroy most of humanity.

Pretty sure.

So everybody in Dubai is a terrorist?
T_T

I'm not even going to bother discussing this with you...

*weeeooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo*
*splat*

This reminds me of a guy wearing a gold medallion bigger than his head.

Fackin hell that's tall. Here's where all yer gas $$$'s goes.

... and what's the point in building something like this? boy, there are lots of pople with small d***ks out there!

Your gas dollars at work.

It is a really amazing building though.

Muslims, generally, do not kill other Muslims. Unless they are heretics. LIke Sunni vs Shia etc

"Muslims, generally, do not kill other Muslims"

And this is said the very same day that 43 people were killed in Algeria and 27 others were killed in Pakistan by suicide bombers.

Here I am pissing on this geeky parade with some facts.
This thing has massive bombproof/fireproof reinforced rooms with ridiculously high melting point metals about 2 feet thick, and their own air supplies - every 15 floors: It's not feasible to have fire exits 3000ft up... In case of a terrorist attack you simply trot to the nearest super room and wait it out until someone puts the fire out.

"Your gas dollars at work."

The architecture firm that designed this is American. Chicago actually. Do you realize American's get paid to design and build this?

#14 - Sonny Vs. Cher?

FAKE

@ 17.

So we have to be the CEO of a architecture firm to not care about ridiculous gas profits?

I swear there is a bookie somewhere taking stakes on who is the first to jump off that thing.

that thing is pretty neat

@ 19:

Not fake. Watch TV, dipshit.

this building was designed for the tallest man on earth

How do they get the cranes back down the building when they're finished?

@20

No, obviously you missed the point. What goes around comes around. Besides, gas companies charge what they do for two reasons: 1) limited unrenewable resource and 2) because they can. If you have problems with gas prices stop using or stop complaining.

I think it was Matt Damon in in some movie that takes place in the middle east which I can't recall right now who said that the arabs were nothing but a bunch of tribes cutting each other's heads off 100 years ago and will be a bunch of tribes cutting each other's heads 100 years from now.

Oil-based economy won't last forever, much less a construction like this in a country like that.

I would be willing to bet that, providing that I die of natural causes within current life expectancy in modern countries, I just might outlive this building with years to spare. I am now in my mid 20's.

look closely...terrorist-ready drone guns on 541st floor

This is what our oil purchases buy them. Buildings like this. I can't wait to see what happens when the world's oil runs out and they can't build this stuff anymore. Oh and by the way, 99% of muslims don't kill other muslims, it's the 1% that kill other muslims.

@26 I thought I was better than everybody else, but you have upstaged me. Touche.

P.S. You're a dick.

Man, I'm just waiting for that french guy 'the human spiderman' to attempt to climb this one.

looks like someone used the extra money cheat in sim city.

Manuel:

Dude, you are seriously misquoting Matt Damon in "Syriana". And also out of context I might add.

Idiotic.

Is it just me or is this thing leaning to one side a bit?

They are running out of oil....so in order to not become broke...they create a tourist trap.

``And that was the only folly the people of Springfield ever embarked
upon. Except for the popsicle stick skyscraper. And the 50-foot
magnifying glass. And that escalator to nowhere.''

OMG... I thought she deleted those pics of me on the beach...that bitch

Yeah that's hawt.

@37... this isnt the montauk page. you stupid jerk.

wow, this is literally the FAKEST thing i have literally ever seen in my whole entire life. literally.

theyre obviously using wall hacks.

dubai just likes to build everything huge for the hell of it ! show offs ... pftt must be compensating for something else ........

@23. I was joking. I was hoping that was obvious enough, but I guess not obvious enough for you. Let me try it again:

FAKE

J/K LOL COOL BUILDING :)

> 6. Terrorist - August 19, 2008 4:06 PM

DIRKA DIRKA HALLA HALLA JIHAD!

OMG YES. FREAKING YES.

Holy shit this is large.

So how many people have actually died making this?

It's very large. LARGE!!

wtf are u talkin bout arabs being terrorists? Dubai is the symbol of development and you americans are just being jealous. feel free to visit dubai, u r most welcome hahaha..that is if you can afford coming here. LOL

i agree with cicak SO MUCH
how the f*** are you gonna call them terrorists
i can probably bet that NONE of you know anyone from dubai

so dont say shit you dont know anything about

Terrorists:
They still force their women into submission . . .

#44 a lot.

they are slaves working day and night on ALL of teh buildings, not just this one.

from someone that's actually beeen there, it's a pretty crappy place to visit right now, nothing but unfinished building, sand f***ing everywhere and teh MOST pretentious a-holes accompanied by russian prostitutes you will meet in your life.

jules, do yurself a favor..wank yurself to sleep LOL

This building is going to be amazing when it is done, Dubai does a lot of amazing things that make it a lot of money so they can sustain themselves with or without oil, although I'm sure oil helps.
They built the f***ing world in their sea... if that's not just a wee bit more excessive than building the tallest building for a few years until Taiwan or somewhere else build one taller to spite them, then I don't know what is.
And the only thing to worry about in Dubai is getting ass raped by dudes with AIDS, and that is only if your an underage French boy...

I drive past this building to & from work every day -- can't wait to see it finished!

As far as Dubai the city goes, its got its good (job ops, weather) & bad (construction everywhere, traffic) points but in the end is still an experience worth checking out. Since coming here from Pennsylvania anyway, I haven't looked back.

How long is the elevator ride?

Its reminds me of what's lurking beneath my underpants!!!
ZING!!!!

what da..

how many floors are there?

any way puntahan ko nalang ito..

malapit lng naman to sa aming

bahay

According to Genesis 11:1–9, humankind, after the deluge, traveled from the mountain where the ark had rested, and settled in "a plain in the land of Shinar." Here, they attempted to build a city and a tower whose top would be in the Heavens, the Tower of Babel.

The attempt to build the city of Babel with its tower, caused God to respond. He confused the language of the people, ultimately halting the project, and scattered them across the earth.

MIDDLE EAST = A BUNCH OF TERRORISTS
DUBAI = A BIG ASS WIPE STAIN
UAE = TURBAN-WEARING FREAKS WHO LOVES $$$
BURJ TOWER = SYMBOL FOR GREED
CHINA = ASS WIPE TO THE POWER OF 3

U S A = RULER OF THE WORLD
ON YOUR KNEES EVERYONE!

ZOID ELPERTCLAM = COMPLETE FATASS AMERICAN SLACK-JAWED RASCIST

...oh..and everyone who DOESNT live in America HATES America - Bowing down to George Bush?! i dont think so mate, i'll leave THOSE B.J's to you!

as for the buildin, looks wicked! though it does look like a BIG Terrorist target!

U S A = RULER OF THE WORLD :)

Your dick and bush have been minting the oil money, attacking muslim countries in search of oil (Iraq) and oil passages (Afghanistan ) to grow their wealth (Unocol, and other bush owned oil firms) .

Americans are simple honest people who believe too much in media, while their rulers take huge advantages of their belief in media, and screwing common people and getting money out of their pockets, only to find its way into their own bank accounts and assets.

Is it me or could this be a cover up for the world first intergalactic space ship.

ready to blast off when the sh*t hits the fan from humans kill the earth dead

I look at this picture and think to myself. Was the site of ancient babylon really located in Iraq or was it in Dubai?

I would never want to go to the top of that. I think of it as the Nosebleed building.

Some of you really believe that oil is going to run out soon. To enlighten you, there is plenty of oil still to be extracted. In fact, there is enough to last us at least 200 more years. It's just a matter of getting it out of the ground.

I'm sure the most dangerous room (top) in that tower is likely the most expensive to stay in.

wonder how much the room at the top goes for =D

You could not pay me to go to the top floor of this building, that is some scary shit

I like how ther\e's no other buildings remotely close 2 the size of that surrounding it... Just kinda looks like the desert pop'd a boner... At least make it cooler with a decent landscape of buildings surrounding it...

It's like owning 5000 Corvettes.

i HATE the name ANKIT. its the dirtiest, ugliest name i have ever heard in my life

@65 "At least make it cooler with a decent landscape of buildings surrounding it..." Yaaaa I know some Mexicans who do GREAT highrise landscaping!

Just setting the record straight. The USA is the #1 terrorist state right now. Just look at 9/11 If you think foreign terrorists got NORAD to stand down, got the airforce to halt standard interception of non-responding aircraft, and suspended the laws of physics so 3 steel buildings feel with 0 resistence at free fall speed, YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

In fact, 9/11 was nothing new. It was just one of the plans that was green-lighted. Check out Operation Northwoods, which the Joint Chiefs of Staff planned out (see below). The only reason this didn't happen was because JFK rejected it. Now you know why republiscum hate JFK but love Reagan who sold drugs to inner-cities to fund South American CIA death-squads.

ABCNEWS: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba

In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

Dubai has very little oil but they profit from the trade. They are making their money by luring businesses with tax breaks and sweet real estate deals. They also offer a very exploitable immigrant work force that can't leave the country and can't make enough money to get out of the gutter.

@69: Amen. The problem is people believe too much in media. it doesn't really matter if huge objects defy the laws of physics live in front of the whole world, if the TV says it was due to those planes then it must be true, and everybody suspend any kind of personal, intelligent thinking.

Duboner

Eh. So many people, so many different views.

I want to apologize for #56. That's the sort of typical underage pre-teen spirit that has given us Americunts such a bad rap.

@ #57 news flash asshat. We all hate Bush. But what do you expect from a skewed system? We've basically backed our so called "Democracy" into a corner. We have two pools of retards to draw from. The greedy oil money, burn the world who gives shit conservatives, called Republicans. And the tree hugging hippy spewing liberal nut jobs called Democrats. That said the Britfags are just as screwed with their system in some ways.

@ #55 Take your religious views and shove them up a tight orifice. Little knowledge for you. The worlds oldest two professions: religion and prostitution. That should say something. Don't get me wrong. Faith is a good thing. But organized religion is a sham. Catholicism itself is one of the biggest multi-billion dollar corporations on the face of the earth.

Their not terrorists? really. What do you call people who kill each other over some scrap of parchment that was compiled centuries ago? fanatics? maybe.
The Kurds kill the Shi`ites because their not Kurds. The Shi`ites kill the Sunni's because their not Shi`ites. The Shi`ites kill the Kurds becuase their.... Do we see a pattern forming here?
It's the same sort of Clan/Feudal based bullshit the British, Scottish, and Irish went through. Which might I add still happens to an extent today.

On a side note. wouldn't it be irony if someone flew an airplane into that building........

Americans are simple honest people who believe too much in media, while their rulers take huge advantages of their belief in media, and screwing common people and getting money out of their pockets, only to find its way into their own bank accounts and assets.

- 100% TRUE..and the asshole foreigners who hate ALL Americans are more ignorant than us.

to those who are making remarks on YOUR dollars paying for this stuff through oil, the US is practically stealing the stuff, for instance in Germany, petrol is over $10 a gallon, so consider yourselves lucky. the $5 you pay is only lining the pockets YOUR government, so if you've got a problem take it up with those cunts. i wonder how much oil would cost everyone if the US had all the reserves. i dread to think.

#56- stop watchin fox news, read a book, and above all, F*** YOURSELF!

That would make an outstanding landing path for an A380!

@30

Coming from you, that really hurts my feelings. :(

Please stop poking my b***s with that "Arabs are not all terrorists, USA is evil!" refrain....i'm not american nor arab and in my campus They were celebrating on sept-11. We all know arabs or muslims are not all terrorists, but we all know the way 80% of them think about things. Oh, and don't hope they run out of petrol....they would find other unkind methods to gather money to build those big d****s. Now i've to leave you....gonna replay the "chick jump off the springboard" from hot-shots 2 from that building....(...oh.....s**t, maybe i'm better dodging her....)

Can you imagine how much the window washer must get paid?

i can't imagine the time spent saying "it safe, don't panic!"

Che dire,esibizioniti puri sti arabi...non mi dispiacerebbe se crollasse.....

Honey, I forgot the groceries in the trunk - can you run down and get them?

As an American in good standing(meaning: tax paying and voting) I take no offense at the rancor displayed here. Hey, it's always been the richest dude on the block that everyone loves to hate and since we have the biggest shoulders in town,,,

You're correct in assuming, if America had the oil,Y'All would STILL be paying thru the nose,,,and it would be the same no matter who owned it.

One thing Y'All should remember(well, maybe, two things, if you have enough memory):
1) North America was settled by religious fanatics, escaping from righteous persecution in their original homelands. There's a prescription for disaster,,,
2) The USA is still the only nation on earth that was insane enough to nuke a couple of hundred thousand people out of existence. I suppose that was the major reason Khruscheve thought twice about the Cuban missile crises and backed down. I always respected him for that.

America is just like everybody else, acquisitive, narrow minded, loving and occasionally generous. Now, when China becomes the biggest dog on the block, watch out,,,

PS: I really like mega engineering projects. Shows just how far we busy beavers can go, trying to impress out neighbors,,,

ARABI speriamo che crolli sta torre

Frank Lloyd Wright did a design remarkably similar. Terrorists... I'm on the fence my friends cause if you do the research on just about any superpower, you're bound to find something that looks an aweful lot like terrorism. Oh wait, what was I writing? Damn this short attention span.

Just think... If the money used for this were to be put towards cancer research or feeding the starving, the human race in general would benefit. As it stands, it's just a very tall building for wealthy people, and so with that attitude the human race is done for.

On a slightly lighter note, I had to chuckle at the space ship theory......... The Eiffel Tower's beaten Burj Dubai to it! (It's gone Beserk!!!) :oD

Wow...really amazing...great building...i love that:)

why?????????????build this to show who?????f***in show off

I wouldn't mind to go on the top of building, but not without a parachute! I don't understand why can't they have backup plan by storing parachutes in each rooms for any skyscraper building? It will prevent free fall to death. Imagine twin towers in NY have parachutes stores in each rooms, we can see dramatic reduce in number of deaths. Scout honor, for every skyscraper that I go, I will not go without parachutes!

i had a thought.... how bad would it suck to be on the top floor... i mean really that's gata take like a full day to ride the elevator all the way up... or worse yet, let's say said elevator get's stuck and you have to take the stairs down...

hm...