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World's Tallest Building To Open Monday
dtmos writes "The Burj Dubai ('Dubai Tower' in Arabic) is scheduled to open to the public on Monday. Its height, claimed to be 824.55m (2,705.2 feet), but believed to be 818m (2,684 feet) — either way, more than half a mile — makes it far taller than Taiwan's Taipei 101, which had been the world's tallest skyscraper at 509m (1,670 feet)."
They sure put a lot of effort in the Citadel and City 17 sets for the upcoming Half-Life movie...
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Monday - Worried a Jew or American Capitalist pig might fly a plane into it or something?
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That the building is more stable than their web server... Damn request time out every time.
Need an ISP in South Africa?
The three sides of the building have different heights due to the differing ground levels
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It seems that this tower has the same problem.
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They have incredible population density, but no sewage system to speak of
Gee thats interesting. So how...
Never mind.
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nah, it'd have to be the prince cooperating with an international cabal to plant explosives/incendiaries in the building and setting them off at the exact moment volunteers fly aircraft into it.
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That's not how we'll take it down.
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I told you not to tell me that...
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It does actually have oil
Isn't that's why "dubai doesn't have oil" comes under the heading "misconceptions"?
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Huh, no shit.
Americunts like you lack the education required to understand the difference between the words you are so ignorant of.
Education indeed.
That would be:
Americunts like you lack the education required to understand the difference between the words of which you are so ignorant.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
scheduled to open to the public on Monday.
And scheduled to enter receivership on Tuesday.
The observation deck is still only 442m up the 824m building, with 25 levels of offices, 15 levels of communications and 42 levels of machinery towering above it.
That puts the observation deck below those of the Shanghai World Financial Center (474m) and the CN Tower (446m), and a mere 30m above the Willis/Sears Tower's deck.
And we all know there's no point in having the world's tallest building if it doesn't have balls to show its visitors.