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World's Tallest Building To Open Monday

Posted by timothy on from the things-humans-do dept.

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)."

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  1. More than tallest building by ari_j · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is the tallest manmade structure in the world, freestanding or otherwise. The previous record was held by a TV mast in eastern North Dakota, which took the lead when a mast in Poland fell down if I am not much mistaken about the history. This building has occupied floors higher than the world's tallest TV mast. The only thing possibly taller would be offshore oil rigs, but I can't remember how those stack up against it. A very impressive accomplishment, so long as it stays standing through Monday.

    1. Re:More than tallest building by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Informative

      This building has occupied floors higher than the world's tallest TV mast.

      That part isn't actually true (though not by much). The roof of Burj Dubai's highest occupied floor seems to be 620m or so, slightly less than the 629m TV mast (the last 200m or so of Burj Dubai is unoccupied structure). However, the structure as a whole is much taller than any other structure, and the highest occupied floor is over 100m higher than any other building's occupied floor.

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    2. Re:More than tallest building by amRadioHed · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm not sure how having a building at a higher elevation in the Rockies is relevant. If height above sea-level is considered instead of height above local ground-level then the first homeless guy to set up a cardboard box in Denver beat the Dubai Tower by half a mile.

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    3. Re:More than tallest building by Muad'Dave · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  2. Impressive.. by Entropy98 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Too bad it was built with slavery...

  3. Wow by DemonBeaver · · Score: 5, Funny

    They sure put a lot of effort in the Citadel and City 17 sets for the upcoming Half-Life movie...

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  4. Re:Truly sad by ThrowAwaySociety · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're right, it is a pissing contest, and there's really no point in it. The US does not need to build that high. For that matter, western Europe does not have a single building in the top 100 for height. This is a huge white elephant for the UAE, and white elephants are something the US already has plenty of.

    Building a building that goes to 11 is not a technological challenge. Heck, Burj Dubai was designed by a US firm. There are a dozen firms in the US and around the world that could build a building a hundreds of feet taller than the Burj Dubai if there was a need. There isn't. Pursuing a giant national phallic symbol is not what the US should be spending its resources on.

  5. Re:The way to go is up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Every night, the stuff is pumped out of municipal septic tanks by a half-mile long convoy of trucks, which then dump it in nearby storm drains. It all ends up on the beach.

  6. Re:Great timing by A12m0v · · Score: 5, Informative

    lol what?

    Burj Dubai wasn't built nor designed by Arabs. The architect was Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, structural engineer was Bill Baker, and it was built by cheap labor from South Asian countries like India and Bangladesh.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Dubai

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  7. Re:The way to go is up by machine321 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Huh, no shit.

  8. World's Tallest Building To Open Monday by PCWizardsinc · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kaspersky AV when going to http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/ shows the following: "detected: Trojan program Trojan-Downloader.JS.Agent.ewi" Be careful...