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Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space
While it isn't as cool as carving his name on the surface of the moon with a giant heat ray, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Ahyan's enormous signature is quite an accomplishment nonetheless. Measuring 1,000 meters high and two miles long, the sheiks name is now visible from space. From the article: "And rather than allow the writing to be washed away by the ocean, the letters actually form waterways that absorb the encroaching tide.The ruler's name is even visible on Google's map service. Hamad dreamed up the idea and had his workmen toil for weeks to craft the enormous piece of sand graffiti. It is not known how much it cost to make."
You can see this from summary-level!
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I heard the sharif didn't like it and is planning to rock Hamad's casbah shortly.
1,000 meters high is a kilometer, yet the length is given in miles.
Didn't NASA have a problem when they didn't convert from metric to standard?
They're just using metric feet per second
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I hope he didn't infringe on a copyrighted font for that project!
" Measuring 1,000 meters high and two miles long,"
Other interesting facts
It took 3 fortnights to build
The length of all the letters is 2.3 leagues
The entire name can hold 1000 mega hogsheads of seawater
The estimated cost of the monument is 500 Million Drachmars
It's text, its size should be measured in points!
The text is written in 2,834,645 point font.
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http://maps.google.com/?ll=30.083503,-97.13562&spn=0.105759,0.210114&t=h&z=13
Oh come on now, don't pretend you wouldn't if you could. Only difference is I'd throw down the extra cost to add "wuz here"
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