http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7472559.stm
Looks way cool though.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 11:35 (eighteen years ago)
3D Rubik's Cube dynamism or I'm not impressed.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 11:59 (eighteen years ago)
Will it not simply drill its way into the centre of the Earth, Jules Verne style?
― NickB, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:02 (eighteen years ago)
It's Dubai, it's full of oil, that's two birds with one stone.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:03 (eighteen years ago)
"Well" that's a "bit" clever!
― NickB, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:04 (eighteen years ago)
i think this thing looks fucking amazing tbh, and i want one immediately.
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:44 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah, I heard they're lining up at the Apple Store already.
― G00blar, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:52 (eighteen years ago)
Dubai is going to be fucking wicked in 50 years time when we can tour the ruins of humanity's greatest follies.
― Ed, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:54 (eighteen years ago)
It looks just like the one going up in Chicago, except it moves!
― cecelia, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:27 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/ha/hasbro-jenga.jpg
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:33 (eighteen years ago)
http://hem.passagen.se/c64linus/images/nebulus.png
― Ste, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:36 (eighteen years ago)
What an astonishing amount of eneergy would be required to do all that twisting. Also, motion sickness.
― Mark C, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:41 (eighteen years ago)
Could be useful for dodging incoming jets tho.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:42 (eighteen years ago)
you mean like in a cartoon, where the jet would go in one window, but eventually come out of the *same* window after being rotated 180 degrees
― Ste, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 13:44 (eighteen years ago)
holy shit this is blowing my mind - wtf kind of fucked up delusional state of mind are people living in where this is a necessary and good thing, even if it is pretty cooool etc i mean i am not not into the fantasy-world design etc, but wtf dubai pls disintegrate pls
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 15:09 (eighteen years ago)
Fisher acknowledges that he is not well known, has never built a skyscraper before and hasn't practiced architecture regularly in decades. But he insisted his lack of experience wouldn't stop him from completing the project, which has attracted top design talent, including Leslie E. Robertson, the structural engineer for the World Trade Center and the Shanghai World Financial Center.
"I did not design skyscrapers, but I feel ready to do so," Fisher said.
lol
― I DIED, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)
wtf ppl do you not see that this is exactly why we should all retire to Dubai
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:18 (eighteen years ago)
retire to die
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:20 (eighteen years ago)
forget it bitches, its dubai
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:21 (eighteen years ago)
i hardly believe dubai actually exists, maybe that is my problem
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:22 (eighteen years ago)
http://l.yimg.com/origin.games.yahoo.com/content/p/5/1204236/boom-blox-20080415013019650_screen001.jpg
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)
http://l.yimg.com/origin.games.yahoo.com/content/p/6/1204237/boom-blox-20080415012807295_screen001.jpg
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:24 (eighteen years ago)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7447636.stm
america dont care cuz america has moved onto ironic skyscrapers
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:25 (eighteen years ago)
Jackie Chan action movie finale to Dubai.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:53 (eighteen years ago)
i need to YSI my pdf of the george saunders dubai piece - good read
― deeznuts, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 19:56 (eighteen years ago)