14 August 2008

The Burj Dubai skyscraper


The tallest man-made structure on earth, and an amazing image when you click to enlarge it to fullsize. Notice that the buildings it looks down on are skyscrapers in their own right. Factual and technical details here.

One other set of numbers that I encountered at the Reddit discussion:

The cost of the Burj Dubai is roughly $4.1 billion dollars.
The cost of the Iraq War thus far is about $545 billion dollars.

We could have been building two of these, every month, for the last 5 and a half years.

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