World's Tallest : Burj Dubai , think you could work at the top ?

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  1. Cazzo

    Cazzo Registered Senior Member

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    Cazzo, May 9, 2008
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  3. S.A.M.

    S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    You'd need a strong stomach for that

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    keep looking.
     
    S.A.M., May 9, 2008
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  5. GeoffP

    GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    I pass.
     
    GeoffP, May 10, 2008
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  7. Nickelodeon

    Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    Timber!!!!!
     
    Nickelodeon, May 10, 2008
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  8. oreodont

    oreodont I am God Registered Senior Member

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    We climb on cliff faces much higher. Doesn't matter if you fall 100 ft or 1000ft. You're dead either way. It's like being afraid to swim in water 50 ft deep rather than 20 feet. No easier to drown in one than the other.

    There's something butt ugly about skyscrapers. They are the antithesis of being in touch with Nature.
     
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  9. GeoffP

    GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    Yeah that would be a cool fall. I wonder if it could be made to land on one of buildings over there. Whoa.
     
    GeoffP, May 10, 2008
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    Pete It's not rocket surgery Registered Senior Member

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  11. draqon

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    sure I would sign up for window washing, I am actually not afraid of height. =p
     
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    Just looking at the picture spooks me. I'm not afraid of hights as long as I'm inside a finished building.

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    Cazzo, May 10, 2008
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    Echo3Romeo One man wolfpack Registered Senior Member

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    Who else here is thinking BASE jump?
     
    Echo3Romeo, May 10, 2008
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  14. Nickelodeon

    Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    Me.
     
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  15. cosmictraveler

    cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    You couldn't pay me enough! I wouldn't mind taking a trip up there when its completed though.
     
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    At this point is the Burj Dubai taller than the Taipei 101?
     
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    Taipei 101 is not butt ugly.

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  18. Fraggle Rocker

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    You'd think people would have learned their lesson about having one building that sticks up more than five or ten percent higher than the rest of a city's skyline. Dubai is a relatively secular and staunchly pro-Western Muslim Arab country. A prime target for terrorists.
     
    Fraggle Rocker, May 25, 2008
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  19. kmguru

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    The tricks are known now, so I doubt they will fly in to it....
     
    kmguru, May 25, 2008
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  20. invert_nexus

    invert_nexus Ze do caixao Valued Senior Member

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    Looks like a stack of chinese food boxes.
     
    invert_nexus, May 25, 2008
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  21. oreodont

    oreodont I am God Registered Senior Member

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    Agreed. That's a shabby looking eyesore

    Perhaps the architects had a design on the table....were working hard so ate a lot of Chinese take out. They were going to send the design off to the engineers but the take out boxes got wrapped up and sent off by mistake.
     
    oreodont, May 25, 2008
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    The taller they get the uglier they become.
     
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  23. tim840

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    It is designed after the structure of bamboo.
     
    tim840, May 26, 2008
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