Took me a while, satellite image of Dubai's new island

[J0hnny]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q....152912&spn=0.112386,0.159645&t=k&om=1

 

[theNEOone]

pretty neat. i would have expected the waters to be clearer, though. how deep is the water there?


=|

 

[Skiddex]

thats pretty sweet...everyone gets water access in a design like that

 

[saxophonoia]

nice

 

[AMCRambler]

Ok I click that link and it points me at somewhere in Kansas. wtf

Edit: Never mind. Google isn't playing nice with my version of Opera.

 

[loup garou]

There is a bigger palm island complex under construction to the southwest.

Also, here is "The World" islands under construction as well.

More info

 

[GrammatonJP]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14243983/

heres an article..

looks very cool.. expensive probably..

 

[Queasy]

Wonder what that does to the eco system around there...

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Yea, there was a whole discovery channel thing about that like 6 months ago or so. Pretty cool, but I sure wouldn't buy property there. Seems like it's just a waiting game before it gets eroded away or completely destroyed by a storm.

 

[MisterJackson]

I've heard the one modeled after a map of the world isn't doing so hot.

The construction out there is crazy. A customer of mine is an engineer for Flour and flys out there a few times of the year. He said they have something like %40 of the worlds cranes in that one location!

 

[hdeck]

not new?

 

[Lorax]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
I've heard the one modeled after a map of the world isn't doing so hot.

The construction out there is crazy. A customer of mine is an engineer for Flour and flys out there a few times of the year. He said they have something like %40 of the worlds cranes in that one location!

i heard shanghai had something like 40% of the world's cranes too...

 

[JulesMaximus]

Can't wait to see the ocean reclaim this land. Should be a good show!

 

[jai6638]

Thats a great picture.... I flew over the palm island in a single engine plane and it was an awesome sight.. Couldn't believe that the the Dubai I knew fifteen years ago as a child had changed so much!!!

 

[jai6638]

He said they have something like %40 of the worlds cranes in that one location!

the construction there really sucks for the residents.. A local doctor told me that the dust in the air due to construction has affected the health of the children resulting in them getting sicker more often!

 

[compuwiz1]

I watched some of the construction on the Discovery channel. Quite interesting.

 

[z0mb13]

I guess that is where my gas money is going to

 

[Aimster]

Saudi Arabia is trying to copy them

http://www.spa.gov.sa/galupload/normal/8475_SA97.jpg
http://www.mmc.com.my/images/news/061106-Jizan-1.jpg
http://www.mmc.com.my/images/news/061106-Jizan-2.jpg

investing over 30Billion

Too bad Saudi Arabia has strict religious laws. Dubai 4 the win

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Can't wait to see the ocean reclaim this land. Should be a good show!

:music: Atlantis! It's a great big wooorrrld!! /:music:

 

[AreaCode707]

All I get with that link is a shot of the coastline, no island. ???

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: HotChic
All I get with that link is a shot of the coastline, no island. ???

Zoom in.

 

[Squisher]

The building of this completes messages started by the Incas and signals the mother ship to return for we are now idiots.

 

[KLin]

20/20 is doing an expose' on construction workers in Dubai. Apparently they're being treated very poorly. They just said they make 600 dira(sp?) which is 163 bucks a month. Apparently the ruler's horses live better than construction workers.

 

[indamixx99]

Hah yeah.. i just saw that too. I wish they had more coverage on this story... but no, now they gotta talk about peeping toms...

 

[mithrandir2001]

I always found it, err, interesting how money is still the ruler of all. Oil-rich Islamists, corporate-buddy fundamental Christians...they like to talk about morals and what not but in the end, my country club estate is bigger than yours!!!