Next plans ->

http://dubai.isnuts.googlepages.com/page2

LOL! XD

What the hell that is insane I g2g snoboreding there and the buildings are sweeeeeet too!!!

Oh my.. :o geez..an underwater hotel lol...crazy

That would be mad hard to clean the algae of those windows, cracks, and crevices! Lolz! That looks WILD! %)

I read about THIS not so long ago, thought it sounded cool. (no pun intended)

Ill add this my my list of reasons why everyone wants to go to saudi arabia.

The header line on that first linked site is wrong... Dubai is on oil, not crack.

There's enough profit in that $3 gallon of gas to make it past Exxon/Mobil, etc. And all the way across the pond. *checks watch*... Ah, yes, $72/barrel...

So check out the price of oil over the same period as the photos above (note that it is now off the top of the graph):

Find the full analysis here .
BTW, the 90's saw the development of a capitalist mode of spending within the Middle Eastern established, elite society. Hence the mist-cooled bikeway, the palm-tree-shaped residential development sticking out into the gulf (see one of the linked aerial photos), etc.

My cousin and her husband and kids have just moved to Dubai from their home in Paris (he's in global finance). Dubai is actually building another big residential development into the gulf (I forget the other shape). These things will quickly erode without a continuous supply of dredged sand to rebuild the coasts. But these folks have the cash to maintain it. And then some, it looks like!

Last edited: Friday, August 25, 2006 at 9:38:58 PM

Mmmm, dubai looks like a sick skate spot. Maybe I should go there with my homies.