World's tallest building in Dubai opens.

[fren.]

http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blo...uilding-set-to
Apparently the last 40 floors or so are all used for mechanical/storage purposes.

[Mayareira]

This is turning into a piss contest. Watch someone announcing a 819m building tomorrow.

[Xno Kappa]

Dubai is like ridiculously in debt isn't it?

[Seanr]

I wonder how many elevators you have to take to get to the top.
and yes it is Hiro

[wipers]

They can't be more in debt than the USA. lol

[BRP]

This will make a great headstone for the city.

[GRT]

This is turning into a piss contest. Watch someone announcing a 819m building tomorrow.

pffft, building height piss contests are so last century

[wipers]

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2187rank.html


Countries with the least to most debt. Surprise surprise USA has the most debt of any country.

[ZarakiKujata]

Dubai is like ridiculously in debt isn't it?

Yes but Abu Dhabi pays what Dubai owes since both are part of the UAE and shit

[wipers]

Better link.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2079rank.html

[aru]

Apparently the last 40 floors or so are all used for mechanical/storage purposes.

Where does it say that? It's more typical for high-rises to have mechanical floors spaced intermittently, not all in one grouping like that.

[Atreides]

from what I've read, they made the top 30-40 floors so small that they really can't be used for office space, so storage is really all they're good for.

this building is so fucking tall btw, like compared to the other tallest buildings in the world it's at least 100-200 meters taller. It's over 2x as tall as the empire state building lol

edit: it's 828 meters (2717 feet, or just over half a mile) tall, the next tallest building is Taipei 101 but that's only 509m/1671ft... 900 feet shorter!

I've been to the top of the Jin Mao tower in Shanghai (at the time the 5th tallest building, now 10) and thought that was way too high for me to not get vertigo, this shit is literally 2x as tall.

[Baelorn]

Dubai isn't even a real place. It's all a conspiracy.

[Mayareira]

Did a quick research on skyscrapercity.com Overall complex looks pretty nice I guess.

http://gs167.photobucket.com/groups/...A3/2dtw1nn.jpg

http://gs167.photobucket.com/groups/...A3/1530l5z.jpg

http://gs167.photobucket.com/groups/...A3/2wn1l3b.jpg

http://gs167.photobucket.com/groups/...JA3/sgocwg.jpg

[Atreides]

I couldn't even finish watching this video because I was getting knots in my stomach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWVLzVhnYE0

[Cephius]

Better link.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2079rank.html

It should be debt vs GDP if you want to find the country with the most debt but whatever, we're fucked

[miokomioko]

World's biggest never-to-be-paid debt.

[Zalius]

swear to god he pointed the camera down and my asshole tightened like a mother

[Gargoyle]

Without really knowing the scale of what's around it's just looking down at buildings to me. Like being on an airplane shortly after/before takeoff.

[Mayareira]

Yeah, this debt-to-GDP is a better indicator of national debt.

Doesn't make sense to rank US and Surinam by debt in same category.