This is something I got from a forwarded email, it’s about Dubai’s incredible rate of development. Truly Oil money is all there is to it. Oil seems to be the one substance that can make or break economies far more than anything else. It is scary to think of what will happen when this finite resource one day runs dry.
The dinosaurs gave their lives so that one day we might pump their black gooey remains from the earth.
Frightening.
This is a picture of that nutjob that bought the no.1 license plate in the United Arab Emirates. So there is such a thing as having TOO much money…
Amongst the whole list of amazing factual tit-bits that came along with the email :
-The World Islands, 300 islands each at a cost of $25-30million (9bil)
-The Burj-al-Arab hotel,.. the only 7 star hotel in the world.
-Hydropolis, the world’s first underwater hotel
-The Burj Dubai,… 800 meters. 40% taller than the next tallest. Taipei101.
-Dubailand,.. twice the size of Disney and expected visitors at 200,000 a day.
-They even have that crazy indoor skiing thing.
-And apparently they’ve got a spaceport in the works.
Well at least Malaysia has got the first ASTRONAUT. Which has been rumoured to be not-ideal which is why he isn’t in the news anymore. No longer a hero it seems.
It is like every nutcase engineer with an impossible dream is flocking to Dubai and getting the crazy funds to build their crazy towers. It’s good in a way but at that speed of progress, you really never know what is it going to be like in 10 years time.