Saudi Prince promises £5bn MILE HIGH tower

[BradLohaus]

Plans for a mile-high tower in the Saudi Arabian desert have been unveiled by the billionaire owner of London's Savoy Hotel.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=550548&in_page_id=1811

[JoeChalupa]

Wow.

[Sense]

^ wow indeed..

[MaNuMaNiAc]

5 billion pounds?? how much is that in dollars?

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[inconvertible]

easy ICBM targets are always a welcomed sight


---NORAD, USAF, GOD.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

A building over 5,000 feet tall is freaking frightening if you ask me. The fact that computers are going to be used to stabilize it and they're building two adjoining towers to help keep it up are scary to say the least.

Oh well...at least the guy's not building weapons of mass destruction.

[Wild Cobra]

A building over 5,000 feet tall is freaking frightening if you ask me. The fact that computers are going to be used to stabilize it and they're building two adjoining towers to help keep it up are scary to say the least.

Oh well...at least the guy's not building weapons of mass destruction.
You think there won't be mass destucion when sometime in the future it falls?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

A building over 5,000 feet tall is freaking frightening if you ask me. The fact that computers are going to be used to stabilize it and they're building two adjoining towers to help keep it up are scary to say the least.

Oh well...at least the guy's not building weapons of mass destruction.tell that to the people inside it or beneath it when it falls :lol

[CubanMustGo]

5 billion pounds?? how much is that in dollars?

US$9.9B at current exchange rates.

[Buddy Holly]

This is the engineer company that is working on this building.

http://www.hyderconsulting.com


They have a rendering of it. It's insanely huge.

It's a flash website. Click on projects and then on Burj Al-Meel.

http://www.hyderconsulting.com/ME/Pages/default (http://smouch.net/lol/)

[Evan]

can't wait until someone brings in a bible with them and some terrorists blow it up cause they mad.

[Trainwreck2100]

can't wait until someone brings in a bible with them and some terrorists blow it up cause they mad.

And who would secretly fund said terrorists?

[Brutalis]

A building over 5,000 feet tall is freaking frightening if you ask me. The fact that computers are going to be used to stabilize it and they're building two adjoining towers to help keep it up are scary to say the least.

Oh well...at least the guy's not building weapons of mass destruction.
Not that we know of.

Anyways... what's the point of the tower anyhow. As dumb as this idea is, might as well start from the top.

[E20]

What a waste of money.