Ever wonder what a 1/2 mile looks like standing on end

[Xue Sheng]

Actually a bit more than a half mile or a little over 4/5th of a kilometer

2717 feet (1/2 mile = 2640 feet), 828 meters tall.

Dubai names tallest building after bailout patron

The Burj Khalifa Tower

 

[MA-Caver]

Tower of Babel revisited...

I reckon out there there's not enough storms to cause a problem...
if we EVER tie Al Queda to Saudi Arabia we can crash a remote piloted 747 into the building somewhere along the mid way point and see how THEY like it!

 

[Ken Morgan]

You'd get a friggn awesome view from up there.

"Hey look west, SAND!!"
"Hey look East, North & South more SAND!!"

 

[Xue Sheng]

You'd get a friggn awesome view from up there.

"Hey look west, SAND!!"
"Hey look East, North & South more SAND!!"

:lfao:

 

[MA-Caver]

You'd get a friggn awesome view from up there.

"Hey look west, SAND!!"
"Hey look East, North & South more SAND!!"

You know what it's going to be 100 years from now?... IT'S GONNA BE SAND!!!!

 

[Xue Sheng]

You know what it's going to be 100 years from now?... IT'S GONNA BE SAND!!!!

True but think about the archeologist 1500 years from now that unearths it and unearths it and unearths it and unearths it and unearths it and unearths it just to make a ½ mile deep hole and STILL has more digging to do.

 

[celtic_crippler]

It's mostly empty too... I wish I had that much money to waste.

 

[MA-Caver]

Well, at least it helped set another new world record... this time for base jumping... jeez... a LONG way to fall.

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[Archangel M]

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.