December 29, 2006

The World, Dubai

While crusing around Google Earth last week (looking for Santa) I came across The World, the man-made island collection in Dubai. The globalmorphic archipelago continues to take shape, as shown in these Google Earth images. Zooming in reveals an enormous, sand-gun equipped barge in the process of creating the 300 islands by firing an almost football field-sized blast of sand.

Impressive.

This island-sculpting barge could also come in handy in the next hundred or so years when overpopulation starts to become an even greater problem. Or maybe the greatest minds of our time will come together to start an Atlas Shrugged-style neo-Atlantis somewhere in the Atlantic.

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3 Responses to “The World, Dubai”

  1. mark on March 8th, 2007 5:07 pm

    nicky is going to dubai next week. I’ll tell her to send you some pictures when she gets back yo.

  2. Anonymous on April 22nd, 2007 2:20 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLRoXi8b1M

    The above link shows you what life will be like on THE WORLD. Source YouTube.com

  3. Rob on June 28th, 2007 8:20 am

    That is amazing. I tried to have a look myself and seem to get out of date images.

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