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Saudia Arabia Plans For Mile-High Skyscraper

A mile? That's not even scraping the sky anymore -- that's an open-palm grope!

Because building a tower taller than your neighbor's is making a comeback in proving your superiority (God, whatever happened to a good ol' fashioned pissing contest?!), Saudi Arabia plans on building a $30-billion(!!!!!!) skyscraper that's almost twice as tall as Dubai's current record-holder, the Burj Khalifa (828 m; 2,717ft) with a tower a full mile high (1,600 m; 5,280 ft).

"Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, head of Kingdom Holding Company recently gave his approval for construction of what will be billed as the world's tallest man-made structure -- the Kingdom Tower.

Designed by Adrian Smith, the Kingdom Tower will be built in Saudi Arabia's city of Jeddah. The tower will stretch one mile up into heavens and include 12 million cubic feet of space, several stories of office space, several stories for a hotel and four tiers of residential space, with the upper most tier reserved for "alternative energy generation" solutions (perhaps including a pendulum to keep the entire tower from collapsing)."

An elevator ride to the top is expected to take about 12-minutes, which is 11-and-half minutes longer than I could ever hold a fart trying to be a decent human being. Geez -- could you imagine getting to the bottom and realizing you left something upstairs? You'd have to just leave it OR IT'S ANOTHER 24-MINUTES BEFORE YOU'RE BACK DOWNSTAIRS. That's a f***ing commute and you haven't even left the building!




Kingdom Tower will make the Burj Khalifa look short.

Oh no! Their dicks are bigger!

This didn't work out so well for Babbel.

a-rabs... when will they learn?

The men of Babel wanted to reach God. These guys just want to reach orgasm.

But it turned out alright for most everybody else. You just need to build for the right reasons.

Economics is like most sciences...it has a lot of complex theories and viscous undercurrents, but the central premise is usually base. After all, they all depend on people, and we are idiots babe. First you build a tall building, or something else that requires both investment wealth and at least 5 years' societal consistency. Then you work on attracting media attention to your project. Then, suddenly, you have major corporations spilling low wage unenterprising seed in every poor community and lots of unused wifi. Much success.

what does this tell you about God?

Hey, we build our real estate crisis along the ground....they can have theirs vertically.

Maybe, since there's not much to look at down below.... the curvature of the earth is a selling point? Nothing like pulling out the ol oxygen bottle to have a romantic glass of wine out on the balcony.

Would be fun to conduct some physics experiments though.