Saudi Arabia to Build 1-Kilometer Tall Tower by the Red Sea

[mike1003]

Originally Posted by BIG CATS

All that showboating, and no money or desire to help take in their fellow Muslim refugees from Syria? Seems legit.

And, how big of a target is that for ISIS??

[Soviet]

Originally Posted by SHABAZZ310

You'll only be thrown in prison if you break the law while there...

You mean break THEIR law.

[james777]

I think once it is built, we should run a couple of planes into it and take it down, just like they took down the World Trade Center towers in NYC. By then we should have self piloting places if Google applies their self driving car technology to planes. Maybe then they will stop funding terrorism. On second thought, no, they will never stop funding terrorism. Terrorism is their religion.

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by mike1003

And, how big of a target is that for ISIS??

You're kidding? Right? Who do you think is funding ISIS?

Hint: it's not the Shiites in Iran, it's not China or Russia, hmm, could it be those wealthy Wahhabist Sunnis ( just like ISIS) in Saudi Arabia? Naw. It's just a coincidence that most of the 911 bombers and Osama Bin Ladin were Saudi.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by golimar

Saudi Arabia has so much money flowing out from the ground in the form of oil that they don't know what to do with it other than fund terrorism and build unnecessary crap.

^This.

[dpm1]

Top looks pretty narrow. Does it count if the top half is unusable?

[mikeyyc]

Originally Posted by wonderwall

A country that is not in the top 999,000 list of tourist destinations has to have the tallest building in the world, because they have nothing else to boast?

Just for clarity's sake, they get more than a million tourists/pilgrims during the Hajj alone every year.

That, and it's a total dick waving thing against the more moderate Emirates.

[ukrkoz]

Originally Posted by Mr_Geek

The ultimate my _________ is bigger than your __________ contest.

Shwartz. My schwartz is longer than yours. Classic. They have too much money mixed on too much vanity.

[Lowexpectations]

Originally Posted by golimar

Saudi Arabia has so much money flowing out from the ground in the form of oil that they don't know what to do with it other than fund terrorism and build unnecessary crap.

Not really accurate

Oil price slump turns Saudi surplus into huge deficit, IMF report shows | World news | The Guardian

[armory]

Originally Posted by Soviet

Saudi Arabia to build world's tallest building 1km tall - CNN.com


That's 3,280 feet high. 1 World Trade Center is only 1,776 feet high. The erstwhile Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) is 1,450 feet high. What do y'all think?

Call it Babel.