Coolest thing ever: "The World"
 

http://www.theworld.ae/video/The_World_Video4.wmv


http://guide.theemiratesnetwork.com/...orld_dubai.jpg

wow. i couldn't tell if they were serious or if it was an advertisement for a movie. Unbelievable.

I cant believe this thread only got 9 views, this is some crazy shit.

GFY Is Braindead.

That is fucking mad.........

I had better build some galleries because I want one!

If only that was true.

But you can buy your own island for liek 1.2mill

Did you check out the website?!? http://www.theworld.ae/
They are building 300 islands and selling them....

Take your eyes of New Zealand its mine!!

Sure they are. Just as soon as they can convince some schmuck to put up a few billion dollars to make it happen. I wouldn't hold your breath.

He has already got 2 other similar projects off the ground :2 cents:

I'm not sure about the concept, but the video's great.

I am buying an Island.....
 

And making another Jurassic park..... :1orglaugh :thumbsup

It's in Dubai where everyone has tons of money. I wonder how much each island would go for?

Is that the guy that has been trying to build a city in the ocean for about 20 years??

cool! I like it ;)

very nice!!!!

I heard a few celebs allready purchased parts of it

I bet the damn islands sink. There is one in Tampa called Davis island, and it has been sinking since it was built. It is slow, but sinking none the less.

Really cool movie and idea, but I dunno how well it would do. I think if it happens, it's still a long long way off.

That is unbelievable

Its a nice fantasy. But from a practical standpoint living on an island in the middle east would have a lot of downside risk.

that's awesome!

Pretty neat.

another cool place in dubai>>> "The Palms"

there are 2 of these.

http://guide.theemiratesnetwork.com/...m_jumeirah.jpg

Thats a great idea!!!!
An opportunity to become a leader of a nation, people should love it! :)

I bet they're half sold out already. Dubai is the land of milk and honey, it seems. And money, money, money. I wonder how many research companies would love to have their own, privately patrolled island? Or drug cartels? Or Bill Gates?

did you think about tsunami ?

indeed ,one tsunami and bye bye island of one billion dollars , :1orglaugh

no there is 3 not 2 :)

I thought that was some sort of Sims game... or Civ IV or something :)

Tsunami anyone? I someone else post this too but had to add it myself since it was my first though. A good storm could wipe one of the fluckers out. ARe they doing this in large lakes or someplace more stable with the weather?

Although I really do not like Dubai, all the people here that went "yeah right"... think again.. this is real.

The Palm I (Palm Jumairah) was sold flat out in 5 days. The Palm II (Palm Jebel Ali) took a little longer, mainly because it was not advertised as a "famous people only" palm like Palm Jumairah was.

The price of houses on Palm I more than quadrupled over 6 months. To buy a house on either of the Palms, you have to make a down-payment based on the production development, and had to continue to make payments during the coming 4 years (I think) until the production is fully done. The first payment was normally not much higher than 25000 for a 350000 house on Palm I. 5 Months later people sold the RIGHT to the house, meaning you cover whatever was paid up until then (which was only the 25000) and you had to still pay the rest to Nakheel later on based on progress, for as high 100000. Nice profit for 5 months I think.

The landmass of Palm I was finished by beginning 2004, Palm II landmass construction started late 2003 I think. Anyone that does not beleive this, go fly to dubai, I looked at Palm I from the restaurant on top of the Burj al Arab. I stayed in a hotel in Jebal Ali, witnessing the production tankers every day spewing tons of the sand-concrete mixture into the ocean.

Production of Palm III (Palm Deira) began just a few months ago. Palm I already has some of the villas built on it, all the streets are done, all the pipes and power-lines and fibreoptics are already there.

The World is the 4th project of Nakheel, planned right after Palm I was such a huge success. Landmass production started I think something like 1 year ago. Palm I is right next to the Burj Al Arab, once done, accessible via a guarded entrance around half a mile away from another one of the sick projects in Dubai currently, the Jumeirah Marina (not 100% sure who owns this one, its not Jumeirah International or Nakheel though). The Jumeirah Marina is a man-made marina connected to the ocean which has I think 35 sky scrapers built around it. When I was there early 2004 they had 4 already fully built, and were building on another 6 or so.

In general the projects are amaizing, they are pumping out money like crazy. Check out http://www.nakheel.com/ for some ideas on what only the company that owns the Palms are working on. And these are not fake things and they just claim they are doing them, they were actually building on half of the things that they present there when I was there early 2004.

For people that do not beleive this is real: http://www.palmsales.ca/palm/status.htm

See Palm I being built.

The World is a bunch of islands, if you look at them from high up it looks like the continents. You can buy your own islands which are each aroudn 2.5 hectars or live on a community island which is I think something like 7 hectars and has multiple properties on it.

Now, if you check out the newest pics of Palm I at http://www.thepalm.co.ae you will see how close together the properties on Palm I are, I would never want to live there, you sit right on your neighbours lawn (well, or beach I guess). Not really nice.

Its all great ideas, but I would not want to live there.

Oh, for anyone that cares to know... Dubai has a special Internet City where a bunch of big IT companies sit for the region (Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, PeopleSoft and so on), it is linked to the Dubai Free Trade Port which means if you open a company there (which is actually not so difficult) you pay 0% taxes for the next 50 or so years.

Hurricanes, tsunami's and ohther natural disasters pose to great of a risk to man made islands.

Mark, this is in the United Arab Emirates. I do not think there are many quakes in the area at all. The coast of Dubai is in the Gulf of Oman.

Yeah.. architects and promoters are goind wild there.. and the UAE is getting tons of publicity for it... Luxury condos are suprisingly affordable.. Just ashame most people dont see themsleves living in an arab country...

what's the catch?

I have a feeling that they have a reasonable amout of nouse over there when it comes to these things. They already built "The Palm" (see Nathan's post), and that fucking great 7 star hotel.

My family were even looking at getting someting on palm 2, but ended up going Cyprus instead...

Great investment to buy property in Dubai and Beirut at the mo, as there's a lot of Arab people who don't want to buy in the West any more.

can anyone say Life size Risk game???? built a catapault and start bombing people ;-)

That is awesome, here is another place that would rock. Here

Man-made islands sink but have been a great success so far in gaining more land.

If i remember correctly, somehwere near japan, an island was built to make an airport?

Would suck if you needed something and the grocery store is 3 hours away by boat.

Isolation is nice until you need something... like a doctor in an emergency.

Nice post Nathan, this is an incredible concept in the richest place in the world. If you know any pilots and doctors there is a big need there - and the wages are ridiculous ... if you want to live in this part of the world :)