craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 23 2007 | design, global warming, googleI remember seeing this years ago in Popular Science as a 'fantasy'. Amazing it's actually getting done. I know where I'm retiring to...
Quoted: For those of you who haven't heard of The World, it's an enormous project going on in Dubai. Where they will construct islands, that as a whole will resemble the different parts of our planet.
Quoted: We seem to say this every time Dubai announces a crazy engineering endeavor, but as soon as we're done learning Arabic we are so moving there. It's like they ask the coolest 5-year-old what kind of buildings they like, and then build them.– Benjamin Longo
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 19 2007 | global warming, news
Yikes...
Quoted: We have 10 years, folks. And then it's man the lifeboats, or head for the hills. That's the conclusion of James Hansen and five other scientists. They've just published a paper with the Royal Society in England. It says melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctic could soon reach a point of no return.
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