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Space Elevator to be Built 20 km Above the Planet

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If it does get built, it will stand 20 times higher than any other structure on earth. The so-called space elevator may carry astronauts. And ordinary people can venture to the edges of our...

Dubai Fireworks 2014 Break Previous Records

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Over 400,000 pyrotechnics got exploded in a riot of color and brightness in Dubai. New Year’s Eve was a time of merriment throughout the connected global village. And while there were places of...
    






Google Street View Maps World’s Tallest Building Burj-Khalifa in Dubai

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Google Street View has mapped the world's tallest building for the first time. Burj-Khalifa in Dubai is nominated as the highest skyscraper in the world. Google has captured any Arabic location for...

Watch how Google brought Street View to the Burj Khalifa (video)

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Google Street View comes to the Burj Khalifa video

Street View's fine for navigation, but we're sure plenty more people use it just for their armchair tourism. Google has now turned its attention to giving thrill-seekers a chance to gaze out from the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. Using Trekker backpacks and trolleys, it took the Googlers three days to capture the images from both the viewing gallery on the 124th floor and the window cleaning gantry on the 80th. Curious to experience some of that vertigo for yourself? Video's after the break.

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Via: Official Google Blog

Source: Google Street View

The World’s Smelliest (and Tallest) Building

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The Burj Khalifa has been the world’s tallest building and also the tallest man-made structure in the world since it opened in 2010, standing at 829.8 meters, or 2722 feet for those with metric problem. Due to some infrastructure problems in Dubai, it might be the world’s smelliest building as well.

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