In Dubia a new real estate development is taking shape and the shape
it's taking is in the form of 300 manmade islands that are placed so
as to simulate the Earth's continents.

http://www.theworld.ae/

TangoMan

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "victoriatangoman"
wrote:
>
> In Dubia a new real estate development is taking shape and the shape
> it's taking is in the form of 300 manmade islands that are placed so
> as to simulate the Earth's continents.
>
> http://www.theworld.ae/
>
> TangoMan

this is wild and probably worth as much as a major settlement in
space - when they run out of oil they definitely will still have
imagination to carry them on.

victoriatangoman wrote:
>
> In Dubia a new real estate development is taking shape and the shape
> it's taking is in the form of 300 manmade islands that are placed so
> as to simulate the Earth's continents.
>
> http://www.theworld.ae/
>

Golly -- it's a section of Ringworld!!

Steve

this is one reason for the future 6US$ a gallon gas
costs, in Dubai they are also planning the tallest
building and a similar real estate development where
islands are designed to look like palms
they better find soon some alternatives to oil to keep
their economy going i hope by then that our power
could come from only renewable sources
--- Steve Long wrote:

victoriatangoman wrote:
>
> In Dubia a new real estate development is taking
shape and the shape
> it's taking is in the form of 300 manmade islands
that are placed so
> as to simulate the Earth's continents.
>
> http://www.theworld.ae/
>

Golly -- it's a section of Ringworld!!

Steve

giorgio gaviraghi wrote:
>
> this is one reason for the future 6US$ a gallon gas
> costs, in Dubai they are also planning the tallest
> building and a similar real estate development where
> islands are designed to look like palms
> they better find soon some alternatives to oil to keep
> their economy going i hope by then that our power
> could come from only renewable sources
>

This may be one reason, but it's a small one. A billion new Indian and
Chinese car-owners is probably a bigger reason, and the Incredible
Shrinking Dollar makes up most of the rest.

Steve

These islands range from 1.someodd hectares (3 or so acres) to 4.5
hectares (11.1 acres). Even if all 300 islands were 5 hectares (12.4)
each, this would only be 1,500 hectares (3706.6 acres, or 15 Km^2, or
5.8 square miles). Even Island One (Bernal or Stanford) would be
bigger than any of these islands. BUT! I notice that they are not
building any of these islands in isolation; they are building 300 of
them close together. Now, I don't trust my own math, but it seems that
all of these islands together have about the same area as 15 to 20
Stanford Tori.

1 -- 2 -- 4 -- 8 -- 16 -- 32

Five or six doublings exceeds "The World." Assuming three years per
doubling, then 15 to 18 years gives us 16 to 32 Islands.

OK, where did I screw up?