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Monday, July 07, 2008

ON DUBAI'S NEXT TOPPER

LIQUID DREAMS

Dubai continues on it's quest of building over-the-top stuff, with the world's largest fountain now on it's agenda.  Gizmodo reports:

Dubai_2 "In Dubai, they're doing things big these days. Big hotels, big palm tree islands, big wallets, and very soon, big $281 million fountains. The biggest one in the world, in fact, and it will be large enough to give the famed fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas an inferiority complex.

At 825 feet long, the unnamed fountain will be 25% larger than the Bellagio fountain.

Powering the fountain will be pumps capable of shooting columns of water approximately 450 or so feet into the dry Middle Eastern air.

A light and sound show produced by a network of 6,600 lights and 50 projectors will illuminate the burgeoning Dubai skyline at night.

About 22,000 gallons of water are expected to cycle through the fountain at any given time when it is completed in 2009... [Luxury Launches]

Now George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven crew have another location they can film the ending of Ocean's 14 or 15, or whatever they're up to...I've lost track.

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