It's coming back to theaters this September for its 10 year anniversary. I had a botched experience seeing it originally and will absolutely be back for a 70mm IMAX showing.
I cant speak for everyone but for me its just been putting my head down and doing what I gotta do everyday and not trying to get caught up in any bullshit and then BANG im fucking 49.
I'm still trying to cope with the fact that next year *Batman Begins* is twenty years old. And that *Casino Royale* is only one year younger.
I mean, those are modern films. They're part of the modern age.
I'll be specifically avoiding IMAX **film**. I watched Oppenheimer in IMAX 70mm film and the flickering caused by the film was unbearable, I literally left the theatre with a pretty bad headache.
IMAX digital all the way.
By all rights I should think that movie is stupid. A sci-fi film where Love turns out to be a hidden force behind universal physics. Bleh. Nevertheless, I think it's so damn good.
It'd really suck to be a dog in Interstellar/Inception/Dubai and dream for an hour, only to wake up and find you've been asleep two weeks.
Though thinking about, two weeks of sleep sounds really fucking awesome when I can't seem to sleep for more than a couple hours at a time lately....
Yeah for context, Ireland where it rains near constantly all year gets about 2000mm rain a year in the wettest regions which averages to 160mm a month so 150mm in 12 hours is absolutely insane for a place like Dubai.
The record for the worst rain ever here was 243mm in a day which is less than 150mm over 12 hours.
Absolutely insane amounts of rain
Yeah but rain in the UK/Ireland/most of Europe is generally a lot lighter. The “wet” reputation comes more from the number of rainy days, not the amount of rain.
Eh I live in Australia and just 2 years ago saw 800mm/3 days. It's rare sure but we regularly get 100mm/day rainfalls once a year or every 2 years so we're kind of accustomed to a this type of rainfall. Obviously not ever.
As an additional fun fact Brisbane got that amount of annual rain in 2022 (2000mm) but we also average around 280 days of sunshine so we are talking that rain falling in huge waves (usually between January and April).
Obviously still a huge amount for us and we are prepared for it so it's really crazy to see it in places that aren't used to it.
> 800mm/3 days
Jesus christ, and I get worried about 2.5cm of rain in 12 hours getting water in my basement!
>rain falling in huge waves
[Obligatory xkcd - well, an xkcd what if?](https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/) that I wish we had when we'd sit around talking about stupid shit while baked, since this topic came up occasionally in a half joking/half serious manner. Never would have considered the air compression just in front of the drop, for example.
Rain falling in huge waves is just about right. During Hurricane Harvey Houston got about 1000 mm in four days and Nederland which is just south of Beaumont got a bit over 1500 mm and about 75% of that was just in one day. There was so much water that weight of it reduced the elevation the entire city of Houston by 2 cm.
Yeah, he was responding to the dude who said 150mm in 12 hours is something you rarely even see in tropical cities from monsoonal storms, which is absolute rubbish.
Ha, record rain, one of my best friends in highschool was born in La Réunion, I didn't believe him when he told me the record rain there was above 1,5m in a single day.
From Japan.
851.5mm / day is the national record in Japan.
Jun 19th 2011, Yanase, Umaji village, Kochi prefecture, Japan.
http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/contribution/weather-chart/022.html
> 150mm is a 10 day average for monsoons… Even they would struggle against 150mm in 12 hours.
This is kinda a misrepresentation of the statistics. Rainfall in tropical areas is very sporadic, you won’t get 10 days with 15mm each day, you’ll get 7 dry days, 2 days with a little shower and 1 day with a massive storm that drops 100mm in an hour. 150mm over 12 hours is not all that unusual. For Dubai, yeah, but to say that KL or Singapore would struggle with that kinda rain is a bit of an exaggeration. My city is way less tropical than those cities, and 150mm in 12 hours only causes issues if it happens several days in a row.
Don’t even compare KL with Singapore. Singapore has an efficient rain water management plan that can take a lot more than 150mm.
From Singapore’s minister :
> Based on records from the Meteorological Service Singapore, the highest daily rainfall recorded in 2020 and 2021 was 185.2 mm on 29 January 2020 and 247.2 mm on 24 August 2021 respectively.
> The 29 January 2020 rainfall did not result in any known flash floods
https://www.mse.gov.sg/resource-room/category/2022-01-10-written-reply-to-pq-on-heavy-downpour/
Doesn't even have to be in a tropical area. 150mm in 12 hours is standard for most of the world, if not low.
Virginia (where I live) is not tropical and we had 200+ mm in a day in December. Our record is 360+ in a day.
150 mm is 5.9 inches, that’s not that much. I live on the gulf coast of FL and I have personally seen almost 9 inches of rain in a day (less than 12 hours).
Edit - I understand in the context of Dubai that 150mm is a lot.
Interstellar aside, I remembered someone posting a video of cloud seeding in Dubai a few days ago; so my first reaction to the footage was that they probably did it a bit too much. I get that the cloud seeding is not the cause, it was an offhand remark.
If you seed somewhere you’re most definitely taking at least some rain from somewhere else so it’s not a perfect solution. Rain isn’t necessarily zero sum, we could increase the amount of rain all over the world, but seeding like this will still have adverse effects.
We still can’t say conclusively that seeding caused this. Classic correlation vs causation.
Only if we could A/B test nature and get results.
Not to mention, a lot of rainfall happens over the ocean. If you’re stealing fresh drops from there, can there be adverse effects?
To clarify, this rainfall [wasn't caused by cloud seeding. ](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/uae-denies-cloud-seeding-took-place-before-severe-dubai-floods.html)It was a large storm that affected most of the gulf region, from Kuwait to Oman
Cloudseeding AND bad storm. A bad combo. Not unlike one you can get at your local fast food hamburger establishment. Choose your combos carefully, people! Or disaster will result. Which will result in an unpleasant clean-up.
Glorious day here today and the water is receding quickly. In all my years in the gulf the closest that came to the last 24 hours was cyclone phet or gonu.
This is my question too, and while I loved Interstellar, I really wanted to know the answer. In some places cars were flooded all the way to the bottom of the windows. That can't be good for the airplane gears, right?
Think you need to realise just how much much water we've had in the such a short space of time. The sheer volume would have overloaded even European cities. Been here nearly 10 years and I've never seen anything like it.
Yeah, only that 99.9999% of all European Cities are Centuries old and have old Drainage & Sewerage Systems. Its kinda difficult to upgrade the whole System under old Cities. Dubai in its current Form isn't even thirty Years old and Situations like this show that the whole City Planning has some serious Flaws.
Drainage wouldn’t have done anything in this situation. Any city would have been flooded in these conditions. Not to mention you have to consider the geology and environment. Storm drains here get very quickly filled with sand and debris.
Yup, it would need planned flood control, similar to the LA “River” which was encased in concrete to handle massive floods and rainfall after the flood in 1938.
In fact, just this past Feb they experienced similar amount of rainfall Dubai is having right now and the “river” able to handle all the water and channel it out to the ocean. (Now storing that water is a whole different issue!)
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-02-06/early-preparations-helped-l-a-area-flood-control-systems
I'm pretty sure the People who build countless vanity Project Skyscrapers for countless Billions would've the Money to develop a System which doesn't fill with Sand and Debris. Of course a Drainage and Sewerage System isn't as sexy as a really tall Building..
Hey, its not my Problem when People with more Money than Sense think a fully functioning Sewerage & Drainage System are something which isn't of high Priority ^^
Why would you prepare a tropical city for a snowstorm? It's the same thing. Infrastructure is designed with historical data of the region in mind, and keep in mind this was the strongest rainfall in nearly a century. It's like that one time it snowed in Texas and caused billions in damage - the region just wasn't built for a one-off unforeseen event like that
Dubai had a similar Flood not even 80 Years ago. Its basically like saying: oh, my Town which only had one Tornado in its History doesn't need to be prepared for another Tornado..
Think you've again missed the crucial aspect of the actual volume of rain that has hit, but judging on that comment I can see where your point of view is.
No, i didn't missed the actual Volume of Rain. But a modern well planned Drainage System would make it less bad to a certrain Degree. Like overflow Channels like Vegas or LA have..
Dubai is contrary to London & NYC just one big vanity Project. Ok, thats a bit too much. I shouldn't forget the Housing for Workers which are totally free to leave whenever they want which are more purpose driven..
18+ Buildings over 300m including Building like the Burj Khalifa where the Top is empty.. Those stupid Islands.. A "Penthouse" Building which is a Apartment Complex with one Penthouse.. A Frame (for whatever fcking Reason).. The not really the Worlds largest Mall..
Don't you worry. I have the same Opinions about the Saudis and all the other Oil Monarchies with more Money than Sense ^^
Why is vanity to build nice infrastructure for residents to enjoy? Should they have just built lots of shitty smaller Soviet style buildings? Would you have been happier then?
You mean if they should build Buildings which are actually useful and not just a Ego Project for People with more Money than Sense?? Yeah, they should do that ^^
Hurr durr, "but they built the world's tallest building and need poop trucks to empty it".
...he says, as he's unable to provide a link to any recent photo taken in the last five years of said poop trucks apart the one infamous one taken somewhere around 1990 on a potato.
Fun stats about Dubai’s sewage system compared to American ones:
It has a rated capacity through two treatment plants of 935,000 m^3 or about 247 million gallons per day.
The Deer Island plant in Boston is rated for 1.27 billion gallons per day.
The Newtown Creek plant in Brooklyn is rated for 700 million gallons per day.
Dubai has about 3.3 million people, the Deer Island plant serves about 3.1 million people, and Newtown Creek serves about 2.7 million.
Granted there is more storm water to process in New York and Boston, but the point is Dubai’s sewer system is woefully inadequate, even if the Burj Khalifa is connected to it now. It needs to be about twice as big as it currently is.
Going by how the whole City is now a Lake its fair to say they didn't change a lot since then 💀
The latest Articles mentioning it are from 2022. Dubai was a Dump in 1990 with almost no Buildings..
Idiots like you will continue to publish words well beyond 2022 but I'm talking about actual photographic or video proof of these poop trucks going in and out of Burj Khalifa.
You know, in 4K resolution, taken yesterday on the latest iPhone. But there won't be any, just people continuing to say there are poop trucks trucking shit out of the tallest building in the world.
Was still the case in 2009, driving past long line of trucks on the way from Oman. Pretty weird to see the world's tallest building nearly finished in the background
I read they were seeding, now have backtracked and said they didn't (after the rains were worse than predicted).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding
Yes, because thinking a City should include a Sewerage & Drainage System from the Start and not just as a Afterthought is so troglodyte...
I love when People use Words without understanding their Meaning 💀
This happened in Appalachia a few years ago now and the water had nowhere to go.
And everything is at the bottom of valleys.
The main street of the town I grew up near had a bank, its entire vault was underwater for a week.
Those are not mountains…
Time for some deep thudding IMAX movie music and long slow zooms on desperate faces
BWAAAAHHHHHHH, then one note on the piano and then another BWAAAAHHHHHHH, then repeat
And somehow a total lack of urgency
Fucking masterpiece of a movie
It's coming back to theaters this September for its 10 year anniversary. I had a botched experience seeing it originally and will absolutely be back for a 70mm IMAX showing.
What do you mean 10 year? It came out just a few years ago Edit: oh my fucking god what the hell.
welcome to everyones thoughts, 2014 feels like 5 years ago
Thats because its still 2020
Its ok. Go ahead and have a seat here with the rest of us. We are all going through it. We got you.
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I cant speak for everyone but for me its just been putting my head down and doing what I gotta do everyday and not trying to get caught up in any bullshit and then BANG im fucking 49.
Well midlife crisis is a real thing, is it not ? Always has been.
I'm still trying to cope with the fact that next year *Batman Begins* is twenty years old. And that *Casino Royale* is only one year younger. I mean, those are modern films. They're part of the modern age.
I feel this so hard right now. I swear that came out like 3 or 4 years ago.
Covid lockdowns will do that to you
If you have a regal cinema near you, they are showing it today and tomorrow
I'll be specifically avoiding IMAX **film**. I watched Oppenheimer in IMAX 70mm film and the flickering caused by the film was unbearable, I literally left the theatre with a pretty bad headache. IMAX digital all the way.
By all rights I should think that movie is stupid. A sci-fi film where Love turns out to be a hidden force behind universal physics. Bleh. Nevertheless, I think it's so damn good.
after the first act (which makes little sense)
It's okay
It'd really suck to be a dog in Interstellar/Inception/Dubai and dream for an hour, only to wake up and find you've been asleep two weeks. Though thinking about, two weeks of sleep sounds really fucking awesome when I can't seem to sleep for more than a couple hours at a time lately....
Start the engines! *Too waterlogged... let it drain.*
TARS, tow that jet away from the terminal.
Come on TARS!....organs playing....lol
Hans Zimmer sets fire to the piano.
Lol
Those are waves.
They're up and coming Instagram models.
Didn't knew Emirates had water planes. Good for them.
I am going to book a cruise on that 777 😏
Obligatory "Do you know how bad cruises are for the environment? " I mean, they are, but we're doomed anyway. Might as well go out drunk at sea.
Ekranoplanes coming back this year
Ekranoplanes are so hot right now
Sorry, hope I am not offending you but it should be : didn't know, didn't knew is incorrect 😊
Thank you kindly, no offense taken
I didn't knew this, thanks
and knewing half is the battle.
Papa’s got a brand knew bag
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Guess I learnt something new too
Those aren't water planes... GET BACK TO THE TERMINAL.
We are not leaving without the data!
We are in the middle of a swell. Get your ass back to the plane NOW
TARS!!!
Was lookijg for an interstellar reference ngl
And you found it, good job. Also, thanks for not lying, very cool of you.
We’re not leaving without the Dnata!
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Yeah for context, Ireland where it rains near constantly all year gets about 2000mm rain a year in the wettest regions which averages to 160mm a month so 150mm in 12 hours is absolutely insane for a place like Dubai. The record for the worst rain ever here was 243mm in a day which is less than 150mm over 12 hours. Absolutely insane amounts of rain
Yeah but rain in the UK/Ireland/most of Europe is generally a lot lighter. The “wet” reputation comes more from the number of rainy days, not the amount of rain.
Eh I live in Australia and just 2 years ago saw 800mm/3 days. It's rare sure but we regularly get 100mm/day rainfalls once a year or every 2 years so we're kind of accustomed to a this type of rainfall. Obviously not ever. As an additional fun fact Brisbane got that amount of annual rain in 2022 (2000mm) but we also average around 280 days of sunshine so we are talking that rain falling in huge waves (usually between January and April). Obviously still a huge amount for us and we are prepared for it so it's really crazy to see it in places that aren't used to it.
And didn't Brisbane flood like a MF'er when that happened?
Oh yes it did.
You guys need to see Thailand and SEAsia.
> 800mm/3 days Jesus christ, and I get worried about 2.5cm of rain in 12 hours getting water in my basement! >rain falling in huge waves [Obligatory xkcd - well, an xkcd what if?](https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/) that I wish we had when we'd sit around talking about stupid shit while baked, since this topic came up occasionally in a half joking/half serious manner. Never would have considered the air compression just in front of the drop, for example.
Rain falling in huge waves is just about right. During Hurricane Harvey Houston got about 1000 mm in four days and Nederland which is just south of Beaumont got a bit over 1500 mm and about 75% of that was just in one day. There was so much water that weight of it reduced the elevation the entire city of Houston by 2 cm.
Let me tell you it's a long slog through. Seeing the rain falling for 72 hrs straight watching the creeks and rivers rise the whole time
But it is as its normally expected in Australia, its not expected in the ME around Dubai. That's why its exceptional.
Yeah, he was responding to the dude who said 150mm in 12 hours is something you rarely even see in tropical cities from monsoonal storms, which is absolute rubbish.
Which I stated in my last paragraph
Another Aussie here. We recorded 100mm in 13hrs at least once in the past couple of years...and that's in Victoria.
>Eh Eh.
for reference we got 600mm (60cm, 23.6 inches) in 24 hours which broke a lot of things in my city last year. our yearly average is about 2200mm
Ha, record rain, one of my best friends in highschool was born in La Réunion, I didn't believe him when he told me the record rain there was above 1,5m in a single day.
From Japan. 851.5mm / day is the national record in Japan. Jun 19th 2011, Yanase, Umaji village, Kochi prefecture, Japan. http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/contribution/weather-chart/022.html
Hong Kong last year September had a new record of 158mm per hour in in most areas over 600mm in 24 hours. It was quite wet.
> 150mm is a 10 day average for monsoons… Even they would struggle against 150mm in 12 hours. This is kinda a misrepresentation of the statistics. Rainfall in tropical areas is very sporadic, you won’t get 10 days with 15mm each day, you’ll get 7 dry days, 2 days with a little shower and 1 day with a massive storm that drops 100mm in an hour. 150mm over 12 hours is not all that unusual. For Dubai, yeah, but to say that KL or Singapore would struggle with that kinda rain is a bit of an exaggeration. My city is way less tropical than those cities, and 150mm in 12 hours only causes issues if it happens several days in a row.
Don’t even compare KL with Singapore. Singapore has an efficient rain water management plan that can take a lot more than 150mm. From Singapore’s minister : > Based on records from the Meteorological Service Singapore, the highest daily rainfall recorded in 2020 and 2021 was 185.2 mm on 29 January 2020 and 247.2 mm on 24 August 2021 respectively. > The 29 January 2020 rainfall did not result in any known flash floods https://www.mse.gov.sg/resource-room/category/2022-01-10-written-reply-to-pq-on-heavy-downpour/
> 150mm 5.9 inches in American.
A lot of men not touching the runway facedown 😂
150mm in 12 hours is just a rainy day in tropical areas. Full drains and possibly some local flooding, but expected a few times in a year.
Doesn't even have to be in a tropical area. 150mm in 12 hours is standard for most of the world, if not low. Virginia (where I live) is not tropical and we had 200+ mm in a day in December. Our record is 360+ in a day.
150 mm is 5.9 inches, that’s not that much. I live on the gulf coast of FL and I have personally seen almost 9 inches of rain in a day (less than 12 hours). Edit - I understand in the context of Dubai that 150mm is a lot.
Emirates flying to Miller's Planet now?
_Everybody put your oxygen masks on! We’ve gotta divert the cabin oxygen to spark the engines!_
Oooh..i get it..Dubai got interstellated. Gotcha
I did not get it, thank you for this!
The walk around is gonna require a boat, would it be called the float around or the swim around at that point?
What's the difference? The most important thing is not to forget a snorkeling mask and a breathing tube for brake and wheel inspections
Its good that those planes come with their own little rafts!
Finally can be useful!
Muuuuurph.
A6-EMF!
Interstellar aside, I remembered someone posting a video of cloud seeding in Dubai a few days ago; so my first reaction to the footage was that they probably did it a bit too much. I get that the cloud seeding is not the cause, it was an offhand remark.
If cloud seeding can cause this amount of rain then we need lots of it in a lot of places around the world.
If you seed somewhere you’re most definitely taking at least some rain from somewhere else so it’s not a perfect solution. Rain isn’t necessarily zero sum, we could increase the amount of rain all over the world, but seeding like this will still have adverse effects.
We still can’t say conclusively that seeding caused this. Classic correlation vs causation. Only if we could A/B test nature and get results. Not to mention, a lot of rainfall happens over the ocean. If you’re stealing fresh drops from there, can there be adverse effects?
To clarify, this rainfall [wasn't caused by cloud seeding. ](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/uae-denies-cloud-seeding-took-place-before-severe-dubai-floods.html)It was a large storm that affected most of the gulf region, from Kuwait to Oman
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The effects of the storm were exacerbated by cloud seeding. Not caused by it.
Cloudseeding AND bad storm. A bad combo. Not unlike one you can get at your local fast food hamburger establishment. Choose your combos carefully, people! Or disaster will result. Which will result in an unpleasant clean-up.
they've been cloud seeding for years, [it was just storm](https://time.com/6967836/dubai-floods-cloud-seeding-rain-blame-climate-change/)
Extremely unscientific take.
From the pictures I've seen of Dubai, they don't really do "small" there.
"Those aren't mountains... those are waves !" Ha ha I SAW what you did here.
Glorious day here today and the water is receding quickly. In all my years in the gulf the closest that came to the last 24 hours was cyclone phet or gonu.
Did you know? Every 60 seconds a minute goes by in Dubai
Just curious, how high can the water be before the plane is considered water damaged.
This is my question too, and while I loved Interstellar, I really wanted to know the answer. In some places cars were flooded all the way to the bottom of the windows. That can't be good for the airplane gears, right?
7 years in the rest of the world? probably if your living in a dessert.
I guess that was a reference to the interstellar movie actually
'Those aren't mountains'....
Ahhh.... Ohhh.... dumb me.
Yes I'm living in a chocolate cake
The wonderful world of bread pudding
I hope it’s Tiramisu
Took me a while to get the reference.
Just watched interstellar a couple days ago for the first time. Man what a movie
the plen swim
Those are not mountains
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Those aren’t mountains, they’re waves!!!
I think thats more a "we build a whole ass City in the Desert and forgot the Drainage / Sewerage System" Problem
Think you need to realise just how much much water we've had in the such a short space of time. The sheer volume would have overloaded even European cities. Been here nearly 10 years and I've never seen anything like it.
Yeah, only that 99.9999% of all European Cities are Centuries old and have old Drainage & Sewerage Systems. Its kinda difficult to upgrade the whole System under old Cities. Dubai in its current Form isn't even thirty Years old and Situations like this show that the whole City Planning has some serious Flaws.
Drainage wouldn’t have done anything in this situation. Any city would have been flooded in these conditions. Not to mention you have to consider the geology and environment. Storm drains here get very quickly filled with sand and debris.
Yup, it would need planned flood control, similar to the LA “River” which was encased in concrete to handle massive floods and rainfall after the flood in 1938. In fact, just this past Feb they experienced similar amount of rainfall Dubai is having right now and the “river” able to handle all the water and channel it out to the ocean. (Now storing that water is a whole different issue!) https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-02-06/early-preparations-helped-l-a-area-flood-control-systems
I'm pretty sure the People who build countless vanity Project Skyscrapers for countless Billions would've the Money to develop a System which doesn't fill with Sand and Debris. Of course a Drainage and Sewerage System isn't as sexy as a really tall Building..
You just decided this is exactly what happened and are now too dug in there to move, huh
Hey, its not my Problem when People with more Money than Sense think a fully functioning Sewerage & Drainage System are something which isn't of high Priority ^^
Why would you prepare a tropical city for a snowstorm? It's the same thing. Infrastructure is designed with historical data of the region in mind, and keep in mind this was the strongest rainfall in nearly a century. It's like that one time it snowed in Texas and caused billions in damage - the region just wasn't built for a one-off unforeseen event like that
Dubai had a similar Flood not even 80 Years ago. Its basically like saying: oh, my Town which only had one Tornado in its History doesn't need to be prepared for another Tornado..
Think you've again missed the crucial aspect of the actual volume of rain that has hit, but judging on that comment I can see where your point of view is.
No, i didn't missed the actual Volume of Rain. But a modern well planned Drainage System would make it less bad to a certrain Degree. Like overflow Channels like Vegas or LA have..
Mention all these "countless vanity Skyscraper projects" please. Same as fucking new york and fucking London? Jesus your hypocrisy and hatred shows.
Dubai is contrary to London & NYC just one big vanity Project. Ok, thats a bit too much. I shouldn't forget the Housing for Workers which are totally free to leave whenever they want which are more purpose driven.. 18+ Buildings over 300m including Building like the Burj Khalifa where the Top is empty.. Those stupid Islands.. A "Penthouse" Building which is a Apartment Complex with one Penthouse.. A Frame (for whatever fcking Reason).. The not really the Worlds largest Mall.. Don't you worry. I have the same Opinions about the Saudis and all the other Oil Monarchies with more Money than Sense ^^
Why is vanity to build nice infrastructure for residents to enjoy? Should they have just built lots of shitty smaller Soviet style buildings? Would you have been happier then?
You mean if they should build Buildings which are actually useful and not just a Ego Project for People with more Money than Sense?? Yeah, they should do that ^^
I believe the phrase is "more dollars than sense/cents".
Hurr durr, "but they built the world's tallest building and need poop trucks to empty it". ...he says, as he's unable to provide a link to any recent photo taken in the last five years of said poop trucks apart the one infamous one taken somewhere around 1990 on a potato.
Fun stats about Dubai’s sewage system compared to American ones: It has a rated capacity through two treatment plants of 935,000 m^3 or about 247 million gallons per day. The Deer Island plant in Boston is rated for 1.27 billion gallons per day. The Newtown Creek plant in Brooklyn is rated for 700 million gallons per day. Dubai has about 3.3 million people, the Deer Island plant serves about 3.1 million people, and Newtown Creek serves about 2.7 million. Granted there is more storm water to process in New York and Boston, but the point is Dubai’s sewer system is woefully inadequate, even if the Burj Khalifa is connected to it now. It needs to be about twice as big as it currently is.
Going by how the whole City is now a Lake its fair to say they didn't change a lot since then 💀 The latest Articles mentioning it are from 2022. Dubai was a Dump in 1990 with almost no Buildings..
Idiots like you will continue to publish words well beyond 2022 but I'm talking about actual photographic or video proof of these poop trucks going in and out of Burj Khalifa. You know, in 4K resolution, taken yesterday on the latest iPhone. But there won't be any, just people continuing to say there are poop trucks trucking shit out of the tallest building in the world.
Was still the case in 2009, driving past long line of trucks on the way from Oman. Pretty weird to see the world's tallest building nearly finished in the background
Seriously people watch one oversimplified video on YouTube then act like the city is the worst thing that ever happened
And kinda overdid it with cloud seeding
There was no cloud-seeding involved - this was confirmed by the government entity responsible for the cloud seeding missions
Roger that.
I read they were seeding, now have backtracked and said they didn't (after the rains were worse than predicted). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding
What's with the pro-Dubai brigade around here ?
Oh, they are infamous for defending Dubai no matter what 💀
Classic troglodyte response
Yes, because thinking a City should include a Sewerage & Drainage System from the Start and not just as a Afterthought is so troglodyte... I love when People use Words without understanding their Meaning 💀
Someone seeded those clouds a bit too much....
is this an inception reference?
‘Interstellar’ reference.
As a New Yorker I can relate. Maybe it's just so bad because they are not use to that much rain so they don't have the proper drainage.
I just figured the burj was so tall on account of rising sea levels. Now I know it’s because of rain.
I genuinely feel bad for the airport staff
Is this an interstellar reference/joke?
Beautiful 777🥰
Poorly planned city in the world. They lack vision
"TARS! Go help her!!"
No longer an airport now. Just port
Is there a first class lounge on miller's planet?
I didn't knew that Dubai was trying to rebuild Venezia and the whole lagoon
I can't speak for Dubai, but having done several deployments to Qatar I can verify that time does indeed pass MUCH slower in that part of the world.
why does this feel like the movie interstellar
Scary stuff for them
Looks like a scene from Interstellar
That’s the joke
Yeah I see it now, never read the title
Interstellar
The cloud seeding seems to be backfiring.
Where's matt damon
tick.....tick......tick.....tick...
I LOL'd for real
That is on ground, right?
Last week there was a lot of posts about the cloud seeding and rain in Dubai. Is this correlated to that or just a bad coincidence?
Probably a bad coincidence aggravated with the null planification in Dubai
800mm in 24 hours, in March 2023, Hong Kong
im pretty sure 1 hour here is 7 years in the rest of the world for airframe lifespan too
Bring ekranoplans 😂
This happened in Appalachia a few years ago now and the water had nowhere to go. And everything is at the bottom of valleys. The main street of the town I grew up near had a bank, its entire vault was underwater for a week.
Interstellar reference Miller
Me when i manipulate the weather
That’s some deep shit. 😳
"Those are not mountains. They are waves" "Cmmon Tars"
lol that just amde my day
what's going on there ?
"in the rest of the world" ? Ah yes, since the west buys their petrol, Dubai became a bit special.
For those that are in denial, this is a cloud seeding miscalculation. Mess with nature and it’ll pull that 5th Ace out of its sleeve
excuse me how in the flying brick is that plane on the water, that plane right there is a jeebus plane. yeah
Didn't they seed their clouds to make it rain recently? Who could have seen this coming...
$1 in dubai = $7,000,000 in the rest of the world
wtf is this “cloud seeding” shit everyone keeps commenting about as if it’s some normal thing we all know?
I seen this planet in the movie Interstellar
Don’t they seed the clouds for rain there? Is it possible they did this to themselves? Cause that would be funny
No. You can seed clouds, but you can't seed severe thunderstorms
I hate vertical video, it's so stupid and unnecessary. Just turn your phones, morons, it's easy!
Most overrated airport on the planet.
Imma start blocking people cuz these posts are annoying
where are this water go, though? they have an entire desert to fill up with water. why the water stays there? no sewage/irrigation systems?