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AN ENGINEERING MASTERPIECE

During the construction phase......

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

All finished. Notice the size of the palm trees outside.......... Can you guess what it is ???

Remember, this is in the middle of the desert....
The very HOT desert where temperatures get up to 120 degrees.....
Unbelievable!

But true.....

It is a self contained Ski Resort.......................The INSIDE view:




Why is gasoline $3.50 a gallon for regular unleaded??????

So they can ski in the desert, that's why!

Are we stupid or what!

Comments: Ski Bubai, the world's largest indoor ski resort — boasting Alpine chalets, 400-meter ski runs, and 6,000 tons of artificial snow — opened for business in late 2005.
Ski Dubai is actually one of the more modest in a series of extraordinarily ambitious commercial projects undertaken by the Gulf state of Dubai, including the world's tallest building, the world's first underwater luxury hotel, and, believe it or not, an archipelago of man-made islands shaped like a map of the world.
No wonder Michael Jackson moved there.
Not content with merely topping the rest of the world, Dubai will actually best its own record in 2008, if all goes well, with the opening of the new world's largest indoor ski resort, the 15 million-square-foot Sunny Mountain Ski Dome.

FROM: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dubai_ski_resort2.htm