From Nasa: Palm Island Resort, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is featured in this image photographed by Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao from the International Space Station. The resort is under construction on reclaimed land silhouetted against the dark waters of Dubai’s Persian Gulf coast. Advertised as "being visible from the Moon," this man-made palm-shaped structure displays 17 huge fronds framed by a 12-kilometer protective barrier. When completed, the resort will sport 2,000 villas, 40 luxury hotels, shopping centers, cinemas, and other facilities. When completed, the resort is expected to support a population of approximately 500,000 people.
Image Credit: NASA
See those quote marks in Advertised as "being visible from the Moon"? Nasa sarcasm, cool!
Just to clarify, this whole "visible from space/the Moon" is largely a load of rubbish and/or marketing hype - click here for more on this.
But you can try to spot Beckham's villa on this high-res version. WARNING! That's a 6.2Mb file, so don't click it unless you've got speedy net access, which technically rules out all Etisalat subscribers.
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I can't remember when/where I discussed this before, but the Palm is simply not visible from the moon. Nor is the Great Wall of China. Nothing is.
AFAIK even the Great Wall isn't visible particularly far out into space, if at all.
If you used a high-powered telescope maybe - but that doesn't count.
Ten years ago it was Jebel Ali which was touted as the only man-made object other than the Great Wall of China visible from space.
Yes, it's all nonsense, and if anyone says otherwise point them to this link:
http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwal.htm
Ah, yes it is a bit out of date come to think of it. Expedition 10 - during which that pic was taken - took place between October 2004 - April 2005.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp10/index.html
I am not sure about this photo, but Google Earth photos are deliberately at least five years out of date to protect people's privacy/some vague legal reasons, from what I have read.
Is that right? 500,000 people?
Wouldn't that mean a daily Katrina on your commute to work?
5 years out of date?
On maps.google.com. the photos of Abu Dhabi date to May 2004.
You can see anything from space*
*just depends how much you zoom in.
also, goodlookin!, that is a stupid argument re: persian gulf, i remember people at my school (arabs) saying, because i come from australia, i am the same as english people, im a dirty english/ new zealand/ whatever else country because i look like them/sound like them/am descendant from them, but when i called someone from dubai an iranian or israeli because they look the same/ sound the same/ are descendant from, all of a sudden its entirely different, because people living in the middle east aren't humans, they are advanced cyborgs, and they're above humans, so the rules dont apply to them. can anyone say narrow-minded ?
anonymous, the copyright is 2004, not the picture.
500,000 people on the island, which has a single narrow access road.
Yeah, that'll be fun to live on.
Secretdubai, samuraisam:
A building across the street from the Crowne Plaza on Hamdan Street was torn down in May last year. Go look at maps.google.com, and you will see an empty lot where that building used to be.
Where I work, a new building was put up over the period Nov 2003 to Aug 2004. The Google photos show this building as being virtually complete.
Most obviously, go look at the Abu Dhabi photos and look at the contruction of the new Corniche. From this it is obvious that the photos were taken last year.
Also, the building I live in did not exist five years ago, but is present, in its finished form, on maps.google.com.
Other points: the photos of New York show no WTC, just a big hole. The photos of DC show the WWII Memorial under construction - this did not exist 5 years ago. Photos of London show the "Gherkin" under construction - also not in existence 5 years ago.
I could go on. Needless to say, the idea that the photos are 5 years old is in error, at least in this case.
Tim I remember it being a 5 laner. I dont know if you would call that narrow.
heres a simple test to show you that it can be seen from space.
get google earth
go from 150 ro 350 miles above sea level (bottom right corner indictes).
yes, you can see jebel ali, and yes you will be able to see the palms from space, albeit low orbit it is still orbit and still space.
im very certain you wont see either of those in reality from space due to clouds and sun glare.
its a stupid marketing pitch.
i've seen stupider, at least this one is a bit original, well not really.
Given the traffic that this monstrosity will produce on Sheikh Zayed road... maybe being in space is the best way to see it??
@ Goodlooking,
yes it is Arabian Gulf.
What can I say about Palm Island?
It is a masterpiece of our generation. Engineer technologies or whatever is it have developed to such levels, so people are able to create artificial islands!! I still cannot realize it!!!
Now only Dubai property have in its collection such islands, but before we could say Jack Robinson such projects will be build on different parts of the world.
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