#138
29th November
29th November
Just now read an article about a billionaire, Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan who lives in Abu Dhabi, near to Dubai. It was interesting that this billionaire "wrote" his name on a sandy island in Abu Dhabi, by the way this island already belonged to him.
How big his name?? Look at the picture below...
If you see closer, there was a "HAMAD" enormous word with capital letters. It was big until satellite can snap onto it (O.O) What is the scale, is already measured, the length is approximately 2 miles = 3220m and the breath is half a mile = 1000m, total it up is equal to 3220000 metre square. Too big, aye?! The article also said that to dig up the sand without machines is impossible. The cost of such a venture is unknown at this time, but according to current construction costs someone can expect to pay roughly $2.50 per cubic yard to dig out the sand. With exact calculation, the cost must be in million!
The process took about 3 years to complete, below are the processes (look at the date at the up-left corner):
By the way, the sea water flow into the words are too slow until the word almost disappear......
Well, talking about this billionaire, he owned over 200 CARS included 7 MERCEDES 500 SELs painted in the colours of rainbow. Besides that, this sandy island contains resort, a golf course, wildlife sanctuaries and horse stable.
