From The Top of The Burj Dubai
By Dunn •
August 15, 2008
This is taken from the world’s tallest building Burj Al Arab in Dubai at 2,620ft/801m.
Really amazing. Look at the edge (uppermost right corner) of the picture. You can almost see the “turn” of the earth.
We can not feel the turn of earth. But the persons who are working on the upper most Girders can see the “Rotation of Earth”. So terrifying.
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Wow! What a view. It is amazing how you can see the curve of the earth from that height. I’ve been at the tops of mountains but never been able to see this – the other mountains in the range block the direct view of the horizon.
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NANCY Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 22:42
The curvature of the earth can be seen (with a lot of good will) starting from altitudes of about 50,000 ft (17 kilometres) altitude and above.
Sorry guys, but I’m afraid this won’t ever be seen from some arabian rooftop…
The curvature is due to the convex lens used. It wont be possible to capture the picture with the vicinity with a normal camera. I have read comments on few websites that the workers can see the rotation of the earth from the top of the tower. I find it hillarious and amusing to read such comments.
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steve Reply:
August 3rd, 2011 at 15:07
Yeah you stupid tool. Didn’t you study geography?
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itzballer Reply:
October 20th, 2011 at 10:30
Steve, you’re an idiot imagining that you can see the edge of earth at this height and whoever rumored they see rotation? shit I laugh at it too. you moron. do you see edge when you fly in plane? it definitely goes higher than this great architectural beauty, just incase you didn’t know that.
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Yogi Reply:
October 20th, 2011 at 21:05
Nancy is few of the bright ppl in this world. Totally agree with on tat Nancy…
& Fools can keep names wat can v say…cant stop evry1 of them
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Conrad Reply:
December 19th, 2011 at 10:25
I can see the tower from my house in pennsylvania! hahahahahaha
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Not a good spot for those afraid of heights. It is stunning, though. I just can’t wrap my head around that view.
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this view is surreal, seems like you can walk out and start walking on those clouds.
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Those are some awesome pictures. I didn’t even realize there was a building that tall. Great post.
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That’s just absolutely unreal about the buildings jutting from up the clouds. Kind of brings in mind what happened to those folks from way back when while they were trying to build a tower to reach the heavens, doesn’t it?
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Talk about a room with a view. I agree with cchiovitti, certainly not something for those with a fear of heights.
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Those are amazing pictures. It would be amazing to see aircraft breaking through the clouds during takeoffs and landings at the Dubai airport.
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It’s an amazing view but not for me! :p I think I would die if I stand on the top of the building! ( Fear of heights! :p)
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People there is No building in the world that would show the curvature of the earth. Only from high altitude (70,000 feet plus) aircraft like the SR-71 Blackbird can you visibly notice the curve. The photo was taken with a “fish eye” lense to show a panaramic view. Very cool photo of the builings poking thru the fog bank. Like the photo of the Golden gate bridge in San Francisco.
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Dr Sunil A M Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 14:40
That was a very sensible comment on the photo. Its rather an explanation of the seeming curvature. Thanks. It has saved many of us from believing the misconception.
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Yogi Reply:
October 20th, 2011 at 21:06
Mikes gets two thumbs up…
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Well, both the photographs seem to be really amazing ones…but i surely doubt on the figures u hv provided. Burj al arab is not 801m high,source wikipedia. Now,further, its really astonishin to have a view as shown in second photograph.I believe they may not be true
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SO DAM FAKE….IF U CAN SEE THE CURVE OF THE WORLD THEN THE BUILDING SHOULD BE SO TALL THAT EVEN A PLANE CANT GO ABOVE IT!!!
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the pic with the curve is fack cuz that small city isnt that big so u wouldnt see such a big curve, the city dont expand that far
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Hi..these are fake pics…the first one has fake clouds…as burj dubai is not so tall tht it can reach clouds…about the second pic….it is taken with a camera with a curved lens, as u can not se eth earc of earth from just 800 mts above earth surface…u shud be 10s of kms high to see the arc of earth…so guys plz dont get mislead…
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Chutiyae nundan. (Holy Fucker — dumb busted ass ) whoever seen this picture is really holy fucker. This scene is not even visible from airplane which flies 55k feet over earth..
Chutiyo akal lagao.
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Do they not have fog in Dubai? We have views of building sticking up through clouds all the time in Seattle. I never even thought that photo was trying to imply that the structures where sticking up through high level clouds. Clouds can form at all different altitudes.
The last picture is definitely just due to a fisheye lens being used. Some idiot probably just added the caption because they didn’t know what they were looking at rather then setting out to mislead people purposely. If you didn’t know anything about photography or the planet I can see where an uneducated person might think that. This is of course why you shouldn’t believe everything you read on the internet.
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You cant see the curve on the earth that much, it has been edited.
Proof: Planes fly much much higher than that 10x as high and you can’t see the curve of the earth that much you can only just see it in a plane!
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it looks kinda cool .i wish i could go up there and see it man .its soo dam cool !!!
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This photo is definitely not real.. look at the second photo, the bottom part.. even that is curved.. and try browsing http://www.burjdubai.com/ to look at the real amazing building.. and when you browse this site.. you will know if the first image is real..
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The pic is not fake, its just the use of lenses thats giving the curvature as you can see it curves where the photographer is standing. To be able to see the curve you must be over 55k feet, or roughly 17km. Otherwise you could very well see the curve from a high altitute aircraft cruising at 30k feet. But nevertheless, amazing picture. The guys working atop must be nuts!!!
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The second picture is not the real picture, but it looks like they took it from Google Earth. Because you cannot see this much curve from this height. Burj Khalifa is no doubt the tallest building on the earth.
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TOTALLY FAKE..!!
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From altitudes as low as 35k feet (10.7 km) the curvature of the Earth can be seen without too much difficulty, provided atmospheric conditions are good (few clouds) and you are flying over the ocean or a relative flat terrain. I’ve seen it a couple of times in commercial flights ranging from 33k thru 37k feet, when looking through two windows side by side. With only one window it becomes very hard to see, unless you put your eyes very close to the window, so you have a field of view greater than 90 degrees.
I have pictures taken in these flights that prove that the earth curvature can be captured by a handheld camera at those altitudes.
Above 50,000 ft (17 kilometres) altitude I belive that the curvature of earth becomes much more obvious, since it would no longer require good atmospheric conditions, as clouds rarely exceed 13 km. But I can’t say exactly how it looks like, since I’ve never been above around 40k feet.
From these experiences, I think it’s plausible to see the curvature of the Earth (or horizon) from the top of very high mountains (like Everest), though difficult. From the top of Burj Dubai it would be extremelly difficult, unless the observer has a “super vision”.
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its a fake, one cant see the earth curvature from the top of mount everest which is 8000 ft(roughly) how can u see it from some 2300 ft building….the building is truly amazing but the picture is totally fake….
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James R. Reply:
June 3rd, 2011 at 12:13
Mt. Everest is a little shy of 29,000 ft. I believe. I think you may have meant meters. But, either way I think Mt. Everest heigth would allow you to see it somewhat, if the weather could get clear enough. If it was just more slender, like a building or maybe even like some other mountains. Mt. Everest though is much wider in comparison with its heigth than pretty much any others. Because it is so tall and so wide it’s grade isn’t as steep as some other mountains, and thus seems to go on forever. Which would probably conceal the horizon.
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nice one
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amaging!! Reply:
December 7th, 2011 at 23:23
arey you r all mad ha u still don”t understand , the aeroplane flies somethin like 50,000ft and thi building is located somethin like 3000ft and hw do u think u can see the earths rotation when u cant see the same from a aeroplane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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what do they mean by @ 2,620ft/801m… is that mean the building is 2620ft and we have to take further 801m?
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Suppose that the earth is a sphere of radius 3963 miles. If you are at a point P on the earth’s surface and move tangent to the surface a distance of 1 mile then you can form a right angled triangel. Using the theorem of Pythagoras a2 = 39632 + 12 = 15705370 and thus a = 3963.000126 miles. Thus your position is 3963.000126 – 3963 = 0.000126 miles above the surface of the earth. 0.000126 miles = 12*5280*0.000126 = 7.98 inches. Hence the earth’s surface curves at approximately 8 inches per mile. if it’s right you can see the Curvature of the earth
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