Stimwalt All American 15292 Posts user info edit post |
1/20/2011 12:50:54 PM |
BigMan157 no u 103353 Posts user info edit post |
i spy
with my little eye
the clock tower 1/20/2011 12:52:20 PM |
packgirl15 Veteran 357 Posts user info edit post |
That's crazy 1/20/2011 12:53:13 PM |
qntmfred retired 40598 Posts user info edit post |
pretty nuts 1/20/2011 12:54:05 PM |
LunaK LOSER :( 23634 Posts user info edit post |
and soon, they will take over the world! 1/20/2011 12:56:44 PM |
amac884 All American 25609 Posts user info edit post |
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Smath74 All American 93278 Posts user info edit post |
holy shit. 1/20/2011 1:07:13 PM |
Tarun almost 11687 Posts user info edit post |
oic they got better cameras now...nice! 1/20/2011 1:08:39 PM |
ncsuallday Sink the Flagship 9818 Posts user info edit post |
I went there in 2008
'twas the shit 1/20/2011 1:38:39 PM |
CEmann All American 1913 Posts user info edit post |
good for them 1/20/2011 1:43:20 PM |
AndyMac All American 31922 Posts user info edit post |
That's pretty sweet. I'd also like to see a pic like that for Karachi, Pakistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karachi_population.svg 1/20/2011 1:44:47 PM |
BubbleBobble :3 114232 Posts user info edit post |
coooool 1/20/2011 1:46:49 PM |
khcadwal All American 35165 Posts user info edit post |
china blows my mind...its really cool to look at pictures to see the growth that has occurred in a pretty short period of time.
i went to Shenzhen when i was there (china's first SEZ) and it was just fascinating because the city has like...15 million people in it now and 25 years ago it was barely on the map. they said even like 10-15 years ago it was just a place no one had heard of. of course a lot of those residents are "floating" aka they come into the city to work in the factories (but definitely not millions of them...only like, thousands). and they have one of the biggest container ports in china. those places are also nuts...the one in hong kong was incredible (who gets excited about container ports, i don't know, but they are kinda neat).
if you're interested in business and economics it is a neat place to learn about/go to (as is all of china, i suppose).
i want to go back to china so bad. def would love to visit shanghai.
[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 1:50 PM. Reason : .] 1/20/2011 1:49:17 PM |
Exiled Eyes up here ^^ 5918 Posts user info edit post |
dubai is likely very much the same 1/20/2011 1:50:30 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
the second picture is also at mid-afternoon 1/20/2011 1:57:52 PM |
pilgrimshoes Suspended 63151 Posts user info edit post |
ive spent a lot of time in shenzhen.
the chemical plant i worked at was there before the city was declared the economic center or whatever.
it's funny.... a legit chemical plant is now sitting in the middle of the city, with sky scrapers on all four sides.
wouldn't see that here. 1/20/2011 1:58:33 PM |
khcadwal All American 35165 Posts user info edit post |
^ for real. when i went...mind = blown.
edit: it wasn't hybio was it? i'm guessing no. but, i visited hybio (among other places) when i was there.
[Edited on January 20, 2011 at 2:06 PM. Reason : .] 1/20/2011 2:03:36 PM |
punchmonk Double Entendre 22300 Posts user info edit post |
amazing! 1/20/2011 2:22:27 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
it's like China got Back to the Future II a year late, panicked at what they thought they had to keep up with in the next 25 years and got to work 1/20/2011 2:32:06 PM |
raiden All American 10504 Posts user info edit post |
lol that's pretty funny. 1/20/2011 2:35:16 PM |
TKE-Teg All American 43402 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "the second picture is also at mid-afternoon" |
FTW1/20/2011 2:48:11 PM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "(who gets excited about container ports, i don't know, but they are kinda neat). " |
My dad gets excited about them, but only because he works in logistics and likes to bitch about how lax the security is at ports 1/20/2011 2:50:48 PM |
jbtilley All American 12796 Posts user info edit post |
So their cloaking device broke. Big deal. They're still the super power they've always been. 1/20/2011 2:51:01 PM |
khcadwal All American 35165 Posts user info edit post |
^^ haha...yea i think they're pretty interesting
/nerd 1/20/2011 3:06:10 PM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
Don't we call unsustainable growth, cancer? 1/20/2011 3:19:30 PM |
walkmanfades All American 3139 Posts user info edit post |
pixels 1/20/2011 3:59:47 PM |
fuzzybunny Veteran 370 Posts user info edit post |
Yeah, even with the change in range that is pretty cool.
I'm reeeeeeally excited I get to go over to the CDC there for work this fall! 1/20/2011 4:05:18 PM |
Dirtay Veteran 497 Posts user info edit post |
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merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
I am doing EVERYTHING possible to go back to China this summer again (although, mainly not to see the country) for a week.
Tickets are about $1100-1300. I already have a passport. Visa can't be more than 100-200 USD. I'm hoping I can do it all for under $2000. I need to contact a travel agent and what not next month so i can do all of the paperwork and get the Visa well ahead of time. I'm not interested in doing tours and shit. I can get around just fine.
I guess that will be a Lounge thread for next month. 1/20/2011 5:28:08 PM |
JBaz All American 16764 Posts user info edit post |
I'd spend the 2k on going to Vegas and blow 90% of that budget on booze, hookers and gambling... meet a guy named "Murry" who claims to "know a guy" and the adventure would start there. Camera's start rolling. 1/20/2011 5:52:30 PM |
Dammit100 All American 17605 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Camera's start rolling." |
camera is start rolling??1/20/2011 5:58:10 PM |
jataylor All American 6652 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "90% of that budget on booze, hookers and gambling" |
no need to buy alcohol in vegas, they bring it to you for free as long as you are gambling1/20/2011 8:04:47 PM |
wwwebsurfer All American 10217 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "the second picture is also at mid-afternoon" |
1/20/2011 8:35:22 PM |
merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I'd spend the 2k on going to Vegas and blow 90% of that budget on booze, hookers and gambling... meet a guy named "Murry" who claims to "know a guy" and the adventure would start there. Camera's start rolling." |
k1/20/2011 9:45:42 PM |
wolfpackgrrr All American 39759 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I need to contact a travel agent and what not next month so i can do all of the paperwork and get the Visa well ahead of time." |
Why spend money having a travel agent do this paperwork when you can file yourself for the visa?1/20/2011 10:07:58 PM |
The5thsoth All American 4813 Posts user info edit post |
never time for a travel agent. 1/20/2011 10:14:24 PM |
merbig Suspended 13178 Posts user info edit post |
^^ Because you have to go in person to get the visa, and the embassy is in DC. It will take 2-3 days to process it, or I can pay 30 dollars and get it the same day (at their own leisure, I'm sure). But they will not send you back your passport with the visa in it, you, or someone else (travel agent), has to pick it up.
See:
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/ywzn/lsyw/vpna/rap/t710627.htm#HowTo (Go to the bottom).
It's just not feasible for me to go to DC by taking a day or 2 off from work. Not to mention, I want to go this summer, and I can't take any days off until June (I will go in July, or maybe early August). 1/20/2011 10:47:23 PM |
Stimwalt All American 15292 Posts user info edit post |
China got dat cheddar and dat flash. Make it rain Chinatown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUy9OgRRXnw&feature=related 1/21/2011 8:48:55 AM |
ClassicMixup All American 3877 Posts user info edit post |
pretty crazy! 1/21/2011 9:00:53 AM |
AstralAdvent All American 9999 Posts user info edit post |
You can pretty much see global warming in that pic
I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message. 1/21/2011 9:02:23 AM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
All I see is this:
They destroyed green areas They destroyed the clear and clean air/sky They destroyed some historical buildings
GG China
Met a guy a couple of months ago (at a TG party) who told me that when he went for a lung checkup, his doctor told him that his lungs looked like those of a light smoker (he is a non-smoker). He was shocked, and then realized that it must be because he lived for 10 years in China. Same with his wife. 1/22/2011 6:50:12 AM |
Arab13 Art Vandelay 45166 Posts user info edit post |
looks fake and obviously the chinese have little regard for historic buildings, at least most of them....
you can do a lot on the backs of a billion people..... 1/25/2011 10:56:09 PM |
Nerdchick All American 37009 Posts user info edit post |
it's like Detroit in reverse 1/25/2011 11:43:40 PM |
rbrthwrd Suspended 3125 Posts user info edit post |
OEP went to a transgender party, probably to meet muscle chicks 1/25/2011 11:48:08 PM |
FykalJpn All American 17209 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "China is set to flex its industrial muscles on a scale the world has never seen - with a 'mega-city' twice as big as Wales and a population of 42 million.
Blueprints have been laid to meld nine existing urban hubs in the Country's manufacturing heartland into a single sprawling metropolis designed to rival the productive firepower of Beijing and Shanghai.
The project is scheduled to be completed within the next six years turning the Pearl River Delta, southern China, into a living space which, at 16,000 square miles, will dwarf Greater London by 26 times.
Dubbed 'Turn the Pearl River Delta into One', the scheme will stretch from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, incorporating Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing.
Some 3,100 miles of railway will be laid to connect the cities as just one of 150 infrastructure improvements including, energy, water and telecommunications." |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350483/Largest-city-world-China-build-metropolis-twice-size-Wales.html
Shanghai #21/25/2011 11:50:09 PM |
th3oretecht All American 15539 Posts user info edit post |
OP is pretty insane 1/25/2011 11:52:07 PM |
Arab13 Art Vandelay 45166 Posts user info edit post |
ewwww, last place i would want to live, the air even in Bangkok was rough on the lungs, that would fucking suffocate someone... 1/26/2011 12:09:32 AM |
Stimwalt All American 15292 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Met a guy a couple of months ago (at a TG party) who told me that when he went for a lung checkup, his doctor told him that his lungs looked like those of a light smoker (he is a non-smoker). He was shocked, and then realized that it must be because he lived for 10 years in China. Same with his wife." |
Sounds plausible, as they are not known for their environmental awareness. However, this kind of growth is hard to ignore from a country that we owe 1 trillion dollars.1/26/2011 8:36:36 AM |
Arab13 Art Vandelay 45166 Posts user info edit post |
you know what happens to that money if any conflict at all starts right?
OOOPS LOOKS LIKE 0 TO US 1/26/2011 3:48:34 PM |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
But we'd call it "seizing chinese assets". 1/26/2011 4:36:22 PM |