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The scariest pool in the world, 55 stories above ground
DVICE ^ | 25 June, 2010 | Kevin Hall

Posted on 06/27/2010 9:19:10 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

The scariest pool in the world, 55 stories above ground

Marina Bay Sands  Singapore - swimming pool

The "Sands Skypark" in Singapore is a pool, greenway and casino with an usual location. The whole thing sits atop not one, but three skyscrapers that make up the Marina Bay Sands hotel. The infinity pool itself is nearly 500 feet in length and features no discernible edge. So what would happen if you swam over?

Don't worry, you wouldn't just plummet to the streets below. Instead, you'd fall where the rest of the water does: a basin that also acts as a filter for the water and sends it back up to the pool. Sounds pleasant, right? We haven't see a picture of it, but we imagine you just get right out of that basin yourself, rather than get forced around in tubes Willy Wonka-style.

The skypark, designed by architect Moshe Sadie, is itself is nearly 1,250 feet long, and is a new addition to the $6 billion dollar hotel. An interesting note: the hotel-topping casino is free for visitors, but residents of Singapore have to pay a $70 entrance fee as the government there is trying to discourage gambling.

Down below is a picture of the Marina Bay Sands in all its glory

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: architecture; buildings; highrise; hotels; leadership; pools; resort; singapore; skyscraper; swimmingpool; vacation
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To: DogByte6RER

There is a discovery/history/science/etc... channel show devoted to the construction of this building. VERY interesting, even if you hate the looks.


21 posted on 06/27/2010 9:51:34 AM PDT by SengirV
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To: DogByte6RER

I’ll stick with the Singapore Shangri La or Raffles, thanks.....


22 posted on 06/27/2010 9:53:14 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: swatbuznik

How sadly true.


23 posted on 06/27/2010 9:53:58 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: swatbuznik

How sadly true.


24 posted on 06/27/2010 9:54:16 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: nmh

No friggin way!

See that glassed-in part by the elevator? That’s the farthest I go!


25 posted on 06/27/2010 10:00:14 AM PDT by 2111USMC
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To: All

Saw this on Travel channel long time ago.


26 posted on 06/27/2010 10:01:07 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: DogByte6RER
This project for this hotel/casino got started in 2006. It was supposed to be finished in 2009 but delays pushed the date forward. And here it is 2010 and its open for business.

And the WTC is still a hole in the ground.

27 posted on 06/27/2010 10:01:45 AM PDT by lowbridge (Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
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To: SengirV
I watched that show on the building of this with my kids. Very cool. We were waiting to see how it turned out.

We live in the NY metro area, so we're used to major buildings, like Ground Zero, never ever ever being finished, if they're ever even started.

28 posted on 06/27/2010 10:05:06 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: James C. Bennett

Yea Devil’s Pool wins.

The building I could do, Devil’s Pool no way, no how.


29 posted on 06/27/2010 10:07:53 AM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: swatbuznik
cant build anything like that in America anymore.. it might disrupt the migration patterns of the southeastern grey spotted vulture or something.
30 posted on 06/27/2010 10:13:09 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: nmh
When I see that structure on top of the vertical buildings, I'm reminded of the space resort in the movie Fifth Element. One comment at the site you posted said the resort make him think of Noah's Ark, stuck after the waters receded. ;o)
31 posted on 06/27/2010 10:14:49 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: ErnBatavia

Raffles is great except the cost.


32 posted on 06/27/2010 10:18:23 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Domandred

Imagine being in that pool, and the river behind experiences a water surge.


33 posted on 06/27/2010 10:19:43 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: Domandred

Imagine being in that pool, and the river behind experiences a water surge.


34 posted on 06/27/2010 10:19:43 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
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To: KarlInOhio
early wailors expected to see the edge of the earth.

Do you mean people who hunt wails?

35 posted on 06/27/2010 10:19:45 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: DogByte6RER

Chinese Army officers will be swimming in that pool after they come down the Malay Peninsula the way he Japanese did in 1942.


36 posted on 06/27/2010 10:20:21 AM PDT by NeverForgetBataan (Sure, you can forgive your enemies.......... But get even first)
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To: al baby
Looks like the monorail at disneyland

That right there looks like a magnet for batshit crazy muslims.

37 posted on 06/27/2010 10:43:01 AM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: Michael Barnes

Or a good old fashion 7.2 quake on a local fault


38 posted on 06/27/2010 10:46:56 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: swatbuznik
There used to be a time when innovation like this happened in America on a regular basis. Now it is a rarity as anything like this proposed here is immediately scaled down or quashed entirely by over-regulation, over-taxation, etc.

By this time next year, the United States won't even have the capability for manned space travel and nobody seems to care. Instead of encouraging our children to get engineering degrees and change the world, they are getting liberal arts degrees and going on welfare.

39 posted on 06/27/2010 10:52:24 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 56 days away from outliving Francis Gary Powers)
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To: DogByte6RER

Uh, no. Nope. Sorry. No thanks.


40 posted on 06/27/2010 10:53:17 AM PDT by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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