@enchantedgoose: I know they're fake - my Photoshop comment was just a joke.

mciarlo

@enchantedgoose:

Can you turn on your sarcasm detector? lol

nicroma

@mciarlo: can you please read the description next time

enchantedgoose

I really like the tree coming from the sea and into the land.

I'm not keen on the plane formation since it is has been done in airshows before, not with planes that big I know but not that new either way.

Emiat

That loop would have to be shaped like a tear-drop or people would get nose-bleeds.

Totally Photoshoped! =)

mciarlo

That last one is really bad

gear21

Your mom is so photoshopped, she uses her shadow to run around corners before her body arrives.

*baduhmp-ching*

Kendra

On a sign before the loop:

MINIMUM ENTRY SPEED: 140MPH
DO NOT SLOW DOWN

FightingChance

I don't think my car has enough horsepower for that loop...

wolfenstein-3d

That joke is totally photoshopped.

I too like the inverse palm islands in Dubai. They should do that one.

Kspraydad

I call shenanigans. Those aren't photoshopped at all. The shadows are all correct and the perspective is totally on.

Who are you trying to fool?

FredicvsMaximvs

Tea shops??

They aee known as coffee shops as distinguished from Koffee shops (which are like regular lunch rooms).

One other thing - it is not the leaf that is sought but rather the flower.

twoHats

@mciarlo:
"Just a joke"? Hardly! Oh no, my friend. I thought your comment was a trenchant mirror of insight which turned the intellectual tables on the visual metaphor which the headline of this article was trying to achieve. With a literati's flair, I most enjoyed the way you decocted teardrop and nosebleed with the just the right "dash" of irony! That'll fix their wagon, I thought. As the pièce de résistance, a defiant misspelling--capped off with a whimsical, devil-may-care smiley face--heightened in a most poignant fashion the points which I surmise you were trying to make. Namely, "Life is brief... have fun." Or perhaps, "Neither the tears in my eyes nor the blood in my nose will deter me from my never-ending quest for knowledge and truth."

My opinion counts for naught, and I am but a simple man. That said, I submit your comment demands... nay, deserves... "Quote of the Day" status. Anyone with a corpuscle of thought could not arrive at any other conclusion.

I bid you good day, sir... and nevermind the gaggles.

scarbrtj

The loop looks straight out of a Sonic game.

Someone Photoshop him in.

ViewtifulJason

That could work on the autobon

mruler360

So a dutch design firm had their own photoshop contest? I don't get what the story is.

conception

ah, crappy photoshop-ing just why I come to Giz for.

rjupiter

Hot Wheels for grown-ups!

VNSROCK

Assuming that loop has a radius of 60m, the cars need to move at a linear velocity of around sqr(60*9.81)*60*60/1000 = 87.3km/hr to make it to the top.

You just need to drive faster... This calculation of course assumes that friction doesn't exist. >_>

DarkMirage

Glad to see KoreanAir leading the plane pack.

themightykorean

so let me get this right.. these are photoshopped?

drewdoog

They paved the pointless forest for this?

PastorDoodah

@Emiat: sonova

BiZarRroBALlmeR

We can make that loop, we just need a big enough couch to build a high sloping road from it to reach proper velocity to enter/exit the loop safely.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@BiZarRroBALlmeR: That's Mario, Sonic only collects rings.

Emiat

@scarbrtj: *swipes hand over head*

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@ViewtifulJason: Don't forget some coins.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

can't we do a photoshop contest on those pictures?

TBM-Fan

They would prob charge you a toll of $20 here in NY to use the loop for your death.

Ephemera

@Kendra: Oh my God. Brilliant.

TheMurderer

Is there a bus lane on the loop?

Auld_Lang_Ziety

Clothoid Loop

TickleMeElmo

@DarkMirage: It turns out the shape is called a clothoid loop.

[en.wikipedia.org])

//The more you know...

TickleMeElmo

@Auld_Lang_Ziety:

"Is there a bus lane on the loop?"

Yep, and a bus stop at the top of it.

MyPetFly

@DarkMirage: That would leave you at 0 velocity at the top, at which point (sooner, actually) you'd plummet to the bottom. You need enough speed to stay in hard contact with the loop. With a circular design, this would be very high. An inverted teardrop would make it much easier, because it would match the natural ballistic parabola.

TickleMeElmo

@themightykorean:

It's KLM.

I wonder if Hot Wheels (Mattel) would get a royalty every time a car goes through the loop.

ChuckGee

I had one of those matchbox sets with the loop..
7/10 times it didn't end well for the cars.

SeventhExile

@DarkMirage: LOL... no friction... minor technicality.

Joseph

I could actually see that tree one being built in Dubai, like in that picture.

emisi

@youngfiles: hope you don't run into a traffic jam at the apex.

Ephemera

@scarbrtj: No... yours deserves the "Quote of the Day"... LOVED IT.

dambo29

Wait. What happens if there is traffic?

youngfiles

The loop sounds cool and all but at the rate of gas prices rising do we really want to waste that much road and pretty much go no where?

Kayway8

scarbrtj: Damned fine writing, sir. Damned fine.

bimplebean

@Kayway8: But just think about how many less cars would be on the road? Most cars wouldn't even make it UP the loop. F1 Cars shouldn't have much trouble with it, as well as a few others , i.e. mclaren F1, certain ferraris, basically anything with adjustable downforce and high horsepower engines. Basically, the roads would eventually become a real life burnout:paradise.

lpranal

@ first photo: does anyone remember "Stunts"?

helldiver

I like the boat with land on its top.

IanC

@helldiver

Stunts? I totally remember that was a game. I had on 3.5 in floppies that ran on my packard bell 486. I would build tracks till my compy would run out of ram. It kicked ass.

Thanks for reminding me.

n0m4d

@lpranal: You mean my Geo might not make it? Damn, better put the top up first then. Just in case.

balloondoggle

@emisi: But Dubai is evil... Feed the African children or help fight AIDS or something if you have a bajillion dollars to part with. Don't build a palm tree shaped island or a skyscraper to top the worlds tallest skyscraper, a title already in your country's possession!!!

****end---of---rant****

hammertime1994

@scarbrtj: lol I might just cry. Thanks for that!

hammertime1994

@hammertime1994: Dude, it's called free-market economy. It gets what it pays for. Just so you know, all that money does feed lots of working people who earn it. The ultra-wealthy don't just keep the money in a hole in the desert.

whiteknight

@ryanobo66: Sorry - here:

Sonic On Dubai Road

ryanobo66

@ViewtifulJason: Here you go:

ryanobo66

Can I get me one of them there floating Islands? I need a place to film Dr. Doolittle.

kanon

it's not photoshop.... It's 3ds max... 3D not 2D.

bertoo1960

man.. I would so try to take that loop.

mythicalcaesar

put a safety net inside of the loop and i'll take it at 155 mph (electronically governed)!

hindsight2020

I think the loop would look cooler if it was slightly forward or slightly back from where it is now and had one of the other roads running through the middle of it.

awesome photoshops though.

RamV10

I wish we could get the real speed needed to complete the loop. Any math nerds?

Albishor

Shazam!

bpapa9013

Loop wouldn't work around here, too many people would be afraid of it. Hell, they hit their brakes when they come to an overpass!

Froggmann