{"id":195,"date":"2008-08-01T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-08-01T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:11:15","slug":"the-biggest-phallus-for-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"The biggest Phallus for Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Al-Walid bin Talal had the idea to build the biggest Phallus symbol the world has seen so far. It is called &#8222;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mile_High_Tower\" target=\"_blank\">Mile High Tower<\/a>&#8220; and is planned to be 1.600m high. What a symbol of archaic male dominance and desired virility! To complete this picture it will have two smaller towers beside which are meant to support its rigidity: the stylized balls. It is ridiculous!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, besides such useless towers the world doesn&#8217;t need there are towers which really have a purpose: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_updraft_tower\" target=\"_blank\">Solar updraft towers<\/a>. These are hollow towers with 1.000m or higher. They are meant for generating renewable energy by using convection effect: heated by the sun warm air rises inside the tower and drives turbines. One 400MW solar power tower <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringnews.co.za\/article.php?a_id=138994\" target=\"_blank\">is planned in Namibia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t they build such a Phallus!?<\/p>\n<p>German sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdi-nachrichten.com\/vdi-nachrichten\/aktuelle_ausgabe\/akt_ausg_detail.asp?cat=2&amp;id=39640&amp;source=rubrik\" target=\"_blank\">VDI Nachrichten vom 1.8.2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdi-nachrichten.de\/vdi-nachrichten\/aktuelle_ausgabe\/akt_ausg_detail.asp?cat=2&amp;id=38594&amp;source=homepage\" target=\"_blank\">VDI Nachrichten vom 16.5.2008<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Al-Walid bin Talal had the idea to build the biggest Phallus symbol the world has seen so far. It is called &#8222;Mile High Tower&#8220; and is planned to be 1.600m high. What a symbol of archaic male dominance and desired virility! To complete this picture it will have two smaller towers beside which are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/?p=195\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eThe biggest Phallus for Middle East\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11,28],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meckerossi.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}