When do you think america will catch up?

The Burj Dubai is planned to be 950 meters by the end of the year and their are several other buildings in the near future that are planned to reach over 1,852 meters. Do you think America will ever catch up with Dubai as a country with the tallest buildings, or do you think Dubai will rank #1 forever. So far the tallest planned structure in North America is in Chicago Illinois, by the name of Chicago Spire which will reach a mere 610 meters by 2011, and the Freedom Tower will be about 540 meters in 2010. Will America ever catch up? And if so when?

What makes you think America has any desire to keep up with the Jone's in this area - I wonder when Dubai will catch up and build satelittes/shuttles/launch probes to distant planets, etc - if so when ?

Building satellites,/shuttles, and launching probes is not advancement of human civilization because it is just a waste of the taxpayers money. All of these space missions are hundreds of billions of dollars down the drain that could have been used here on Earth to feed starving people, cure cancer, and likewise. What's the big deal about spending 40 billion dollars to go to the moon, and bring back useless rocks. Since we can't live on the moon, or obtain any resources from it, it is a waste of time. All of these probes such as Spirit and Opportunity have done nothing. They have found no life on Mars. Cassini has found no life on Titan. All of Space Exploration such as SETI has found no intelligent life, and any possible mission to find life such as Project Longshot, or A cryobot to Europa will never happen because although NASA places it as it's top priority they are just bullshitting the common people.They just talk crap but they can’t follow thorough. There are many examples of this NASA has been saying for decades that they will launch a probe to Europa, a cryobot, that will search the oceans looking for life. They put this as their highest priority but instead they say they can't due to budget cuts. Europa is the only known place in our solar system with the potential possibility of visible carbon based life that is perceivable with the human senses. Also NASA has pushed back the date for the Space Interferometry Mission more than 5 times. The SIM is a telescope that will be able to spot many Earh-like planets which as the Mission to Europa is likely to spot Advanced Civilizations. Now, NASA keeps saying that the budget cuts keep limiting and pushing back the mission. Every two years NASA has been pushing back SIM for like 4 years since 1998, and it is not even listed in the 2008 fisical budget meaning instead of happening in 2005 it won't happen until much after 2016 and a manned probe to Europa until much after 2017 because they keep pushing back these projects although they give it the highest priority on their list. In addition to this they keep pushing back the date for the Terrestial Planet Finder a telescope that will look for Earth-like planets with the possibiltiy of advanced life. Project Longshot is also an example of an opportunity for an interstellar probe to reach Alpha Centarui in 50 years. NASA has done nothing to show that this will become a realtiy since the 1980's. Space Exploration has never contributed to anything, it’s just a waste of money because all these probes and missions do is bring back dead rocks from dead planets with no resources. Wasting billions of dollars is not advancement.

Buildings on the other hand contribute to society because it helps with overpopulation. The taller a building is the less precious land has to be wasted. The Earth has a limited amount of resources and instead of wasting all of it in useless space missions Dubai is preserving it by building tall buildings to save space and the Earth. Now don’t you think this is real Human Advancement?

So I guess nobody wants to answer this? Anyways Dubai does have many privately owned sattelites. You should research it? How do you think they built Palm Jumeriah without a satellite which beamed down information? The satellite they used is called IKONOS.