...Much of the Arab world is mired in violence, poverty and unemployment, and yet in Dubai they’re busy working on sending a probe to the red planet within three years. It’s part of the latest package of eye-catching ambitions that include printing three-dimensional buildings, running the city on blockchain data technology and introducing hoverbikes and driverless drone taxis.
...Now it’s about how to keep the party going, even one in a country where unmarried couples can’t legally live together and where free voice calls over the Internet and Apple’s FaceTime are blocked.
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...At the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in a desert area outside downtown Dubai, the plan is for the Mars probe to launch in summer 2020 with help from three universities in the U.S. It’s being developed by a team of about 160 Emiratis—40 percent of them women—with an average age of 27.
Inside the space center, civil engineer Shaikha Ahmad Al Falasi, 24, gives a tour of a prototype of a smart house that lowers energy consumption by using solar energy only, an air conditioning system based on chilled water and thermal and air insulation techniques.
There’s a belief among Emiratis that “impossible isn’t a notion because we saw visual changes that happened right in front of us,” said Al Amiri, the minister. “It’s this understanding that people abroad don’t get.”
Inside the space center, civil engineer Shaikha Ahmad Al Falasi, 24, gives a tour of a prototype of a smart house that lowers energy consumption by using solar energy only, an air conditioning system based on chilled water and thermal and air insulation techniques.
There’s a belief among Emiratis that “impossible isn’t a notion because we saw visual changes that happened right in front of us,” said Al Amiri, the minister. “It’s this understanding that people abroad don’t get.”
