# New Year's Eve Fireworks at Burj Kalifa

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-fireworks-at-burj-kalifa/645861>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 2, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-fireworks-at-burj-kalifa/645861 "2013-01-02T19:00:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-fireworks-at-burj-kalifa/645861/1 "2013-01-02T19:00:13Z")

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Did anyone else go? Yeah, me neither.

Too bad, cause it was FREAKING AWESOME!

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/27lB-doaRlQ/hqdefault.jpg "Burj Khalifa - Dubai New Year's Eve Fireworks 2012") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27lB-doaRlQ)

skip to 1:10 for the goods.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-fireworks-at-burj-kalifa/645861/2 "2013-01-02T19:25:55Z")

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I hope those kids realize what a silly waste of resources that was.

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**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-fireworks-at-burj-kalifa/645861/3 "2013-01-02T20:54:58Z")

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Holy cow that was awesome and the weather wouldn’t suck being outside at midnight there 😉