SORRY, BUT SATELLITE CONNECTION IN ARABIAN/INDIAN OCEAN WAS NONEXISTENT.  So today, two postings. Two days ago, I shared some facts about petroleum, and how this resource would run out in less than 50 years.  Notice that President Joe Biden  opened up oil trade again with Venezuela .  They only have more oil reserves than any other country, even more than Saudi Arabia.  So, anyway, what are countries of the Arabian Peninsula doing about the inevitability of running out of oil in less than half a century? The United Arab Emirates is attempting to gain the travel interest of the world by building the biggest of almost everything.  They figure that people would want to visit a country with these attractions.  It seems to be working. Dubai in particular began with pearls, shifted to oil, and quickly ran out of this resource, so turned to finances and tourism, t hrough having : Ain Dubai, the world's largest Ferris Wheel, which opened last year.  From ground to top, 820 feet.  Each of i

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Nobel Prize winner?  Billionaire?  To be a sir, he (only males are anointed "Sir") must have had a distinguished career.  If you look for Bani Yas, good luck, as Sir Bani Yas is an island located 110 miles southwest of Abu Dhabi, and is an animal sanctuary.  To get to this island from Abu Dhabi, you need to catch a 2-hour ferry.  But we are docked here for the day and have a tour, but at the end of the day, so I'll post on this experience tomorrow. The name originates from the Bani Yas tribe and  Sir Bani Yas  is the crest of a salt dome created millions of years ago,  First human settlers came many thousands of years ago, and there was a trading port in 1800 BC.  There is a Christian monastery dating back to 600 AD.  The mention of pearls was historically mentioned. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, rule Abu Dhabi from 1966 and was the founder and first president of the United Arab Emirates, ruling from 1971 to 2004.  He established Sir Bani Das as his retreat and stocke