Who knew?

Have you seen the new creation called "The World" off the coast of Dubai??? This is a phenomenon that just amazes me! They have created these islands to look like the world. Man-made islands!!! What??? I would just like to know who was sitting around and one day said....Hmm. I'm bored and I have oodles of money. Let's see if we can create a land mass in an ocean. I mean, it takes volcanoes so much time to form new islands, so let's just speed the process up a bit. Have we gone too far with this? Sure they're nice, but we are talking about completely altering the world as we know it. And, how is it that I have never really heard about this before? Am I living under a rock? What? Wow!