User blog comment:Countjoe1/The Big Idea: Debate/@comment-1685631-20110531191831/@comment-2053489-20110531204358

Actually, going overboard with sand you be just as unique. All the deserts up till now had one thing in common: Two sandy areas limited by rocky canyons. If we take away the second, and put the rock in through those spires, that also could be hollow and have caves inside them, you could create a completely different feeling of desert. No this "Here am I" one, but one like the Sahara, where there is sand and nothing else, and you'd be completely lost without those spires. One of them even could serve as basecamp.