Posted on 03/29/2017 4:36:58 AM PDT by Candor7
A New York architecture firm has unveiled designs for a skyscraper that is out of this world.
Deemed the ‘world’s tallest building ever’, Analemma Tower will be suspended from an orbiting asteroid 31,068 miles (50,000 km) above the Earth– and the only way to leave is by parachute.
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No need to get one's feet on the round ever.
Ping to Pie in the Sky.
No need to get one’s feet on the round ever.
Nobody’s going to want that thing overhead, so that garbage can be tossed out of it onto their heads from a mile up.
That thing is a missile target if ever there was one. I’d give it 90 days in actual operation before people start shooting things at it.
Can we really build something that can keep an asteroid in a stable orbit without eventually being pulled in by gravity?
Stupid.
So how are they going to handle customs when it enters another countries airspace. Are they going to have customs agents following it to make sure nothing is dropped out a window?
Was pondering much the same. However “genius” this architect is he hasn’t comprehended much in the way of Roche limit and tidal forces.
The moon seems stable enough. Geosynchronous satellites that broadcast TV signals are in stable orbits. This is basically an asteroid in geosynchronous orbit, with a cable reaching to the ground. But a space tether will require something we can’t yet mass produce: carbon nanotubes. Nothing else has the tensile strength that will be needed.
Two Words: Allahu Snackbar.
That thing would be the juiciest terror target in human history.
Never mind all the issues that need to be ironed out like carbon-nanotube cabling, how would the plumbing work in a building like this? You can’t connect it to a city sewerage system.
Parachutes would have sold like hotcakes at the top of the World Trade Center on 9/11 . . .
this is going to be built in 10 years right when the immortality pill AI and mars mission will be happening. Always 10 years. Oh and cancer cure
You want me to deliver this load of concrete where?
Its a One World Dream, this sky scraper!
No borders. We can drop food to the starving masses!( and nukes)
We can have a big mosque at the bottom calling loundly to prayer as it passes over your town.It will be funded by the Arabs!
AlllahWahoo Whackbar!
this is going to be built in 10 years right when the immortality pill AI and mars mission will be happening. Always 10 years. Oh and cancer cure>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The only good thing it could be used for would be to construct a FTL space ship while in orbit.
You got that right!
April 1st (a few days early)
:^)
Totally absurd, bogus story.
And how would you get back?!
Laputa redux. This is straight out of the third voyage of Gulliver. And just as ridiculous.
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