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..hang a wandering skyscraper from asteroid orbiting Earth
Daily Mail ^ | 23:36 BST, 27 March 2017 | Stacy Liberatore

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.

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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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: analemma; analemmatower; arthurcclarke; asteroid; dubai; highrise; hinduropetrick; kepler; parachute; spaceelevator; uae; unitedarabemirates
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To: Ge0ffrey

Same way you got up there the first time.


41 posted on 03/29/2017 7:56:39 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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To: Candor7

I recently completed the book SevenEves by Neal Stephenson. It involved detailed description of this type of system, and systems for connecting a suspended city to earth for transfer of people and goods, so you don’t have to parachute out to go back to earth. If anyone is interested in this topic, it would be a good read.


42 posted on 03/29/2017 8:25:22 AM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I would be more worried about the giant asteroid impacting the earth when its orbit inevitably decays.

Maybe the dinosaurs tried out this plan before we did :)


43 posted on 03/29/2017 9:03:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Candor7

So who will underwrite liability?


44 posted on 03/29/2017 12:09:42 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Jonty30

Interaction with lunar / solar tidal force? Might bob up and down.


45 posted on 03/29/2017 12:11:04 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Actually the center of mass might be in GEO orbit; but, the asteroid must be farther out to balance whatever structure is suspended by the tether.


46 posted on 03/29/2017 12:14:49 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Change the load mass (building), or distribution of the mass, within the space elevator system, and the orbit will change.

With enough velocity, the tether would vaporize while transiting through the atmosphere.


47 posted on 03/29/2017 12:36:46 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Ozark Tom

So who will underwrite liability?>>>>>>>>>>>>

Saudi Arabia and Qatar.


48 posted on 03/29/2017 12:55:01 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Flick Lives

how would the plumbing work in a building like this?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Vacuum feed, settling tanks, dump over the ocean.
Slurpy toilets? LOL.


49 posted on 03/29/2017 12:57:30 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Given that any part of a structure is being dragged through a fluid, energy is dissipated. That energy comes from the kinetics of the mass moving in a forced-orbit (asteroid counter-mass).

The lower end of the system is moving at less velocity than orbital for that altitude—the upper end is moving at higher velocity than needed for that orbital level. Center-mass is the only point of the structure which travels at the appropriate velocity for it’s orbital level.

Tidal accelerations increase geometrically as the distance between two bodies decreases. The tidal bulge of the Earth is always to the East of a line connecting the centers of the Earth and Moon, providing the small acceleration raising the Moon’s orbit. Will eventually lose the total solar eclipse sometime down the line.


50 posted on 03/29/2017 1:03:23 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Ozark Tom
Your second paragraph describes the stretching effect of tides. A more subtle effect is the squeezing one, which is the result of gravity always being focused at the center of mass.

Your third paragraph is basically correct except that it's missing the reason that the bulge is east of the line connecting the earth and moon. As the earth spins, that bulge is being carried east faster than the moon is able to orbit. This is also slowing the earth's spin slightly as well as accelerating the moon's orbital speed. Eventually the earth's spin will be synchronized with the moon's orbit, and the moon will no longer recede. But the sun will be long dead by then. Likely the earth will have been swallowed by the sun's red giant phase as well.
51 posted on 03/29/2017 1:22:32 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Candor7
"...the only way to leave is by parachute."

..and, how do all the occupants get into the thing?

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As I said on another thread, in Texas, we say that folks like the one(s) who came up with this imbecility are "Plumb eat slap up with the dumb@$$!!"...

52 posted on 03/29/2017 8:15:24 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: TXnMA

..and, how do all the occupants get into the thing? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.designboom.com/technology/jet-capsule-identified-flying-object-03-23-2017/


53 posted on 03/30/2017 1:20:23 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
I saw that and watched the video earlier. Cute...

Looks to me that the slightest lateral motion on landing (wind gust, etc.) would result in bent/jammed landing struts/shocks...

Since much of that "building" extends above the navigable atmosphere -- my question still stands.

(And no one yet has mentioned the gravity gradient...)

Is this idiocy what results when you seat a recent, science-ignorant, "Snowflake" graduate in front of a CAD terminal?


54 posted on 03/30/2017 7:20:42 AM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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To: TXnMA

Looks to me that the slightest lateral motion on landing (wind gust, etc.) would result in bent/jammed landing struts/shocks... >>>>>

Relax. Gyro-stabilizers.


55 posted on 03/30/2017 9:02:55 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
"Relax. Gyro-stabilizers."

Better have one heck of a narrow hysteresis loop... '-)

56 posted on 03/30/2017 4:56:49 PM PDT by TXnMA (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! REPEAT San Jacinto!!!)
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