Posted on 06/18/2013 12:15:36 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Terrorists are salivating at the prospect.
Why don’t they build underground?................
” Terrorists are salivating at the prospect.”
One thing about FR.....you think of it?......somebody already posted it : )
Whether you build below or above ground, the elevator problem is the same.
I’d quibble a bit with the implied premise that changing elevators is such an absolute deal breaker. Speaking personally, I think I’d find it kind of a cool thing to do.
I just can’t quite imagine the conversation “Yeah - we could have built a building that was X meters but decided not to because it would have required passengers to change elevators.”
Your elevator is waiting...
Resident Evil comes to mind.
Who is John Galt?
Reardon Steel
the world is not better off from mega cities
they always require more public subsidies and public subsidized services to keep them livible
they concentrate power - potlitical and financial
they benefit bankers and real estate interests more than anyone else
they are unnecessary more as time goes on as technology keeps making dispersal of people and work less of a difficulty in getting work done
so, do I care that some Persian Gulf hereditary autocrat ruler will now commission the next testament to architectual penis envy? NO.
Who wants to spend that long in an elevator and not get a view?
Its not the changing, its the added cost per square foot for effective usable space.
Why don’t the engineers just use magnetic levitation for elevators?
http://www.toshiba-elevator.co.jp/elv/infoeng/technology/tec05.jsp
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Repairmen?
Find a way to stack them somehow then. I’m not being funny - there’s got to be a way.
No thanks. They’re standing targets.
*Gets on the elevator in the lobby, and pushes the button for 995. Elevator stops on every floor due to some a*hole who pushed every button before he got out :)
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