The orbital path would swing the tower in a figure eight pattern between the northern and southern hemispheres each day, taking residents on a tour through different parts of the work, including New York City (pictured) - all in just a 24 hour orbital cycle.
Where will the sewage go- could pull stunt like Dave Mason band in chicago
Or even this (same idea from ST-TOS):
Nonsense. Who pays for a firm to design stuff like this as well as their Mars House?
Load it up with libs. Nuke it from orbit. All is well in the land again...
>>The orbital path would swing the tower in a figure eight pattern between the northern and southern hemispheres each day, taking residents on a tour through different parts of the work, including New York City (pictured) - all in just a 24 hour orbital cycle.<<
It will be moving 1,000 MPH. Hard to sightsee and if in the atmosphere it will rip the building from its moorings.
Um. No.
How do you take your dog for a walk?
What do you do in case of fire?
This is the most a$$hole idea ever invented.
What could possibly go wrong?
And the first time it passes through a hurricane.....
So, you pound a stake into a rock in space and tie a rope to it and build a skyscraper on the end of the rope.
Sounds like a big tire swing.
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. 12 It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall. 16 The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal.
So, they’re going to have a skyscraper moving around the sky at supersonic, or high subsonic speeds.
Can’t see any problems there. Nope. None.
Arthur C. Clarke, again decades ahead of his time. Now let's get nanomaterials capable of actually building one!
So would a jihadi use a plane or space shuttle to run into it?
This is the result of legalizing pot.
The Artchitechs must have been on an LSD trip when the designed that idea.
Who the hell would want to be in a structure hanging on cables thousands of miles long?What a nightmare.
1. Nudge a big ass asteroid into low earth orbit without accidentally destroying all of human civilization.
2. Develop building materials with sufficient tensile strength to prevent the building from breaking loose at very high velocity and destroying anything in its path.
3. ....
Y’all need to read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
The satellite and the building will have vastly different orbiting periods. The satellite will be dragging the building by its cable.
The building will be subject to air drag, keeping it from staying vertical.
When the cable breaks the building will continue going forward for a while then plunge to earth.
Each country will claim the right to tax it as it passes over them.
Muzzies won’t know which way is Mecca and will have a hell of a time during Ramadan.
But the view will be great.