Yeah, what if it thinks we're going to rape it for its resources and doesn't want to come along quietly?
Or the muslim scientists miscalculate that math thing?
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Posted on 03/28/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An artist's impression of how the proposed asteroid-suspended Analemma Tower would look.
The building will be suspended from an asteroid orbiting 50,000kms from the earth A New York-based firm is proposing that Dubai be the site of a futuristic, asteroid-suspended skyscraper that orbits around the world.
The speculative Analemma Tower - which is being proposed by the Clouds Architecture Office - is designed to be suspended downward on an asteroid orbiting 50,000km from earth. It would orbit in a figure-eight pattern across the northern and southern hemispheres in a 24-hour cycle each day.
A design close-up of the asteroid from which the proposed skyscraper would be suspended using high-strength cables
On its website, the firm notes that "Analemma inverts the traditional diagram of an earth-based foundation, instead depending on a space-based supporting foundation from which the tower is suspended. "This system is referred to as the Universal Orbital Support System (UOSS).
"By placing a large asteroid into orbit over earth, a high-strength cable can be lowered towards the service of earth from which a super tall tower can be suspended," the website noted. "Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its final location."
The best location to get started, Clouds Architecture noted, is Dubai.
"The proposal calls for Analemma to be constructed over Dubai, which has proven to be a specialist in tall building construction at one-fifth of the cost of New York City construction," the designers said.
World's next tallest tower
The initial design - which Clouds Architecture is billing as "the world's tallest tower" - includes separate parts of the tower dedicated to business; sleeping quarters; devotional activities; a gardening and agricultural centre; "transfer stations" that allow for the transfer of people and goods between the earth's surface and the orbiting structure; and space for dining, shopping and entertainment.
The two highest sections of the tower - starting at between 17,000 and 20,000 metres above earth - are reserved for a reliquary section (which would house religious relics) and a funerary section. The tallest point of the tower above earth is planned for about 32,000 metres above ground.
This is how the Analemma Tower would look from space
To power the building, Analemma's designers plan to instal space-based solar panels, which - "installed above the dense and diffuse atmosphere" - would receive constant sunlight. Water is to be filtered and recycled in a semi-closed loop, and re-filled with condensation captured from rain and clouds.
Once built, the tower's proposed orbit would take it in a figure-eight pattern around the world, "where the tower would move at its slowest speed at the top and bottom of the figure eight, allowing the possibility for the towers occupants to interface with the planet's surface at these points".
Gee....what could possibly go wrong? /s
I'm wondering what happens if lots of the occupants all decide at the same time to go to the lowest point of the tower? Will it handle the load? Or will a section break off due to the extra mass?
Flying carpet.
They are devoting the top floors to “religious reliques”. I’m picturing a Shia/ Sunni / ISIS shoot out in space. Until the 377th Crusade arrives.
Bazinga!! Wonder what effect this would have on the tides.
This tower is racist, black people hate hights.
Just imaging some Jihadi driving an airplane into it.
This isn’t cool stuff, this is the hindenberg on steroids.
I remember Wright’s “mile high” skyscraper had a 1/4 mile deep foundation.
Regarding this structure. I think, with the right technology, it would be quite feasible - in 70-100 years. But it needs to be suspended by a rock in geosynchronous orbit. And in seven decades, we’d probably have no problem micro-adjusting the location of the asteroid to compensate for different occupation levels, weights, etc.
If it ever failed, though, it would be epic.
Yeah, what if it thinks we're going to rape it for its resources and doesn't want to come along quietly?
Or the muslim scientists miscalculate that math thing?
It would definitely need new technology, like actual graphene or similar material for much of the structure.
Their insurance will cover that, won’t it?
Variation on the concept. Space elevator is tethered at both ends; this thing forgoes the Earth-bound tether and hopes the hanging end stays within a very narrow tolerance range (lest it start smashing things up at high speed).
“Their insurance will cover that, won’t it?”
Probably a clause about punching a hole in the Earth’s crust...
In my humble, uneducated opinion, yes I agree. It’s a dumb idea. Why do I say dumb? Because there seems to be no pressing need for such a structure. Because the risks appear to outweigh the rewards. The main reward being ‘Bragging Rights’.
Zipping through the atmosphere at a thousand miles per hour there will be quite a bit of drag, so that 50000 km cable Wii become the world’s longest kite string. Then the drag should slow down the asteroid so it drops out of geosynchronous orbit. Hopefully they have a winch to shorten that cable or soon the bottom floors will be dragging on the ground.
“what if it thinks we’re going to rape it for its resources”
If we’re going to literally move an asteroid into Earth orbit, d@mn straight we’re going to rape it for its resources. Have you SEEN the stats on composition of those things? like...$100T in gold?
Internet stories like this are so ridiculously stupid they should cause cancer in the bones of the writers.
Fools and their money.
How many gays can they throw off the roof at once?
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