And the transit time getting to your floor. Thousands of people all going home about the same time? Impossible.
And most people become uncomfortable if you move them up or down too quickly.
Could take longer to exit the building than the train to the suburbs?
If you were in Denver, yes.
Possible yes
Practical, probably not
Couldn’t get me in it.
In reality why would you?
Why would anyone want to?
Build it only on granite and no where near fault lines. It will need an incredibly expensive set of elevators, and many of them.
Bkmk.
Yes.... Just build half of it... Underground...
I’m pretty sure I can’t sneak that by my HOA!
The elevators are the biggest problem. The longer the cables,the heavier they will be.
It would be built similarly to how they are built now, with elevators stopping every thirty floors for everybody to ride another thirty floors.
“Stairways”?
How about “escape pods”? It might save weight.
The tower of babel: The Book of Jubilees, known to have been in use between at least 200 B.C.E. and 90 C.E., contains one of the most detailed accounts found anywhere of the Tower.
And they began to build and in the fourth week they made brick with fire and the bricks served them for stone and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt which comes out of the sea and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar. And they built it: Forty and three years were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the height [of a brick] was the third of one; its height amounted to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and [the extent of one wall was] thirteen stades [and of the other thirty stades] (Jubilees 10:20-21, Charles’ 1913 translation).
5433 cubits translated to 8149 feet. Seems impossible.
A Space Elevator would beat everything (a guy could dream)
Couple of things I thought of. 1. you need a super strong material that won’t crush or deform under its own weight. 2. You may need multiple stairwells to deal with the pressure difference from the ground to the top. 3. You would have to account for differences in expansion and contraction of the building because of temp differences.
Sure. Just make the base solid steel embedded 500 feet into a solid granite bedrock base. Even then, I’d go up only once to take a picture and hope that wasn’t the time the inevitable happened.
Sure. Just make the base solid steel embedded 500 feet into a solid granite bedrock base. Even then, I’d go up only once to take a picture and hope that wasn’t the time the inevitable happened.
Supertall skyscrapers - though architecturally fascinating - are totally unnecessary in a digital work world. The old idea was that urban real estate was expensive, all the employees needed to be under the watchful eye of the boss, all of the banks, accounting offices, and other services a firm needed were also downtown, so as a company grew the most efficient way was up. The Internet and Mohammed Atta have brought all of those assumptions to an end.
Why isn’t there trees a mile high?
That was enough for me. A mile high building? Not for me. Let Mikey do it.