Construction of world's tallest tower to begin

New Scientist ^ | 12/10/04 | Will Knight

[ChefKeith]

They will be "frosted" from the sand in a few months anyway so no need to clean them.

[ChefKeith]

As deep as they can pound sand...

< / willing to help them with that task >

[Daaave]

"The climate is so inhospitable that a special new protective coating had to be found to stop the desert grit from literally eating the windows away."

I hate when that happens! I just read this in an architectural review of the Burj al Arab.

Burj al Arab

[Route101]

...a target close to home for terrorists....

[RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS]

I tis beautiful!!!!!!!!

as long as ther is no

ww.texston.com

[Jaysun]

I'd be worried about people being able to breath unassisted at that height. I hope they put signs everywhere that say, "Please don't drop pennies out of the windows".

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Every things up to date in Kansas City.
They've gone about as far as they can go.

I went and saw a skyscraper 7 stories high.
bout as high as a building ought to go.

[Cobra64]

Either Levin or Coulter would beat Hannity's rating in viewer, and or, listener-ship.

"My wife and me bawt a Jeep, then weeze went to tha movies..."

I doubt that Hannity graduated from the eighth grade. Correction, third grade.

BTW, did you know he has a new book out?

[Cobra64]

This country is so PC, it will never happen. The hole at G-Zero has been empty for two years.

Sixty plus years ago, we built the largest building in the World in eighteen months in a swamp. Want to know the answer?

Your turn to respond.

[Cobra64]

I'd have the top ten floors military ops.

[investigateworld]

I know, I know!

[Cobra64]

I'd have the top ten floors military ops. With some laser toys and EMF devices.

[stands2reason]

They were at that tower on The Amazing Race last year...

[Cobra64]

I would like to see the United States build tall towers once again. I do not think it unreasonable to build skyscrapers a mile high. Let's do it.

You are talking about a tower FIVE times taller than the WT Centers. If you have your engineering specifications, our company will bid on the trillion dollar project.

Seems you need to do another doobie.

[ATCNavyRetiree]

That bottom pic looks like those chambers in the alien spacecraft where the guy was put in that goo in the movie "Fire in the Sky." :-)

[Cobra64]

Now that is funny. I doubt Sam will get it. He'll come back and figger that we should build three towers 142 miles high so we don't need satellites anymore. And have a conveyor belt to the space shuttle for food and other supplies.

[Quix]

Taiwan currently holds tallest building title. I forget the height.

This design looks a LOT like Frank Lloyd Wright's design for MILE HIGH building for Chicago--of all places!

[Quix]

If I recall correctly,

the Red Sea is a major rift/fault/quake area.

[Quix]

Frank Lloyd Wright designed one a long time ago.

[Cobra64]

Fly within a quarter mile and get shot down.

Do the arithmetic, a commercial jet flying 550 mph will reach a target 1/4 mile away. It is about a 1/2 mile across the Hudson River from NJ to NY.