And when the oil’s gone, it’ll sit empty...
what a treat
I seem to recall reading a story about some king in the middle east who built a tower to reach heaven, and God got angry, and then some bad stuff happened.
Our dear, dear friend prince Alaweed is keeping busy.
Is there any compelling business reason for super duper skyscrapers?
Oh well, as long as they make em’ 767-resistant, I guess it’s okay.
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FMCDH(BITS)
One wonders if there is a german engineer out there who knows a compression tower is 180 degrees wrong. One could easily get to the tropopause(10 miles up)with a tension tower : twin blimps at 1000’ intervals around a central tether line, which is also the elevator cable. Blimps are no longer 1930s Hindenbergs, much improved in the last 70 years. So, let the saudis build their mile high compression tower, it will be a pebble next to a 10 mile high tension tower...
I have a question. Where is all that money from the Saudis that was promised to their palestinian brothers when Israel pulled out of Gaza? Where are those large glittering housing projects to be built on all that prime beach front land. All I see the Saudis doing is hording their oil profits, building mega yachts, and buying Dubai condos. What gives? Where is that unshakeable arab unity?
You couldn’t get me to go to the top of that building if you gave it to me.