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Is it possible to build a mile-high skyscraper?
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| 14 Sept 2020
| MIKE COLAGROSSI
Posted on 09/15/2020 6:05:57 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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Every day new hightech materials and technologies, but not mentioned in this fun article; increasing percenage of floor space needed for services. More space used for plumbing, HVAC, electric... and those pesky stairs, all five hundred plus floors of them and mulptile stairways...
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?
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:05:58 PM PDT
by
DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT
If you were in Denver, yes.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Possible yes
Practical, probably not
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:07:14 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:07:47 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:07:48 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:07:52 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. -E Snowden)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Technically yes.
In reality why would you?
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:08:38 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Why would anyone want to?
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:09:09 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Build it only on granite and no where near fault lines. It will need an incredibly expensive set of elevators, and many of them.
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:09:39 PM PDT
by
Bayard
To: Bayard
Just build it around a space elevator.
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:11:11 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:13:20 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(I will not comply.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Yes.... Just build half of it... Underground...
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:13:30 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: DUMBGRUNT
I’m pretty sure I can’t sneak that by my HOA!
To: DUMBGRUNT
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.
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:15:00 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
“Stairways”?
How about “escape pods”? It might save weight.
To: Secret Agent Man
Remember Arabs and Chinese, especially after 9/11, have gotten into the whole phallic dick measuring contest with buildings. All in Dubai is not practical or sustainable. But not a peep from Greta.
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:17:35 PM PDT
by
Starcitizen
(Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
To: DUMBGRUNT
"Is it possible to build a mile-high skyscraper?" Sure...as long as it's all democrats working in there!😎
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:17:53 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Empire_of_Liberty
To: DUMBGRUNT
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.
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:18:25 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Only if the bar was on the ground floor.😎
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posted on
09/15/2020 6:18:53 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
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