That really IS a high rise: Sci-fi plan to hang wandering skyscraper from asteroid orbiting Earth...

www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Updated: 18:59 EDT, 27 March 2017 | By Stacy Liberatore

[Red Badger]

Where izzat?..............

[freedumb2003]

>>Imagine an orbital decline of the asteroid and this thing smashes into the side of Mt. Everest at 1000mph.

Cue Sci-Fi movie...<<

In orbit, Mt. Everest climb you!

[freedumb2003]

That reminds me of that scene in “Spaceballs” where they pan (presumably) Dark Helmet’s flagship and it goes on and on and on and on...

[ADemocratNoMore]

> Where will the sewage go- could pull stunt like Dave Mason band in chicago

Close but no cigar - the stunt in Chicago involved the Dave MATTHEWS band. Dave Mason was one of the founding members of Traffic and is still going strong today.

[Born to Conserve]

—Technically doable, in a few dozen years.
—It would be a prime target for terrorists.
—Most of the time it would be over Siberia, the Pacific Ocean, Downtown Detroit, etc.
—There will never be a market willing to pay for this.

[Red Badger]

—There will never be a market willing to pay for this.

I just thought of one. The PRISON market. It would make a great prison. Escaping would be out of the question..................

[mountn man]

Dubai.

Burj Khalifa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

[Purdue77]

Nudging to a higher orbit won't help. The purpose of the altitude is to synchronize the orbit to the rotation of the earth. If you add a drag on the asteroid (due to atmosphere and gravity pull on the building) the drag is a force that will alter the orbit over time unless you do something to compensate. Leaving things alone isn't an option. Letting the drag change the orbit affects many things, such as the height of the building over the ground, the sychronicity of the building relative to its intended path, the period of the orbit, and the velocity of the orbit.

[Deplorable American1776]

Will my neighbors be 'The Jetsons'? 😀

[TXnMA]

Of course, the FAA and he world's airlines wouldn't be at all concerned about a massive cable slashing thorough the sky at 1000 mph or so, either...

There is genius -- and then there's something we Texans call, "being plumb eat up with the dumb@$$"...

[Nailbiter]

fr has such smart people :)

[cynwoody]

That there asteroid thingy may work mathematically at first glance.

However, hanging from it an appendage in the atmosphere (that lovely figure-8 pattern) will sap the asteroid's energy, leading, sooner or later, to asteroid orbital decay and reverse high-rise disaster.

Of course, this might be fixed by boosting the asteroid, but that's another calculation (or did I miss it from the link?).

Oh, and assuming the energy and physics can be made to work, it should be interesting to have one's office whisked about in that analemma at airliner speeds.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 03/28/2017. Thanks Red Badger.

• Dubai to Have Tower Dangling in the Air? [03/28/2017]
• ..hang a wandering skyscraper from asteroid orbiting Earth [03/29/2017]

[Red Badger]

Don’t open the window..................

[Magnum44]

Mass does matter, but for most things (man-made) the assumption that the mass of the satellite compared to the mass of the Earth is insignificant holds valid.

When you get to ratios of mass like that of the Earth and the moon, then you have to account for the fact that both bodies now orbit about a point (called the system barycenter) that is between the center of masses of the two separate bodies.

[tet68]

It’s 31,000 miles from earth, I doubt it would look
like the illustration...

[Red Badger]

They’ll move it...............

[mdmathis6]

Just put an asteroid at the lagrange point between Earth and the moon with a reactor large enough to create a protective magnetic field(from cosmic rays and solar wind). Build a city there.

[Candor7]

Pie In the sky PING.( sewage in orbit?)