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Dubai to Have Tower Dangling in the Air?
Khaleej Times ^ | March 28, 2017 | Bernd Debusmann Jr.

Posted on 03/28/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

Just hangin’ out 60,000 feet in the air!

DANG!


81 posted on 03/28/2017 3:34:34 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: nickcarraway
Universal Orbital Support System (UOSS).

Originally touted by Engineering has the Unlikely, Altitude Support System. Luckily, marketing stepped in.

82 posted on 03/28/2017 4:15:50 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: canalabamian
Everyone calm down. Remember, the Arabs were great contributors to math and science


83 posted on 03/28/2017 4:29:45 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: dangus
15,000 of vertical space for a reliquary?

are reserved for a reliquary section and a funerary section.

You know: for all the Iron Workers who died hanging the thing.

84 posted on 03/28/2017 4:32:50 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: nickcarraway

An “A” for a high school science project. An “F” for a real world blueprint.


85 posted on 03/28/2017 4:56:29 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: nickcarraway
i thought drugs are a capital offense over there
86 posted on 03/28/2017 6:33:42 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Boogieman

Sure. This thing is a complete crock. Anyone who has ever run up in the man lift on a new ‘Tower’ would laugh their butt’s off on this entire premise. Plus this from the old days as we greeted each other on site.........’DLD’ baby..(D)on’t (L)ook D()own!!!! It was a long time ago. My old legs shake just looking at new hi-rise photos!


87 posted on 03/28/2017 8:13:27 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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That’s the most da idiotic idea that I have seen in a long time.


88 posted on 03/28/2017 9:08:29 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: nickcarraway

Is this in the humor section? The author’s name is Bernd....


89 posted on 03/28/2017 9:31:09 PM PDT by piasa
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Oh jeez. Anyone that understands orbital mechanics would know instantly why this idea is borderline retarded.

Anything that is in orbit is in an equilibrium between its forward velocity and freefall towards the center of the gravity well. Dropping an anchor into the atmosphere would be one of the quickest ways imaginable to destroy that equilibrium.

Why is always the people who don’t seem to have bothered to learn basic science that want to tell the rest of us we should “aim high”? Learn the basics first before you try that, or you’re going to shoot yourself in the foot.


90 posted on 03/28/2017 10:22:00 PM PDT by Boogieman
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