How Tall can a building be made?

Originally posted by Robtard
haven't you been to Dubai while in he military?

Yes; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE.

Originally posted by Robtard

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Originally posted by Mindship
Jiminy Crickets, that's like twice the height of the Twin Towers.

So it would take two planes to bring it down?

(too soon?)

Originally posted by Robtard
So it would take two planes to bring it down?

(too soon?)

Or none, if they pay attention to the materials and the design of the structure. They'll probably build it in a way that it wouldn't collapse accordian-style like the Twin Towers did.

Engineers universally agree that the Chrysler Bulding and the ESB would have survived a commercial jetliner. Because they're predominately stone-mason, and not utlra-modern flammable materials. So not only were the Towers a more symbolic target, they were literally weaker buldings.

Originally posted by Robtard
So it would take two planes to bring it down?

(too soon?)

So big until it inteferes with the earths orbit, and gets us all killed.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
So big until it inteferes with the earths orbit, and gets us all killed.

Alright, just for funsies, I did that math on it.

If all materials were collected from another planet (outside of the terra-lunar gravity field), then it would take a little more than 5233852425126 revolutions around the sun before a .0000001% orbital change would be noticed.

That didn't account the "space debris" that we pick up and lose....or the fact that the Earth would lose more matter over time...or.....the sun dying many many many years before that time.

And, yes, I made all of that up, just then. 😐

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If you build it out of Carbon nano tubes though, it could reach to the center of the galaxy like a spoke of a wheel. So we can visit our space nieghbours. (Now Im cool as well.)

lolz.

Originally posted by Bicnarok
If you build it out of Carbon nano tubes though, it could reach to the center of the galaxy like a spoke of a wheel. So we can visit our space nieghbours. (Now Im cool as well.)

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