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2017-03-29 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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

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Posted by Fred 2017-03-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 A variant on the space elevator.

Posted by phil_b 2017-03-29 00:17|| 2017-03-29 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Firm must be staffed by recent Harvard graduates whose interns are supporters of legalizing mariuana.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-03-29 03:10|| 2017-03-29 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 And all the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere means heating costs in the winter are very low.

Posted by gorb 2017-03-29 04:17|| 2017-03-29 04:17|| Front Page Top

#4 So their sh__ just drops down on the rest of us when the flush. Isn't that an act of war?

Posted by 3dc 2017-03-29 05:32|| 2017-03-29 05:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Anal World arrivals not discussed ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-03-29 07:35|| 2017-03-29 07:35|| Front Page Top

#6 All I'm saying is that Frank Lloyd Wright had problems designing flat roofs that didn't leak.

You take it from there.

Posted by AlanC 2017-03-29 08:05|| 2017-03-29 08:05|| Front Page Top

#7 And then there's the 'weightlessness' problem for the tenants as it would be tethered to an orbiting asteroid so the velocity factor comes into play.

And, AlanC, FLW had leaking problems with almost ALL of his roofing systems.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-03-29 08:37|| 2017-03-29 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Lovely. I wonder just how long this thing would last before some gang of Muzzies hopped up on jihad figures out that if they can hijack a jetliner and crash it into this thing at 40,000 feet, they can send the lower 7 or so miles of it crashing to Earth?

Allahu Akhbar!!!

Posted by Dave D. 2017-03-29 10:38|| 2017-03-29 10:38|| Front Page Top

#9 31,068 miles (50,000 km) above the Earth– and the only way to leave is by parachute.

There do they find people like the writer?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-29 10:59|| 2017-03-29 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 J-school.

Posted by Pappy 2017-03-29 11:21|| 2017-03-29 11:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Very nice then. I'm going to place your proposal over in my 'make a longer breathing oxygen tube by super-gluing two small sections together' department.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-03-29 11:23|| 2017-03-29 11:23|| Front Page Top

#12 There is one orbiting the earth in stable orbit now, but it never gets closer than 9 million miles. So they're gonna need a bigger cable. Link

Posted by Bobby 2017-03-29 12:56|| 2017-03-29 12:56|| Front Page Top

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