688 metres and climbing. Dubai is building (or rather is buying as the guys actually doing the work are from every where but Dubai) the world's undisputed tallest phallus. I really hope they put a big red light on the top. No doubt they are heading for 700 metres as that would make a nice easy to remember figure. I'd love to go to the top floor and see the view, but I suspect an urban city in a desert might not be all that exciting.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Barad dûr!
688 metres and climbing. Dubai is building (or rather is buying as the guys actually doing the work are from every where but Dubai) the world's undisputed tallest phallus. I really hope they put a big red light on the top. No doubt they are heading for 700 metres as that would make a nice easy to remember figure. I'd love to go to the top floor and see the view, but I suspect an urban city in a desert might not be all that exciting.
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I wonder if we can build a tall building by making it wide.
Like a ziggerat.
Or one of those orbit elevators, or beanstalks, or whatever they're called in science fiction. Maybe that'd count.
Certainly you can. The Great Pyramid at Giza was the worlds tallest building for thousands of years.
A modern version would have to be pretty wide though. Perhaps like one of those city buildings called arcology's that sci fi authors lve so much. I believe the Japanese have a design to build something along these lines in Tokyo.
I've always thought arcology's sound like Hell on Earth. One giant ghetto. I'd hate to live in one.
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