>A New York architecture firm is taking experimental design out of this world with a plan to hang a skyscraper from an asteroid that would roam between the northern and southern hemispheres.
The Analemma Tower, which Cloud Architecture Office is calling the “world’s tallest building ever,” would hang from the sky, suspended by air cables attached to an asteroid.
It would travel a figure-eight route over the Earth’s surface, slowing its orbit over New York City, and returning to the same point every 24 hours, according to the company’s initial design plans.
Imagine al-Qaeda hijack a skyscraper to crash it into civilian airliners. The horror
Xavier Reed
>Pay 15$ to get to the deck and take pictures of earth plebejans.
Jonathan Torres
it would crash into the andes if it was at the equator, or new york because new york can't have a perfectly geostationary orbit
Sebastian Hughes
What I found funny too is that the picture shows those few steel cables holding all that up. I think it would be impossible to even ground that thing unless the rock was absolutely enormous even if it magically hovered still.
Easton Price
Why not just make it a fucking space elevator at that point? You'd make a lot more money if you did.
Elijah Edwards
>inspired by DUUUUDE WEED LMAO
Lucas Reed
Everything about that thing is fucking impossible. I'm wondering if maybe this was just some marketing gag where they come up with designs that sound interesting but are impossible and the media was just retarded and took it serious.
Dominic Hughes
They didn't even account for Earth's gravity, did they? Tidal forces would rip that shit in half
Thomas Diaz
so its an atmosphere skimming orbital tether with an asteroid as a counterweight ? sounds retarded as fuck desu, would take the entire budget of all the planet's nations to build\keep afloat.
Mason Harris
fuck I can't stop laughing on pol this morning between this and the fyrefestival threads
Isaiah Morgan
>actual photograph >concept art
Eli Roberts
They're planning on changing the trajectory of an asteroid or creating a new asteroid and making it a satellite?
Blake Bennett
>terrorists hijack the building >destroy the cables when it's above NYC >hundereds of thousands die
James Allen
>It would travel a figure-eight route over the Earth’s surface, slowing its orbit over New York City, and returning to the same point every 24 hours, according to the company’s initial design plans.
EH?
>circumference of the earth/ 24 >approx 25,000 miles / 24 = 1042mph
Thats almost fucking 1700 kilometers an hour..
Good luck slowing down enough to drop off at NY.
Carter Brown
garbage pr bullshit
i read seveneves too faggot
Joseph Davis
>BAN ASSAULT TOWERS
Sebastian Moore
Too bad a project like this would cost billions if not trillions. It's also impossible with current technology.
Jeremiah Scott
>superstructure moving over 1000 miles an hour across most of the earth
Probably the single most dangerous object ever created
Eli Robinson
This wont happen, nobody is willing to spend the trillions that this would cost
Won't happen, this isn't a real proposal, architects have too much time making silly models in 3ds max
Xavier Hughes
>coworker lets one rip >open the window to get rid of the stench >shredded by the air currents
Ryder Myers
Muh brain
Anthony Rogers
are you a moron? opening the window in an ordinary skyscraper would have you and everyone inside sucked out of the building. theres a reason those windows arent made to open
Zachary Davis
how the fuck would the asteroid remain stationary?
Ryan Cruz
>thundercuck
Nathan Bell
architects design weird stuff then mechanical engineers have to see whether it's possible
Jeremiah Ramirez
These people should just kill themselves for even having such a stupid idea let alone telling other people about it
Jack Mitchell
No it's just the shitty quality that makes it seem fake.
Colton Moore
How the fuck does commuting work?
Colton Parker
>inspired by DUUUUDE WEED LMAO m8 I don't think even Quentin isn't this stupid
Jaxon Rogers
>how the fuck would the asteroid remain stationary?
If it returns to same point every 24 hours it can't be stationary, it would be traveling at about 1700 kilometers an hour
Gabriel Ross
how fucking retarded are these people? seriously, how in the FUCK are they making money
Aiden Morris
Could probably be done. But would cost more that all buildings in New York combined.
What's better. Spend 200 trillion dollars to build another New York. Or build 1 upside down skyscarper?
Brayden Gutierrez
>It would travel a figure-eight route over the Earth’s surface, slowing its orbit over New York City, and returning to the same point every 24 hours, according to the company’s initial design plans.
What the fuck, how does anyone think you can just simply slow down the orbit without the whole thing falling down
Owen Jackson
small problem of where are they going to get the asteroid from
Landon Mitchell
It wouldnt only cost 200 trillion to build, it would easily crash into new york city and kill millions
So really it's paying 200 trillion to destroy new york city
Nicholas Powell
>Usual hurricane on the east coast >can't stop a fucking astroid so the building goes through it >stars swinging wildly >destroys every city it floats above like a massive wrecking ball
Adam Adams
>So really it's paying 200 trillion to destroy new york city
Sounds tempting.
Kevin Brown
>try to capture an asteroid large enough to anchor a building down to NYC >Asteroid descends and destroys NYC >new real estate market in NYC
Jackson Campbell
> At work, throwing chair through window out of frustration.
> Everybody out
Angel Rodriguez
What the fuck is this
Juan Collins
>skyscraper moving 1,000/mph flies through a hurricane
whats the worst that can happen
Anthony Parker
>He'll do it you know
Connor Brooks
If you hate the city that much, you can build a nuke for 1/100000th the cost
Jordan Gutierrez
Nice clickbait
Noah Cruz
>begin building it >asteroid crashes down to earth due to building
Love it
Ryan Hernandez
So, um.... What about air resistance?
Julian Baker
Clickbait is having a misleading title to lure you into an article
This is an actual story that dozens of publications have reported on
It's just the worst architectural concept of all time
Samuel Moore
In order to do this you need a large asteroid that orbits earth(none now)
The sky scrapper would create too much atmospheric drag and would eventually pull in the asteroid and the skyscraper on a collision with earth
Ethan Rivera
You sure? Don't remember anyone on the twin towers getting sucked out by anything except explosives.
Why? Seriously for what reason? Between how fucking expensive this would be and the obvious implications it would bring, who the fuck thinks this is an actual idea?
Charles Sanders
Actually, if it actually stays still while moving like that, won't it create huge destructive winds?
Eli King
it's gonna get 9/11'd pretty hard if it ever exists
Jeremiah Phillips
>stock market crashes >everyone jumps out the window >float into space and explode
THE FUTURE IS NOW
Gavin Barnes
Probably. There's more problems with this idea than I can count
Kayden Allen
A fucking floating building that costs the price of NYC. Why not just charge people for transportation to wherever the fuck the figure 8 goes all day, hypothetically
Justin James
Science, not even once
Chase Sanders
i found the blueprints to this company's design of this supposed asteroid skyscraper
Joshua Bailey
yeah fuck it all, imma go and make 12 trap thread, 4 roll your waifu threads and to top it all of how about some good ol banana thread :)
Christopher King
>Actually, if it actually stays still while moving like that, won't it create huge destructive winds?
What? You don't have any flying skycrapers in your city that go fly over faster than the speed of sound??
Justin Robinson
Most dangerous kind of subjective, but it would definitely have more kinetic energy than any manmade object. Right now #1 is the ISS.
Connor White
Why this, and not a space-elevator???
Dylan Ward
Sup Forums allows news posts. This is a news story
Jose Foster
Just because the building is upsidown doesn't mean gravity is, too.
Mason Peterson
>this The guys that conceived this either are mentally challenged, have just finished gender studies and decided they would like to play minecraft in real life, most definetely have no clue about anything involved in making and keeping it from destroying itself and everything on earth, or just want easy money. I'm pretty sure feminists would argue that it looks a lot like a dick so they would bitch about it.
Hudson Ross
Castlevania, I'm having a boner
Benjamin Bell
>float into space and explode WE AUSTRALIA NOW
Colton Gutierrez
The building will probably have an elevator, so it's close enough
Lincoln Butler
>A fucking parasite
Zachary Hall
this has already been debunked many times by people who know what they are talking about
Wyatt Miller
He's from the southern hemisphere. Gravity is different there. It's upside down
