Firm Floats Plan to Hang Colossal Skyscraper From an Asteroid

Fucking stupid

It's a good idea and will be a huge success, just like Mars One

>>18832021
How will it be the world's tallest building when its not attached to the world? Checkmate.

>>18832026
its comically stupid

like they have no idea what physics are

>>18832028
ahh these sweet fantacies told to make us believe we are in future

The earth is flat

>>18832021
thats complete and utter bullshit

How would you get into the building

Like, if you work there, would you have to take a space shuttle and ender by the base of the tower, or would there be some way to fling people into the tower from Earth..?

>>18832304

Your Skull is Hollow.

meanwhile in the real world, stuck on 1950s designed road and city infrastructure inside a 1920s combustion vehicle using 1960s communication wearing 1850s materials and consuming 1700s oven baked snack food.

Holy shit guys, the future is finally here.

I believe in the dangletower

What the fuck.

What happens if a plane crashes into it?

>>18832021
How does it get utilities?

>>18832586
>Anniversary of 9/11
>Fly plane through cables when it's dangling over NYC.
>Dangletower turns into an asteroid.

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>>18832021
for what purpose

>>18832044
OK, /x/, explain physics, please.

>>18832021
Looks like April fools day has come early this year.

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>>18832021
wtf?

Yeah right faggots. It won't work. It would fall to Earth. That's just science.

>>18832890
citation needed

>>18832890

It wont work because they would have to have an asteroid in a stable Geosynchronous Orbit.

They dont know how to do that.

>>18832892
The faggot who got hit on the head with an apple says it isn't possible.

>>18832564
Zoz'd at dangletower

>>18832021
Uh. If this happens, then we probably are on a flat fucking earth with a dome. Do they want us to believe in geostationary asteroids? Kek. They don't give a fuck anymore. Good sign.

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>>18832886

>>18832890
NOT IF YOU MADE IT GO SUPER FAST. ::DDDD

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>>18832021
When people slowly start learning about the existence cloaked cities in the skies, they just announce this casually.

>>18832967
The Jetsons were a hint. We are, wherever they never go near. The ground. They like to challenge us with absurdity. This is the straw that breaks the camels back. Nobody with half a working brain will be able to accept this.

>>18832916
On the contrary, the guy who got hit on the head with the apple explained how the moon flies around the earth without ever falling into it.

>>18832951
We have geostationary satellites.

Why do you think geostationary asteroids are impossible?

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>>18832972
Flintstones meet the Jetsons. Truman meets the Director. As things become harder to hide, people will grab on tighter to what is easiest to accept. Nature of humanity.

>>18832985
Because you actually have to launch the thing into orbit.

>>18832985
I suppose. But it seems odd that this will work with 30,000 satellites whizzing around the earth. Oh wait, they must synchronize every single one of them to never collide.

>>18832993
Well presumably they'd start with an asteroid already in space, and just maneuver it into orbit.

But that's just an expensive engineering feat, not a physical impossibility.

>build it on a fucking asteroid
wat

It must be possible if a group of the world's super geniuses say it is.

>>18832628
Can't we just do cool shit? Why is everyone so against cool shit?

>>18833000
>they must synchronize every single one of them so they never collide

Nice thing about space is that it's very big. So that's not really an issue.

>>18833011
Let's not get carried away.

These are architects, not super geniuses.

Still more educated than /x/ though.

It would take years to finish and a bunch of towelheads would destroy it in a day.

It would need laser gun turrets and a constantly changing no fly zone.

>>18832370
Love it.

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Of all the useless things. Kek.

You would need a helicopter just to go to McDonald's.

>>18832591
Designated shitting balconies.

>>18833019
Educated clearly doesn't always mean intelligent.

>>18833045
Mmm, nah, in this context they're pretty much synonymous.

>>18832630
The earth is a sphere.

>>18832992
these info graphs are fuckingstupid.
just show a the actual data for fuck sakes

>>18832992
That's neat, thanks for posting.

>>18832985

We have Never moved an asteroid into a Geosynchronous orbit. We dont know how to do it.

If we did know how we could capture Asteroids and mine them for their precious metals.

But if you had an asteroid in orbit and you wanted to attach a building to it that went all the way to the surface of the planet then dont be surprised if we call you crazy.

Its an impossible task.

How could you make an asteroid with a building all the way from its orbit to the surface of the planet.

And if you could do that why would you do it.

It would be better to make a Dyson Sphere.

>>18833054
Yes. And?

>>18833073
>we have never moved an asteroid into geosynchronous orbit

No. That's true. That doesn't mean it's impossible.

>we don't know how to do it

You put some rockets on it and push it there.

>better to make a Dyson sphere

Well now that is much, much more difficult than putting an asteroid in geosynchronous orbit.

It's also probably, literally, physically impossible.

>>18832021
>lets build a fuckhuge tower that zips through the atmosphere at orbital velocities
DUDE

Would the side that's built into the asteroid be considered the "basement" even if it's above the earth?
And at which floor would gravity switch, and stuff starts going upside down?

>>18833045
Yeah, there is no correlation between the two whatsoever.

Why a tower though? Nobody has a jetpack to get up there. Large buildings seem impractical.

A small building would be pretty cool.

>>18833178
>>18833005

>Not even bothered to read the article

>>18832021
kek

>>18832327
Helicopter to lower level landing pads

>>18832980
That's because the moon is outside of Earth's atmosphere, it's not affected by it's gravity. Do you retards seriously believe such a thing is physically possible?

>dubai
well if anyone's got the money for it, it's those batshit oil sheiks

>>18833097

But their plan is more then just putting an asteroid into geosynchronous orbit, that is actually the easy part.

The hard part it attaching a building to it that goes all the way to the surface while still keeping the asteroid in orbit.

They might as well attach it to the moon.

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>>18833481
>That's because the moon is outside of Earth's atmosphere, it's not affected by it's gravity.
I'm not falling for this one

>>18833517
Now you are talking.

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Hmm...

>>18833481
Why would the moon fly around the earth then, enlightened one?

>>18833075
And you're queer. zing

>>18833481
Yeahh outside of atmosphere =/= outside of gravitational pull. 3/10 for making us respond though.

>>18833544
It's affected by Earth's gravitational field but that's not enough to pull it in. This tower though is supposed to enter the actual atmosphere and will be this affected by the rising gravity levels and sooner or later will pull the rest of the asteroid inside the atmosphere.

>>18833681
What if you don't phisically connect the asteroid to the elevator?

>>18833688
And how would you build that? Same thing will apply anyway though, although the asteroid itself won't be pulled in.

>>18832354
hollow skull theory has been born.
you do not have a brain like shown in pics
all brain pics are fake.
only way to prove this is to open skull
I opened my skull and saw nothing.

>>18833054
alright fine I'd do cool shit

>>18833701
Well, probably because you are not a scientist and your not as smart as NASA rocketscientists.

This has been on the front page of tons of major News publications today, why would they advertise it if it is not real? Well it is real and they are going to have it completed in six years from now.
https://www.google.com/#q=asteroid+skyscraper&*

All the people complaining saying that it isn't possible are just ignorant, they are probably the same people who said that going to the moon was not possible and we did it. China is just starting missions to go there now and we did that decades ago. So this new building project seems very practical to me. I would donate some monies to speed it up a year.

>>18832901
This.

>>18833701
Superconductors, you use magnets to keep it close enough to give the structure stability, but not close enough to crash with it, like an artificial gravitational pull.

>>18833745
>News sites never say bullshit!
>Doesn't matter if physics prove it's not possible
It will be fun to see them try in any case

>>18833517
>all the way to the surface

They never said that

The speed required for geosync orbit would be way too fast for it to work within our atmosphere as the friction from the wind and air would sheer it right off. It "could" maybe be done in the mesosphere or thermosphere, but I highly doubt it, nevermind the fact it'd be right where all the solar radiation is...

Tl;dr We could trap an asteroid in geosync, but never that close to the ground.

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>>18832021
Isn't it a little to early for April Fools?

>>18832021
Because that's real fucking smart.

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>mfw thinking of this thing knocking over random buildings and airplanes as it passes by

>>18832021
what do I think of it? I'm elated. up til now I thought I was too stupid to be an architect. now I see I'll do just fine.

Simple problem with this

Faat tower + air = drag = insane friction that will melt the tower and deteriorate the orbit of the structure until it smashes into the ground and kills everything in a 50 mile radius

>>18832021
>NBC confirmed for "fake news"
>put asteroid into orbit - gravity pulls the fucker into us - we die
>literally the most retarded thing I have read so far this year

>>18833100
SPACE

>>18832630
fuck i dont need a degree or hell barely even a highschool education to tell you an asteroid isnt just going to casually float around the earth with a big ass building hanging down towards the surface of the earth

>>18832621
no what will happen is the building will crash into a plane

>>18833026
well at least they cant car bomb it

>>18834313
your job is to clean off the dead birds

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This can only end well.

>>18833745
But anon we cant go back to the moon!

>>18834024
this.

cant wait for it to crash into the earth destroying the city of Dubai like a modern day Tower of Babel

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>>18834491

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I don't get it, so how is it being built up if it is supposed to be hanging by the asteroid. The article says it is a 20-mile high skyscraper. The worlds highest building isn't even close to a mile high.

>>18832021
This will never happen for these reasons How do you wash the windows on such a tower?
How is the plumbing set up? How is the electrical set up?, How is the gas set up? What about all the waste, a tower that large would have loads of waste.

In capitalist Murica, building floats over you.

>>18835949
Well geosynchronous orbits are at 26,000 miles, so if the "skyscraper" is 20 miles long, there's your answer.

>>18834491
Do you know what an orbit is? I mean even people with high school educations should know that.

What will the employees do when the force of gravity isn't pulling them down?

well, hey /x/sauce, michael here, today we will going to learn something about rigid objects

imagine a wooden stick that is 1m long and about 5mm thick. You will be able to swing the stick and move it in any way you want, and it will barely bend.

hovewer, if you make it proportionally bigger, let's say 3m long and 1.5cm thick stick, it will be bending quite significantly and you will be risking lifting it off without making it snap.

this teaches us a lesson on rigidness of objects: it doesn't scale that well. if you make a 10000 km wooden stick that is 50 km thick, and throw it into space, it will be so weak, it will act almost like a liquid: turn into a spherical object.

this is the same thing why you would be able to knock over a skyscraper model and it will land on its side, but if you knock over a real skyscraper with proportional force it will collapse in a way that reminds you more of a sand castle.

this is why you can't build megastructures: the material should be ridiculously rigid. add to that that on all different heights the gravitational pull from earth is different and different momentum is needed to sustain the orbit. this makes the whole project beyond impossible for current state of material technology.

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>>18832304
You're clinically retarded. Weather you're trolling or not.

>>18832021
It's not 1st of April yet

>>18836413
>Weather

>>18832021
people are dumb.

>>18832021
loool imagine how many trips they would have to make into space to drop off building supplies. not to mention the fact that the weight of the sky scraper would throw the asteroids orbit out of wack. plus the resistance of the atmosphere would cause extreme heat at the middle and upper levels levels because the would still be traveling at 1000+ mph good luck creating a heat shield/insulation that can tolerate that heat for more than a few hours.

>>18836147
Their souls will become free, oldtype.

>>18832043
kek

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>>18836413
>. Weather you're trolling or not.
the weather is definitely trolling IMO

>>18833820
So what, they'll just make a building on an asteroid? If that's the case then there shouldn't be any fuss about it, that's boring as fuck.
It only gets interesting if it enters the earth, since it's growing gravity will pull the building and asteroid inside.

>>18834445
Fucking this.

>>18836405
Bless you anon

So if earth was spinning at 1000 MPh around the sun and and spiraling through the galaxy how the fuck is this going to work?

Earth flat confirmed. The only ones not being lied to about it are the super elite rich and the Saudi oil tycoons

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>>18832021
Well the only way I see this working is if they build the base of the tower upside down hanging from the firmament.

Y'all forgetting about April Fools?

>>18832021
>NBC news
>Nothing But Crap
Its almost worse than CNN, the counterfeit news network

>>18839763
This article was published days ago, unfortunately it's real.

"The plans don't say exactly how people would get on and off the building, though one illustration seem to show people parachuting from the tower to the ground."

This company is full of idiots.

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>>18832630
>>18832985
This would not work unless the skyscraper was used to generate lift. It would not 'hang' in the sense of exerting a downward force on the asteroid, but instead push the asteroid up by some physiochemical means.

An asteroid stays in orbit by falling along a tangent line perpendicular to the surface of the earth. The velocity of an asteroid moves the body forward, while falling along a curve, so it can appear to stay in the same spot relative to the earth, like in the case of geostationary orbit.

The problem with the idea of hanging a skyscraper is that you shift the moment of inertia towards the earth: so that the arc trajectory now accelerates the body to collide with the planet.

However, you could have a space station with a space elevator that would extend from the ground up and downward from orbit.

>>18836438
It his a April fools and completely made up? Then why is it on the news for then? Are they going to build it or not?

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>dude
>lets go through all the effort to make a space elevator
>but get this
>we dont connect it to the surface
>and we wont make it an elevator
>my dude, you are a genius

>>18839914
Please have a seat /x/. We're going to go over your quartly performance assessment. We have to talk about your numbers. They simply aren't making the cut. We need a board with ambition.
Take a look at /b/ for example. Fuck he may be retarded and we don't fully condone his methods, but he pushes our product like blacks sling dope.
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Don't make me give your position to /pol/, he earns board of the month consistently.
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Just do your job. This is your first and final notification regarding your stats. Next time it'll be your ass. Don't make us regret keeping you around.

God you people are dumb! Being a physics teacher I was about to explain to you the physics I teach my 14 year old pupils that would illustrate how silly this idea is... but life is too short - I'll settle for reminding you that it's April 1st.

>>18832021
Bye honey, I'm gonna buy groceriAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh-

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>>18833705
>towers in the sky
>people without brains

It begins...

>>18832967
That picture is fake and you know it.

>>18841035
Explain to us what you told your students please. Apparently half the country believes it is real and easily possible

>>18841143
any satellite that has hopes of being in a stable orbit needs to be well out of the atmosphere - a big fuck off building hanging down into the atmosphere would be slowed down by air resistance, and so crash onto the Earth's surface.

>>18841185
oh yeah - and air resistance aside - a geosynchronous orbit is about 36,000 km above the surface (that's not far off the circumference of the planet). Hanging a cable from that height would mean a shitload of cable. Probably easier and cheaper to just build on the ground!

>>18832901
Not to mention the asteroid itself wouldn't habe a geosynchronous orbit, but would have to have one after the tower was constructed on it to account for extra gravity from tower. Not to mention having to do math to determine how every single mission to start building would have to account for literally every gram on the asteroid. Otherwise it's mass and therefore gravity totally wind up fucked

>>18841224
As much of a pain in the arse as it sounds that actually do-able! They did it in building the space station!

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>>18832021
>Anal Enema Tower

>>18841224
Well the article shows that the building would move in a figure eight, it does circle the planet, it goes to New York and Dubai back and forth. The builder says it would be feesable because building and living on land is more expensive because of over population, we don't have that much land left and people need to live somewhere.

>>18841233
Right, but the space station didn't have to be knocked off it's own orbit, have it's geology examined to determine if one side has conposition of more mass to decide to build on (actually this one sort of applies), doesn't take into consideration weather on earth and air friction, constant gasses in the atmosphere and how those changing masses over time through natural and human interference obstruct the movement of said tower, what all people bring on board with them that throws off weight, etc. Literally millions of differences

>>18841241
More proof the article is written by someone on the wind up - the figure of 8 path is what satellites in low earth orbit do (well, kinda). Such a thing would not be called a geosynchronous orbit.

>>18841249
I think we're having different arguments. I'm the guy who said it's an April fools joke. No way such a thing is feasible. All I'm saying is that slight changes in mass wouldn't affect the orbit significantly - as is the case with ISS.

>>18841259
It probably is an April fool's joke. But at least to your other point: in time, all mass matters, no matter how tiny. If there were only two bodies with mass in the entire universe, billions of light years apart, then given enough time they still would collide. Even though their attraction via gravity seems infinitely small they still would "tug", and again, given enough time they would eventually collide. So to apply that to the hanging tower you'd see that given enough time (albeit it possibly millions or more of yeara), eventually it would make a big enough difference and send the tower crashing to earth

>>18841143
Not him but half the country is retarded, electing Trump being one of the many examples. I don't know what the fuck they're feeding g you there but you seem to have lost all your brain cells.

>>18841269
Yeah you're right it would. You'd need to do the calculations but it might be so small as to be insignificant. Kinda like how the moon is moving away at 4cm/year. We might well all be dead before anyone gives a fuck.

>>18832967
That's a fucking.

On the bright side, if it drags the asteroid down into the atmosphere, it will hopefully fall on the United States and do this world a favor.

>>18841278
It's not the food it's all that time spent living in zero g skyscrapers.

>>18836405

/thread

>>18841356
The twenty-mile building would probably made of Titanium and some reinforced concrete, whatever the space shuttle is made of, so you know it would be stiff and won't bend like the other poster said. Or plus they could use a stretchy metal like aluminum for the structure, so it could bend but hold together. The website describes the most of the process but the main stuff is probably secret so terrorists can't find out where to attack it.

>>18841286
Maybe you should shoot yourself in the head to do your body a favor.

Same difference.

>>18841438
Aren't you a little sensitive?

ATMOSPHERIC DRAG

>>18841977
did you just assume the atmospheres gender?

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>>18832021
is this a troll or are people fucking stupid?

>>18836113
Yes and it'd ever so slowly get closer to earth.

>>18833000
>Oh wait, they must synchronize every single one of them to never collide.

No, they must synchronize themselves just to stay in orbit, not to evade each other.

>announcing the most stupid idea ever, IN PUBLIC!!!

On another I like the fact that muricans are becoming less afraid to openly show how retarded they are.

>>18832947
Poz'd

>>18842432
It's april 1st anon.
I forgot for a second there too and had to make sure these guys aren't serious in this thread...
Oh wait... They are.. Yup everyone's fucking retarded.

>>18832586
>What happens if a plane crashes into it?
What about a missile strike , like an Iraqie scud missile. Will the building be able to dodge it or would it be 9/11 part two

this is a good idea. i think the only problem would be if the asteroid crashes into the earth but thats unlikely.

At last my life goal has been revealed. I want to live in that, and piss out of the window every day.

>>18843284
Did you even look at the date of the OP, dumbass?