Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper? - Stefan Al" video.

  1. Is Wales still the YSU for area?
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  2. You've constructed some sort of new language using bits of English. I don't think anyone speaks it yet.
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  3. Weight and impact are two entirely different things, when the beams between the 94th and 95th floors finally weakened enough to give way you had 15 entire floors smash down onto the 94th floor, there's not a material on Earth that is going to stop that impact turning into a cascade that collapses through every floor below.
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  4. At 1600 metres a mile is closer to 2km than it is to 1km
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  5. They are building a 1km tall skyscraper so I'll bet we have something 1600m tall being built by 2035. It'll just require a huge footprint to steady it and considering the size of that footprint (and the cost of land)I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to minimise it by making it a building on four legs - each one a leaning skyscraper of it's own that merge at about the 400m mark and then taper up together towards a point. Like the Eiffel Tower but five times taller and full of offices, restaurants and rich people.
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  6. Above 30 stories you need to rely on cranes that are attached to the building and climb up the side of them - the crane builds a floor and then slides up and attaches to the side of that floor to build the next floor.
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  7. No, we won't, we've only just reached 1 kilometer which is less than two thirds of a mile.
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  8. Surely it would be one floor on top of another like most other skyscrapers, no?
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