New York Architects Plan Enormous Skyscraper Hanging From An Asteroid In Space

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Source: Forbes

Mar 29, 2017 @ 06:36 AM New York Architects Plan Enormous Skyscraper Hanging From An Asteroid In Space

Brid-Aine Parnell, Contributor

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The quest to cram ever more human beings into ever-decreasing square footage of city real estate continues with a skyscraper suspended from an asteroid.

A New York architecture firm is proposing a design for the worlds tallest building Analemma Tower, which would hang down from the sky suspended by air cables attached to an asteroid.

Analemma inverts the traditional diagram of an earth-based foundation, instead depending on a space-based supporting foundation from which the tower is suspended. This system is referred to as the Universal Orbital Support System (UOSS), Clouds Architecture Office said in a statement.*

By placing a large asteroid into orbit over earth, a high strength cable can be lowered towards the surface of earth from which a super tall tower can be suspended. Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its final location. ... This portability would allow the company to construct the tower in the sky over Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, which the company says has proven to be a specialist in tall building construction at one fifth the cost of New York City construction. Clouds Architecture Office then plans to move the finished tower to New York.

* http://www.cloudsao.com/ANALEMMA-TOWER

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http://www.cloudsao.com/ANALEMMA-TOWER

Analemma inverts the traditional diagram of an earth-based foundation, instead depending on a space-based supporting foundation from which the tower is suspended. This system is referred to as the Universal Orbital Support System (UOSS). By placing a large asteroid into orbit over earth, a high strength cable can be lowered towards the surface of earth from which a super tall tower can be suspended. Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its final location. The proposal calls for Analemma to be constructed over Dubai, which has proven to be a specialist in tall building construction at one fifth the cost of New York City construction.
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Analemma can be placed in an eccentric geosynchronous orbit which would allow it to travel between the northern and southern hemispheres on a daily loop. The ground trace for this pendulum tower would be a figure eight, where the tower would move at its slowest speed at the top and bottom of the figure eight allowing the possibility for the towers occupants to interface with the planets surface at these points. The proposed orbit is calibrated so the slowest part of the towers trajectory occurs over New York City.
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[Renew Deal]

1. I've seen that movie

[BumRushDaShow]

12. or that episode

[jberryhill]

2. I suppose the sewage just drops out of the bottom

[COLGATE4]

4. That's part of the plan. Trump decides what part of the US

has him pissed off at the moment and - voila, we move the SKYscraper over it until they see the light. Then, off to the next 'sanctuary' city...

[packman]

7. True Trickle Down

Gifts from the rich to those below

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. It's nuts. A space elevator would make much more sense and would be more feasible.

A space elevator would be in one place. This monstrosity would be a roving navigation nightmare and a menace to the ground it passes over. Stresses would age the cabling a hundred times faster than a space elevator.

[HuskyOffset]

5. in addition...

...the problem we have building a space elevator today is that no currently known material is strong enough. I think theoretical carbon nanotubes would be strong enough, but we cannot manufacture them at the scale needed (if I'm remembering correctly.) So, good luck with that skyscraper (or should it be called an earthscraper?)

[cemaphonic]

9. Yeah, the shear involved in a structure that is both in LEO and the lower atmosphere is terrifying.

Not to mention, safely shepherding a large asteroid into Earth orbit is not exactly a trivial problem.

Fun thought exercise, but this is self-promotion, not a serious proposal.

[packman]

6. Yah, sure

I'm still waiting for the air-car and personal jet packs




I ponder and think - Why not just build the damn thing ON the asteroid?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. "Why not just build the damn thing ON the asteroid?"

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Then there would be no clear way to levy real estate taxes.

[FrodosNewPet]

16. You know what really burns my ass?

A flame throwing jetpack attached to my back!

[wordpix]

10. no doubt a Russian money laundering scheme - we can send all

Russia-linked ppl there once it's built, by that time the sentences will be done.

[meadowlander]

11. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm sure air traffic control in the 13 countries this thing will be flying over will absolutely love this idea.

Also, how are you meant to get on and off so that you can go to work/school/shopping/visiting anyone who doesn't live in the same tower?

And you'd have to have massive water supply and wastewater tanks and fly up to resupply/drain them constantly. And solar arrays the size of a state to provide electricity.

This would be a cool idea for colonising a gas planet though. Except basically you need to just build a space station that's self-contained.

[Blue_Tires]

13. ...SO WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THIS SKY TOWER AND MAKE DUBAI PAY FOR IT

[snooper2]

14. helicopter plus a long cable equals a lot of fun

[tblue37]

15. No. Just . . . no. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. If the asteroid's orbit is eccentric (and it has to be to spend more time above the Northern

Hemisphere), then it varies considerably in distance from the centre of the earth - and thus the surface (plus, of course, there's the equatorial bulge which doesn't seem to feature in their diagram). I'm not convinced their calculations are right.

Plus, it looks from the diagram that the highest speed over the ground is perhaps 1200 km/h - possibly supersonic at altitude. The forces on something dangling in the atmosphere at that speed will be immense.