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posted by on Thursday March 30 2017, @05:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-why? dept.

Designers Ostap Rudakevych and Masayuki Sono have unveiled a design for a skyscraper that would hang from an orbiting asteroid:

Clouds Architecture Office has unveiled plans for a futuristic skyscraper dubbed the "Analemma Tower." The building would hover majestically above the ground because it would be attached -- wait for it -- to an actual asteroid, in space, that is forcibly put into orbit around the earth.

If that's not enough to digest, consider that your exact address in this pendulous pad could be anywhere on Earth. The tower will be suspended via high-strength cabling from an asteroid and placed in "eccentric geosynchronous orbit". In other words, it would be always moving -- residents and visitors would take a daily journey between the northern and southern hemispheres with a prolonged visit over a main "home" point like New York City or Dubai (it's always New York City or Dubai, isn't it?)

[...] Analemma Tower's designer Ostap Rudakevych told CNN that the tower could be made of durable and lightweight materials such as carbon fiber and aluminum. Advances in cable engineering would be needed to achieve the cable strength required to support the structure. Power would come from space based solar panels that have a constant exposure to sunlight. Water for the tower will be captured from clouds and rainwater and maintained in a semi-closed loop system.
As proposed the top of the tower sits at 32,000m and would be expected to reach speeds of 300mph as it travels through the sky.

Elysium 1.0?

Also at NBC and BGR.


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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday March 30 2017, @07:54AM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday March 30 2017, @07:54AM (#486371) Journal

    Seriously! Choose between high, low colonic, or, geostationary La Grange. It is all the same to us, since we are a capitalist company, and as long as you pay in advance, . . . . .

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:16AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:16AM (#486382)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma [wikipedia.org]

    They're speaking your language! Sad!

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:24AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:24AM (#486385) Journal

      Sad? You say that like you think I did not know! Very sad. (Oh, while we are "on it", so to speak, put an "or" between the geostationary and La Grange, as they are not remotely the same things.)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @09:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @09:59AM (#486411)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

      Oh so just another english word with the anal in it. Sorry my bad.

      But (butt?)... while we are "on it" so to spake. The shape of that solar analemma is reminiscent of the overall impression given by a woman's vulva and anus. Also the wikipedia article does specify:

      , it can be applied to other celestial bodies as well.

      just saying...