{"id":12237,"date":"2012-08-22T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2012-08-22T03:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T08:00:33","slug":"the-skys-the-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12237","title":{"rendered":"The Sky's the Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is There a Limit to How Tall Buildings Can Get?<\/a><\/p>\n

Ask a building professional or skyscraper expert and they’ll tell you there are many limitations that stop towers from rising ever-higher. Materials, physical human comfort, elevator technology and, most importantly, money all play a role in determining how tall a building can or can’t go.<\/p>\n

But surely there must be some physical limitations that would prevent a building from going up too high. We couldn’t, for example, build a building that reached the moon because, in scientific terms, moon hit building and building go boom. But could there be a building with a penthouse in space, beyond earth’s atmosphere? Or a 100-mile tall building? Or even a 1-mile building?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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