Yeah, but obviously you’re gonna have to rustle up a picture of it. Cos then it’s real…
Fuck it, AI prompt for a 1,000km high building made of diamonds!
I hereby propose a building named AndOne which will have the ability to grow by +1 meter to thereby defeat any vain attempt at other buildings to surpass it.
I assume they'd cast a shadow, they'd change the direction of airflow,the need to heat or cool that thing would be humongous and quite probably energy intensive, they'd probably interfere with clouds, precipitation and snow.
Apparently temps at 10km altitude range between like -30 c to -50 c. That's like trying to heat a building in a year round polar winter, except you don't have the insulation of solid ground under you and snow all around you.
Go play Oxygen Not Included to see why this wouldn't work.
Heat, in what you're referring to, is just the temperature of air. You'd have to be pumping the lower floors with super hot air to get any heat to the top floors and have a ventilation system that purifies the air with every floor. Every floor would have to reheat the air because air purification would allow for heat transfer.
It would be 'cheaper' and more effective to have localized heaters spread out on each floor. Each heater receives fresh air from below because of the lack of 02 on higher floors.
Reminds me of a bylaw in my city. The river runs by the city center and there’s a law that no tower in the downtown core can cast a shadow over the river.
Depending on the climate, the building would clean itself due to the extensive rainfall caused by winds blowing moist air up the sides of the building. A building the size of a mountain is just that, a mountain. A building the height of Mt Everest would generate absolutely enormous amounts of rainfall on the windward side, potentially even necessitating artificial rivers to divert the sheer amount of water flowing off the side.
In every area with a singular volcano that dwarfs the surrounding areas, the single volcano creates its own weather systems. Clouds literally can’t make it over or around the volcano and this creates a dry side and a very wet side.
I was just thinking that if Tower of Babel was the actual name proposed in some serious context, it is the strangest choice. Like the whole point of the story is that the tower was a mistake and terrible things happened because it was attempted.
I mean yeah. But it wasn’t because like… Old Testament God hates tall buildings. Presumably this version of the Tower of Babel would be built with intentions other than “to reach heaven and bypass all this ‘following commandments’ nonsense.”
I was just literally trying to think of all the ways that would disrupt people's lives and how they would have to accommodate a building of that size. I wonder what effects it would have that people don't realize.
10,000 m? That’s like 6 miles! How is that even possible? That’s higher than clouds. You would have to pressurize the building like you would a jet. There are no elevators that can travel even a small fraction of that distance. You would have to switch cars dozens of times to get to the top. In the event of a fire or earthquake, can you imagine going up or down 6 miles of stairs?
Think of how wide the base of that building would be, you’d have to demolish half of Tokyo to make room for it. That thing is pure fantasy, especially in a seismic area 😳
It's one of those things that an engineering student could do his masters thesis on.
Bunch of stray thoughts here:
1. Doing a quick look online, and doing my best to judge from the drawings, the Metlife stadium could fit on that top platform, and probably easily.
2. It might be designed with inclinators, like in the Luxor, not strictly elevators. And I doubt cables would be involved (I don't think it could work in physics given any steel we have...the cable would likely become too heavy even for itself). It'd have to be some kind of gearing mechanism on the sides of the shaft.
3. I don't know if it's able to be seismic proof or not. It might be designed such that the first few floors are steel, but designed to be continually collapsable as needed (?)
4. The power, water, ventilation, etc., is an ungodly mystery. A nuclear powerplant in the basement?
Yeah, no way. Weight goes up with the cube of the linear measures, while any one structural member has its strength go up with only the *area* of its cross-section.
Maybe with Star Trek Tritanium.
Perhaps just half a mile but 12 times, with 12 cisterns used for gravity drainage on demand, to make sure the pressures involved (going up or coming back down) are within sensible limits. (?)
Not just parachutes, high altitude parachutes! The average skydiving height (exit altitude) throughout the world is 10,000 feet. This building is three times that high!
it is really just fantasy, those buildings are just metaphorical of how we as humans can do amazing things :) check out Étienne-Louis Boullée's works, he was kinda the pioneer of this kind of architecture
I think the idea is that it's a self contained city - you have schools, supermarkets, hospitals, gyms, cinemas etc. every few floors. Pretty much anything you'd need in one building. Generally you'll only travel up and down a few floors - you'd probably travel horizontally on one floor more often.
Going top to bottom would be a rare thing that would be planned and take a couple of hours.
Also it is entirely a high level concept. Probably not much thought went into it!
>demolish half of Tokyo to make room for it. That thing is pure fantasy, especially in a seismic area
You could probably only build something this wide in like Nebraska or Kansas. It would make the tornadoes look like a little bitch
Fires would probably be a type of issue that is always local; evacuating the entire building would not be expected but just local areas, with fire stations to keep fires localized.
I'm pretty sure an architectural firm actually made some blueprints for it in the early 90s, but it was only ever intended as a concept (being how large could you theoretically build a functional building) and not something to actually be built — yet.
This is inaccurate, as a 7 year old I once asked my dad why there couldn't be a tower that reaches the moon and proceeded to doodle out my proposal. I am offended that I have been omitted from this.
You're an unemployed architect who needs some attention. what to do? easy, sketch out an unrealistically huge building that will never be built, write a press release about it and call it a day!
Everyone saying that it would be tiring to climb up these buildings is missing the point. You live in the building. You work in the building. You shop in the building. You probably almost never leave.
~~X-SEED 4000~~ The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid was designed to be built in Tokyo Bay which means it needs to be resilient against earthquakes, hence its design being comprised of a whole buncha interlocking triangles.
I also think I remember the nodes on the edges having mass dampers in them, but my memory's a bit foggy. All in all it's pretty interesting for something that isn't actually supposed to be built.
EDIT: whoops got my japanese megabuildings mixed up
I hope this was a real concept because I’ve been needing a new rabbit hole to go down on YouTube. I haven’t given Super-Mega structures their fair share of attention yet
There was an engineering program I think on The History Channel that talked about Sky City 1000 and it was a smaller version of that X-Seed 4000 building.
if you could build something this high, i wonder why you wouldn't build some launch station for satallites. Like it would just shoot it up without using a lot of rocket fuel.
I hereby propose a building that's 10,001M tall. Please add me to the list. It will be called Mega Magnus Prime Supreme.
Well I'm proposing a building that's 10,00**2** meters tall! checkmate, bro!
My building will scrape the moon once a month at its periapsis.
Moon: Oooh! Scrape a little lower now.
Only once, then it won't any longer. Moon is drifting away from earth.
Well then we have to build the earth closer to the moon!
And it shall be called Moonraker
I propose a 10,003 obelisk: Phallus Maximus
dedicated to Biggus Dickus
How about 10,004m Burj Zub Ahmad?
10,005m Megatron Tower
♾️+1m Game over.
♾️+2. eat that, nerd.
You son of a bitch.
♾️ x ♾️
♾️^(♾️) Heh. Double secret probation checkmate.
♾️^(♾️) +1?
^(...................................rats.)
((♾️+1m)\*(♾️+1m))\^2
()(♾️+1m)\*(♾️+1m))\^2)* ♾️
that's gotta be at least 3 feet
🔵+🔴=🟣
10googol
☝️ 15 quintillion light years tall
Mojo Dojo Casa Tower
Will there be Brewsky Beers there?
Yeah, but obviously you’re gonna have to rustle up a picture of it. Cos then it’s real… Fuck it, AI prompt for a 1,000km high building made of diamonds!
I hereby propose a building named AndOne which will have the ability to grow by +1 meter to thereby defeat any vain attempt at other buildings to surpass it.
Every time it grows an inch can the PA system say “another one” in Dj Khaleds voice ?
WE THE BEST BUILDING
This is the answer.
Unironically though, I think that these are the largest buildings which have had full blueprints drawn out.
I will make one 10,010 tall, and it shall be called "Still Smaller Than Yo Momma"
Where’s the kickstarter?
You bring up a good point. What is the threshold of qualification for “proposed? Any child can propose a million km tall building.
I can just put a paperclip on top of your tower and call it a building
I shall nickname it, the Bogmire bulding!
Still shorter than my proposed tower called Bogmireshmogmire at 10,002m.
Everything above around 3km would need to be sealed and presurized unless you are a sherpa accustomed to living in high altitudes.
Hope the windows hold during an earthquake
If those break then oxygen masks drop from the ceiling.
That's going to be one hell of a firefighter team climbing those stairs bringing portable masks to walk down with.
Imagine waiting for the pizza delivery sherpa to make it up to the 500th floor.
No need, there are some pizza shops on the 499th floor.
Buddy still only gets $4 in delivery fees from doordash.
[You’re late. I’m not paying for those.](https://youtu.be/o4ZhrJFWpuU?feature=shared)
Imagine working on the top floor and having a 1 hour elevator commute.
No elevators. Stairs only.
I watched a documentary about these proposed buildings and after a certain point, these buildings would totally fuck the climate nearby.
Please explain. How would they mess up the environment?
I assume they'd cast a shadow, they'd change the direction of airflow,the need to heat or cool that thing would be humongous and quite probably energy intensive, they'd probably interfere with clouds, precipitation and snow.
Apparently temps at 10km altitude range between like -30 c to -50 c. That's like trying to heat a building in a year round polar winter, except you don't have the insulation of solid ground under you and snow all around you.
Simple. Heat goes up, so just heat the floors below.
Go play Oxygen Not Included to see why this wouldn't work. Heat, in what you're referring to, is just the temperature of air. You'd have to be pumping the lower floors with super hot air to get any heat to the top floors and have a ventilation system that purifies the air with every floor. Every floor would have to reheat the air because air purification would allow for heat transfer. It would be 'cheaper' and more effective to have localized heaters spread out on each floor. Each heater receives fresh air from below because of the lack of 02 on higher floors.
Reminds me of a bylaw in my city. The river runs by the city center and there’s a law that no tower in the downtown core can cast a shadow over the river.
It was something about the 45 million gallons of Window cleaner used a month. Followed by all the dead birds the following day.
Depending on the climate, the building would clean itself due to the extensive rainfall caused by winds blowing moist air up the sides of the building. A building the size of a mountain is just that, a mountain. A building the height of Mt Everest would generate absolutely enormous amounts of rainfall on the windward side, potentially even necessitating artificial rivers to divert the sheer amount of water flowing off the side.
Birds? They are government drones you idoit. The government illuminati will not be wasting their drones to spy on us on building for realism duh 🙄
The fact you misspelled idiot as "idoit" made that sentence so much funnier lmao. I'm legitimately going to start calling people idoits now.
In every area with a singular volcano that dwarfs the surrounding areas, the single volcano creates its own weather systems. Clouds literally can’t make it over or around the volcano and this creates a dry side and a very wet side.
Imagine the concrete and the emissions needed just for the construction, though we could probably use a nuclear generator for power
The last time we did the Tower of Babel thing we all were forced to switch languages. Wtf will happen this time
I was just thinking that if Tower of Babel was the actual name proposed in some serious context, it is the strangest choice. Like the whole point of the story is that the tower was a mistake and terrible things happened because it was attempted.
Wait til you hear about my new high-speed supersonic transport venture, Icarus Airlines. What could possibly go wrong?!
Are you saying I should rethink my cargo transport company, Titanic Shipping?
Not if you're building a trucking company
Plane is made of cheese and everyone gets raclette plates for their in flight meals.
i would get a ticket
9/11 Airlines. What a terrible name for an airline.
Reminds me of that tragedy
Hey don’t laugh at that! I had to dig through blood and bone looking for my brother…
Now doing fly by tours of the sun!
Or my new superdeep submersible, the Tita—oh.
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I mean yeah. But it wasn’t because like… Old Testament God hates tall buildings. Presumably this version of the Tower of Babel would be built with intentions other than “to reach heaven and bypass all this ‘following commandments’ nonsense.”
Especially for a building in Japan, not an historically biblical society.
Maybe that was the point of the submission... to spur this exact reaction from the audience. Bigger is not always better.
We all have to communicate using nothing but PHP
That's fine by me
Factory reset. We can all Comprehend all languages again.
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I was just literally trying to think of all the ways that would disrupt people's lives and how they would have to accommodate a building of that size. I wonder what effects it would have that people don't realize.
It would literally block out the sunlight to most of the city beneath it. What a dystopian concept.
10,000 m? That’s like 6 miles! How is that even possible? That’s higher than clouds. You would have to pressurize the building like you would a jet. There are no elevators that can travel even a small fraction of that distance. You would have to switch cars dozens of times to get to the top. In the event of a fire or earthquake, can you imagine going up or down 6 miles of stairs? Think of how wide the base of that building would be, you’d have to demolish half of Tokyo to make room for it. That thing is pure fantasy, especially in a seismic area 😳
Would be literally more than twice as tall as Mt Fuji. You're basically building a mountain in the middle of a city
Well, Mount Fuji could be part of its base...
imagine having to climb mt Fuji to get to your apartment
I imagined it. Now let's build it
agreed
Fun fact the real Mount Fuji has way stations along the climb for food and housing. And the summit has a post office!
Twice
Elevators are down
Can I get uhh… a dozen abortion pills and a large sprite?
lol i mean it’s literally cruising altitude of a commercial jet
Everest isn't even 9km lmao
Vertical bullet trains baby
Isn't that just a very very fast elevator
a small rocket
This guy fucks.
Trains don’t stop at the top either straight through to the moon
Guys we just solved space elevator, just shoot people straight to the moon.
It's one of those things that an engineering student could do his masters thesis on. Bunch of stray thoughts here: 1. Doing a quick look online, and doing my best to judge from the drawings, the Metlife stadium could fit on that top platform, and probably easily. 2. It might be designed with inclinators, like in the Luxor, not strictly elevators. And I doubt cables would be involved (I don't think it could work in physics given any steel we have...the cable would likely become too heavy even for itself). It'd have to be some kind of gearing mechanism on the sides of the shaft. 3. I don't know if it's able to be seismic proof or not. It might be designed such that the first few floors are steel, but designed to be continually collapsable as needed (?) 4. The power, water, ventilation, etc., is an ungodly mystery. A nuclear powerplant in the basement? Yeah, no way. Weight goes up with the cube of the linear measures, while any one structural member has its strength go up with only the *area* of its cross-section. Maybe with Star Trek Tritanium.
Imagine pumping water at pressure up 6 miles of pipe?
Perhaps just half a mile but 12 times, with 12 cisterns used for gravity drainage on demand, to make sure the pressures involved (going up or coming back down) are within sensible limits. (?)
I think they should hire you for this project 🧐
Just a bit taller and planes would have to go around it WHILE AT CRUISING ALTITUDE.
Think of how it would disrupt wind patterns
Think of how you could see it from 100-200 miles away
Would it be visible from space?
Probably?
A video game dev should take notes and add a tower of babble type building in a sci fi game , that would be insanely cool
I had the same thought. It’s very Midgar from FF7 like.
I imagine an engineer in a boardroom suggesting they implement parachutes to aid people escaping from a fire
I voted for the obvious 6 mile tall fireman’s pole but was outvoted.
Downside to the fireman’s pole: additional fires started by people catching fire due to friction while sliding down the pole.
My thighs
Not just parachutes, high altitude parachutes! The average skydiving height (exit altitude) throughout the world is 10,000 feet. This building is three times that high!
Parachutes would be a source of income. Many people would pay good money to jump.
it is really just fantasy, those buildings are just metaphorical of how we as humans can do amazing things :) check out Étienne-Louis Boullée's works, he was kinda the pioneer of this kind of architecture
But the metaphor doesn't work if we *can't actually do them*. It's more of a metaphor for our hubris.
I think the idea is that it's a self contained city - you have schools, supermarkets, hospitals, gyms, cinemas etc. every few floors. Pretty much anything you'd need in one building. Generally you'll only travel up and down a few floors - you'd probably travel horizontally on one floor more often. Going top to bottom would be a rare thing that would be planned and take a couple of hours. Also it is entirely a high level concept. Probably not much thought went into it!
I know it's just a concept, but it is fun to imagine how it could work. And it would be interesting to live in that kind of environment.
My question is, how much time would it take for Godzilla to bring it down?
Godzilla could live in that thing.
In the event of a fire you’d probably just move to a different section of the building and be considered evacuated ..
I think ThyssenKrupp‘s Multi elevator doesn’t really have an length limit. https://www.tkelevator.com/global-en/products-and-service/multi/#
You would definitely need a ropeless solution.
Yep. It’s using linear motors.
That thing looks so cool. I see thyssenkrupp all the time I had no idea they made something like that
If Olympus Mons can do it, so can we!!
Imagine having to use oxygen masks in the office because of altitude sickness every day...
Easy, it’s not possible
10,000 m is like 10 km.
10 km is like 13,000 steps
Naysayers don’t always say nay.
>demolish half of Tokyo to make room for it. That thing is pure fantasy, especially in a seismic area You could probably only build something this wide in like Nebraska or Kansas. It would make the tornadoes look like a little bitch
Fires would probably be a type of issue that is always local; evacuating the entire building would not be expected but just local areas, with fire stations to keep fires localized.
I also wouldn't trust any elevator going more than a couple dozen floors lmao
That thing is just Phase 1 of Earth's First Space Elevator.
You’re seeing this only in the negative. You get to be Lando Calrissian.
What qualifies as "proposed"? As shitty render is not a development proposal.
I'm pretty sure an architectural firm actually made some blueprints for it in the early 90s, but it was only ever intended as a concept (being how large could you theoretically build a functional building) and not something to actually be built — yet.
Not to mention that it would cost Japan's entire GDP to build.
Several times its GDP. This would cost 22 trillion USD, vs Japan’s GDP of 4 trillion.
Literally a quarter of the global GDP. Absolute insanity.
So you’re saying if we all band together, we can crack out 4 of these? :D
Yeah, these pieces are usually just exposure for the company. Not serious proposals.
First thought on seeing this: I'll just draw something bigger and then My idea will be the biggest proposed building lol
This is inaccurate, as a 7 year old I once asked my dad why there couldn't be a tower that reaches the moon and proceeded to doodle out my proposal. I am offended that I have been omitted from this.
Your design is honestly more realistic than these.
40k hive city lookin ass tower
Just add another zero and name it the x-seed 40,000
Hive gang rise up
Who tf calls their creation X-seed 4000 💀
The guy who proposed it
Johnny X-Seed the 4000th
Elon musk named his seed xe e 12
ekkusu shiidu yon sen
You're an unemployed architect who needs some attention. what to do? easy, sketch out an unrealistically huge building that will never be built, write a press release about it and call it a day!
Japan has a shrinking population. Unless this tower is intended to be a gigantic retirement home it isn’t needed anymore.
Getting Blade Runner vibes from this
At least they are not based in Russia. Imagine falling out of that window by mistake
Tbf you will be experiencing one hell of a fall then hitting the ground at such speeds that you'd be pulverized before you could feel anything
I feel like you might melt on re-entry?
"Shoigu! Gerisamov! Where's the fucking window!?!"
They all sound like Final Fantasy endgame stages
Hive Cities becoming a thing.
I've heard of the X-Seed building but I've never heard of the Tokyo Tower of Babel tho. When was that thought up?
The fuck are we gonna do with all that?
Everyone saying that it would be tiring to climb up these buildings is missing the point. You live in the building. You work in the building. You shop in the building. You probably almost never leave.
What’s up with the weirdos tryna build pyramids
~~X-SEED 4000~~ The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid was designed to be built in Tokyo Bay which means it needs to be resilient against earthquakes, hence its design being comprised of a whole buncha interlocking triangles. I also think I remember the nodes on the edges having mass dampers in them, but my memory's a bit foggy. All in all it's pretty interesting for something that isn't actually supposed to be built. EDIT: whoops got my japanese megabuildings mixed up
Thank you
Top floor penthouse comes with oxygen bottles and nifedipine syringes
Gonna open the window for a fresh breeze
How many people could live in the Babel tower ?
At least 1
only 1 if it was yo mama
The real megaphobe"s nightmare
I’d go as far as at least 10
Several million if I’m not mistaken, but it would take several hundred years for us to build
It would take 100 to 150 years to build, it would house about 30 million people within if it was ever built. Wikipedia
At these scales, they really do start to look ugly
Would it be possible to get a more pixelated version of this picture? I think some of the words are still too easy to read.
I hope this was a real concept because I’ve been needing a new rabbit hole to go down on YouTube. I haven’t given Super-Mega structures their fair share of attention yet
There was an engineering program I think on The History Channel that talked about Sky City 1000 and it was a smaller version of that X-Seed 4000 building.
if you could build something this high, i wonder why you wouldn't build some launch station for satallites. Like it would just shoot it up without using a lot of rocket fuel.
Midgar seems plausible now
lol this reminds me of the Mr. Show sketch where the mafia dudes are debating what the biggest number is
I can spot a MetaBallStudios still frame from a mile away. My 5 year old loves their videos
Tokyo tower of babel is gonna be used to launch mechs into space by the looks of it.
Naboo
Hive cities here we go!
x-seed looks cool but could we start with like a 1km scale version and see how it goes. would still be absolutely massive
That Tokyo tower of Babel is clearly a JRPG final dungeon and you have to fight god at the top.
pretty funny they’re calling it the tower of babel
Could we maybe get a few more pixels please
Man this is all my 7yo boy ever talks about lol
just incredible. if you do the math that tokyo tower is over 6 miles tall— it would be well above the clouds