TALL BUILDING IS TALL
Well, I'm kinda busy making a recap of my journal entries for last year, but it will take long and I won't be done until tomorrow.
My grandfather ate in his car a lot so it was filled with sticky crumbs, I vacuumed out the carpet yesterday, and today I used car cleaner and got all of the central console cleaned. Yea, only the central console... getting out all the stains and crumbs required an hour of scrubbing in the cold. It's going to take another day or two to make the car have that new car smell.
Speaking of the new year, I think one of the greatest things to kick off the beginning of 2010 was the opening of the world's tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa, AKA the Burj Dubai, AKA That's one big fucking building at nearly 3000 feet!!!
Actually, the tower opened up on the 4th, but I didn't find out until a week ago or so. And actually, it's been the tallest structure since 2007, when the frame of the building passed the height of the CN tower. I think I even wrote a LiveJournal article back then about the tallest buildings.
Currently the tower is 2,717 ft or 828m tall, which makes it taller than ANYTHING created by man, unless you count oil platforms which I honestly don't think count, and taller than anything else by nearly 1000 feet. This thing's over a half mile tall. The next tallest man-made object is the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota at 2,063 ft (originally the Warsaw tower was 100ft taller but it collapsed 20 years ago). The next tallest uncompleted structure is a tower in China that's currently 2001 ft tall but incomplete. The CN tower is the next tallest complete freestanding structure at 1,815ft. The Khalifa beat Taipei 101 (1,674 ft) as the tallest skyscraper, even though the Sears Tower cheated by putting up a taller antenna after 101 was built. The Willis Tower, originally the Sears Tower, is the second tallest complete skyscraper if you count the antenna (which I don't; 1,450 ft without antenna, 1,729 ft with). And yes, The Sears Tower is now called the Willis Tower, and I didn't know that until now... I was like "Whatchu talkin bout, willis? What tower is that?" XD
I think the key to the success of making a tower so fricking tall is the fact that it is tapered. Makes sense, right?
My grandfather ate in his car a lot so it was filled with sticky crumbs, I vacuumed out the carpet yesterday, and today I used car cleaner and got all of the central console cleaned. Yea, only the central console... getting out all the stains and crumbs required an hour of scrubbing in the cold. It's going to take another day or two to make the car have that new car smell.
Speaking of the new year, I think one of the greatest things to kick off the beginning of 2010 was the opening of the world's tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa, AKA the Burj Dubai, AKA That's one big fucking building at nearly 3000 feet!!!
Actually, the tower opened up on the 4th, but I didn't find out until a week ago or so. And actually, it's been the tallest structure since 2007, when the frame of the building passed the height of the CN tower. I think I even wrote a LiveJournal article back then about the tallest buildings.
Currently the tower is 2,717 ft or 828m tall, which makes it taller than ANYTHING created by man, unless you count oil platforms which I honestly don't think count, and taller than anything else by nearly 1000 feet. This thing's over a half mile tall. The next tallest man-made object is the KVLY-TV mast in North Dakota at 2,063 ft (originally the Warsaw tower was 100ft taller but it collapsed 20 years ago). The next tallest uncompleted structure is a tower in China that's currently 2001 ft tall but incomplete. The CN tower is the next tallest complete freestanding structure at 1,815ft. The Khalifa beat Taipei 101 (1,674 ft) as the tallest skyscraper, even though the Sears Tower cheated by putting up a taller antenna after 101 was built. The Willis Tower, originally the Sears Tower, is the second tallest complete skyscraper if you count the antenna (which I don't; 1,450 ft without antenna, 1,729 ft with). And yes, The Sears Tower is now called the Willis Tower, and I didn't know that until now... I was like "Whatchu talkin bout, willis? What tower is that?" XD
I think the key to the success of making a tower so fricking tall is the fact that it is tapered. Makes sense, right?