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piercehawkeye45

08-21-2007 11:51 PM

X-Seed, New World's tallest building (city?)

I thought this was a joke the first time I read this but apparently it is real.

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X-Seed 4000 is a proposed skyscraper that looks oddly like Mt. Fuji. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that it could be eventually built in Tokyo, Japan. The tallest building ever fully designed, the X-Seed 4000 would house between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people. A tiny quantity of individuals, if you take into account that the technology to “fabricate” mature adult individuals from raw materials is probably only a few decades away. (A topic that probably deserves a post all its own.)

The X-Seed 4000, which would be 4,000 meters high (13,123.2 feet), would in fact be taller than Mt. Fuji, which is merely 3776 meters high (12,388 ft).

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=24

More Info:
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/08/ja...ds_tallest.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Seed_4000

Here is what it will look like:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...X-seed4000.jpg

elSicomoro

08-22-2007 08:01 AM

Tall buildings rock and all, but is this shit really necessary? Of course, space is limited in places like Hong Kong and Japan, but still.

lumberjim

08-22-2007 08:05 AM

i think it would create too much drag, and make the earth wobble......we'll all fall into the sun in a minute.

elSicomoro

08-22-2007 08:09 AM

And does that building have any defenses against Godzilla? Otherwise, it's totally no good.

barefoot serpent

08-22-2007 03:38 PM

in 2035 smog will be purple in Japan.

jester

08-22-2007 04:00 PM

Just out of curiosity (i didn't read the actual article), but if the people in construction working on this - would they still be alive after the actual completion of project?

Happy Monkey

08-22-2007 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by jester (Post 377412)

Just out of curiosity (i didn't read the actual article), but if the people in construction working on this - would they still be alive after the actual completion of project?
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jester

08-22-2007 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 377417)

Well, if a pharaoh can get a pyramid up during his reign, we should be able to put up an arcology within a lifetime.

I know, it just seems ridiculous. Rather an oddity. The time frame really will take years - it would seem they'd need something sooner.

piercehawkeye45

08-22-2007 05:22 PM

The actual planning itself will take forever. You have to make sure every little detail is perfect or a possibility of a half million to a million people will die if it collapses or something.

I mean, its over 2 miles high.

Happy Monkey

08-22-2007 05:36 PM

They say it's "fully designed", whatever that means.

TheMercenary

08-22-2007 07:31 PM

In Japan they have run out of room. The must grow up into the sky to make room. And on top of that short people feel a need to occupy big things. :D

lumberjim

08-22-2007 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 377417)

Well, if a pharaoh can get a pyramid up during his reign, we should be able to put up an arcology within a lifetime.

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