One World Trade Center Becomes New York City's Tallest Building

[remixedcat]

Totally excited about this becuase the lack of awesome architectural pron in the US. assholic dubai hogs it all... that "country" can piss off.

[remixedcat]

Originally Posted by m1dg3t

coming out

I haz a LOL

[m1dg3t]

Originally Posted by remixedcat

I haz a LOL

It would have been a LOL if i spelled it "cumming"

I iz da fail

[m1dg3t]

Originally Posted by twilyth

Hard as an icicle at absolute zero

-2xx something kelvin? Fuck that shit!

[theJesus]

Originally Posted by m1dg3t

-2xx something kelvin? Fuck that shit!

Umm, Absolute Zero is zero degrees Kelvin. There is no negative Kelvin.

[m1dg3t]

Originally Posted by theJesus

Umm, Absolute Zero is zero degrees Kelvin. There is no negative Kelvin.

What the fuck was i thinking then? I told you that vino was strong! LOL

I'm guessing that 0 K is -2xx celsius and that is what borked me

Fuck Google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature

I'll read it eventually

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero

Confirmed. I am a douche

[m1dg3t]

This is interesting S = k. log W

Fucking internetz! Always get's the wheelz turning

[Screaming Beaver]

Meh, antennae shouldn't count

[yogurt_21]

Originally Posted by DrPepper

It's technically the worlds tallest free standing structure I don't think it counts.

Originally Posted by HossHuge

Not anymore.

http://img.techpowerup.org/120430/Ta..._the_world.png

Originally Posted by DrPepper

The point was that it's a free standing structure but when the fuck did Tokyo take the crown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

seriously amatuers. Those things aren't anywhere close. How could anyone think that an asian erection could be anywhere near as big as an arab one?

[HossHuge]

Originally Posted by yogurt_21

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

seriously amatuers. Those things aren't anywhere close. How could anyone think that an asian erection could be anywhere near as big as an arab one?

Say this in your best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice.

"That's not a tower!!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_in_the_world

[yogurt_21]

Originally Posted by HossHuge

Say this in your best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice.

"That's not a tower!!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_in_the_world

read dr. peppers quotes, he said free standing structure. Doesn't matter when you're beat by 175 Meters I don't care what the classification is, you lose.

[FordGT90Concept]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...re_by_category

[HossHuge]

Thanks Ford.

Some things I found interesting from that.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building for almost 4000 years (lets see if the Burj Khalifa can make it that long)

The worlds highest observation deck isn't on the Burj Khalifa but on the Canton Tower.

And about 200m at the top of the Burj Khalifa is nothing; just tower.

[DrPepper]

Originally Posted by yogurt_21

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

seriously amatuers. Those things aren't anywhere close. How could anyone think that an asian erection could be anywhere near as big as an arab one?

There is a difference between a free standing structure and a skyscraper. For example radio towers are not in the same classification as the burj khalifa.

[WhiteLotus]

Originally Posted by Screaming Beaver

Meh, antennae shouldn't count

I agree. If they wanted to build that building to be whatever feet tall to match the year of what ever then they should have built the fucking building that fucking tall.

[twilyth]

I don't remember the details, but I think this came up with the Sears Tower in Chicago (now called something else). Apparently there is some int'l org that determined that the antenna should count. So I guess if they wanted the building to be 1776 ft, they had to follow those guidelines. too lazy to research it.

[yogurt_21]

Originally Posted by DrPepper

There is a difference between a free standing structure and a skyscraper. For example radio towers are not in the same classification as the burj khalifa.

sigh you all suck at reading, but for the lazy so you don't keep trying to reclassify to a different record that the burj khalifa also holds.

Records
Tallest existing structure: 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m/2,063 ft)
Tallest structure ever built: 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m/2,121 ft)
Tallest freestanding structure: 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m/1,815 ft)
Tallest skyscraper (to top of spire): 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m/1,671 ft)
Tallest skyscraper to top of antenna: 829.84 m (2,723 ft) (previously the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower – 527 m/1,729 ft)
Building with most floors: 163 (previously Willis (formerly Sears) Tower – 108)[20]
Building with world's highest occupied floor[21]
World's highest elevator installation (situated inside a rod at the very top of the building)[22][23]
World's fastest elevators: 64 km/h (40 mph) or 18 m/s (59 ft/s)[23] (previously Taipei 101 – 16.83 m/s)
Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft)[24] (previously Taipei 101 – 449.2 m/1,474 ft)
First world's tallest structure in history to include residential space[25]
World's highest outdoor observation deck: 124th floor at 452 m (1,483 ft)[26][27]
World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade: 512 m (1,680 ft)[28]
World's highest nightclub: 144th floor[29]
World's highest restaurant (At.mosphere): 122nd floor at 442 m (1,450 ft) (previously 360, at a height of 350 m/1,148 ft in CN Tower)[30][31]
World's highest New Year display of fireworks.[32]
World's second highest swimming pool: 76th floor[33] (world's highest swimming pool is located on 108th floor of Ritz-Carlton Hotel at International Commerce Centre, Hong-Kong).

bracketed numbers are source references, not floor references.