Aug 21 2007Japan's Plan For World's Tallest Building

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so pretty much it's like building a city within a city?

How long does it take to ride a sled 13,123'? Also, where do they sell sleds with titanium-reinforced bottoms?

Just curious.

Yawn...
This reminds me of the "Freedom Ship", another pharaonic project that has been going on for decades, only to scam imbeciles out of their ill gotten money.
Because every penny that is not mine has been ill gotten.

Someone has been watching too much anime...

I saw it and thought ATARI TAKEOVER!

I like where he plans to place the "Robots".

Where were you . . . when they built that ladder to hea-ven?

lol, love the last pictures:

"skyscrapers", "robots", "nodes", "a midget", "ninjas", "pirates".

It looks like the last level in a videogame.

actually i'd say there are about 5 or so buildings being built around the world that are either 2,000 feet or more.

That would be a fun elevator ride trying to get anywhere "Well we're home kids now just another hour to get to floor 538, just take a nap on the floor or something".

Deb - You sure? I thought the CN Tower in Toronto was still the tallest tower OR building.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0886190.html

That link I put goes to a tower height info page - no spam.

The one in dubi or whatever is going to be the tallest. They still have yet to announce the final height though. It will be the first over 2000 ft. Their is a radio antenne that is at like 2500 ft or something like that though.

Oh, and this has been on that Discovery channel show about building the future. It also shows other impossible construction projects too. It is still impossible with todays technology. Really they are no where close to actually doing it. It is just a dream still.

i'd settle for my own Halo...but that's just me...

It's funny how when the Japanese come up with an insane idea like this it's all over this site. I'm sure if the Indonesians or Iraqis came up with something like this it wouldn't even be news, just some crazy kid with a pencil and paper...

This looks like a merge between two concepts on the first season of Extreme Engineering on the Discovery Channel. "Tokyo's Sky City" (mile high tower) and "City in a Pyramid".

Those last two pictures almost look like they were taken straight from there.

This skyscraper was shown on the History Channel,or Discovery channel about two years ago... probably even older

If you tried to commit suicide by jumping out of your window it may take a few hours before you die. Just imagine on the way down you decide maybe life isn't so bad after all. Oh well, Enjoy the ride!!!

i could totally see godzilla smashing that up.

well for one, they just started construction on The Spire in Chicago which will be 2,000 feet tall when completed.

also, the FAA doesn't allow buildings in the US to be taller than 2,000 feet because of plane regulations and whatnot.

so other developers around the world are trying to one up us and are trying to build buildings that are 2,001 feet tall.

try worlds tallest buildings not towers....http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001338.html

also if you think about a buildings habitable/useable space, i believe the sears tower still is the tallest building if you are going on useable space....

13 million miles to the sun...not 13 thousand feet...

Anyways, having people live in that thing? Won't they need to wear gas masks every moment they're in their apartment?

lol @ robots
(last pic)
:)

considering that planes fly at 35,000 feet, it must be more like 13,000 miles to the sun. Check you math before making obnoxious comments.

@ 25&27:

Um...I am pretty sure the whole 13,000 feet thing was a joke. Obviously. And I hope your comment was a joke, too #27. Just not a funny one.

Why waste time building this. They should just build the space elevator, then they could house all kinds of people in orbit. It would probably take them just as long to come down to the surface too. Plus, you could just get all the obnoxious people in one capsule, then chuck it out to space. Problem solved.

Let's do some word association... X-Seed 400 ... Tower of Babel... dangerous.... fire hazard.... expensive as hell..... ridiculous heating/ac costs... SWEET

What the heck!? "Robots"? Are they like: "Yeah! That's the place where we keep all the robots. You know... Autobots and Decepticons. And those massive 'vertical tanks' and stuff."

If you put that bunch together you'll surely end up with something of epic proportions. Like the biggest bonfire ever!

Nicky got there before me with this idea but that IS just the Atari logo as a huge city/building!

Wow!

Now if only it could fly...

i think they release things like this purely to maintain that they are crazy when in actual fact they are totally normal, its a ploy to take over the world...

Why?

i want one.

What, nobody figured out the name by now? X-seed = exceed. 13,123 feet / by 3.28 (converts feet to meters) = 4000.914, or 4001 meters. Excede 4000m. Even says 4km in the body of the text...

that actually makes a lot of sense, having it out on the water, eliminates terrorist threat since they can search everyone at the ferry.

the triangular support beams all throughout disperses pressure and is much more effective than regular buildings.

also, they are going to control the environment with mass plant life and solar energy.

God Bless those Yellow scumbags.

The earth orbits the sun at a distance of 92.3 million miles.

dude soo kool i want it to b made

lol soo sweat man i w@ntttz

i wann@ l1v3 in 1t

omg this is so sweet.
its so worth the money man
this would be the best building ever!!!

i keep my opinion but robots!?
cool any way build it!!!!!!!!!!
build it!!!!!!!!!!!!
build it!!!!!!!!!!

sweet mkan SWEEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halo 4???sooner than expected...

Why not build a "Pillar of Atom" instead and then all our friends from Japan can move in. :)

The distance between the earth and the sun is 93,000,000 miles

atm r u a robot ur so super smart

halo 5 is ganna jack this idea and use it
maby

when do they start building this stuff? i meen seriously why the heck do they need robots?
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well....lookin at the huge structure over this earthquake prone place is cool man! why doesnt this question arise b4 into their minds whether it will be possible for this super heavy weight structure to stand over this constantly affected earthquake area? well but still the story looks cool but dreams are dreams sometimes....this is jus visualisation n animation but think of any1 of u holding a weight of......man there will cracks and faults in da crust........well well well .....think twicw b4 u act...dats all.....

i can tel that this is not true

wait the third picture shows that building over the ocean

i want to know how the heck can japanese get a hold of $300-$900 Billions dollars when the US doesnt (not sure) have this much of money it self... this is jus crazy.. too much anime and if they wanna build something like this why not build a new world in space like they have it in gundam seed animes or others..just too insane

this looks like it's way WAY!!! taller then taipei 101 but my friend says it's not. but i think it is.

this building is damn hot and sexy tall

well i say its a great effin idea... maybe a lil far fetched but the way the showed it on the history channel it seems possible.. but can also turn into a problem... oh an gud luck gettin $300-900 billion from america...

i am a student of delhi college of engineering[india]. i know that the structures are being constantly inspired by the nature. ihave dedications for my work and will stand till the end of the job . i would love to be a part of this wonder.
thanking you

this building should b elevated in such a manner that no in world can do its copy .....te system should b world famous ... it should not only b te worlds tallest buliding ..it shall hav sme other world famous quality

i don t believe they ever construct something like that
it s impossible !!

no u got it all wrong nothing is impossible if there is a will theres a way lol but remember they can do it cause they have hope and dont break them down like that if they wanna try they can try XD cause they can do it

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50. prad
in regaurds to the earth quake thing, you do realize that todays modern enginering has conqured the natural force of earth quakes
the imperial hotel in tokyo withstood a very large earth quake with little damage and that was built a very long time ago.

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yaawwwn. this idea is soo stupid.
i mean come on. why would people
need a building so tall.?
that's just retarded. seriously.
:D

the distance from earth to the sun isnt 13,000 feet or 13,000 miles its 92 million miles

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It reminds me of Star Ocean from the opening clip...that's probably what it is.
You know, it's amazing and all... it would be INCREDIBLY SWEET if it was built, though.

THE FUTUREEEEE. Heh, I bet you could crash a plane into that thing and it wouldn't collapse... it would be a dent maybe.
What about earthquakes and all that natural disaster crap? Fire hazards!!! You'd have to escape out of a hovercar or something.

My ears pop just thinking about it.

We could have built this thing with the hundreds of billions of dollars we are spending on the Iraq occupation. Did you know we are spending over a million dollars per hour over there?

all will die together

all of people living in sife(suppose) will die together

a stupid, pathetic, ridiculous, and horrible concept... when started, carpenters will work... then carpenters will die because of aging and yet the building isn't finish yet...

until i see it being built i dont believe it ..............i saw an documentory on discovery channel but i still wont believe it til its starting to be built

it looks. like it would be ugly. and stupid looking.

This is the dumbest idea EVER!!!!!!!!!!! It will take MANY YEARS to build!!!?

"13 million miles to the sun...not 13 thousand feet..."

wow... its 90 million miles genius. if your gonna correct someone, get it right. americas education = sad state of affairs.

I like it !!!!!!!!!!

I think it is amazing, and i do love it.

do really think that this is possible, if realy so then tell me how much time it will take .
Your design is superb you realy don't have to bother about winds speed and the bottom is very good !
go on it will realy work !
send me more details!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards
Sonu (india)

It's 93 million miles to the sun, or 1 Astronomical Unit (although I think he was kidding). That won't happen. Not in the next 50 years or so.

People seem to think new technology revolutionizes the world every few years or so. People in the '70s thought we'd be carrying laser rifles instead of pistols by now. My aforementioned estimation probably generous

It's 93 million miles to the sun, or 1 Astronomical Unit (although I think he was kidding). That won't happen. Not in the next 50 years or so.

People seem to think new technology revolutionizes the world every few years or so. People in the '70s thought we'd be carrying laser rifles instead of pistols by now. My aforementioned estimation probably generous.

But who knows?

This is only a dream. It can not be done. Where on earth can they get all the materials needed to construct this thing? From the moon?Give us a break.Get real you Japanese Guys.

It's Impossible. How much the steel required for this project. It's just suppress world population solely. steel will become too expensive and construction company might be bancrupted. this is will raise a economic crisis extremity. Another, if wants make this was necessary structure be detailed and right perusal, Jadi must lengthy time and when human will see this structure completed in future.? Because this world is waiting it's ending time. So just remind this like a large dream.

robots!?? ROFL!!, im starting to doubt this japanese dude is building robots to take over his own building! he'll be the next hitler by then without a doubt!

if you guys have not been paying att. these people don't show you all of their tech in the first place. hell our people aren't letting us see what we have,or payed for but can't use alot of which would help us on energy issues and other tech issues...

I keep saying it that human being will eventually one day construct a skyscraper that reach the moon. It’s just a question of time.

Wont work out, too much money, materials, and such. Without using some sort of fabrification to make steel from nothing anyway. (Or something as strong). Plus how would they make it so high up? The builders and workers would die at such a height due to lack of air or it will be slowed down so much it would take countless generations to build.

moronic

japs are freakin crazy

why we need such a huge buidings. no matter you build or not but the buildings cannot solve the problem of demand. the solution is consume less, don't be greedy and stop trying to eat the earth.

that building is too tall to live in id be scared to live at the very tip of the building

It's never gonna build. because the there are so many earthquakes happen in JJJJJJAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN AND THE World is gggoooooooooiiiinnnnnnnggggggggg TTTTOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD BEFORE THEY EVEN START BULDING

Japan is a great nation and I think it is doing the right thing. Building some thing that will give accomodation to a million people that very good instead of worsting a billion of dollars on armments that are meant to kill people which is very wrong to people to all peace loving people. Keep it up Japan thats the spirit of development

This is the greatest thing happened to mankind. Burj Dubai would be owned because of this.

The average distance from the Sun to the Earth is 1.496 x 1011metres (149 million kilometres or 92.58 million miles).

The minimum distance from the sun to the earth is 146 million km (or 91 million miles), and the maximum distance from the sun to the earth is 152 million kilometres (or 94.5 million miles. )

About 92,955,887.6 miles ...

The sun is a neighborly 93 million miles away. That is the common average figure. Because of the earth's elliptical orbit around the sun, the distance changes over the course of a year. We are closest at perihelion (91 million miles) during northern hemisphere winters, and farthest at aphelion, during northern hemisphere summers. Light from the sun takes roughly 8 minutes to reach the earth. From the frame of reference of the photons making the trip, arrival is instantaneous.

93 million miles is the distance from the Earth to the Sun (on average), or 8 minutes, 20 seconds at the speed of light.

WTF?!?! okay seeing as Mount Everest is 29K ft how the feck could 13F ft be the friggin' distance to the sun, unless you are completely exaggerating something???

ah............NO!!!
that will NEVER HAPPEND!!!!
the building looks ok but THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEND!!!!

Nothing is impossible! The Japanese Robots rose from the ashes within 50 years, the Desert of Dubai became an Oasis of Global repute in a decade...

Nevertheless, the Japanese Robots should remember the Biblical Tower of Babel, the Titanic et cetera...

The bigger, the more the parameters to be considered.... Quakes, Typhoons, Thunder Storms + Lightning... Fire, Ventilation, Evacuation, Pressure, Transportation...

Oh Dear fire-nation, how much man-hour, raw materials ... must go into such egoistic project?

wow!!! kurug kado yawe?mangurug nga sow sonu mepataddag dang!
agpaysu san!

What the hell is that building , if you japanese could really pull it off im gonna really say honestly , theve done a really good job , but if they dont eh ? hard luck then. it would really be worth the try for construction all of that but think twice , HOW MANY TIME WOULD IT TAKE , years and years of building , we already have nice enviromental areas , and building crisis may occour , so nah i dont think its really worth the try , and what if some problem occours , thousands and thousand would die , are you really gonna take that responsibilty, it would be worse than the crisis of the world trade center , whats really the use of having that tremdous building in japan , they already have perfect financial stock markets and bussniess , all i want to say now is good luck with that , Dubai almost did the burj dubai , and you guys are gonna do a building bigger than burj dubai 100 TIMES ? GOOD LUCK AGAIN :)

this will be a world phenominon if they pull this is off ill be certain to take the kids there for a night or two and maybe the missus

this is crazy there is know way anyone can pull this off. it was posted like 3 years ago.and even if built it still couldnt take the massive winds that china gets.and face it how would they get that high to build it.the guy who posted it is just faking it so fuck him hes a asshole.

100th comment! Thats un-believeable!

-Kenny

Im really interested in how they would get cement up to the top

it is never possible how can the building be so tall it is as 5 times the height
of burj khalifa

if I become the owner of Taisei Construction Corporation, I would build X-Seed 1.000.000, not 4000 :D

Umm, I'm pretty sure from the Earth to the Sun is 93,935,700 MILES, which is called a Astronomical Unit. So, you won't have to worry about blistering at 13k feet. If anything it would be freezing. Geez, Google something before you post it!

wow

the japanese are crazy! how do you build a building 4 km high?

the japanese are crazy! how do you build a building 4 km high?

It could be possibly happened, why? because during the ancient period, where people built buildings by without any hi-technologies, try to consider the Pyramid in Egypt... they just only did it manually. that even the new era and the scientist are hardly analyzed if how did they do it... I strongly believed that Japan can do that. Since they are the father of technology.

13,123 feet is the distance to the sun? Where did you go to school, planes fly at 30,000 ft, The average distance between the sun and the earth is 149 million kilometers (93 million miles). If they can build that it would be a sight to see

I think someone has been watching starwars !!!!

this is so impossible for 3 reasons
1) its way to tall for human creation
2)nobody in their right senses would want to try and build that
3) Mount Fuji was created by God and therefore no one can break that record. besides i am pretty sure that God would SLAP the building down and i like the previous comment

look at skyscrapers.com, THEY ALREADY SAID ITS BEEN CANCELED , IT WAS AN INSANE IDEA,, CRAZY,, TOO AHEAD OF OUR TIME, ,they should of brought out the concept idea in a year llike 2090 or something

Amazing project, whats the strength of concrete?