This 2,000 foot skyscraper is completely abandoned

The truth is that skyscrapers rarely make practical or economic sense in most settings; the only real exception is in geographically constricted places like Manhattan where it’s physically impossible to build out any direction but up. In terms of efficient allocation of resources you’re almost always better off confining building height to ten stories or less.

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But as symbols of weiner size of the plutocrats and authoritarian leaders National Pride they can’t be beat!

(And they haven’t even finished the stupid Jeddah Tower before starting work on the next one)

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Just as long as they put in proper plumbing…

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Lol treat it in the building fascia! Clean water in, cleaner water out! This is where taking water out of the air makes sense; where if dry air falls (in the ocean) plants don’t take RH under 30% on the chin!

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You’re both giving me flashbacks to a report by Ronny Chieng on The Daily Show, and the demonstration of the process (around the 2 minute mark):

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In that case it should also have it’s own nuclear power station in the basement.

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just put 35-ton bricks in the elevator, and say it’s all going as planned

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