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Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Carl on January 04, 2003, 07:37:21 am

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030103/wl_canada_nm/canada_energy_australia_tower_col_1

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Redfang on January 04, 2003, 08:16:01 am

:lol:
 
Wow. :eek2: That's huge. We'll see if it'll never be made, though...

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: beatspete on January 04, 2003, 08:35:54 am

Kinda hard to visualise something that big... I have a simillar problem with thinking about the size of FS ships, though if you can find somewhere wide open and you know rough distances to things, its easy enough to imagine a sath peeping over the hills. :)

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Nico on January 04, 2003, 08:35:58 am

not very pretty. but that's cool if they can do that for 2006. coz if they can do that, then they can do better next :) wanna see arcologies before I'm 90 :p

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Black Wolf on January 04, 2003, 09:01:25 am

This won't really be a much of a step towards arcos - as far as I can tell, it's still essentially standard tech - just bigger.

It does go just that little bit further to prove Australia owns all, though, which will be worth the 1 billion methinks :)

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Stunaep on January 04, 2003, 09:22:22 am

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Originally posted by beatspete
Kinda hard to visualise something that big... I have a simillar problem with thinking about the size of FS ships, though if you can find somewhere wide open and you know rough distances to things, its easy enough to imagine a sath peeping over the hills. :)

You sir, just gave me my next Render Idea (tm).

As for the building.. old news. Cool anyway

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: beatspete on January 04, 2003, 01:02:04 pm

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Originally posted by Stunaep
You sir, just gave me my next Render Idea (tm).
 

Cruisers playing hide and seek in the New York skyline? I always thought that would be an intresting twist for a render.

But do the sath bit too. :nod:

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Knight Templar on January 04, 2003, 01:29:33 pm

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/the4spires.jpg)

lookie what steaky did. ;)

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Turnsky on January 04, 2003, 02:54:32 pm

well, we DO have the tech available to us to make builtdings around a mile high..... pity money talks


aussie outback? hmmmm, would work well as clouds are few and far between.. just ask setekh

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: deep_eyes on January 04, 2003, 07:00:21 pm

oh for a second there it was a picture of bush smiling telling another one of his lies...

in fact, i think only bushes ego, and wild idea of starting WW3 can fit "12 WTC class skyscrapers"....

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: vyper on January 04, 2003, 07:04:20 pm

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Originally posted by deep_eyes
oh for a second there it was a picture of bush smiling telling another one of his lies...

in fact, i think only bushes ego, and wild idea of starting WW3 can fit "12 WTC class skyscrapers"....

*sees thread going wildly off topic for no reason*
*runs to beat the door sliding shut marked "Locked"*

Cool tower tho.

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Carl on January 04, 2003, 11:28:46 pm

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Originally posted by venom2506
wanna see arcologies before I'm 90 :p

they tried that. i was called biosphere 2. it didn't work.

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Setekh on January 04, 2003, 11:45:15 pm

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Originally posted by Knight Templar
lookie what steaky did. ;)

Heheh, funnily enough, I was thinking of just the same render when beatspete said that. Maybe 'cos it was mine. :D

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Setekh on January 04, 2003, 11:47:59 pm

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Originally posted by Turnsky
aussie outback? hmmmm, would work well as clouds are few and far between.. just ask setekh

Yeah... because of the Great Dividing Range (big line of mountains, rather close to the Eastern coast), not many clouds (and even less rain-bearing clouds) make it very far inland. And also, in respect to arid land that can't be used for much else than cultivating the Sun, we own... something like 85% of our land is unusable for agriculture and too expensive to live in (would have to get all your food and electricity brought in from fairly far away).

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Turnsky on January 05, 2003, 12:03:38 am

see? as for my ignorance on such a subject, i live in tassie where the highest temp one could expect is around 25-27 C

Title: twelve world trade center class skyscrapers can fit inside it's massive hull
Post by: Anaz on January 05, 2003, 12:04:40 am

cool...steak gets a km tall power plant stuck in the middle of his continent :D