Kingdom Tower to begin construction, eclipse Burj Khalifa, 1 kilometer mark.

[Correction]

Well you don't offroad in Moab with an Automatic 4x4, that's for sure.

[RKenshin]

Well you don't offroad in Moab with an Automatic 4x4, that's for sure.

I've seen a VW beetle driving off-road towards a similar terrain area before, I wouldn't completely put it past some people lol.

[Niiro]

They don't do it "just to be the tallest", it's also a structural stability incentive to reduce mass as you get higher on a building which is pretty important when you are going to be building over half a mile high with such a small footprint.

I know it's designed like that for structural reasons but it is done for the sake of being the tallest, it's not efficient to build in such a manner as the higher you go the more difficult it becomes for less and less space.

I'm just saying it's lame to do it that way as opposed to making a more robust structure and finding a way to maintain a reasonable width at greater heights. An example being the WTC, the architect that designed the towers came up with a unique support structure that was considered very risky at the time because it was purely conceptual, no other building like it had been made before on such a scale.

[Kerberoz]

What are the upper floors going to be used for, anyway? 3-room penthouses?

[Milkster]

No parallels yet between this and The Tower of Babylon? For shame.

[Flarega]

How many G's would that be pulling? Ugh, my stomach is turning just at the thought of taking that.

That depends on how fast the elevator accelerates/decelerates

[Plow]

If i were Freud, i'd say there's some major overcompensating going on here.

I get the impression that it's not overcompensation here at all.

Spoiler: show

it's just plain compensation

[Darlantan]

Once upon a time, you guys were the ones building the tallest ones... did you need to compensate back then or were you just awesome, instead?

[Day]

Awesome instead dumbass what a stupid question.

[Plow]

I want to see him go up it in reverse, on a stick shift.

I actually had to go down something about that bad (cept the end lol) in reverse with no engine (my jeep wasn't modded much and was a carburetor, couldn't run at that angle), cept it didn't have the giant drops on the sides lol

Got stuck halfway up it when engine died and yeah... not much choice at that point lol.