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    1. Bram De Buyser‏ @chton 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @chton @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      You need strong support beams to handle that too, yes, but those won't increase at a cubed rate either. If hollow structures were anywhere remotely at a cubed scaling, we wouldn't be able to build a building larger than a house. And we're not building mechs out of heavy concrete.

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    2. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @chton @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl

      Objects that scale in even one dimension still have extra mass that needs to be supported. If you have a girder that you're trying to make longer, then the extra weight of one end will snap/crush the other end even if it's hollow at *some* point

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @LizardOrman @chton @BootlegGirl

      Yeah the point is there's a maximum size you can make a skyscraper no matter what you make it out of because every building material will snap and fall over at a certain point, no matter how thin you make the girders

      2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman @chton

      There is? I didn't know there was a cap on stationary building size

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    5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and

      You could get around that by building out around the base, right?

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @LizardOrman @chton

      The Eiffel Tower when it was designed was specifically designed to be the tallest building possible using the materials available in those quantities then (wrought iron) and everything about its shape is determined by structural engineering factors, which is why many hated it

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and

      But yeah that's the kind of design you use to max out the strength of your building material, a big hollow base supporting a tapering structure The supertall skyscrapers today are about as high as you can get without a visible base like that

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    8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman @chton

      Right, but in the specific case of skyscrapers, can't we build a big low rise complex with a huge basement, with a high rise, slightly narrower, on top, and then a skyscraper on top of that and the a narrower skyscraper on top of that?

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @LizardOrman @chton

      The issue is that for proposed supertall structures like the Tokyo X-Seed 4000 the base would be so large that it likely wouldn't be cost effective to try to build out habitable floors in it rather than leaving it completely hollow

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    10. Orman‏ @LizardOrman 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl @chton

      ...Why not?

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Feb 2020
      Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl @chton

      Because for a massive project like that every added newton of stress on the structure is very expensive and the base has to be very wide so building a floor that's attached to it in a way that distributes weight evenly is hard

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