[PW] Tallest and most impossible building question

[John Ptak]

Hello.
I'm wondering if anyone knows the height of the tallest building projected to be built not including science fiction.   In my Naive Sureal Collection of pamphlets there is an odd and demented pamphlet by a woman who  founded a world society organization  in 1936 ("World Wide Army") wherein she proposes a 300,000-foot tall tower (with a bell on the top (!!)) as part of a series of ideal communitiies.  I've never heard of anyone outside the scifi world proposing such a thing as this--has anyone else heard of anything this impossible?  (I don't count her effort as sciience ficiton, though it is probably science fRiction.)  
She also propose a hole to be dug that is 3,000,.000 feet deep and 3,000 feet across--she never does get to say why this hole was to be dug.

The author does propose that the base of teh building "be big enough".  

Thanks,

John Ptak


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