[PW] Tallest and most impossible building question

[Bye, Dan J]

What about the Tower of Babel (Genesis Ch.11)?   Certainly impossible, but more myth than science fiction.

Dan 

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> 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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