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Half-a-mile tall building
« on: December 10, 2004, 11:56:18 PM »
Hum,
"the construction of what will be the world's tallest building is set to begin in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The building contract was awarded to a consortium led by the South Korean Samsung Corporation on Thursday.
The Burj Dubai tower will stand 800 metres tall - just 5 metres shy of half a mile - once completed in 2008. That will be a full 350 metres taller that the tallest floored in the world today, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur."

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Re: Half-a-mile tall building
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2004, 01:20:13 AM »
Hum,
well i`m a `base-jumping` virgin.





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Re: Half-a-mile tall building
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2004, 03:37:40 AM »
Hum,
 The object just falls at a fixed speed set by its mass and air resistance (eg, ~200km/h for a falling human = 14.4 seconds)

As for the `splatter` (the technical term used to describe how many aliens can be spread on walls) best to download this splatting algorithm

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Re: Half-a-mile tall building
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2004, 07:01:26 PM »
Hum,
do you think they`ll use microsoft to provide the software?


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